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Will invest €13 billion in new products and engineering

Audi wants to be the leader of the German luxury market by 2016 and has announced plans to invest €13 billion ($17 billion) in new products and engineering to do so. The goal is to overtake BMW in terms of sales in that time frame. From Janua...

Plans for a two-door, four-door and micro SUV

Smart just updated the Fortwo, and it is already planning for new next generation. The plan is to create a single platform with three body styles - a two-door, four-door and small SUV.  All of the cars will use a new platform co-developed...

The cars were stopgaps between Agera and Agera R

The only Koenigsegg Agera X made is for sale on the web site for luxury goods broker Jameslist for €888,888 ($1,174,932). The price is meant to be slightly clever as the Agera X was 8th Agera built and given chassis number 88 by Koe...

Will follow up the reveal of the MKZ at the show last year

Lincoln's big reveal at the North American International Auto Show will be an Ford Escape-based crossover with a concept called the MKC. Lincoln is refusing to talk about the car, but internal sources at Lincoln revealed the truck to ...

Everything but turbine will be used

News that full production plans for the Jaguar C-X75 concept have been cancelled mean that just three lucky buyers in the world will get the 500hp hybrid supercar. However, Jaguar will not allow the development to be wasted and will use much of th...

The car will look French, not German

Renault's Marketing Manager Stephen Norman discussed a little more about the upcoming Renault/Caterham Alpine.  “It won’t be more hardcore than a Mazda MX-5. What we do will not be soft, but not hardcore like a Peugeot 106...

Will replace current 6.2-liter V8

European emissions standards are bringing the death of massive V8 engines. The latest casualty is AMG's 6.2-liter V8 that will be dropped from the next C-Class AMG in favor of a turbocharged, 4.0-liter V8. The new engine is also part of a ...

Sochi track in the final stages of completion

Organizers of the Russian Formula 1 track in Sochi, Russia, say that the track is in the final stages of construction and will be ready for its 2014 race debut. Portions of the track complex will also be used during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Soc...

VW Sweden Builds Treaded, Diesel Touareg

It seems like the long, cold winter nights in Sweden often inspire automotive insanity. Case in point, the Snowareg. Volkswagen Sweden built the treaded Touareg in 2011 that is powered by a V8 TDI engine with 340hp and 800Nm (590lb-ft) of tor...

Creates teaser site on Facebook

Alfa Romeo has been teasing the Alfa Romeo 4C since March 2011, and the last time that we saw the car it was in a snowy ditch in Italy. It appears that Alfa Romeo is finally prepared to put the car on sale. On December 21, Alfa posted an image to ...