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The instrument panel is replaced by an LED screen

During its Consumer Electronics Show presentation, Audi revealed the high tech interior for the next generation TT. The new display replaces traditional physical gauges with a virtual cockpit on an LCD screen that is controlled by Audi’s MMI...

The codes direct rescuers to safety information about the car

Mercedes thinks that fitting a QR code for the car’s vehicle-specific rescue card will make its vehicles safer. The codes will be fitted to all Mercedes and Smart vehicles and can be retrofitted to older models, if owners choose. In the ...

The narrower front wing has to produce downforce and direct cool air

Ferrari technical director Pat Fry predicts that the biggest challenge facing Formula One teams in 2014 will be getting the cooling right on the cars. He calls it a “massive opportunity” for teams to find an advantage or fail miserably...

It also plans Clubman wagon and Countryman crossover variants

BMW has made it no secret that its front-wheel drive UKL platform is considered vital for its future. It has seen that Mercedes’ front-wheel drive compacts were a huge success in 2013, and it wants to follow the market. The UKL will debut on...

It will present the results in the second half of 2014

Volvo has partnered with Swedish safety accessory maker POC for future design and to share safety information. Volvo and POC have launched a research program to improve the communication between cars and cyclists that they will present in the ...

It showed the FCV concept for the firs time in the US at CES

During Toyota’s presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, it showed off its FCV hydrogen fuel cell concept for the first time in the US. The concept debuted in mid-2013 at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Toyota plans to have the ...

It's first public test will be at Bahrain on February 19

Lotus will not take part in the first Formula One test of the season at Jerez on January 28 in favor of taking more development time for its car. Instead, Lotus will not test the car publicly until the Bahrain test on February 19. "We'...

It will be on sale this summer

Mercedes-Benz’s new range of compact, front-wheel drive models has been a raging success, and it will build on that with the new GLA45 AMG. The GLA45 AMG gets the 2.0-liter turbocharged engine with 355hp (360ps) and 332lb-ft (350Nm) also...

It leads the category for the first time in nine years

Mercedes-Benz is the top premium automaker in the US for the first time since 1999. Mercedes sold 312,534 cars in the 2013 calendar year in the US, up 14% from the previous year. Its nearest competitor was BMW with 309,280 sales, up 9.9% from the ...

The test car is based on a modified Laferrari

At the beginning of December, we posted about Ferrari being spotted testing a highly modifed LaFerrari that might have been a development car for its Formula 1 engine. Now, new evidence indicates that the test car may actually be Ferrari's tes...