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*Update* Toyota released a teaser video for the NS4. Unfortunately, it does not tell us much more about the car. There are glimpses of the interior, but the exterior is still anyone's guess. It does seem like a very intriguing car though. The ...

MINI returned to victories on the third stage of the 2012 Dakar Rally with Spaniard Nani Roma. Benefiting from a poor stage of Peterhansel, Krzysztof Holowczyc took the overall lead. With a time of two hours 26 minutes 51 seconds, Nani Roma wo...

Two data points do not make a trend but can be a cause for intriguing speculation. Sales of diesel fuel were up 6.6% in California in the third quarter of  2011, while gasoline sales were down 2%.  The reason for the drop is gas use ...

Ex-WRC Driver and Dakar Rally winner Carlos Sainz is playing a major role in Volkswagen WRC future. Since ending his professional rally career, Sainz has been working with Volkswagen to start its WRC program that will begin next season.  ...

Sometimes it is fun to root for the underdog, even if it has no real chance of winning. That is why its fun to see that Russian automaker Lada is returning to the World Touring Car Championship next season with a Lada Granta. For now the car will ...

Toyota is really staking its future on electric vehicles. Toyota Tsusho Corporation, a member of Toyota Group, is setting up a mine at the Salar de Olaroz Lithium-Potash Project in northwestern Argentina. Toyota Tsucho will operate the mine with&n...

After a miserable first stage where he fell down to 35th position, Nasser Al-Attiyah was able to bounce back on the second leg of the 2012 Dakar and to win the 290km special, ahead of Stephane Peterhansel who took the overall lead. On Sunday A...

BMW has signed a deal with Toyota to share diesel engines, but the deal stipulates that Lexus may not use them. The reason is pretty obvious- BMW competes directly with Lexus and does not want to give ammunition to the enemy.  The BMW/Toy...

Mercedes has reached a milestone by selling 2 million SUVs worldwide since it introduced the G-Class over 30 years ago. Mercedes' SUV sales were up 24.3% worldwide this year selling 221,518 SUVs this year. SUVs now account for one in five of M...

Volkswagen and Audi have had major increases in their workforces and are planning even more.  Volkswagen added 28,000 global jobs in 2011 and now employees about 500,000 people. Of the jobs, 7,000 were in Germany, 11,000 in the rest of Eu...