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Sales in the US continue to fall

Volvo is continuing major Chinese growth with sales now making it the company’s largest single market. For November, Volvo sales rose 5.8% worldwide to 37,945 cars. For the first 11 months of the year, sales are nearly flat with 0.4% growth ...

The compact chassis is selling very well

Mercedes-Benz sold 133,441 cars in November, up 10.9%, and has sold 1,322,500 cars worldwide since the beginning of the year, up 10.7%. The two strongest regions were China with 26.1% growth and the United States, Canada and Mexico region up 13.2%...

The current rules allow the engines with little modification

Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s head of non-F1 motorsport, says that Ferrari is investigating entering the World Endurance Championship in the LMP1 class using a version of its 2014 Formula 1 turbocharged engine. He is clear that Ferrari’...

The new styling gets quite an upgrade at the front and rear and an improved interior

With just six generations in 50 years, a new Ford Mustang is still big news in the automotive world. Ford has just unveiled the latest generation online, and it will be a few weeks before anyone in the public actually gets to see it in the metal. ...

It claim that they own the rights to that design

When Nissan announced the ZEOD RC racecar and the BladeGlider concept at the Tokyo Motor Show, their relationship to the Deltawing program was unambiguous. After all, Ben Bowlby who designed the Deltawing was helming the ZEOD RC project, and the c...

It sounds turbocharged, and the engine scoop is not on the regular car

The 2014 Formula One season might not start until March 16, 2014, in Australia, but that is not stopping any speculation about what next year's cars will look like or sound like. A recent spy video from Ferrari's Fiorano test track might p...

It is promising supercar levels of performance

Chevrolet has just announced that it will unveil the 2015 Corvette Z06 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 13, 2014. One year ago at the show, it debuted the standard version of the seventh generation Corvette. ...

It strapped a GoPro camera to a car as it was built at the factory

Seat is showing what it takes to build a Leon ST in a new video. The Spanish automaker strapped a GoPro camera to the chassis of a Leon ST as it went through all phases of construction at its Martorell factory. The Leon ST takes 19 hours to bu...

Mexico, Korea and New Jersey have been dropped

The FIA has published the official and final 2014 Formula One Calendar, and there are some big changes since the previous calendar that still had provisional races.  Next year's calendar will feature 19 races, including the removal of...

The program plans to expand even further in 2014

Nissan and Gran Turismo’s GT Academy program has proven itself in the past years with 41 podium finishes, including a 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP2 class victory, from its winners. It is finally being recognized for its achievement by winning the...