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Hyundai has announced that its second generation i30 Tourer has gone into production at its factory in Nošovice, Czech Republic, and it will go on sale across Europe soon. Hyundai says that it has engineered the second generation i30 s...

Ford has opened a new high tech lab in Silicon Valley in Palo Alto, California.  “We have been innovating for more than a century at Ford, but we acknowledge we don’t have a monopoly on creativity. Our new office will compleme...

Pirelli Motorsport Boss Paul Hembery believes that Michael Schumacher has a good chance of winning the European Grand Prix in Valencia this weekend. The Mercedes was fast on the street circuit in Monaco, and Hembery thinks that the skills tha...

Over the weekend, Top Gear held its Top Gear Live event in Durban, South Africa. The climax of the event was the first 720° loop ever completed by a car in public. The loop was 26 feet tall, and Top Gear commissioned a custom buggy with ha...

Nissan has partnered with the Ministry of Sound to create the Jukebox, a modified Juke which Nissan calls “the ultimate mobile sound system.” The system was technically built by Martin Audio. It made its public debut at the 24 Hours of...

Maserati plans to return to its sports car roots with a new mid-engined sports car called the GranSport due in 2015 that will compete with the Porsche GT3.  "Imagine having something like the Alfa Romeo 4C but for Maserati. It would ...

Former Ferrari designer Leonardo Fioravanti who worked on the Ferrari Daytona and 288 GTO is now the head of design at Beijing Auto. His job is to create a brand that was founded to build motorcycles for the Chinese army during the Korean War...

Sebastien Loeb has the most wins of any WRC driver in history and has won the championship eight times. For 2012, he will travel to Los Angeles to take part in the X Games driving a Citroën DS3 XL. While it looks like his WRC car, the Global ...

Romain Grosjean is predicting victory sometime this season and believes his first victory of the season could be in Valencia.  "The gap to the win is not that big. We need to qualify better. That is not our strength this season but w...

Kia is refreshing the Sorento this fall with a slightly revised exterior and reworked interior.  On the outside, Kia gave the Sorento new LED running lights, LED tail lights, redesigned bumpers, vertically-mounted fog lights and standard ...