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It will use a new chassis and rear-mounted engine

Smart will reveal the third-generation Fortwo at the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 10, and it is getting a brand new chassis and new engines. It is also rumored to reveal two concepts for future Smart cars including a new Forfour. The next Ren...

It has received double the expected orders

Ford is having quite the success with the introduction of the Fiesta ST. It has received twice as many orders as it expected in the first six months, and the UK has orders for roughly 60% of them. To cope, production is being increased by 15% or 7...

It is meant to conquer range anxiety

Hyperdrive, a UK company that specializes in developing electric vehicle tech, has created a small, modular petrol engine that could be added to EVs to increase range and mitigate range anxiety. It calls the range extending engine the Range Extend...

They are bringing the 1910 Prinz Heinrich car and 24/40hp landaulet

Mercedes-Benz Classic is bringing two very early cars to the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on August 18. They are the 1910 Prinz Heinrich Mercedes and 1907 24/40 hp Benz landaulet. The 1910 Prinz Heinrich car was restored this...

The car is ready to be used

Michael Schumacher dominated an era of Formula 1. He won back-to-back championships with Benetton in 1994 and 1995 and moved to Ferrari in 1996 to win more consecutive championships from 2000 to 2004. COYS is sending the Benetton B194 that Schumac...

Sales in China are growing rapidly

Volvo is finally breaking into the Chinese market. For July, sales there were up 61.6% to 4,640 cars, compared to this year where Volvo is up 37.5% in China. Worldwide, Volvo sales were up 14% to 33,650 cars. From January to July, Volvo sales are ...

Upgrades include active matrix full LED headlights

Audi has already announced that it is refreshing the A8 later this year and among the upgrades will be active matrix full LED headlights that can direct light around obstructions while keeping the high beams on. The refreshed A8 will debut at the ...

Drivers come and go but the fans remain

Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo has become very serious about improving the company's F1 hopes in the last few weeks. First, he held a meeting following the Hungarian Grand Prix where he gave all of the engineers knives with the implied m...

It says more information is coming soon

It took Subaru and Toyota five years to get the BRZ/GT-86 on sale from the first time they showed the concept in 2007 at the North American International Auto Show. It appears that work on a higher performance version is moving much faster given t...

The car will be given away in a drawing on August 18

To celebrate getting five million Likes on Facebook, Porsche put it to its online fans to crowdsource the building of a Carrera 4S, and it will give the car away in a drawing on August 18 at the Porsche Experience Center at Silverstone. Runners-up...