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Sales up 38.7% in November and 17.6% for year

Porsche has already beat its 118,868 sales last year in November of this year with a month of sales to go. Through November of this year, Porsche has sold 128,978 cars worldwide, up 17.6%. In November alone, Porsche sold 12,928 cars worl...

Annual Sales up 32%

Jaguar Land Rover sales have reached 324,184 cars, up 32%, for the year through November and up 14% to 29,893 for November alone.  Sales in November were up in nearly every major market except for North America where sales slipped 7%. Sal...

European Sales barely up at 8%

Kia Motors sold 234,069 cars in November, up 6.4%, and up 10.3% for the year so far with 2,497,002 units sold.  Kia's strongest market for the year so far is North America were it has sold 592,261, up 17.6%, so far this year...

Will be oldest driver on grid next season

Mark Webber will inherit the title of oldest driver on the Formula 1 grid next season with Michael Schumacher and Pedro de la Rosa leaving the sport. Still, the 36-year-old Webber says that he has not plans to leave the sport until he in uncompeti...

Located in Kaluga, Russia, and will be finished in 2015

Volkswagen has laid the cornerstone at a new €250 million, 30,000m² (7.4 acres) engine factory in Kaluga, Russia that is scheduled to be finished in 2015. The new factory will be able to produce 150,000 units a year when it opens. The fi...

General Motors and Volkswagen fighting for second

With all of the bad news from Europe that we have reported on this year, you might be surprise to know that globally auto sales will likely be over 80 million vehicles for the first time ever. Leading the pack is a resurgent Toyota followed by Gen...

The China-Sweden Research Centre will develop and exchange technology

Volvo has opened a new safety center in Beijing called the China-Sweden Research Centre for Traffic Safety. The center will also be operated by the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, the Chinese Ministry of Transport&#...

Uses Google Maps to show routes

Toyota has launched a web site promoting the Prius Plug-in that allows consumers to enter their normal commute and view and estimate of the fuel economy that they would get on the journey.  The site only works with Google Chrome for the m...

Began has Morris factory

Mini's Oxford factory is celebrating 100 years of car building on March 28, 2013, which will be 100 years to the day that the first Morris rolled out of the factory.  Mini is inviting ex-employees and their families to come to the fac...

Uses an aluminum 7.0-liter V8 with 701hp

The Mazzanti Evantra V8 will be revealed at the 2013 Top Marques Monaco in April where some of the most exclusive supercars are unveiled each year. The company says that it will only build five of the cars per year.  The Evantra V8 will b...