Audi new-car sales rose 14.9 percent to 108,100 last month, a record for August that further narrows the gap in eight-month sales with the best-selling premium brand BMW.
Having given just-auto exclusive details of a forthcoming small SUV concept on 17 August, SsangYong Motor has now revealed the vehicle's name and issued some images of it.
Although the external design changes made by quattro GmbH (Audi's in-house performance department) to produce the RS5 are subtle, they send an unmistakable message.
Ford's new EcoSport global small SUV, to rival the General Motors Opel/Vauxhall Mokka and its Chevrolet and Buick siblings, will get a new 1.5-litre turbodiesel engine in some markets when launched towards the end of next year.
Daihatsu Motor Kyushu, a subsidiary of Daihatsu Motor Company, is to lift the capacity of its Kurume plant in Japan from the current 216,000 mini-vehicle engines per year to 324,000.
Honda said today prices on the redesigned 2013 Accord sedan will increase, on average, by less than $300, even with the addition of thousands of dollars worth of standard features and technology.
The fourth generation Range Rover launched at a VIP event in London last week - the first full redesign since 2001 when what is now Tata Motors' Jaguar Land Rover luxury vehicle unit was still part of Ford's Premier Automotive Group - will be "the last word" in 4x4 luxury as well as performance, aiming at a burgeoning GBP100,000 plus market, a top executive has said.
Daimler plans to approach Volkswagen later this month to see whether a partnership to build light commercial vehicles can be extended. The two automakers currently cooperate on transporter vans.
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10 Sep, 2012
SsangYong has revealed sketches of a new range-extending SUV, ahead of its Paris debut
Following the change of ownership of British sports car company Lotus, and consequent production delays, deliveries of the Elise S have now started in Australia, ahead of full supply of the entire range plus new models over the coming months.
Porsche expects output of its new Macan compact sports utility vehicle to reach 75,000 in its first year of production in 2013, up from an initial forecast of 45,000 vehicles, a German weekly reported, without citing sources.
Lenders are increasingly saying yes to credit-challenged customers. During the first quarter of 2012, vehicle loans to subprime borrowers increased by 11 percent, according to Experian Automotive.
For Hyundai's U.S. dealers wrestling with tight new-car inventories, help is on the way from U.S. plants. But next spring, a new labor pact in South Korea could crimp Hyundai Motor Co.'s exports to North America.
Even after Hyundai's best August ever, its dealers are painfully aware that they could sell many more vehicles if the automaker could provide them. Aside from that annoying reality, Hyundai dealers and the factory are thriving with lean inventories.
Volkswagen Group is expanding the product range of all its brands at a ferocious pace as it fights to become the world's top-selling automaker.
So how do Volkswagen and Audi figure to hit their much talked-about U.S. volume target of a combined 1 million sales by 2018? One key is a big push into fast-growing crossover segments that the two brands largely have shunned.
After thriving for decades with an evolutionary model for product development, a struggling Honda has made the risky move of a clean-sheet redesign of its 2013 Accord sedan.
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