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Compact car sales up 229% for Chevrolet in US

Small cars have never had extended popularity in the US, outside of a brief point during the Oil Embargo in the 70s, but it appears that is changing. Chevrolet reports sales of its compact cars - the Cruze, Spark and Sonic - are up 229% in the sec...

A Beetle in a knitted cover won the 'most beautiful' award

Volkswagen fans brought 414 customized Beetles to the Beetle Sunshine Tour along the Baltic Coast, in addition to the thousands of standard cars that were there. The winner for the 'most beautiful' award was a convertible Beetle that ...

Production will begin in 2014

Volvo has received permission from the Chinese government to build factories in Daqing, Zhangjiakou and Chengdu. The Daqing factory is currently under construction, and the first production cars are scheduled to leave the factory in 2014. ...

The team's best result has been its second place at Le Mans

Calling the first half of Toyota’s 2013 World Endurance Championship season mixed might be charitable. After winning the final two races of last season, Toyota was expected to perform well, instead it failed to beat the Audis in the first tw...

Its stage is set for the show

Volkswagen has revealed its 8,893 square meter stand for the Frankfurt Motor Show, and it still has one more surprise in store with one still unannounced world vehicle premiere. Volkswagen has scheduled the debuts for the e-Golf and Golf R at the ...

The car will be the Garage 56 entry at Le Mans next year

Nissan has hired Lucas Ordonez, the first winner in its GT Academy program, to be one of the test drivers of the ZEOD RC, the Garage 56 entry in the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans. It goes not guarantee that Ordonez will race the car at Le Mans, but it ...

The factories will be built to fulfill local demand

Tesla says that it is in the planning stages for new factories in Europe and Asia to fulfill anticipated demand in those markets. It has already opened a small factory in the Netherlands that is assembling knock down kits of the Model S for Europe...

A fifth generation is due in 2014

Mercedes is celebrating the milestone of building 10 million C-Class cars over four generations and will begin production of the fifth generation next year. Mercedes is being slightly creating with its numbers because it is counting the W201 chass...

It is awaiting permission from the local government

Nissan has applied for permission from the local government to enlarge its Sunderland, England, plant for extra capacity to build the Infiniti Q30 premium hatchback starting in 2015. The expansion would add 25,000 square feet (2,300 square me...

It will build an EV version of the Saab 9-3 for China and Europe

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), the holding company that currently owns Saab, says that production of the 9-3 will begin before the end of the year. The company has hired 300 factory employees and plans to sell the cars in Europe and Chin...