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Chrysler has passed the one million milestone for production of its Pentastar V6 that is installed in 11 vehicles made by Jeep, Dodge and Chrysler.  The Pentastar is a 60-degree,  3.6 liter V6 with between 285hp and 305hp depending o...

Tesla will reveal a crossover called the Model X on February 9 at 7pm Pacific Time at its new Los Angeles design studio. The reveal will also be shown live on the Tesla web site at 8pm Pacific Time. On its Twitter, Tesla founder Elon Musk said...

Volkswagens already owns 49.9% of Porsche, and it intends to finally finish its purchase by taking over 50.1% of the fabled sports car company some time this year. It is estimated that the rest of the shares will cost Volkswagen around &...

Fiat is planning on adding a four-door variant of the 500 called the 500L. The car, which will likely be launched at the Geneva Motor Show in March, has a higher roof and widened chassis compared to the standard 500. It will also be about 60mm lon...

Skoda will debut its five-door Citigo at the Geneva Auto Show. By that time, the five-door Up, the Citigo's sibling,  will already be on sale. The five-door Citigo will go on sale in mid May.  The five-door Citigo will be availab...

Mercedes GP will be skipping the first Formula 1 test at Jerez to further develop the this year's new car. It first made this announcement last year, but at the time, it looked like most teams would also skip the test. Things have changed, tho...

Every Friday we do a post on Autoviva showing some car videos that we like. This week's theme is slightly forgotten Italian cars. No one is going to say that the world has forgot the Ferrari F40, but you might be able to say that about the F50...

Nissan is expanding the facility that it already has in Aguascalientes, Mexico, with a $2 billion investment that will increase production and directly employ 3,000 people.  The expanded facility and the current facility will be able...

Bentley is hosting an event it calls Power on Ice throughout February on a course on the frozen Baltic sea out of ice and snow in the same place where rally legend Juha Kankkunen posted a world speed record on ice of 205.48mph in a Bentley Co...

Renault-Nissan is planning to increase its 25% stake in AvtoVAZ, better known as Lada, up to 50% and to use Lada to make more modern, Renault-based cars for the Russian market. The Lada factory would also be used to produce Nissan-branded car...