High performance XF-R leads host of hot Jaguars at Detroit – Jaguar XF-R
The Big Cat unveiled three new high performance R models at Detroit – and had a surprise too…
Read moreThe Big Cat unveiled three new high performance R models at Detroit – and had a surprise too…
Read moreMagna International Inc. could assemble the electric vehicle that Ford Motor Co. unveiled at the Detroit auto show on Sunday, the supplier’s executives say. If so, Magna will become, after years of trying, the first auto supplier in recent history…
Read moreChinese firm BYD Auto is aiming to bring at least one electric vehicle to North America by 2011 or 2012, and is considering building an assembly plant in the United States, it said Monday at the Detroit auto show.
Read moreGM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner has announced that LG Chem’s US subsidiary Compact Power Inc., based in Troy, Mich., will build battery packs for Volt prototype vehicles until GM’s own battery facility is operational.
Read moreThe New Zealand new vehicle market started strongly last year, but the economic winds of change started to blow from mid-year, and every month from July onwards saw a year on year decline on the equivalent month in 2007, an automakers trade group said.
Read moreOpel could receive liquidity guarantees as part of the planned EUR100 billion rescue fund for German companies.
Read moreFiat group and Fiat Group Automobiles executive Luca De Meo has resigned, a UK spokesman confirmed.
Read moreLincoln surprised the media at the 2009 Detroit auto show with a concept car, the C, an ultramodern, small four-door that’s based on the platform of the next-generation Ford Focus.
Photo Gallery: 2009 Lincoln C Concept – 2009 Detroit Auto Show Coverage, New Car Reviews, Concept Cars – Automobile Magazine
AvtoVAZ has reported that its car sales fell 6% last year 622,000 units.
Read moreMercedes-Benz’s Smart city car unit is showing the next generation prototype of its Fortwo electric drive vehicle at the Detroit show.
Read moreToyota introduced its third-generation Prius at the Detroit auto show with an extensively re-engineered hybrid drivetrain.
Read moreKia puts the Soul back in Motown with its Soul’ster pick-up concept
Read moreWhile three ENVI concepts were originally revealed last summer, Chrysler‘s saved this – the Jeep Patriot EV – for the 2009 Detroit auto show.
Photo Gallery: 2010 Jeep Patriot EV – 2009 Detroit Auto Show Coverage, Fuel Efficient News, Car Features and Reviews – Automobile Magazine
Maserati’s latest speed demon, the Quattroporte Sport GT S will go on sale this spring, the company said at the car’s debut on Monday at the Detroit auto show.
Read moreSAIC came under increasing pressure on Monday to save Ssangyong from bankruptcy after union workers authorised a strike, if necessary.
Read moreBentley will accelerate plans to introduce models which can run on biofuels by launching its first such vehicle at the Geneva motor show next March.
Read moreCar sales growth in China slowed to a single-digit rate last year for the first time in a decade as the economy decelerated in the second half.
Read moreGeneral Motors stage-managed chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner’s Detroit show keynote address with the same sort of carefully-vetted ‘supporters’ waving banners for the TV cameras seen at presidential campaign stops in the US last year.
Read moreThe new Chevrolet Spark, based on the Beat concept shown at the 2007 Detroit motor show, will make its debut at the Geneva motor show in March before going on sale in the UK and the rest of Europe next year.
Read moreHardest hit of all the Detroit Three, and with a US$4bn federal loan just banked, Chrysler’s Detroit Show presence was distinctly low-key, a long way from last year when the new Dodge Ram truck was launched with the ‘help’ – and the odd bit of embarrassing behaviour – of a herd of cattle outside the Cobo Hall.
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