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Toyota Group Europe (Toyota and Lexus) posted a 13% sales increase in the second quarter of 2012. The group sold 217,410 vehicles total in the quarter, which was made up of 205,235 Toyota and 12,175 Lexus vehicles. For the entire year so far T...

Opel/Vauxhall CEO and President of General Motors of Europe Karl-Friedrich Stracke stepped down from his position in the company today. He will remain at GM and report directly to CEO Dan Akerson. In Stracke's place, GM Vice Chairman Steve...

SRT has just announced that the Viper GTS-R will get its competitive racing debut at the sixth round of the American Le Mans Series at Mid-Ohio on August 4. “The decision to make our debut at Mid-Ohio is a result of the progress made wit...

Volkswagen Group has concluded a two-day conference in Wolfsburg that brought together 400 environment experts from VW Group to discuss the company's future sustainability. The goal was to discuss ways to cut emissions and conserve energy both...

Most Formula 1 videogames are simulations that put the gamer behind the wheel in realistic conditions and challenge them to race against the current F1 field. Sometimes it is just as much fun to play a game where reality is thrown out the window. ...

Ford will delay the European debut of the fifth generation Mondeo by three months, but it will have no affect on the US debut of the second generation Fusion that uses the same platform and some of the same engines.  Ford has not revealed...

Hyundai has revealed its Zombie Survival Machine at San Diego Comic-Con to promote the comic book The Walking Dead. The car was designed by series creator Robert Kirkman and actually built by Design Craft Fabrication. The car is on disp...

The De Tomaso's bankruptcy has just gotten a lot more interesting. The company's chairman Gian Mario Rossignolo and two other employees have been arrested by Italian tax police on Thursday for misuse of €7.5 million ($9.2 mi...

Mercedes is already beating the proposed 2017 Euro6 emissions regulations with the four-cylinder petrol engines in A-Class and B-Class. European automakers do not have to meet the Euro6 standard for petrol engines until 2014. All engines must meet...

Australia is a country blessed with vehicles driven through the rear wheels by large six and eight cylinder engines. It even has a touring car series based on these cars, the Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon. Of course, they are not efficient and ...