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America's voters might have re-elected President Obama, but investors appear not to be as happy. As of this writing the DOW is down about 2%, and the NASDAQ is down roughly the same. But what does the re-election mean for the American auto ind...

Ferrari is doing very well through the third quarter and set a record for cash held by the company. It has elected the former Apple Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue to the board.  In the first nine months...

Opel and Vauxhall have announced that plans to build an electric version of the Adam by using components from the upcoming Spark EV have been canceled due to financial reasons.  "It was a business decision. We could not charge the cu...

Ford's Michigan Assembly Plant has been converted from building two full-size SUVs a decade ago to being the only factory in the world that builds gasoline, electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars on the same production line. The factory is a...

Audi has started production of the first Q7s to be built in Aurangabad, India. It already builds the A4, A6 and Q5 there. Audi plans to add the A3 to models built in India in 2013.  “Local production of the Audi Q7 is part of o...

English luxury coachbuilder Eterniti has launched its first dealer in London in a 10,000ft² (929m²) showroom in Park Royal in north-west London. The company has a single product at the moment- the Artemis SUV, which is already on sale in...

Ford has patented a new technology that it calls EV+ that learns a vehicle's frequent destinations and automatically switches the car into EV mode when they are nearby. The system IS packaged as part of the Smart Gauge that comes on the C-Max ...

Dutch companies Studio Roosegaarde and Heijmans Infrastructure are responsible for the Netherlands' Smart Highways Project and will implement a first-of-its-kind upgrade to the country's roads - glow-in-the-dark road lines. The glowing...

Produced from 1961 to 1992, the Renault 4, today generally referred to using the generic name 4L, is also known as the "blue jeans car" and the model we will always associate with the delivery van of the French mailman, the French police...

Many insects travel using simple, logical rules that determine where they go and why, but these rules are often implemented to create very complicated behaviors. A traffic researcher at Carnegie Mellon University has applied this knowledge to huma...