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YouTube star and former WRC driver Ken Block will be a special guest at Top Gear Live at Birmingham’s NEC from October 25-28. Block will be performing some driving stunts with the guys from Top Gear at the event.  Block will drive h...

Volkswagen's lineup for the Sao Paulo Motor Show includes a new two-door Gol and the Up-based Taigun concept.  The big news at Volkswagen's exhibit is that it is finally showing its new even more compact SUV concept called the Tai...

Land Rover and Harrods Department Store in London are displaying a Defender 110 Double Cab Pick Up from the latest James Bond film Skyfall in their window. It is the same truck used in the opening scene of the film that was recently...

The Center of Automotive Management has awarded Audi for having the lowest CO2 emissions of a full-line luxury automaker in Europe. Audi's vehicles offer an average of 144.5g/km of CO2 of vehicles registered in Germany.  The CAM found...

Nissan hopes to more than double its sales in Brazil by 2016, and to do so it is going to create more vehicles aimed specifically at the Brazilian market. The newest of these vehicles is the Extrem concept that Nissan will show at the Sao Paulo Mo...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has scored the new Dodge Dart with a 5-star safety rating. In addition to the 5-star overall rating, it received 5-star ratings for frontal and side-impact crashes.  The Dart comes standa...

The SEMA Show starts next week in Las Vegas, and Ford and Chrysler have already begun to show their cars for the show. Now, it is Chevrolet's turn.  Chevy takes a similar strategy has Chrysler when it comes to SEMA. Both automakers us...

Ford is clearly trying to promote the Focus ST, Escape and Fusion as performance cars at the SEMA show this year. We saw Chrysler's SEMA offerings last week, but Ford does things very differently. Where Chrysler's Mopar parts division crea...

Volkswagen announced the Scirocco GTS way back in the spring at the Leipzig Auto Show and has just gone on sale. The car takes the standard Scirocco and adds a double racing stripe and some other upgrades in and out but leaves the mechanicals alon...

Russian automaker GAZ was facing imminent death when current CEO Bo Andersson took over in 2009. The company had tried unsuccessfully to branch out into building cars, but they were too expensive and had poor quality. Anderson focused on the compa...