News
3 Aug, 2012
New special-edition Citroen C1 Connexion was crowdsourced on Facebook and costs £9,495
Autoweek gets behind the wheel of the new Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. The impression? Brilliant.
Mercedes suffered its first monthly drop in volumes this year, suggesting a broader economic slowdown in major markets like China and Germany is starting to impact demand for premium cars.
Another mixed and varied week in autobizland with little sign of a summer slowdown.
Growth in sales of small sports utility vehicles (SUVs) is rapidly outpacing larger SUV models in 2012, according to official VFACTS data for July sales released by Australia's Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI).
General Motors executives must wonder whether they will ever be able to wear anything other than the hair shirt.
Renault has reduced the retail price of its new Clio subcompact compared with the outgoing car. In France, the cheapest Clio will sell for 13,700 euros, which is 250 euros less than the base price of the current version.
Toyota Motor Corporation swung back into operating profit in the first fiscal quarter ended 30 June, 2012, booking JPY353.1bn in the black after being JPY108bn in the red in Q1 2011 due to effects of the 11 March Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
Newly-formed pan-European labour body, Industriall European Trade Union (IETU) is citing the rush by OEMs to accept State aid for emerging market ventures as partly to blame for over-capacity, as well as warning slashing production could hand business overseas.
Toyota Motor Corporation has revised its sales and production plans upwards, citing "increased sales volume [in markets] such as in Japan and North America", after booking a solid return to profit in the first quarter of fiscal 2012/3.
New car sales in South Africa increased 18.3% year on year to 54,067 units in July according to the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (NAAMSA).
Australia is the first market for Toyota's new Land Cruiser LC79 double cab. Developed with the country's mining boom in mind, the new variant can even be fitted with rail arms to travel on mining train lines.
Videos
3 Aug, 2012
Jack Rix travels to Maranello to put the new Ferrari F12 Berlinetta to the test on road and track
Mercedes-Benz has given its new A class a sportier -- and more conventional -- design that amounts to an abandonment of the outgoing model's quirky one-box styling.
Mercedes has given its new A class a sportier -- and more conventional -- design that amounts to an abandonment of the outgoing model's quirky one-box styling.
Unlike mass-market rivals GM and Ford, Toyota posted a quarterly profit in Europe. The Japanese automaker reported a first-quarter operating profit of 35.6 million euros compared with a 68.
Renault's engine plant in Brazil is to increase capacity by 25% between now and 2013 boosting output to up to 500,000 units.
Videos
3 Aug, 2012
Watch official footage of the revised S-Class-rivalling Lexus LS in action
Lexus is reworking its sedan lineup as part of an effort to vault past
Toyota reported a big increase in first-quarter profit and raised its vehicle sales forecast on demand for its cars in North America and Japan. The automaker said vehicle sales at its Toyota, Daihatsu and Hino brands would increase to 9.