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Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has promised his fourth revival strategy in nine years for the struggling Alfa Romeo brand.

Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has promised his fourth revival strategy in nine years for the struggling Alfa Romeo brand.

General Motors Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson has highlighted the success of GM's recent new product rollouts in North America in an earnings call with financial analysts that followed the company's third quarter results announcement yesterday.

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The Porsche Panamera Turbo S has made its public debut at the Tokyo Motor Show

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One-make rally championship to feature Bowler Motorsport-tuned Defenders

Toyota Australia said it was "taking urgent action to keep the company at the negotiating table for future investment opportunities and improve its long-term manufacturing viability in this country" so was seeking a variation of its Workplace Agreement terms and conditions to provide greater flexibility and increase its global competitiveness.

Porsche sales in the first nine months of 2013 rose 15% year on year to 119,747 vehicles with revenue up 3% to EUR10.42bn and operating income up just 1% to EUR1.89bn.

Our deeply absurdist, kitchy-kitsch streak wishes that Porsche would've seen fit to score this video with Jacques Offenbach's and#8220;

On Tuesday, Scion unveiled the cars it will show on its stand at

Porsche has raised the already imposing performance of the

Chrysler teased a few of its SEMA vehicles in sketches earlier this month; now the company has unveiled its entire stand.

Two years after VW began its latest push to become a major contender in the United States car market, local automakers are hitting back hard, hampering VW's bid to be the world's best-selling carmaker.

Two years after VW began its latest push to become a major contender in the U.S. car market, local automakers are hitting back hard, hampering VW's bid to be the world's best-selling carmaker.

BorgWarner, the maker of automotive turbochargers and emission systems, reported a 65 percent rise in quarterly profit, partly due to higher demand for fuel-efficient vehicles.

BMW is recalling about 176,000 of its four-cylinder, gasoline-powered vehicles from the 2012-2014 model years because of potential problems with the power brakes.

Mazda has strengthened its styling team in Europe with the appointment of veteran design executive Kevin Rice as its creative director.

From GMM

Red Bull and Toro Rosso have denied rumours they could shake up their F1 driver lineups for the final two races of the 2013 season.

Speed Week reports rumours from the Abu Dhabi paddock that this weekend's race at Yas Marina could be Mark Webber's last in F1.

The Australian, who has admitted suffering with motivation problems, has already announced his switch for 2014 to Le Mans.

He will be replaced by countryman Daniel Ricciardo, but the latest rumour is that the 24-year-old could made an early move from Toro Rosso ahead of the US grand prix in Austin later this month.

That would free up a seat for the last two grands prix of 2013 at Toro Rosso, who have signed inexperienced youngster Daniil Kvyat for next season.

Daniil Kvyat, Toro Rosso. (Photo: WRi2)

"I think it's nonsense, and I know nothing about it," Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost is quoted as saying.

"Anyway, Daniil has no super licence, so how can he race?" the Austrian added.

However, Tost's argument about the super licence does not bear up to scrutiny.

Auto Motor und Sport reports that, because Toro Rosso wants to field Kvyat in Friday practice in Austin and Brazil, a test in a 2011 car has been lined up for the 19-year-old at Misano in early November.

"That's right," Tost confirmed, "but the story for this is that he will do the first practice for us in Texas and Brazil."

Red Bull Racing, meanwhile, denied that Abu Dhabi will be Webber's last grand prix.

"Mark Webber will drive the last three races for us," the team told Speed Week.

Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen was expected to perform Thursday some media duties in the paddock of the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi. Except that the Finn has failed to show up.

During the Indian Grand Prix last Sunday, Raikkonen was disrespectfully told by radio to move over to let his teammate, Romain Grosjean pass him.

Despite the fact that team boss Eric Boullier publicly apologized Tuesday for the roughness of the language used in the radio conversations, Kimi' camp is still very upset.

Additionally, these been an ongoing matter of unpaid payments, which Raikkonen said was a key factor in him electing to join Scuderia Ferrari in 2014.

Kimi Raikkonen, winner in Abu Dhabi in 2012 with Lotus. (Photo: WRi2)

His absence in the paddock immediately sent the paddock rumour mill into high revving mode. Some people are asking if relations between driver and team had soured to such an extent that the former F1 world champion might not be seen at all in the remaining three races of the season.

Later in the afternoon, it appeared that the Finn was on board a plane on route to Abu Dhabi and he is expected to be behind the wheel of his E21 tomorrow.

From GMM

In a further sign that Kimi Raikkonen's relationship with Lotus is dead in the water with three races still to run in 2013, his manager says the radio rudeness in India last Sunday was unprecedented.

"I've never heard of a driver being spoken to like that," Raikkonen's manager Steve Robertson told Turun Sanomat newspaper.

He is referring to Alan Permane's radio message to Raikkonen during the Indian grand prix, where the Finn was told to "get out of the f***ing way".

Speaking to Finland's Ilta Sanomat, Mika Hakkinen agrees: "In the teams that I drove, radio messages were never delivered with profanity."

The double world champion added that Permane's radio call to Raikkonen was neither "smart" nor "correct".

Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen, Lotus F1 Team. (Photo: WRi2)

Another former F1 driver, Mika Salo, said it is up to F1 team members to "remain calm".

"Raikkonen's departure is a big blow to the team both in terms of marketing and the results," Salo told MTV3 broadcaster. "You can see they are now trying to make Grosjean into a winner, so that they can still explain to sponsors and investors that they have a good guy in the garage."

Lotus team boss Eric Boullier apologised for the outburst, but only after Permane revealed on Twitter that some of Raikkonen's fans threatened to "kill my family".

Alan Permane called those fans "losers", but the tweets were later deleted.

Robertson, meanwhile, said Raikkonen - who angered Lotus recently when he said he only signed for Ferrari because he hasn't been paid - has no intention of giving up wheel-to-wheel battles with his teammate Grosjean.

"Kimi will always try to fight whenever it is possible," he said.

"Of course, Kimi also knows how to fight for the team, so that if his teammate is fighting for the championship, for example, he wouldn't get in the way. But Grosjean is not fighting for the championship, so in that way he is just like any other driver on the track," Steve Robertson insisted.

From NASCAR

NASCAR issued penalties to the No. 3 Richard Childress Racing team Thursday in the wake of an on-track incident and its aftermath after a crash involving Kevin Harvick and Ty Dillon in Saturday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event at Martinsville Speedway.

NASCAR fined crew chief Marcus Richmond $10,000 and indefinitely suspended RCR crew member Adam Brown who threw a sledgehammer at Harvick's truck.

Harvick and Dillon had an argument out on the race track and made contact before they made their way back to pit road.

The Childress crew confronted Harvick, needing to be separated by NASCAR officials from the driver's compartment. Brown, listed as a mechanic on the team roster on RCR's website, lofted a padded mallet at Harvick's truck during the scrum.