Car news, encyclopedia, community, sell and buy

Diesel is not anywhere near as popular in North America as in Europe. The problem started in the 80s when diesel passenger cars in the US were slow, noisy, smelly and in some cases unreliable. It poisoned diesel sales in North America for a generation, but the market is finally starting to grow again. Volkswagen is the market leader of diesel cars in the US, and it is noticed a problem with ...

Kimi Raikkonen is one of the most enigmatic drivers in Formula 1 history. When he was asked who was going to win the drivers' championship last year, he responded "the one with the most points." He has made his career by performing well on the track and keeping to himself off track. This season he is within four points of leading the World Drivers' Championship, and he sees ...

Three former Saab executives, CEO Jan-Aake Jonsson, Chief Financial Officer Karl-Gustav Lindstroem and general counsel Kristina Geers have been arrested by Swedish police for alleged tax fraud as part of their role with Saab between 2010 and 2011. The prosecutors describe the allegations against them as "grave attempts to complicate tax controls." None of them ...

Chrysler's factory in Toledo, Ohio, has built its million JK chassis Jeep Wrangler, which began production in 2007. The car was a black 2013 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 10th Anniversary Edition that will go to a customer in Sarasota, Florida.  “Every Jeep Wrangler sold to customers around the world is born in Toledo, Ohio. Since this facility opened eight years ago, the Toledo ...

Audi has begun a 13,000-car test in its home city of Ingolstadt to work on its wireless paid parking system. It calls the system “Audi connect wireless payment.” The goal is for the system to eventually be included as part of Audi's connect service.  The parking spaces are embedded with RFID tags that the system recognizes. The driver has to pre-register online to ...

Students from the Royal College of Art have created a Jaguar-inspired art installation for the Clerkenwell Design Week, the UK's leading independent design festival, from May 21-23. The students worked with Jaguar's Advanced Design team to mock up the car digitally and in clay before creating the car in copper. The students came from the MA Vehicle Design and MA Textile Design ...

We can officially blame Bernie Ecclestone for the fragile Pirelli tires for the last two seasons in F1. Ecclestone said in an interview with the official F1 website that he told Pirelli to create a tire that would not last for half a race, and it did just that. He said drivers dealing with tires today is similar to them dealing with fragile brakes or transmissions in the past....

SRT has announced that the Viper will make its first factory-backed return to Le Mans since 2000. The team will run two identically prepared Viper GTS-Rs in the LM GTE-Pro class.  "We’ve enjoyed some past success at Le Mans, so you want to not only show well, but also run competitively on the track. The whole motorsports world is watching and it’s extremely exciting ...

As the years go by people get more and more comfortable at the wheel and start developing habits that can be unsafe. The volume on the radio goes up, the rearview mirror is not checked as often and both hands don't get to be used at the same time as much. But driving is serious business, you are not only responsible for your life but also for the lives of all people that cross your ...

Peugeot and its Chinese joint venture partner Dongfeng sold 45,303 cars in April, a 37% increase over the previous April. Sales for the first four months of the year are up 32% to 187,978 cars for Peugeot-Dongfeng in China. The sales have beat the 13% average growth from the Chinese market.  Peugeot builds seven models in Chins -the 207, 307, 308, 408, 508 and 3008. It says that the ...

The South Korean auto market is changing rapidly with imported auto sales increasing from 28% to 41% of the market in the past two years. The sales surge is caused by lower tariffs on imported cars that often make foreign luxury brands cheaper than domestics. The historically higher tariffs had kept imported car sales small. For example, a BMW 528i is now about 17% cheaper than Kia's ...