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14 Teams will work on the creating the next generation 500 or Panda

Fiat wants to challenge people to consider the future of auto design. Its “Two of a Kind” project challenges 14 teams of four students each at the London Royal College of Art Vehicle Design by giving them either a 500 or Panda. The...

It will begin racing next season

It is an open secret that Lexus is planning an IS Coupe to take on the BMW 4 Series and Audi A5, but it has not shown the production version of the car yet. However, the look is previewed by the LF-CC concept. The racing version of the IS Coup...

The ten biggest automotive money losers since 1997

Automakers are generally smart when introducing a new model. They spend a lot of money to analyze the market, see what people want and create cars that will appeal to the largest market possible while remaining profitable. That is what makes it so...

It is still working on a refreshed model

It seems like internally Toyota has been happy to create ideas for a tweaked version of the GT86, and we have heard about turbocharged, hybrid and larger displacement versions. One version that will not be hitting the roads will be the GT86 conver...

It plans to build two of them

The world will not stop until every Nissan vehicle has had the GT-R’s drivetrain stuffed into it. Nissan built the Juke-R by cramming the GT-R’s powertrain into the Juke compact crossover, and now Severnvalley Motorsport in the UK is c...

Double-digit growth is the norm this year

The Japanese luxury car market is booming thanks to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe bringing the country out of a 15-year deflation. Case in point, Ferrari predicts that Japanese sales will be up 30% by year’s end. Abe’s government has l...

It includes several of the brand's historic cars including concepts and race cars

Google has added yet another automotive museum to what is available on Google Street View. It added the Mazda Museum March, and the latest addition is the Lamborghini headquarters in Sant'agata Bolognese. You can check it out for yourself...

Everything bolts onto the monocoque

Infiniti is finishing its four-part look inside Red Bull Racing with a video on how Formula 1 cars are assembled.  Red Bull builds five cars each year. Two of them are meant for the drivers; one is a back-up car that is brought to each ra...

The Museum is located next to the Suzuka circuit

Google is on a roll with adding auto museums to Google Street View. Yesterday, we posted about the addition of the atrium of the Lamborghini headquarters to Street View, and now to coincide with the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, Street View has a...

It is a gamble, but they see it as a chance

The old adage is go where the market is, and Ford, Renault and Citroën are all doing just that. The three of them all intend to create upmarket models to follow where the European market is going. Ford is launching its Vignale trim on the Mon...