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R18 Designers Create Chair for Milan Furniture Fair

Audi's prototype racer designers did not just sit around during the off-season. In fact they make things to sit on. R18 Ultra designers Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram have created a chair and will be entered it into the Milan Furniture F...

Volkswagen Group takes three spots on the list

Adweek magazine has collected its annual list of the most-watched ads of the year on Youtube. The list focuses only on advertisements to see what people are choosing to watch the most. This year eight of the videos are from automakers and one...

The US-based Union of Concerned Scientists released a report saying that manufacturers are producing too many hybrid models that do little to help the environment. In a study of 34 hybrid vehicles for sale in the US, the group found that only 13 of t...

Communicating to customers through social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter has become de rigueur for the marketing departments of almost every type of business – the automotive industry being no exception. Car corporations are increa...

Britain's consumer’s guide for cars What Car? announced last night the winners of its Car of the Year 2011 Awards. The celebrations took place at the Grosvenor House on London’s Park Lane as the prices were awarded for the 34th time. The...

GM and several other car companies are starting to bet on a noise reduction technology called Quiet Tuning. The carmakers’ sound experts are spending long periods of time in wind tunnels, where they work on redefining and develop the cars&rsquo...

Find out some of the latest world records

Right in the core of every human being is the desire to be the best, to be right and to show he can do anything, no matter how extreme it is. This desire is so obvious that in 1951 a British engineer, Sir Hugh Beaver, got into a discussion about w...

BMW slowing service growth to remain profitable

BMW has decided that 2013 will be the first year that it earns a profit from its car sharing service DriveNow that it operates with car rental company Sixt. To make the two-year old service profitable, BMW will slow down the service's growth t...

This week's theme is a little of a mixed bag. The big news this week was obviously the Geneva Motor Show. We saw a lot of great cars come from the show. The secret coolest news from this week was that even more cars that will race at the 12 Ho...

This weekend is the Super Bowl in the US. It is the biggest television event of the year and means new, expensive commericals. To celebrate the event, this week's theme is cool car commercial of the past. This list is to conclusive. I just cho...