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The Peugeot family would lose its controlling stake in the company

The supervisory board of PSA Peugeot-Citroën has agreed to raise $4.1 billion (3 billion euros) by selling shares to Chinese automaker Dongfeng Motor and the French government. The move is meant to save the company from bankruptcy and strengt...

Styling will get a big change

Rumors of a new Nissan Z have been cropping up for the past two years. Jay Leno even visited lead designer Shiro Nakamura and saw early sketches of it. Nissan has revealed more plans for the car but has still not said when the next Z will be unvei...

It is GM's second largest brand

Opel/Vauxhall shifted 1,063,979 cars in 2013, a 0.4% decrease in sales. However, market share grew to 5.61%, a 0.02% increase, but the first year-on-year increase in 14 years. It also became General Motors’ second largest brand and the third...

It is the models' 50th anniversary

Renault made quite a name for itself in rallying, especially from the 60s to the 80s, and Renault builders like Gordini and Alpine were also quite successful. Renault Classic is entering five Renault 8 Gordinis for the 17th Rallye Monte-Carlo Hist...

The new sportscar will be revealed in April

Despite the country’s famously rainy weather, Britain has carved out a niche as one of the world’s premiere makers of two-seat, convertible sports cars. One more brand can be added to that list in April when David Brown Automotive laun...

The company was founded in 1902 and named after the founder of Detroit

Few automakers have a history that goes back as far as Cadillac. When Henry Ford left the Henry Ford Company with the company’s top engineers to found the Ford Motor Company, the company’s remaining financial backers wanted to continue...

It is also going to give Quattro heavier marketing

Audi is working on a whole new design language with the intention of making its models more differentiated so that the A4, A6 and A8 do not just look like miniature versions of one another. At the same time, it will heavily market the advantages o...

His family has controlled the company for 115 years

Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne receives most of the headlines when it comes to both Fiat and Chrysler, but the company’s 37-year-old chairman of the board John Elkann will play a major role in shaping its future. Elkann is the latest member of t...

It would provide the company will a slightly smaller sedan

Porsche is internally evaluating creating a smaller sedan that would sit below the Panamera. The company’s idea is that the new model would sit below the Panamera in the same way the Macan sits below the Panamera. “Speaking very fr...

It does not yet have an engine deal with Renault

Despite being one of the top teams in Formula One for the past two seasons, Lotus and its owner Genii Capital are heavily in debt to the tune of £114 million, or $187 million at current exchange rates. Team owner Gerard Lopez discussed t...