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The Corvette and Silverado are this year's winners

Chevrolet took the honors this year in both with the new Corvette winning the North American Car of the Year and the Silverado winning the North American Truck/Utility of the Year. The winners were announced as part of the opening of the 2014 Nort...

The design combines TT, Q3 and Allroad into an all-new car

Audi has fully revealed its NAIAS concept that it first teased several weeks ago. The Allroad Shooting Brake is a hybrid, compact crossover that borrows styling from TT and mixes it with the Q3 and Allroad. “The show car combines sex app...

It is the first glimpse of the next WRX STI

Subaru will not officially unveil the look of the next generation WRX STI until January 13 at the North American International Auto Show, but it has given away the look of the racing version a few days early. Subaru is prepping a dedicated ver...

It adds interior upgrades like improved seats and navigation

Europe and Japan have received several special editions of the Toyota GT86, but until now the US market version, called the Scion FR-S, has been ignored. But Scion is finally changing that with the FR-S Monogram Series. The FR-S Monogram Serie...

It is considering adding an SUV to its lineup

Rolls-Royce sold 3,630 cars in 2013, the highest in its history, and its fourth consecutive year of record sales. It opened 15 new dealers worldwide in 2013 and now has 120 worldwide. “I stated at the beginning of last year that I wished...

The US was its largest market but China grew by 45.6%

Volvo Cars sold 427,840 cars in 2013, up 1.4% from 2012, but sales are growing rapidly with December sales up 11.7% worldwide. The Volvo XC60 was Volvo’s bestselling car in 2013 at 114,010 cars, its best year ever. “After six conse...

Mercedes-Benz Cars sold over 1.56 million in 2013

Mercedes-Benz Cars sold 1,562,472 cars in 2013, up 9.7% from 2012. The Mercedes-Benz brand alone set a new sales record of 1,461,680 cars, up 10.7%, and Smart sold 100,792, down 2.8%. “We look back on the best year of the Mercedes-Benz b...

Sales fell in every major market except for the Asia-Pacific region

Volkswagen Passenger Cars sales increased by 3.4% to 5.93 million cars in 2013 thanks to strong sales in the Asia-Pacific region where nearly half of its sales occurred. It was the new sales record for the company. Our new Golf in particular h...

It gets special paint colors, wider wheels and an upgraded interior

The Smart Fortwo will get a completely revised, new generation later in 2014, but for the time being Mercedes is closing out Fortwo production with the new Edition Citybeam special edition. The Citybeam gets special metallic or matte paint, th...

It will get a new nose, a roof, doors and air conditioning

Caterham announced its AeroSeven sports car at the Singapore Grand Prix and plans to begin building a slightly modified production version in 2015, a year later than originally expected. The production AeroSeven will maintain the planned 1323l...