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India's three wheeler manufacturer Bajaj Auto confirmed it expects to launch a four wheel passenger vehicle in the next year.

Valeo on Monday (8 July) officially opened its Nanjing 'expansion plant' in the Yangtze Delta Region, one of China's major automotive manufacturing bases, and will make its first double clutch systems there.

Fiat raised its stake in Chrysler by 3.3 percent as part of CEO Sergio Marchionne's step-by-step purchases to lead to full control of Chrysler and the creation of a merged company that would be able to compete better with Toyota, GM and VW.

Fiat raised its stake in Chrysler by more than 3 percent as part of CEO Sergio Marchionne's step-by-step purchases to lead to full control of Chrysler and the creation of a merged company that would be able to compete better with industry leaders...

Fiat raised its stake in Chrysler by 3.3 percent as part of CEO Sergio Marchionne's step-by-step purchases to lead to full control of Chrysler and the creation of a merged company that would be able to compete better with Toyota, GM and VW.

A study of car dealership sales techniques shows that luxury brands often are the most effective deal-closers and also are best at making customers happy. Among mass-market brands, Hyundai, Kia, Ford and Toyota were the leaders.

Toyota's new top executive for North America lists lower incentives and greater local purchasing and product development among his top objectives.

The top 10 automaker advertisers continued their rapid shift to new forms of digital advertising last year, plowing $5.

Car dealers have an extra year to grapple with a key provision of President Barack Obama's health care law, but the question is, will they make the most of it? The Obama administration said last week that it will wait until 2015 to enforce the...

The market for large sedans has shrunk steadily over the past several years, thanks to the phaseout of fleet favorites such as the Ford Crown Victoria.

Nissan released sketches of the first car in the newly revived Datsun lineup, which goes on sale in 2014.

General Motors reiterated a plan to position Opel as a more expensive brand in Europe while carving out a space for Chevrolet as its value offering.

To encourage more talking and less e-mailing Ferrari introduced a rule that e-mails sent by employees can have no more than three internal recipients.

Nissan Motor Co. released sketches of the first car in the newly revived Datsun lineup, which goes on sale in 2014. The car is scheduled to be unveiled in New Delhi on July 15.

A letter from Automotive News Publisher Jason Stein recognizing the Automotive News Best Dealerships to Work For for 2013.

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Stefano Domenicali has refused to comment on speculation former Lotus technical director James Allison is definitely headed to Ferrari.

"It is a topic covered by a lot of rumours," team boss Domenicali is quoted by Russia's f1news.ru website, "so I will not make a comment."

The Italian was also asked about Ferrari's likely engine customers for the 2014 season, amid reports the Maranello team will replace its lost client Toro Rosso with Marussia.

The other currently Ferrari-powered team is the financially embattled Sauber.

"Very soon we will make the announcements. We will supply engines to two (customer) teams," Domenicali said.

Photo: Ferrari

The University of Toronto's Blue Sky Solar Racing Team recently unveiled the B-7 car that will take part in the 2013 World Solar Challenge from October 6-13 in Australia.

Made of carbon fibre, the ultra-lightweight B-7 will race 3,000 kilometres across the Australian outback in a collective effort to promote sustainable mobility. Participants will start in Darwin on October 6th, and cross the finish line in Adelaide on the 13th.

It will be Blue Sky Solar Racing's 4th attempt at finishing in the top 10 teams (out of 50 or so) at the World Solar Challenge.

Also competing in this year's event will be students from the Ecole de technologie supérieure de Montréal and University of Calgary.

Source: Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Organisers of the DTM series decided to introduce a new system to identify cars shod on the option Hankook tires.

Since the race held at Spielberg, option tires carried a bigger written yellow brand name on the tire walls.

Photo: Red Bull Ring

The situation will be improved as a new technical device makes it possible to identify the type of tire used in each car and to include it in the TV graphics. This is made possible by the use of sensors mounted to the wheels of the Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz DTM cars.

In addition to the air pressure, these sensors will also transmit the information if a car is running on option tires.

This is made possible by an individual code of the sensor that is entered by the representative of the German Motor Sport Association, DMSB, in the marshalling system prior to the distribution of the option tires.

Every driver receives - solely for the race - one set of option tires and must run it at any point during the race.

Subaru Canada today announced pricing and specifications for the 2014 Outback, whose “crisp, car-like handling” makes it an “adventure-ready SUV alternative.”

Powertrain choices start with a 2.5L, 4-cylinder BOXER engine that produces 173 horsepower through a standard 6-speed manual transmission or a second-generation Lineartonic CVT. Meanwhile, the 3.6L, 6-cylinder BOXER engine develops 256 horsepower with the help of a 5-speed Electronic Direct Control Automatic Transmission with manual mode.

Models equipped with the Lineartronic CVT will see fuel efficiency of 6.5L/100km on the highway and 8.6L/100km in the city. The manual gearbox achieves 7.1 and 9.4L/100km, respectively.

The 2014 Subaru Outback comes in 5 trim levels:
- 2.5i Convenience: $28,495 (w/ PZEV option: $30,495)
- 2.5i Touring: $31,095
- 2.5i Limited: $36,295 (w/ EyeSight option: $37,795)
- 3.6R: $34,495
- 3.6R Limited: $38,495 (w/ EyeSight option: $39,995).

Photo: Subaru

For the second year in a row, Andrew Ranger gave the hometown crowd at Circuit ICAR something to cheer about as he roared to the victory Sunday in the Jiffy Lube 100 presented by Snap-On.

The two-time NASCAR Canadian Tire Series' champion withstood a late restart to go wire-to-wire for the win - his 17th career series victory and 14th on a road course.

Photos: Paolo Pedicelli

Scott Steckly, who started third on the grid, held off teammate Louis-Philippe Dumoulin for second at the finish. J.R. Fitzpatrick and Jeff Lapcevich were fourth and fifth.

Rounding out the top 10 were D.J. Kennington, Kerry Micks, Jean-François Dumoulin, Martin Roy and rookie Alex Guenette.