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Launching with two models with two more coming later

Fiat will launch the Jeep brand in India in the third quarter of 2013 with hope's in increasing the corporation's market share. It will launch with two unannounced foreign produced models and two locally produced models will be added in 20...

Will be marketed to gentlemen drivers

Bentley is taking a page out of corporate sibling Lamborghini's plan and is planning to offer the 2014 Continental GT3 to gentlemen drivers in a one-make racing series similar to Lamborghini's Super Trofeo series.   Bentley says t...

New Asphalt 7 iOS game features a contest for 10 winners

Nissan has partnered with iOS devleoper Gameloft to offer the 10 fastest drivers in the new Asphalt 7: Heat mobile game a chance to drive the Juke Nismo in Barcelona. The game will be free for the first 48 hours of its release on December 8 and 9 ...

Slightly smaller than or originally proposed 40% deal

Just hours after rumors surfaced that former Ducati owner Investindustrial was leading in the bidding to buy Investment Dar's stake in , the company has officially confirmed that Investindustrial is buying a 37.5% stake in the sports car ...

European sales start in April

The Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid has just gone on sale in the US, but Europeans will have to wait until April for the first deliveries. European order books will open in just a few weeks for the Jetta Hybrid.  The Jetta Hybrid is powered by a ...

Video Shows GT3 Racing Around Porsche Test Track

Porsche has just added a video to Youtube showing the testing of the new 991-chassis 911 GT3 Cup car. Just to be clear, this is not the 911 GTE that Porsche announced last week that wil race in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. However, this is the first h...

R18 Designers Create Chair for Milan Furniture Fair

Audi's prototype racer designers did not just sit around during the off-season. In fact they make things to sit on. R18 Ultra designers Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram have created a chair and will be entered it into the Milan Furniture F...

Mahindra and Mahindra was the former leading party

The purchase of is starting to become a horse race. First one side is leading, then the other. We first reported on this story last week Indian automaker Mahindra and Mahindra was the leading bidder to buy the English sports car maker. Now, it ap...

Will be shown in late 2013 or 2014

Is there any market niche in Europe more popular than the sub-compact crossover right now? Any mass-market automaker you imagine either has one on the market or has one coming. Now you can add Mazda to that list, which is planning to add a CX-3 co...

Believes Vettel is still improving as a driver

Red Bull F1 Boss Christian Horner believes that Sebastian Vettel is still improving as a driver. Vettel is the youngest triple world champion ever and only the third driver to take three World Championships in a row.   "As a driver h...