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Cleaning up executive sedans is especially expensive

The German government is joining the lobbying efforts of its automakers in attempting to weaken EU automotive CO2 emissions rules as much as possible before the final rules are ratified next week. The major German automakers like BMW, Daimler and ...

The new owner is a consortium of companies called Infinity Racing

Lotus F1 team owner Genii Capital has sold a 35% stake in the team to a consortium of investors that calls itself Infinity Racing. Gerard Lopez remains chairman of the team, and Genii Capital CEO Eric Lux remains on the board of directors Infi...

The P1 will also be on display

McLaren is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and is bringing a brace of F1s to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Among the cars will be chassis F1/01R that won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1995, the prototype for the F1 LM and the Gulf-liveri...

It is the first time in its history that an Aston Martin Volante has had an all carbon fiber body

Aston Martin has taken the top off its new Vanquish to create its first Volante model ever with a fully carbon fiber body. Power for the Vanquish Volante comes from the same 6.0-liter V12 as the Vanquish coupe with 565hp and 457lb-ft of torque, an...

Orders begin in July in Italy

Fiat has introduced the new seven-seat 500L Living, which will be publicly revealed in July. Fiat has given the car the name the Magic Purpose Wagon because it claims that it combines the looks of the 500, drivability of a city car, exterior size ...

It has three cars in GTE Pro and two cars in GTE Am

Aston Martin is expecting a very good performance in the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans, and it should with five Vantage GTEs split between the two GT classes. It is Aston Martin's largest factory effort ever in the race. At the Le Mans test on June...

It would rather focus on private sales

As we have learned, it is hard to sell any car at the moment in Europe with sales falling to their lowest level in 20 years, but Ford plans to reduce its fleet sales to rental car companies in Europe in favor of more private sales. Even if it resu...

The car will be race-ready for 2014

Seat has produced a new video showing how the 326hp Leon Cup Racer is built. The customer racecar will be available to customers in time for the start of the 2014 motorsport season. “Seat is committed to customer motorsport – and t...

It claims better fuel economy and faster acceleration

For the 61st Internationales Motorpressekolloquium Bosch presented an Aston Martin DB9 with two modular hybrid electric motors that it claims increased acceleration and gave 25.75km of pure electric range. A plug-in hybrid battery pa...

It will be the first production car on the road with the technology

Mercedes-Benz says that it will have Car-to-X technology available in its production cars by the end of 2013. It will be the first automaker selling cars with the technology. Mercedes says that it will even be possible to retrofit the technology i...