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MANAGING EDITOR ROGER HART: Glad I saw the sticker price after driving the car. Yes, it's a fine sedan with great curb appeal. You could make the argument that all Passats should be the CC. Full story...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has warned in its monthly report that national car scrappage schemes designed to support the car industry bring little net benefit and may 'delay necessary structural change'. Full story...

Chinese electric car and battery maker BYD's nine-month car sales soared 50% year on year to almost 300,000 units, local reports said on Friday. Full story...

Hyundai's new assembly plant is on track to launch production in September-November 2010, St Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko has said. Full story...

A working group will submit a set of measures to aid struggling carmaker AvtoVAZ to the Russian government in December, Vnesheconombank, or VEB, has said. Full story...

The General Motors board has allowed the carmaker join its cash-strapped South Korean affiliate GM-Daewoo's new rights offer, CEO Fritz Henderson said on Thursday. He did not elaborate. Meanwhile, state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB) said it would not participate in the rights offering if the US carmaker did not meet its request for financial aid to its local unit. Full story...

Amazing pictures give clear look at how new rear-drive Toyota-Subaru coupe will look.

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Uncertainty over the timing of the expected signing of a 'memorandum of understanding' document selling a 55% stake in General Motors' European unit Opel to a Magna International-led consortium remains on Friday. Full story...

When GM decided last year that, in its struggle to survive, it needed to cut Saab adrift - there were mixed feelings throughout the Saab organisation. But, as Knut Simonsson, Saab's director of global operations, tells Dave Leggett, it has given the company a chance to change and presented a new business opportunity. Full story...

Chinese joint venture vehicle manufacturing partners SAIC Motor and General Motors are exploring new business opportunities including vehicle assembly in India, a source told the Economic Times. Full story...

The assets of collapsed British van maker LDV have been sold to Eco Concept, administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers have revealed. Full story...

South Africa's National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (Naamsa) has said new guidelines for the automotive investment scheme (AIS), which falls under government's new Automotive Production and Development Programme (APDP), should be concluded by the end of this month. Full story...

First Drive: 2010 Suzuki Kizashi

The Kizashi is Suzuki's best-ever car for the American market and truly fun to drive, particularly on racetracks.

We've been anxious to share with you our driving impressions of the new Suzuki Kizashi ever since its maker dropped off a car at our Ann Arbor offices nearly two months ago and again earlier this month for our annual All-Stars testing. Now that the driving-impressions embargo has finally lifted and we've driven the car in several states around the country, we're happy to reveal that the Kizashi is Suzuki's best-ever car for the American market and truly fun to drive, particularly on racetracks.

Photo Gallery: 2010 Suzuki Kizashi - Suzuki Midsize Sedan Review - Automobile Magazine

Photo Gallery: 2010 Suzuki Kizashi - Suzuki Midsize Sedan Review - Automobile Magazine

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Kimi Raikkonen on Thursday said he has not yet signed a new contract to keep racing in formula one next year. Full story...

Jimmie Johnson, the NASCAR Sprint Cup points leader, won the pole at Lowe's Speedway, in Charlotte, with the fastest qualifying lap ever run in NASCAR's Car of Tomorrow. Full story...

Fernando Alonso on Thursday played down Felipe Massa's dubious welcome to the Ferrari team. Full story...

CLEVER is the acronym for "Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport" and refers to a research project aimed at producing a low-emission, practical city vehicle. The CLEVER project was launched in 2002 as an initiative of Berlin's Technical University, sponsored by the 5th Framework Programme of the EU Commission. Full story...

1976 may not strike you as a particularly important year historically, unless of course, you were born (like me) or married that year. In fact, like any other year in recorded history, many events took place at the time that have left a mark on our society today in one respect or another. For example, the Toronto Blue Jays were created, across the way, the CN Tower was erected, the Apple company was formed and the Summer Olympics took place in Montreal (that mark still has not healed completely...). Full story...

From 2010, BMW's Landshut plant will boast the world's first foundry with emission-free sand core production. Full story...

Brazilian natives and open-wheel veterans Nelson Piquet Jr. and Vitor Meira both recently tested a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Toyota Tundra at the "Little Rock" short track at Rockingham Speedway for Red Horse Racing. Full story...