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The 1,000-person test will be in its headquarters of Toyota City

Toyota is beginning public trials of its i-Road concept near its headquarters in Toyota City, Japan. Starting in early 2014, the i-Road and Toyota COMS electric vehicles will be used on the city’s roads as personal transport to test how they...

More aluminum and high strength steel will keep weight down

The third generation Mini will be revealed on November 18 at its factory in Oxford and get its world debut at the LA Auto Show and Tokyo Motor Show on November 20, but BMW is already revealing some of the new technology that will show up in the ne...

The company made its return to motorsports this season

When the Signatech Racing team announced that it would become the Signatech-Alpine team for the 2013 European Le Mans Series, it came as a huge surprise. The team would run the same Oreca 03-Nissan that it had in the 2012 season but with Alpine br...

Ferdinand Piech showed it to students in Vienna

The rumors that Volkswagen is at least considering a sport version of the XL1 super efficient car have been swirling for a few months, but Volkswagen Supervisory Board Chairman Ferdinand Piech has confirmed them by showing a rendering of the car t...

Two more Chinese-made models will join it in 2014

Citroën has begun production of the DS5 at its factory in Shenzhen, China, with its joint venture partner Changan. The company is hoping to make the DS line popular in China as a premium brand. By building models there, Citroën avoid...

The center will develop electrified powertrains and connected driving

Jaguar Land Rover will collaborate a  £100 million technology, innovation and education center called the National Automotive Innovation Campus at the University of Warwick. Construction will start in September 2014 and plans to open in...

It set the fastest time in the Michigan Police's 2014 evaluation

Dodge, Chevrolet and Ford all compete in the US police car market, but Dodge is the first to offer an all-wheel drive option in its standard police sedan. The new Dodge Charger Pursuit AWD received the best pursuit-rated performance, fastest-ever ...

It also moves around the races from the earlier provisional schedule

The FIA World Motorsport Council has released the official calendar for the 2014 Formula 1 season. Unfortunately, there are still three provisional races on 22-race calendar, which means that the schedule could still change somewhat.  In ...

Discover the list with the most popular brands amongst European drivers

European Auto Sales fell to 686,957 vehicles in August, down 5%, from 722,458 in August 2012. Sales from January to August were also down 5% to 8.14 million cars, which is the lowest level since 1990. The fall in sales came as a surprise after sal...

Sales have already begun in Slovakia

The Chinese-made Qoros 3 has received a five-star EuroNCAP safety score and had the highest adult protection score of any vehicle tested in 2013 of 95% and an 88% overall rating. The score is seen as major step forward in the car’s credi...