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Team Lotus boss Eric Boullier is confident that the team will be very competitive this season after strong results in the third round of testing last week. He thinks the team will be dicing with McLaren and Red Bull this year.  "What...

Opel has launched the Astra OPC at the Geneva Motor Show with a 2.0l, direct-injected, turbocharged engine with 280hp and 400Nm of torque. Opel claims that it has tested the new OPC over 10,000km on the Nuerburgring Nordschleife. Opel has put an e...

Jari-Matti Latvala almost let his victory at the Rally of Sweden escape in the final day, but, although the scare, he managed to give Ford its’ sixth consecutive success at the only true winter rally of the season. It seemed like it was ...

Lexus is upgrading the 2013 RX SUV with the new hourglass corporate grill, interior changes and a sport mode on the RX450h hybrid. Exterior changes to the 2013 are just limited to the new nose that debuted on the GS. The LX SUV already got the...

Rolls-Royce is launching its new Series 2 Phantom at the Geneva Motor Show that gives some upgrades to all of the Phantom models.  Full LED headlights are standard that include the ability to bend around curves and adaptive headlights tha...

Start/Stop It is easy to think that start-stop technology was invented by BMW in the second half of the last decade. BMW refined and developed the technology but it actually originated in Japan in the mid-1970’s. With the recently increa...

We have been covering what is coming from the Geneva Motor Show for the last month or more. The press days for the show are March 6 and 7. Here is what we have seen and what we expect from the show. From the amount that we have already reported, t...

General Motors will be offering a bifuel option on its model year 2013 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC 2500 HD extended cab pickups. The trucks can be fueled with either regular gasoline or natural gas to power their 6.0 liter V8 engines. GM claims th...

Volkswagen has added R-Line parts for the newest Beetle and Passat.  The Beetle R-Line will only be offered on the Sport models either on the 1.4 TSI or 2.0 TSI engines. It comes in two packages for the interior and exterior. The exterior...

Mitsubishi is introducing the newest generation of Outlander SUV at the Geneva Motor Show, and it is promising that the Outlander will be the first Mitsubishi available with its PX-MIEV technology.  The new Outlander is 4.655m long with h...