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It's almost like Volkswagen is crafting a BMW X6M-fighter. Almost.

Lamborghini is celebrating half a century of performance, power and design panache with a limited-edition supercar called the

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The Volkswagen iBeetle has been unveiled to mark full Apple iPhone 5 integration into VW cars

Off over to Opel's tech centre at Dudenhofen (in the forest south east of Frankfurt) to see and try some of the new engines and gearboxes in the works.

NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: The 2013 Mercedes-Benz C300 4Matic is perhaps the most elegant sedan among its competitors.

Valmet Automotive is convinced that the variation of roof systems will grow, with new kinds of convertibles in car segments where we have seldom seen open tops before, like SUVs, crossovers, and the small vehicle segment. Continuing just-auto's series of interviews with leading roof manufacturers, Matthew Beecham talked with Hartwich Tiemeyer, Head of Design Engineering for Roof System, Valmet Automotive about convertible roof developments.

Union hopes Opel could change its mind concerning more talks to save its Bochum plant in Germany from closure, appear to be fading as the automaker takes an increasingly hard line on rejection of its productivity plan.

Volkswagen plans to expand its lineup by 29 percent in China to offer 90 cars, SUVs, vans and heavy trucks in the country. China is a key market for VW in its drive to take the industry's global top spot in five years.

PSA said new-car sales in China rose 31 percent to 142,000 in the first quarter, a record for the automaker. Growth was driven by a 24 percent rise in deliveries for PSA's joint venture with Chinese automaker Dongfeng, the company added.

Oliver Kuttner got into the alternative car business to make money. Or, more accurately, he got into it to win money. In 2010, the

"Mr. Corgi," Marcel van Cleemput, died this week at

Denso's subsidiary in north eastern Japan is to expand an automotive air conditioner plant to support increasing vehicle production by Toyota.

AvtoVAZ will reduce its sales forecast for 2013 in May, CEO Igor Komarov has told the Prime Tass news service. This followed a decline in sales last month.

Volvo will likely report a big operating loss in China for 2012 as slow sales and a costly new factory weighed on results, Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet reported.

Takata, the manufacturer of the malfunctioning airbags that have forced four Japanese automakers to recall millions of vehicles globally, said it will book an annual extraordinary loss of JPY30bn (US$307m) to 31 March 2013 due to costs associated with the recall.

GKN and HUAYU Automotive Systems (HASCO) have announced a major expansion of their Chinese joint venture - Shanghai GKN Driveshaft (SDS). This development will make SDS a leading supplier of all-wheel drive (AWD) and electric-drive (eDrive) systems to these fast-growing segments of the Chinese car market.

Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson is bracing for more tough times in Europe, where the automaker's sales fell 15 percent in the first quarter.

Fiat will add a second shift at the Turin factory where it builds Maserati cars, a source said. Fiat is investing 1.2 billion euros in the luxury marque as it seeks to boost global sales from 6,000 last year to 50,000.

VW, Mercedes and BMW all posted record global sales last year, fueled by demand in China.