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Toyota has reversed a loss through the first half of last year into a significant increase in income for the first half of 2012. The company posted a $5.8 billion (€4.5 billion) increase in net income for the first half of fiscal year 2012. I...

Suzuki has decided to leave the American market effective immediately. What remains on dealer lots will be the final Suzuki automobiles sold in the US. The decision has no effect on Suzuki's motorcycles, ATVs or marine products in the US. Amer...

Volvo released its unit sales results for October and for the year, and sales are down for the company. Worldwide sales were down 1.8% for October to 34,843 cars, and for the year so far sales are down 5.9 % compared to this point in 2011 to&...

A fourth generation Prius is in early development at Toyota and well over a year from being shown. It is still early enough that Toyota says that it has several options for how to style the next car.  “One of the avenues we’re...

Today I picked up my old MG Midget. It’s getting on a bit, having left the factory in 1966 but it still made for an interesting drive home, even if I wished it was sunny. That drive and the process of insuring it from the night before ga...

We reported last week that Jaguar Land Rover is planning to eventually develop two or three shared platforms for its cars, and that the first step started with the next Range Rover Sport sharing a chassis with the upcoming Range Rover. Autocar mag...

Tesla is making money despite losing money. It released its third quarter financial information yesterday and posted a net income loss of $110.8 million for the quarter compared to a loss of $65.1 million. Its revenue was down 13% to $50.1 million...

Hyundai and Kia announced on November 2 a voluntary initiative to reduce some of its cars' fuel economy ratings. The reduction affects about 900,000 vehicles sold between the 2011 and 2013 model years and decreases Hyundai and Kia's averag...

You no longer need to worry about your car being hot wired and stolen but protect your keys. UK insurance company LV has found that only 1 in 50 (2%) cars stolen today are hot wired.  The popularity of hot wiring cars has been on the wane...

The year 1950 marks the beginning of an unequalled career. Conceived in 1947 by Ben Pon and three years later on the market is the Volkswagen Transporter one of the longest living and, with more than 8 million sold units, one of the commercially m...