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  Chevrolet Cruze team achieve podium finishes in WTCC

  27 May 2010 / 6 comments

  Chevrolet have added a fourth car in the World Touring Car Championship starting with the Monza leg. The usual Chevrolet Cruzes of Rob Huff, Alain Menu and Yvan Muller are still fielded while the new […]

   

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  Mahindra aims to electrify India with purchase of REVA

  27 May 2010 / 18 comments

  Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd has announced the purchase of a majority stake in Bangalore based REVA Electric Car Co. Ltd. Mahindra now owns 55.2% stake in REVA, which will now be known as Mahindra REVA […]

   

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  Kia joins fuel cell race, expects 10,000 units sold by 2015

  27 May 2010 / 16 comments

  Kia is hoping to become one of the leading fuel cell electric vehicle makers by 2015. Time lines have been vague, as they only mentioned that sales will start somewhere between 2010 and 2012. But […]

   

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  Novitec remembers the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, and tunes it!

  27 May 2010 / 6 comments

  The 612 Scaglietti is not a very popular member of the Ferrari family. More often than not, the big grand tourer is eclipsed by its prettier, sexier and nimbler sisters. Those shopping for a Ferrari […]

   

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  Hulme CanAm is New Zealand’s first supercar

  27 May 2010 / 18 comments

  You are looking at the first Kiwi supercar, and the four-year old company is named after New Zealand’s only F1 World Champion, Denny Hulme. The Hulme CanAm is no ordinary supercar, because it comes with […]

   

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  US Grand Prix confirmed to be in Austin, Texas

  27 May 2010 / 6 comments

  The long rumoured American F1 track is now confirmed. The venue has finally been set for the US Formula 1 Grand Prix and it will be set in Austin, Texas. The FIA and Full Throttle […]

   

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  Electric cars may need artificial noise for safety

  26 May 2010 / 36 comments

  Electric and hybrid cars have been a staple alternative for eco-conscious motorist for some time, though there might be a chance you’d be involved in an accident more often than that of a standard car. […]

   

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  Italdesign-Giugiaro to work exclusively with VW?

  26 May 2010 / 39 comments

  The announcement that VW has taken up 90.1 percent stake in Italdesign will come as a sigh of relief to its workforce. VW has stated that there will be no redundancies among the 800-strong work […]

   

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  It’s official: Volkswagen’s Lamborghini buys 90.1 percent stake in Italdesign Giugiaro

  25 May 2010 / 59 comments

  It has finally been officially confirmed that Volkswagen Group and Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A. (IDG) will be joining hands in a new era of motoring engineering and design. An official press release has been circulated about […]

   

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  Cosworth extracts 395 hp from the Subaru WRX STI

  25 May 2010 / 40 comments

  Cosworth has fettled with the Subaru WRX STI to produce promising results. The finely tuned machine designated the Subaru Cosworth STi CS400 has been improved in more ways than one. The selling point of this […]

   

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  Volkswagen buying over 90 percent of Giugiaro?

  25 May 2010 / 11 comments

  According to Automotive News Europe sources, Volkswagen AG will officially announce their take over of Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A on Tuesday (European time, not our time) as mentioned in previous articles. If things go through, Volkswagen […]

   

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  Honda suspends Thai operations due to Red Shirt protests

  24 May 2010 / 34 comments

  Honda has suspended operations for a day at two of their factories in Thailand, due to the bloody turmoil created by the Red Shirt protests. One of them is a car manufacturing plant in Ayutthaya […]

   

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  Nido EV is Pininfarina’s version of the Proton EMAS

  24 May 2010 / 53 comments

  Possibly tired of drawing up Ferraris, Pininfarina tries their hand at the whole eco car thing and have released this electric car concept called Nido EV. A development of the similarly named 2004 concept, the […]

   

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  New Audi A8 is a moving WiFi hotspot!

  24 May 2010 / 19 comments

  Audi is future proofing its new A8 limo by factory installing a WLAN hotspot for wireless internet connection as an option. Which means that passengers not only have business class comfort, but can conduct business […]

   

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  BMW X3 teaser shots revealed by official Dutch website

  24 May 2010 / 11 comments

  An official teaser has been released by BMW Netherlands for the new X3 which is expected to be showcased at the 2010 Paris Motor Show. What you do get is a glimpse of the bonnet […]

   

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