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The Performance Engineering Academy is accepting applications through May 9.

Nissan has had huge marketing success by teaming with Sony and Gran Turismo for GT Academy where it searches the world for the best virtual drivers and gives them a chance to race for real. Infiniti is taking a page from its corporate parent and l...

Nissan says that the car will be revolutionary in its class

Nissan is continuing to tease its next generation Qashqai, but the wait for the car will not be long. It will be unveiled on November 7.  The latest tease includes a brief video from Nissan and images of the car testing in the arctic and ...

Power is up over the previous version and so is efficiency

Since Porsche introduced the refreshed Panamera earlier this year, it has slowly been replacing the previous models with new versions with more power and better efficiency. The latest Panamera to get the upgrade is the model’s top version &n...

It gets Gunmetal exterior paint and a red leather interior

Working at Rolls-Royce certainly has its perks. The company’s Dubai Brand Manager, Mohammed EL-Arishy, says that he was sitting in the Goodwood Hotel next to the Rolls-Royce headquarters and looking at the classic racing images on the walls....

It is scheduled to go on sale in mid-2014

The Citroën Cactus concept's designers says that the air bumps and pseudo-bench front seat from the concept will be carried over to the production version of the next generation C4 that will go on sale in mid-2014. It is planned as the fi...

The cars could be built on the same assembly line

Jaguar Land Rover has no plans to limit its new aluminum platform to just Jaguar vehicles. While the first car to use it will be Jaguar’s upcoming smaller sedan in 2015, Land Rover may also use it for a future truck. Using the platform on mu...

The Macan will be revealed later in the month

Porsche has given up any attempt of hiding the Macan now that it is less than a month away from being revealed at the LA Auto Show on November 19. While it has not yet confirmed the powertrain options or price, the design of the smaller Porsche SU...

Technology from the i sub-brand will trickle down to other BMW models

Ian Robertson, BMW head of sales and marketing, says that the carbon fiber reinforced plastic and other technology developed for the i3 and i8 will likely trickle down to other BMW models in the future. The small-run sub-brand is partially being u...

They range from compact crossover to mini off-roader and full production

The Tokyo Motor Show appears to be very crossover-biased this year. Honda is bringing a compact crossover based on the Fit, and Subaru has three crossover concepts ready for the Japanese show. Suzuki is taking things every further with four crosso...

Sales of Mercedes compacts are up nearly 70%

Mercedes’ compact models are going incredibly well and even better than expected. Sales of the compacts are up 68.3% through the first three quarters of the year. The roll out of the compacts is not finished yet, and Mercedes believes that s...