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  New Honda Insight is the best-selling car in Japan… for April 2009

  12 May 2009 / 15 comments

  After two months of sales in Japan with about 4,000 units each month, Honda Insight sales suddenly jumped up to 10,481 units in April 2009, making it the 1st in a monthly ranking of all […]

   

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  Mazda Verisa (Mazda 2 Plus?) updated for JDM!

  11 May 2009 / 17 comments

  The Mazda Verisa is a “tall hatchback” version of the Mazda 2 that is sold only in the Japanese market. It is pretty much the equivalent of the European Ford Fusion, which is a larger […]

   

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  Malaysia’s Weststar to buy British vanmaker LDV

  9 May 2009 / 23 comments

  Russian-owned British vanmaker LDV was just about to file for administration when suddenly there is a new announcement that gives them some hope – our very own Weststar will be purchasing them for 1 British […]

   

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  New 170 PS Volkswagen Scirocco GT TDI

  8 May 2009 / 14 comments

  The Volkswagen Scirocco GT is now available as an oil burner, with a 2.0 litre TDI engine under the hood putting out 170 PS at a typically diesel 4,200rpm. A high performance diesel isn’t really […]

   

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  Production SEAT Ibiza Bocanegra unveiled in both 150 PS and 180 PS guise!

  8 May 2009 / 18 comments

  The hottest and probably the best looking production version of the SEAT Ibiza was unveiled in Barcelona at the 2009 Barcelona International Motor Show this week. The new Ibiza Bocanegra (FYI, the word Bocanegra means […]

   

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  Volkswagen to assemble Touran in Indonesia

  7 May 2009 / 123 comments

  The Wall Street Journal reports that Volkswagen is set to open its first South East Asian plant in Indonesia, with the first model to roll out of the new US$47 million (RM166 million) factory to […]

   

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  SEAT Ibiza ECOMOTIVE does 2.9L per 100km

  5 May 2009 / 33 comments

  SEAT claims that its SEAT Ibiza ECOMOTIVE is the most “ecological” car in its segment. The car driven by Austrian long-haul specialist Gerhard Plattner’s 1.4 litre TDI engine (with a peak output of 80 horses) […]

   

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  Next generation Audi A3 to also feature sedan body

  4 May 2009 / 7 comments

  BMW’s formula of taking a boot onto the 1-Series and creating a coupe out of it sparked an idea in the Volkswagen AG stables. The American market while in a slump is still of significance […]

   

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  More details: New Renault Clio RS 200

  3 May 2009 / 27 comments

  We’ve already checked out the RS 200 before two months ago when it made its Geneva debut but here comes the full details. The Clio RS 197 is now the Clio RS 200 and is […]

   

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  The GTI Project: race around a Scalextric track!

  3 May 2009 / 7 comments

  Volkswagen and their agency Tribal DDB have launched a new website called The GTI Project where after viewing an intro sequence explaining some of the Volkswagen Golf GTI Mk6’s features, you get to trash it […]

   

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  Usain Bolt crashes his BMW M3 Coupe

  3 May 2009 / 41 comments

  Being fast is something that car manufacturers want to associate themselves with, so you can’t blame Ferrari and BMW for pulling off publicity stunts with 2008 Male World Athlete of the Year from Jamaica, Usain […]

   

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  Geely GE shamelessly apes the Phantom

  27 April 2009 / 148 comments

  Everytime Chinese automakers begin to show that they’ve moving one step ahead towards being able to produce advanced and most importantly SAFE cars, things like this destroy all that goodwill and return them to rip-off […]

   

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  Mercedes Benz may pull out of Formula 1?

  27 April 2009 / 38 comments

  The latest addition to the hot rumor pot is the possibility of Stuttgart-based auto maker Mercedes Benz pulling out of Formula 1 as the recent “lie-gate” scandal involving the McLaren Formula 1 team intensifies. Apparently, […]

   

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  Buick Business MPV Concept built for China

  26 April 2009 / 23 comments

  The Buick brand is possibly GM’s most successful brand out of the US and it’s quite big in China. The Buick GL8 was the 2nd most highest selling MPV in 2008 in China, selling 36,252 […]

   

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  Audi to celebrate 100th birthday with new model

  26 April 2009 / 12 comments

  It seems that Audi will be unveiling a new model to celebrate its 100th birthday on the 16th of July 2009. There has been completely no details released on this model, and it’s probably not […]

   

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