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In a season where everyone anticipated another complete dominance by Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull, no one would have believed Ferrari's performance this year. Fernando Alonso is just six points behind Vettel in the World Drivers' Champion...

Volvo's SARTE program allowed trains of vehicles traveling close together at up to 90km/h. This technology will see it first availability to consumer vehicles in 2014 when Volvo offers automatic vehicle following at up to 50km/h. Volvo calls t...

The Volkswagen Type 2, or Kombi, Microbus or Transporter as it is known in some regions, will finally end production after 63 years. The icon was still built and sold in Brazil, but 2014 safety regulations will make the car impossible to sell.&nbs...

Volkswagen Group posted its financial results through the first three quarters, and things look mixed for the German automaker. There are a few interesting blips in the results.  Sales Revenue was up 24% to €144.2 billion and profit ...

On the basis that I have lived in England all my life this one should be easy shouldn’t it? But, as usual there are any numbers of options, whether it is the Jaguar E-Type – which epitomized beauty, elegance and a slightly fictional to...

Some parents don’t want to buy their children a car that is ten years old or something that hasn’t been through the latest crash tests, and can you blame them? So, where do we look for reliability and technology? Japan of course (there...

Renault is planning for the styling direction of the new Clio to carry forward to its new generation Scenic, Laguna and Espace. The Espace will take its styling from the R-Space concept from 2011 that has a nose quite similar to the new Clio. ...

Two studies published in the past year in California have had contradictory conclusions about the cleanliness of diesel fumes. Both studies looked at secondary organic aerosols, which is a major contributor to smog A study published in October...

The London Taxi Company (LTC) went into administration on October 22, and the company says that it needs either a loan from partial owner Geely or a bail out from the UK government to survive.  The administration was caused by a recall an...

In addition to the new generationKia Cee'd, Cee'd Sport Wagon estate and three-door Pro_cee'd, Kia is planning to offer a turbocharged hot hatch version of all three cars with 200hp badged as the GT. The Cee'd and Pro_cee'd GTs...