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2022 sales goal expected to be larger than originally planned

Volkswagen Group needs to find a solution to a very good problem to have. Sales have been so good for the German sales giant that it has to create a new sales forecast for 2022 because it is hitting its 2018 forecast early.  The managemen...

Second Audi City in the world

Audi has opened its second Audi City showroom worldwide in Beijing. It is located on Changan Street in the heart of the city.  The Audi City dealers attempt to allow buyers to experience an entire vehicle virtually without having ever tou...

Ordonez and Riep demonstrate in Juke Nismo

Nissan is having two of its GT Academy winners teach some driving tips over the next few weeks. Lucas Ordonez and Wolfgang Reip are hopping into the first Juke Nismo produced to teach driving tips. The first video focuses on proper braking tec...

Plasma ceramic coating lowers temperatures

Ceramic composite maker Zircotec has been supplying Formula 1 and prototype teams for a few years, but its materials are starting to find their way onto road cars, granted very expensive ones. Its ceramic material that it calls ThermoHold went fro...

Now focusing on foreign expansion

Skoda has reached a very big milestone. Since opening in 1905, it has built 15 million cars. The event happened on February 5 as a silver, third-generation Octavia rolled off the line. The car will be kept by Skoda and used as a VIP car at the Sko...

Porsche hits five million fans on Facebook

Porsche has broken the five million fan mark on Facebook and to celebrate it is allowing fans to vote on a Carrera 4S it will actually build. The voting has started now. The first round of voting lets fans choose from a selection of six shades...

Beats Toyota Prius

The new Mercedes CLA 180 BlueEfficiency Edition has taken the title as the most aerodynamic production car currently on sale with a drag coefficient of 0.22. That beats the Prius with a coefficient of 0.25 and BMW 320d EfficienctDynamics with a 0....

Compare the segment

The junior executive saloon car segment is a great place to start this series, as in 2013, it is the most popular place for middle class, middle income families to put their hard earned cash. Why buy a Ford Mondeo when you can have one of these pr...

Stems from failed takeover of Volkswagen

The Stuttgart prosecutors have extended their probe into Porsche's alleged stock manipulation while it was trying to purchase Volkswagen to all 12 members of the Porsche board from March 2008 to October 2008. Only former CEO Wendelin Wied...

Discussions over agreement will begin this year

The European Union and United States will begin discussions on a free trade agreement around June, according to a report from Reuters. If successful, it would create one of the largest free trade zones in the world that would cover a third of the ...