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Renault-Nissan will use the Russian factories to build its cars.

Renault-Nissan Alliance CEO Carlos Ghosn has been elected chairman of Alliance-owned Russian automaker AvtoVAZ. Renault-Nissan bought a controlling stake in AvtoVAZ last year and will increase ownership to 74.5% by mid-2014. It first purchased 25%...

The contest runs from July 2 to July 28

The 2013 Nissan GT Academy has begun as of 9am GMT on July 2, and this year the competition is being held in the demo for Gran Turismo 6 on the PlayStation 3. The first portion of the contest will close on Sunday, July 28, at 11:59pm GMT, but the ...

The family knows it will likely have to give up control regardless

The Peugeot family still holds a controlling stake in PSA Peugeot Citroën but is considering ceding control to General Motors in order to save the company. GM bought 7% of PSA in March 2012. The problem with this deal is getting the Frenc...

It was also autographed by Gwyneth Paltrow

An Audi RS6 Avant autographed by Gwyneth Paltrow raised £120,000 in a charity auction for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The entire charity auction raised £3 million. The car was the first RS6 Avant imported into the UK. It featur...

It is launching in India first, then Russia, Indonesia and South Africa

Nissan has released the first sketches of the first new car to carry the Datsun name. The car will be publicly revealed on July 15 in New Delhi, India. The company launched its website www.datsun.com on July 1. The sketches that Nissan release...

It is also considering a limited production Buggy

Volkswagen does not want any of its platforms to support just one car and that includes the Up. It is considering using the Up platform to create a micro SUV and possibly a limited-production Buggy.  The Taigun compact was already shown l...

Steve Saleen has rejoined the company the bares his name

Saleen is staging a comeback and founder Steve Saleen is spearheading it. Saleen left the company that bore his name in 2007, and the company sold its assets and was purchased by an acquisitions company. Saleen has won back the use of his name for...

He believes it will be sell more than 10 million cars a year by then

Volkswagen Group Chairman Dr. Martin Winterkorn predicts that the company will be the first automaker in the world to sell 10 million cars in a year, and it will do it before its goal of 2018. The key to the future will be continuing to perform we...

It is schedule for release in September

If you are a fan of motorsports, especially Formula 1, and not looking forward to "Rush," you must be crazy. The film tells the story of James Hunt and Niki Lauda during the 1976 season, specifically the rivalry between the two men. ...

It will be on sale in the fall

BMW has released a video that looks like an H&M advertisement for the first few moments but is actually the announcement that the production i3 will be publicly revealed on July 29.  The i3 is the world's first mass produced car w...