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Valtteri Bottas will remain with the team

Williams has announced that it has signed Felipe Massa for the 2014 F1 season. It said that Massa will have a multi-year contract but did not give the exact length. Valtteri Bottas will be the team’s second driver. Williams calls Massa&rsquo...

It is waiting to see if the company is publicly traded

Fiat has reportedly stopped all active development of new Alfa Romeos other than the Mazda co-developed, next generation Spider to focus on its merger with Chrysler. The problem is that Fiat planned to use Chrysler platforms for some future Al...

It will be revealed at the LA Auto Show

Subaru has released the first teaser image of the new WRX and announced that it will be revealed at the LA Auto Show that begins on November 19. The styling is quite similar to the concept that it showed previously. Subaru introduced a new gen...

Revenue and profit up despite fewer sales in first three quarters

Ferrari’s decision to stop increasing sales in favor of increasing prices and brand exclusivity is already bearing fruit for the company. Through the first three quarters of the year, Ferrari’s revenue is up 6.7% to €1.711 billion...

The trucks will use Corvette engines and two-wheel drive platforms

Call it international cooperation. The French Eric Vigouroux Racing team and American Jefferies Racing team have teamed up to build prototype pickup trucks to race in the two-wheel drive class of the 2014 Dakar Rally. The teams will build two ...

Sales were up in every major market for the month

Audi is on track for a record year with sales up 7.5% from January to October to 1,312,700 cars. For October alone, sales increased 6.7% to 131,950 cars. Sales grew in all of the major regions. In October, European sales grew 1.3%; North Ameri...

The customer-spec car will be built for the R3 class

Toyota is heading back to rallying, just not in the WRC. Toyota Motorsports Gmbh, its European motorsport division, has announced that it will build an R3-class rally car out of the GT86, but potential buyers will have to wait a season, the car wi...

Giugiaro and his company have been responsible for 200 cars and concepts

Giorgetto Giugiaro was behind more iconic cars in the latter half of the 20th century than any designer. From ubiquitous cars like the original Volkswagen Golf to supercars like the BMW M1 and Maserati Bora, Giugiaro had his hand in dozens of cars...

It has been working for the last 20 years

Audi has built its 25 millionth engine at its Hungarian factory in Gyor since its 20 years in production. The milestone engine was a 2.0-liter four-cylinder TFSI engine with 268hp (272ps), and it went into the 500,00th TT built, an Audi TTS Coupe ...

He rose to prominence by creating the Audi TT

Hyundai Group Chief Design Officer Peter Schreyer has been awarded the 2013 Golden Steering Wheel from the Bild am Sonntag and Autobild magazines in Germany. He is only the second designer to win the award in its history. The Golden Steering W...