Climax Sports Racer Turns Production in 2010
17 Dec 2009, 14:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After seeing an avalanche of electric vehicle queuing up for their 2010 release, it's time to take a well deserved break and have a look at a racer powered the good old fashion way. You mig...
Porsche Wins TUV and Dekra Reliability Awards
17 Dec 2009, 14:41 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The entire Porsche range of vehicles (excluding the Panamera, which is obviously not yet eligible for this kind of testing) has won a set of prestigious 2010 quality and reliability German awards. T...
Volvo XC60 Wins Women’s World Family Car of the Year
17 Dec 2009, 13:55 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Eight female motoring journalists from Britain, the USA, Canada, South Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand put 21 selected cars to the test over the past year. After they concluded testing, win...
Bob King, UAW's 10th President
17 Dec 2009, 13:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bob King, UAW vice president in charge of the national Ford section has been nominated by a group of union officials to succeed Ron Gettelfinger as UAW president next year. According to DetNews, Kin...
Water Cannon 10000 Prototype for the German Federal Police
17 Dec 2009, 13:35 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Recently, the German federal police force took charge of the almost one million euros worth prototype of the "Water Cannon 10000" (WaWe 10), marking the beginning of what is expected ...
Former VW Union Leader Begins Serving Sentence
17 Dec 2009, 13:10 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / It seems that if you are meant to be a leader, you will become one, despite poor education, but chances you will maintain your important position are rather small. Klaus Volkert, a former shop floor...
Renault Official Confirms Daimler Talks
17 Dec 2009, 12:50 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The recession brought a lot of partnerships between automakers and a lot of interest for the manufacturing of small, cheap and reliable cars for emerging markets like India. As surprises often appea...
speedART Refines the Porsche 911 Turbo
17 Dec 2009, 12:48 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The tuners at speedART have just launched the BTR II 580, which is based on the Porsche 911 Turbo (997) 3.8-liter with PDK gearbox. As expected, the car underwent serious upgrades both in styling an...
Mercedes to Make £20M Effort for Schumacher?
17 Dec 2009, 12:02 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / We're sure some of you are getting pretty tired with the multitude of rumors running around the likelihood of Michael Schumacher return to Formula One. However, the latest one is rather ridicul...
AMG 6.2 V8 Engine to Be Dropped
17 Dec 2009, 12:44 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / If you’re a big fan of the current 6.2-liter V8 engine from AMG, you’d better order one now. It seems that the AMG officials made a serious decision to cut the mighty 6.2 liter, in order...
Valentino Rossi Wins Casco d'Oro Award for Motorcycle Racing
17 Dec 2009, 11:32 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Valentino Rossi might just have had his most successful season in the MotoGP series. Apart from clinching his 9th world title in the FIM World Motorcycle Championship (and 7th in the MotoGP), the It...
Pitt to Ride for Reitwagen BMW in 2010 WSBK Season
17 Dec 2009, 11:29 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Australian motorcycle racer Andrew Pitt has been confirmed by the new Reitwagen BMW team as their rider for the 2010 World Superbike Championship season, putting to rest the rumor the team will sign...
Iron Man 2 Official Trailer
17 Dec 2009, 11:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You might be wondering, while reading this piece, what is the connection between the upcoming (we're sure it will be) blockbuster Iron Man 2 and an auto site. Well, to put it simple, read our m...
UK: VW Passat is “Large Used Car of the Decade”
17 Dec 2009, 11:15 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Volkswagen Passat has won yet another award. This time British used car valuation specialists at CAP named it the “Large Used Car of the Decade”. But we are not talking about the cu...
Abu Dhabi to Hold Non-Championship S2000 Round in the 2010 WRC
17 Dec 2009, 11:07 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Following their sponsorship deal with Ford World Rally Team, Abu Dhabi was expected to make the next step into getting more involved into the World Rally Championship action, namely securing a round...
Ford Focus Gets “Used Car of the Decade” Award
17 Dec 2009, 12:01 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / If you think that only new cars get awards, apparently you're wrong. Somebody thought about the used car awards and made it happen in the UK. The big winner is the Ford Focus produced between 1...
Chery Boss on Fiat's Italian Factory: Media Reports Are Funny
17 Dec 2009, 11:02 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Chery is one of the companies linked with numerous overseas acquisitions, with some of the recent rumors claiming that it wants to purchase an Italian factory belonging to Fiat. Even more, some sour...
Massa Admits Pain in His Neck During Mugello Test
17 Dec 2009, 10:55 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Before returning to his native Brazil for the Christmas holidays, Felipe Massa concluded a 2-day test at the wheel of a Ferrari F2007 earlier this week. The Brazilian driver did approximately 30 lap...
FAB Design Restyles Porsche Panamera
17 Dec 2009, 11:06 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / A lot of tuners turned their attention to the Porsche Panamera. It seems like this is the right approach, as the Germans already sold 10,000 cars in the little time since the car has been launched. ...
Toyota Announced Three Exec Retirements for 2010
17 Dec 2009, 10:30 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The American branch of the Japanese carmaker Toyota announced today that three of their executives will retire in early 2010, with the reassignments of their responsibilities to be announced in the ...