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Safes €3,400 with now standard options

Volkswagen is slowly moving its small cars to its MQB modular platform. To say goodbye to the second generation Golf Plus, Volkswagen has created the Life special edition that packs €3,400 in extra features for no change in price. The Gol...

Wants to be a car to appeal to young people

While the Qoros GQ3 will not be officially unveiled until the Geneva Motor Show in March and go on sale in Europe in 2014, the company continues to tell more about the car ahead of its debut. It is aiming the car to be a high quality C-segment sed...

Settlement will end law suits relating to unintended acceleration cases in 2009/2010

Toyota has agreed to pay a settlement of at least $1.1 billion to settle lawsuits relating to unintended acceleration cases from 2009 and 2010.  “In keeping with our core principles, we have structured this agreement in ways that wo...

Low value mostly blamed on leadership

Things are not going well on Mercedes' side of Stuttgart. The company's sales might be up, but investors peg the company's value at roughly half that of rival BMW.  The market capitalization of BMW is €45 billion compared...

First time ever to sell more than 100,000 cars

If trends continue, South America and especially Brazil is going to become a major automotive market over the next decade. Automakers are already seeing the writing on the wall. Audi is building a factory in Mexico, and BMW is building one in Braz...

Models previously had a four-star rating

The triplets that are the Toyota Aygo, Citroën C1 and Peugeot 107 have just learned that bar for safety according to Euro NCAP is always moving forward. All three cars previously held a four-star Euro NCAP score, but in the latest round of te...

Part of $1.3 billion Italian investment

Fiat will build the 500X compact crossover and the new entry-level Jeep at its Melfi, Italy, factory as part of a $1.3 billion (€995 million) investment into Italy. Production is scheduled to start in 2014.  Both new cars will use Fi...

Based on Nissan Juke

The Renault Captur is Renault's interpretation of the Nissan Juke. It will use the sub-compact crossover's platform and probably some of its engines but with its own styling.  From the patent drawings, the Captur will be a five-do...

Land Rover says 90% of 250,000 people who saw it, liked it

Land Rover says that its DC100 retro-inspired Defender has been given the greenlight for production. The company wants it to do for less expensive Land Rovers what the Evoque has done for the Range Rover, namely vastly increase sales. Sales will b...

Sedan concept has honeycomb grill and carbon fiber

Toyota has released a video teasing its Furia Concept for the North American International Auto Show on January 14. It calls the car an "exciting new sedan concept." Toyota is not revealing anything about the car, and the video gives...