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The Opel Astra Sports Tourer has passed the 100,000 units mark inside its first year of production. Alain Visser, Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Aftersales says “the response to the Sports Tourer has exceeded our expectations.” T...

Lotus Renault GP has just confirmed that Bruno Senna will race for the team for the rest of the season replacing Nick Heidfeld. Vitaly Petrov will be his team mate and Romain Grosjean will be the team's test driver. 

Honda will be refreshing its second-generation Insight for 2012 with a revised grill and improvements to the hybrid's efficiency. It claims that the revised Insight will produce just 96g/km of CO2 thanks to a lower friction engine, better aerodynami...

Mazda's CX-5 will be revealed in just a few weeks at the Frankfurt Motor Show. There really is not much more that we need to know. Mazda has already told us that it will be available with its Skyactiv series of engines at least in Europe, and it has ...

As efficiency becomes more important in cars and more cars turn to batteries to store their power, it becomes ever more important to optimize all of a car's systems to use as little power as possible while still living up to the expectations people a...

It’s fairly common practice in the USA for a domestic manufacturer to auction off the first example of a new model for charity. Ford, however, takes the whole business a step further. Every year, Ford bolts together a new and unique Mustang wit...

Apparently BMW was not the only German car maker planning to build a twin-turbo V8 for its sportiest models. Audi announced the S6, S6 Avant, S7 Sportback and S8 today. All of which will come with the company's new 4.0 liter, twin-turbo V8 making eit...

BMW has come closer to producing a fully automated vehicle that can brake, accelerate and pass other vehicles on its own.  BMW’s Dr. Nico Kämpchen, Project Manager of Highly Automated Driving at BMW and his team has competed 5000km in...

Smart is releasing another edition of its Fortwo model. It will be available from dealers in November 2011, but can be ordered from dealers from 21 July 2011. The new Smart Fortwo pearlgrey comes with graphite metallic paintwork, a silver tridion sa...

Honda has today released a teaser picture of the all-new Civic set for a world premiere at next month’s Frankfurt Motor Show. The Japanese has been releasing videos and images from a camouflaged version of the model, but has now revealed a fir...