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It will take inspiration from VW MQB platform

Tata has had success as the owner of Jaguar Land Rover but is doing less well as an automaker itself. It is aiming to change that with a new range of cars built on a shared, modular platform called the Advanced Modular Platform. Tata aims to a...

The De Tomaso cars will share platforms with ATS

Old Italian marques continued to be revived. Automobili Turismo e Sport (ATS) was revived last year after being founded by angry Ferrari employees. It only built cars from 1963 to 1965 and is now building cars again. The revived ATS has bought the...

The car would take inspiration from the famous 550 Spyder

Porsche has a long history of speedster and roadster models. The most famous among them are the 356 Speedster and 550 Spyder, and according to Auto Bild, Porsche is planning a new 911 Speedster to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 550. The...

European and American sales are down for the year

Volkswagen Cars sales increased 2% in October to 511,400 cars worldwide and is up 3.4% for the year from January to October to 4.88 million cars. However, those numbers belie the fact that China is the only major market where VW is seeing growth. ...

It is the smallest pickup in the Chevy lineup

Chevrolet will introduce the new Colorado pickup truck at the LA Auto Show on November 20. Chevy claims that the Colorado will be the most technologically advanced midsized truck on the market in the US and “will reinvent what a midsized...

It will start by building the Sentra and expand from there

Nissan has completed the first phase of construction of its $2 billion new factory in Aguascalientes, Mexico. It is Nissan’s third factory in Mexico and will be able to build 170,000 vehicles a year in its first phase. "The investme...

In the certified test, it consumed 2.92l/100km

Volkswagen has done a 1602km (995 miles) test of a Golf TDI BlueMotion from Nantes, France, to Copenhagen, Denmark on a single tank of fuel, and the car consumed 2.92l/100km, better than its 3.2l/100km official rating. Vehicle inspection company D...

It will not go on sale until summer 2014

Lincoln showed the concept for the new 2015 MKC crossover at the North American International Auto Show in January, and now it is announcing the production version. It will not go into production until Q2 2014 in the US and sales will not begin un...

It has new models on the horizon like the S-Cross and iV-4

Suzuki has been languishing near the bottom of the automotive world, and some buyers have probably forgotten that the brand still makes new cars. But the company is at the very beginning of what it hopes will be a resurgence. In Europe, it hopes t...

The engine is one of the quietest diesels on the market

Opel is adding its new 1.6 CDTI diesel engine with 134hp and 236lb-ft (320Nm) to the Astra. The engine uses 3.9l/100km of diesel, 7% less than the engine it replaces, and is one of the quietest engines in its class. The Astra is also now available...