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  Volkswagen Tiguan 132TSI Pacific – a SE for Australia

  8 February 2012 / 3 comments

  Yet another special edition has popped up, and this one, from Volkswagen, is meant exclusively for the Australian market. It’s called the Tiguan 132TSI Pacific, and helping to distinguish the vehicle as a SE are […]

   

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  VIDEO: Alfa Romeo Giulietta plays ice hockey in the UK

  1 February 2012 / 3 comments

  With cold wintery weather forecast for the UK this week, and freezing temperatures set to affect many UK roads, Alfa Romeo UK thought of an unusual way to promote the Italian brand – get the […]

   

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  VW to assemble T5 Transporter and Multivan in Indonesia

  1 February 2012 / 24 comments

  Volkswagen will assemble “Semi Knocked Down” (SKD) units of its Transporter and Multivan vans in Indonesia. Both based on the current T5 platform, the vans will be for the local market. Indonesia is ASEAN’s most […]

   

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  Honda’s Thai plant to resume production end of March

  1 February 2012 / 5 comments

  Some updates about Honda’s Thai production, which was expected to be out for up to six months from October last year when it was inundated with floodwaters. The company says it is planning to resume […]

   

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  Skoda Citigo five-door set for Geneva debut

  31 January 2012 / 6 comments

  Some news about the Skoda Citigo. The company has announced that the five-door version of the city car – essentially the cousin of the Volkswagen Up! – is set to debut at the Geneva show […]

   

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  Ford’s 1.0 litre EcoBoost mill set to make market debut in March, to be available across the Focus model range

  31 January 2012 / 33 comments

  Ford’s new 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine is set to make its market debut in the UK, across the Ford Focus range starting from next month. The turbocharged, direct injection three-cylinder mill, which was officially unveiled […]

   

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  Reports: Lotus looking for £500m partner, Genii interested

  31 January 2012 / 72 comments

  Reports coming from the UK say that Group Lotus CEO Dany Bahar is looking for financial partners to buy over the sportscar maker from Proton. The Sunday Times news piece suggested that Bahar is not […]

   

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  Fiat 500L 5-door hatch coming soon, 7-seater on the way!

  30 January 2012 / 12 comments

  Fiat’s reborn icon is about to grow in size. The popular retro styled 500 will get a five-door hatchback variant called 500L, L for large. Codenamed L-Zero, the supermini sized 500L will make its debut […]

   

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  Striking workers halt Indonesian production output

  30 January 2012 / 38 comments

  It’s not just natural disasters that can halt production – over in Indonesia, Honda was one of the many Japanese companies forced to stop output last Friday when more than 10,000 workers demanding better wages […]

   

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  Honda CR-Z “Label α” – burgundy coloured special edition

  30 January 2012 / 22 comments

  The Honda CR-Z has been rather well received in Malaysia. Launched in November last year, Honda Malaysia targeted to sell 100 units of the RM115k hybrid by the end of 2011, but has received over […]

   

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  Aston Martin V12 Zagato – first production car to debut in Kuwait Concours d’Elegance in February

  30 January 2012 / 5 comments

  Aston Martin is set to debut the first production V12 Zagato at the third Kuwait Concours d’ Elegance, which runs on February 15-18. The car, which made its debut in prototype form in May last […]

   

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  On eBay: Barack Obama’s Chrysler 300C going for $1m

  27 January 2012 / 12 comments

  There’s only one reason for the presidential price tag on this 2005 Chrysler 300C – it was used by US President Barack Obama! Put up on eBay by one “cubfanatic23” for US$1,000,000, this 300C was […]

   

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  Meet Hiriko, the foldable two-seater electric city car

  27 January 2012 / 15 comments

  The bubble-shaped vehicle you see in the photos is called Hiriko, an urban two-seater EV being collaborated on by the the MIT, Spanish government and Basque businesses. It’s an electric vehicle with a novel take […]

   

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  Acura ILX Concept previews a new entry level saloon

  26 January 2012 / 26 comments

  At the recent Detroit show, Honda’s luxury brand Acura teased us all with the NSX Concept, but another showcar is much closer to the showroom than the supercar, the ILX Concept. Billed as the precursor […]

   

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  Mitsubishi to produce ASX in Indonesia starting this year

  26 January 2012 / 29 comments

  Mitsubishi Motors has announced it will start production and sales of the ASX (also known as Outlander Sport) in Indonesia. This will happen in the first half of MMC’s fiscal year 2012. FY 2011 for […]

   

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