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  Proton hits Top Gear, with The Stig in the Satria Neo S2000

  2 February 2011 / 127 comments

  Proton Motorsports’ Satria Neo S2000 has been featured in an Ashes Special episode of Top Gear, which ran earlier in the week. The episode pitted the UK Top Gear stooges, Messrs Clarkson, May and Hammond […]

   

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  Kia Motors posts record sales and annual net profit in 2010

  1 February 2011 / 11 comments

  Another company reports cheery news – Kia Motors said that 2010 was its best ever in terms of net profit and sales volumes. The affiliate of Hyundai Motor recorded sales of 2.13 million vehicles in […]

   

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  One more time – Jaguar may build new compact sedan

  1 February 2011 / 6 comments

  If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That seems to be a definite line of thought for Jaguar at the moment – the company is more than merely toying with the idea of developing […]

   

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  Proton Satria Neo R3 Concept at Tokyo Auto Salon 2011

  1 February 2011 / 90 comments

  This red Proton Satria Neo R3 Concept was displayed at the 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon earlier this year alongside the CUSCO Proton Satria Neo rally car. According to R3, it was built to show the […]

   

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  Renault-Nissan Alliance flying, with record sales in 2010

  31 January 2011 / 5 comments

  It’s all green and go for the 12-year-old Renault-Nissan Alliance, which reported a record year in global sales, with 7,276,398 units achieved in 2010, a 19.6% increase over 2009 in a market that expanded by […]

   

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  Audi A4 1.8 TFSI and Audi A6 2.0 TFSI in Indonesia are now locally assembled!

  31 January 2011 / 28 comments

  Audi has announced that it has setup an assembly facility in Indonesia in cooperation with INDOMOBIL/Garuda Mataram Motor, with the first vehicles to roll off the assembly line being the Audi A4 1.8 TFSI and […]

   

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  Toyota leads Indonesia vehicle sales with 37% market share, best selling Avanza still going strong

  31 January 2011 / 17 comments

  South East Asia is Toyota territory. The world’s largest carmaker is almost like a “national carmaker” in Thailand and Indonesia, and is the top selling foreign brand in Malaysia, behind national carmakers Perodua and Proton. […]

   

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  Around the world in 125 days – fuel cell out to prove a point

  31 January 2011 / 7 comments

  Three Mercedes-Benz B-Class fuel cell vehicles have begun an epic 125-day circumnavigation of the world. The cars will travel 30,000 km across four continents and through 14 countries and will finish their world tour back […]

   

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  Blind man drives car successfully, aided by nonvisual tech

  31 January 2011 / 3 comments

  In the US, a blind individual has driven a street vehicle for the first time in public without the assistance of a sighted person. Over the weekend, Mark Riccobono successfully navigated 2.4 km of the […]

   

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  Fuel cell prices expected to drop considerably, says Daimler

  31 January 2011 / 6 comments

  According to a report, Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler predicts that the cost of EV batteries and fuel cell cars will drop significantly in the next few years, especially for the latter, paving the way for closer […]

   

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  Iran Khodro Runna set for mid-2011 domestic market entry

  31 January 2011 / 16 comments

  Well, nearly two years after it was announced, it looks like Iranian assembler Iran Khodro, or IKCO, will have its first Runna sedans reaching domestic customers in the middle of this year. The Runna is […]

   

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  Selespeed retired, Alfa MiTo first to get dual-clutch TCT

  29 January 2011 / 19 comments

  Designed to offer the best of both manual and automatic worlds, the Selespeed robotized manual transmission by Alfa Romeo wasn’t as perfect as it could have been. The Magneti Marelli developed gearbox, which made its […]

   

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  Honda’s facelifted Euro Accord to be unveiled in Geneva

  29 January 2011 / 21 comments

  Click to enlarge Honda will be debuting its facelifted European Accord sedan and Tourer models at the Geneva Motor Show. Both forms will feature a number of minor changes – besides revised exterior styling and […]

   

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  Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 Qatar – a street-legal concept

  28 January 2011 / 11 comments

  Here’s something that’s bound to get Dakar followers going. Volkswagen has put out a concept study of its Race Touareg 3 – which won the recent 2011 Dakar – at the Qatar Motor Show, alongside […]

   

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  Volvo V60 Plug-In Hybrid to debut in Geneva

  28 January 2011 / 16 comments

  Volvo will unveil its V60 Plug-in Hybrid at the Geneva Motor Show in March, and says that the debutant is virtually production-ready. Developed in close cooperation with Swedish energy supplier Vattenfall, the vehicle is set […]

   

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