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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...

Mazda's European CEO led the procession

Mazda set a new world record on June 15 in Lelystad, Netherlands, when 683 Mazda MX-5s met in a procession around the RDW Test Center. It is a new Guinness World Record. The previous record was set in Essen, Germany in 2010 with 459 cars. Pres...

May just be an excuse to leave F1

Union Investment, the largest private shareholder in the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 team, is threatening to leave the sport if the team is punished for its in-season test with Pirelli tires. The FIA International Tribunal in Paris will decide...

It will go on sale in the fall

Chevrolet of Europe has announced that the seventh generation Corvette will go on sale in Europe in the fall for a base price of €69,990 including 19% German VAT. The price includes the Z51 performance package as standard, which is an option ...

Just over one million cars were sold in the month

After one month of hope that things might be improving with sales increasing in April, this month's report from the European Automotive Manufacturers' Association shows that the European auto industry fell even further in May with sales of...