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Trying to keep up interest in its supercar

Bugatti brought three specially painted roadsters to the Geneva Motor Show to keep people from forgetting about their supercar. It brought two special Grand Sport Vitesse cars and standard Grand Sport roadster, each with two-tone bodies and interi...

BMW M3 DTM from 1987 and M1 Procar will give taxi laps

BMW is bringing several classics to the DTM season opener on May 4 and 5 at Hockenheim. BMW Classic is bringing a 1987 M3 DTM and M1 Procar as race taxis for all ten DTM races in 2013 for a few visitors. Eric van de Poele won the 1987 DTM Driv...

Awards include World Car, World Performance Car, World Green Car and World Car Design awards

The finalists for the World Car of the Year awards have been announced. The award winners will be announced at the New York International Auto Show on March 28. The awards consist of the World Car of the Year, World Performance Car, World Gre...

Aston Martin DB4 Zagato will also be on display

For the 2013 Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este on the shores of Lake Como, BMW's motorcycles will get a special exhibition along with some very rare examples of European cars. The Villa d’Este conours is considered t...

Cars will race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and ELMS

Alpine, and its parent Renault, announced today that the Alpine brand will return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2013. Obviously, there is no time for Alpine to develop its own car in time for the race in June; so the Signatech Team, which had prev...

Hybrid would provide torque boost with fewer downsides

Chief engineer of the Toyota GT86 project Tetsuya Tada says that given his latest car's critical and sales success means that development of a refreshed car and convertible is underway. He also talked about the rumors of a faster version of th...

Engine development is too expensive not too share

Renault Sport and Nismo will share on engine development in the near future at least for road cars.  Engine development has grown too expensive for Renault and Nissan to continue to operate their own independent motorsport units for road ...

Will add 1,400 new jobs to build new engines

Jaguar Land Rover is investing £500 million (€575 million) into its Engine Manufacturing Centre in the UK to employ 1,400 new employees and build its new four-cylinder engines. It is also investing a further £2.75 b...

More AMG S models, SLC and new S-Class

Mercedes talked a little bit about its plans for the rest of the year at the Geneva Motor Show including when we will see the new S-Class, future AMG-S models and a baby SLS AMG. The new S-Class will get its global debut at an event in Hamburg...

Two cars will be unveiled at 24 Hours of Nürburgring

There are many automotive anniversaries this year. Porsche is celebrating 50 years of the 911, and Lamborghini is celebrating its 50th year too. Aston Martin beats both of them by celebrating its centenary of its original founding this year, and i...