Don’t miss our guide to the first race of the 2011 Dunlop British Touring Car Championship.
Toyota, PSA and BMW are the automakers closest to reaching their EU-mandated CO2 targets, according to data released today by market researchers JATO Dynamics.
Affordable, attractive, 40-mpg cars have been rolling into showrooms, and more are on the way. The key word is "affordable," with prices ranging from just above $15,000 to slightly less than $20,000 for a 2011 Ford, Chevy, Hyundai or Smart.
Portugal is the first European country to achieve emissions below 130 grams per kilometer, according to a report from market researchers JATO Dynamics. With an average of 127.
Affordable, attractive, 40-mpg cars have been rolling into showrooms, and more are on the way. The key word is "affordable," with prices ranging from just above $15,000 to slightly less than $20,000 for a 2011 Ford, Chevy, Hyundai or Smart.
Parts makers are girding for the second half of the year. They expect automakers to press hard to offset production lost due to parts shortages related to the Japan disaster.
Diodes, microprocessors, circuit boards, voltage regulators, copper foil -- the bottleneck in parts slamming Japan's auto industry stretches far down the earthquake-rattled supply chain.
Norwegian immigrant Kjell Bergh turned his wanderlust and a knack for adaptation into a business plan for his two Minneapolis-area Borton Volvo dealerships. After buying a marginal Volvo store, he built it into the Swedish automaker's U.S.
Schaeffler Group has agreed with German banks to sell Continental AG shares worth about 1.8 billion euros ($2.5 billion) to reduce debt. But Schaeffler also will buy a total of 15.
The California New Car Dealers Association says Chrysler is operating an illegal factory-owned dealership in Los Angeles. The store is Motor Village L.A., which Chrysler established as a prototype to showcase its brands and test new retail concepts.
Porsche SE, the sports-car maker that plans to merge with Volkswagen AG, will start a 5 billion euro ($7 billion) share sale on March 30 to reduce debt.
California Ford dealer Jim Graham sold four Fiesta subcompacts during one January weekend. That was his best weekend for the Fiesta, which Ford Motor Co. launched last May. Graham is accustomed to most of his car sales being Mustangs.
F1 rivals and even Pirelli admitted to being surprised after Sauber rookie Sergio Perez made only one pitstop for new tires in Melbourne.
Ganassi's Dario Franchitti won today the IZOD IndyCar Series' season opener by staying clear of all the obstacles that many could not avoid right at the start on the St Petersburg street course.
Paul Hembery has acknowledged the criticism about Pirelli's method for visibly distinguishing the two compound types in Melbourne.
Every day, our new supercharged blog, V12, brings you the hottest videos on the web. Here are our top 5 picks for the week, including Ken Block mutilating his Ford Fiesta, a race between a minivan and a jet truck, the ultimate automotive wedgy, Jenson Button testing his McLaren and some Russians attempting to load a Lada onto a carrier.
Once again, Auto123.com will be heading to the Great White North, exploring parts of the Arctic that very few would ever dare to venture, in the winter, in a Porsche. Last year, Matt St-Pierre hopped on the smart fortwo bus all the way to Inuvik in the North West Territories. The diminutive fortwo never faltered and, unfortunately, Matt came back...
Martin Whitmarsh criticised FIA officials after Jenson Button served a drive-through penalty in the Australian grand prix.
As expected, the effects of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that have devastated Japan are now being felt in North America. With production suspensions dragging on, Mazda and Honda have been forced to temporarily stop taking orders for vehicles manufactured in Japan, while parts shortages are preventing Chrysler and Ford from offering specific colours of pickups, cars and SUVs.
After Felipe Massa's accident in the summer of 2009 at the Hungarian Grand Prix, the FIA Institute has investigated various ways to improve protection in the frontal area and more particularly the visors of the helmets used in F1.