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Volkswagen's sports car unit Porsche today named Klaus Zellmer president and CEO of Porsche Cars North America, effective Nov. 1.

General Motors India has shipped the first 3,000 left hand drive Chevrolet Beats to Mexico. The vehicles have left Mumbai and are expected to arrive in Mexico within eight weeks with sales commencing in December 2015.

News 13 Oct, 2015

Audi's hottest TT spied on the road, expected to get tweaked version of RS3's engine with over 350bhp

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Updated version of the Audi TT RS is on sale now, featuring a 395bhp five-cylinder engine and handful of styling tweaks

Former Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn, who quit last month, will step down from his remaining posts related to the company, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper and TV stations NDR and WDR reported, without citing sources. The resignations are expected in the coming days, as soon as a few remaining formalities have been dealt with, they said, according to Reuters.

Aston Martin, the 102 year-old maker of high-performance cars featured in the next James Bond film, is envisioning a future when its engines are fueled by electricity instead of gasoline.

Volkswagen is to slash investment spending by EUR1bn a year, change diesel emissions control technology and launch an electric Phaeton flagship, the brand's management board announced on Tuesday.

News 13 Oct, 2015

Exclusive pictures and details on new BMW M2 Coupe - 364bhp 3.0-litre 6cyl engine gets manual & auto options

News 13 Oct, 2015

The Volkswagen board has announced an electric focus for future models and investment reduced by €1bn a year

Automakers will build about 1.8 million cars in 2017 in the UK, less than the 1.95 million originally expected, due to more sluggish growth in Europe, an industry body said.

VW Group said it will reduce investment spending at the VW brand by $1.1 billion a year, switch to a different diesel emissions treatment technology and launch an all-electric Phaeton sedan as the flagship for a new focus on electrification.

Transport for London (TfL), the body that oversees integrated transport services in the UK capital, has confirmed it is one of the first customers for Toyota's hydrogen fuel cell powered Mirai sedan. Other early buyers are private car service Greentomatocars and hydrogen energy system manufacturer ITM Power.

China is introducing measures to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles and other 'new-energy' vehicles in the country, including regulations designed to accelerate the roll out of recharging infrastructure nationwide. The government wants the country to have a recharging infrastructure in place to support the use of 5m electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles by 2020.

News 13 Oct, 2015

The rumoured F12 Speciale will be called Ferrari F12tdf, in homage to legendary endurance road race of the 1950s

Toyota is packing the next-generation Prius with such a profusion of new technologies that it makes the best-selling hybrid truly worthy of its name, which means 'to go before.

What do kids want? Hybrids and green cars.

Volvo will debut its compact SUV, expected to be called the XC40, in early 2018, sources said. Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson said a compact SUV is a priority for Volvo but he declined to confirm the name of the model or the timing of its arrival.