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Ford introduced its’ top of the range small pickup truck in Geneva this week. Yes, that seemed a little odd to us as well. However, Ford has good reason to launch the WildTrak in Europe, it’s for the European market. It’s also desti...

Last year's success mean's the team will survive

Genii Capital, the owner for the Lotus F1 Team, no longer has any plans to sell any part of the team after last year's success. Genii Capital owner, Gerard Lopez, says that he considered selling the team last year and even had negotiations...

George Clooney is auctioning his Obsidian Black Metallic Tesla Roadster for charity at Gooding & Company's Pebble Beach auction. The car is the eighth Tesla Roadster produced and built in 2008. It has a two-tone leather interior....

Germany's largest automotive union IG Metall and its automakers have reached a stalemate in talks to negotiate a new contract. The two groups have gone through five rounds of talks to create a new contract. IG Metall has staged warning strikes...

Estimated 3.2% drop in sales next year

The German auto market, which along with the UK, had been the only Western European car market to post increasing sales, but industry estimates that auto sales in Germany will fall by about 100,000 cars (3.2%) next year to about 3 million cars, ac...

Volkswagen, Mercedes and Audi are the top sellers in Germany

June has only just begun, and we are getting the first news on last month's European auto sales. German new car sales fell 9.9% compared to May 2012 to 261,316 cars, according to Germany's Federal Transport Authority. Sales year-on-year fe...

The German Autobahn celebrates the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first 18km section between Cologne and Bonn on August 6 1932. Before you begin reading this piece, I recommend that you scroll to the bottom and click play on the song Autob...

The German automakers Daimler, BMW, Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche have agreed to a standard for charging electric vehicles. Ford and General Motors have also already agreed to the standard.  The Combined Charging System works with all exsi...

The European economy is not at its healthiest at the moment. Even Germany is starting to struggle, and reports are surfacing that German automakers and dealers are self registering cars in order to hide falling sales.  May car sales in Ge...

Foreign cars have grown to 10% of Korean market

Toyota, BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Volkswagen, the top foreign automakers in Korea, are under investigation by the South Korea's Fair Trade Commission for alleged price fixing and collusion. The automakers are accused by the Fair Trade C...