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  Russian hybrid electric vehicle to roll out mid-2012

  14 April 2010 / 15 comments

  Russia’s second (or first?) richest man is spearheading an effort to produce Russia’s first hybrid electric car. Mikhail Prokhorov’s Onexim Group and Russian truckmaker Yarovit is in a joint venture in which Onexim has poured […]

   

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  Peugeot to build new normally aspirated and turbocharged 3-cylinder engines

  14 April 2010 / 16 comments

  The trend of engine downsizing continues! PSA Peugeot Citroen is developing a new 1.2 litre inline-3 turbocharged engine to slot into its compact cars and will be investing 175 million Euros over the next 2 […]

   

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  Blackberry’s RIM acquires iDrive OS maker QNX

  14 April 2010 / 20 comments

  Could we see Blackberry Email being pushed to BMW’s iDrive in the future for CEOs to check their email from the comfort of their F02 7-Series rear seat? It could definitely be possible sometime soon. […]

   

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  Peugeot enters RCZ in 24 Hours of Nürburgring

  14 April 2010 / 10 comments

  Peugeot will campaign its RCZ in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring endurance race which happens next month (15-16 May). The French brand’s Audi TT fighter will earn its racing stripes in the D1T category of […]

   

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  GALLERY: BMW 5-Series Heritage

  13 April 2010 / 57 comments

  BMW Press have released over 30 photos of all the 5-Series they have built to date. If you own a classic 5-series you’ll probably be interested in checking out the photo gallery after the jump […]

   

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  Perodua breaks sales and service records in Q1 2010

  13 April 2010 / 120 comments

  Is the economy back in full swing and fully recovered from the global financial crisis? It has to be, because sales records are tumbling everywhere, from Audi to Perodua. Malaysia’s automotive market leader held a […]

   

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  Saab 9-5 – 500,000km of European chassis testing

  13 April 2010 / 20 comments

  Now that the whole drama about whether Saab will go on as a car company has ended since it has been sold to Spyker, it’s time to see its first post-GM car launch, though not […]

   

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  The BHPetrol Double Barrel Hunt

  13 April 2010 / 0 comments

  Tune in to season one of Driven at 10.30pm on 8TV every Sunday and find out the number of times BHPetrol’s Double Barrel Nozzle appears on the show. Then log on Driven’s website and click […]

   

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  ZF Sachs develops carbon fiber suspension damper

  13 April 2010 / 38 comments

  Carbon fiber has been used in many exotic applications in cars but I’ve never seen a carbon fiber damper before! Unlike the Bose suspension system which is exotic in its own complicated way, ZF Sachs […]

   

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  Audi surpasses Mercedes in sales, next target is BMW

  12 April 2010 / 119 comments

  Audi is ambitious and aggressive. The brand with the four rings wants to overtake both BMW and Mercedes by 2015 to be the world’s leading luxury carmaker with sales of 1.5 million per annum. With […]

   

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  FIA and Christian Horner: Red Bull RB6 is perfectly legal

  12 April 2010 / 17 comments

  Red Bull’s RB6 that powered Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber to a one-two finish at the Malaysian GP is the fastest car on track at the moment, leading some rivals to question its legality. Word […]

   

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  Local Toyota sales unaffected by recalls, UMWT sales rise

  12 April 2010 / 148 comments

  Some might have expected Toyota’s image and sales to suffer across the globe after the world’s top automaker was hit by a wave of recalls, with those in the US particularly sticky and still ongoing. […]

   

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  Volkswagen and Suzuki to co-develop Thai eco-car?

  12 April 2010 / 48 comments

  Nissan became the first company to launch its eco-car in Thailand with its new March at the recent Bangkok Motor Show. Other Japanese carmakers like Toyota and Honda are expected to follow suit; the latter […]

   

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  2011 Lotus Elise – world’s cleanest sports car

  12 April 2010 / 160 comments

  Lotus has been eyeing the tag of “World’s Cleanest Sports Car” with the facelifted Elise and has clinched it with the new entry-level 1.6-litre model’s confirmed emissions figure of 149 g/km of CO2. With that, […]

   

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  Naza Kia introduces facelifted Kia Sportage

  10 April 2010 / 99 comments

  Naza Kia launched the facelifted Kia Sportage today at the Shah Alam stadium carpark, where the company is having the Naza Kia Family Festival over the weekend (10-11 April). Not to be confused with the […]

   

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