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Sales Even Up in Europe

BMW Group had a strong November on top of a strong year so far. Global sales were up 23% for November to 170,932 cars and up 10.1% to 1,664,088 cars for the year.  BMW Group is performing well in all three of its major markets. ...

Society Pays €373 billion a year for its cars

Udo Becker, lead author on a traffic study from the Technical University of Dresden says that each of the 234 million cars on the road in the EU costs society €1,600 a year or a total of €373 billion a year. These amounts are based on th...

The car received a four-star safety rating overall

Coda is a weird beast when it comes to electric cars. The cars are based on the Chinese Hafei Saibo but shipped to Los Angeles to have the electric drivetrain installed. If its recent crash tests are any indication, the Coda Sedan might struggle t...

Factory closed when current Zafira ends production in 2016

Opel has officially announced that at the end of production of the current Zafira in 2016 it will close its Bochum factory. The warehouses on the site will remain open. Opel had said in June that the next Zafira would not be built in Bochum but di...

The WRC Street will be limited to 2,500 units with 220hp

Volkswagen revealed the Polo R WRC and Polo R WRC Street in Monte Carlo on December 8. Drivers Sebastien Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia drove the car to the presentation between the Casino and Hotel de Paris with the slogan "The ra...

New car is based on M-Class but lower height than previous

Pope Benedict XVI has received a new Popemobile that was given to him by Mercedes. The modified M-Class has a lower height than the previous version to make it easier to ship between locations by plane. Benedict XVI used the car for the first time...

Cars will trickle down to other series in coming years

  Porsche debuted its 2013-spec 911 GT3 Cup, the first to be based on the 991 chassis, during its Night of Champions celebration at its motorsports headquarters in Weissach. In addition to showing next year's cup car, it revealed that...

New head of design believes top model should inspire all others

New head of Volkswagen brand design Klaus Bischoff does not like the way that VWs have been designed in the recent past. He believes that brands need a strong design at the top that all of its other cars are inspired by. The first car to use this ...

Platform based on VW Taigun Concept

Skoda already has one compact SUV in the form of the Yeti, but it is already planning a crossover one step smaller with a sub-compact SUV rumored to be called the Polar. The platform will be VW's MQB platform from the Golf with styling in the ...

Cars will be DS5 and two other cars

Three Citroën DS models will be built in China for the local market starting in 2014. The models will be the DS5, an unannounced sedan and an unannounced SUV. The news broke in a Beijing newspaper and come from the vice president of PSA&...