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  Rear-wheel drive BMW SUVs to carry sDrive suffix

  29 November 2008 / 6 comments

  Rear-wheel drive versions of BMW’s SUVs like the BMW X1 will most likely carry the sDrive name instead of the current xDrive suffix. BMW has registered the trademark sDrive along with displacement indicators such as […]

   

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  Sources: Syed Zainal may leave when contract ends?

  12 November 2008 / 110 comments

  Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir may leave when his contract as the managing director and CEO of Proton expires by the end of this year.

   

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  Production version of Toyota 1/X Concept in 2011?

  25 October 2008 / 13 comments

  It will also be one of Toyota's cheapest hybrids, so to keep costs down NiMH batteries are likely to be used rather than lithium ion batteries.

   

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  Toyota Spider Concept based on iQ for Tokyo 2009?

  22 October 2008 / 11 comments

  Germany's Auto Motor und Sport claims that the iQ-based roadster is in fact in the works and a concept version will be unveiled at next year's 2009 Tokyo Motor Show in October 2009.

   

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  Volkswagen Golf Mk6 to get more performance variants including twin-turbo diesel?

  30 September 2008 / 7 comments

  Performance versions of the Mk6 Volkswagen Golf will go beyond the GT, GTi and the R32-replacing higher-powered version of the Golf GTi.

   

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  Initial details on Mark 6 Golf GTI revealed

  8 August 2008 / 12 comments

  Click for details and photo gallery of Mark 6 Golf Now that we’ve seen what the base Mark 6 Golf will look like, I’m sure alot of people are waiting in anticipation for signs of […]

   

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  Porsche planning Golf-based hot hatch by 2012

  20 June 2008 / 18 comments

  Click to enlarge German car magazine AutoBild reported this month that Porsche was planning to make a new compact hot hatch based on the next generation Volkswagen Golf Mk6 platform. The magazine claims that this […]

   

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  Ferrari GT California: name for the new F149?

  13 May 2008 / 7 comments

  Ferrari S.P.A. filed a trademark application back in late 2006 which may give us a clue to the name of the new Ferrari GT car. The registration for the name FERRARI GT CALIFORNIA was approved […]

   

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  Tata to take up stake in MV Agusta?

  11 May 2008 / 14 comments

  MV Agusta F4 Tamburini Apparently MV Agusta could have a new owner or at least a large shareholder in the form of Tata Motors, according to Italian bike magazine euroMoto. MV Agusta used to be […]

   

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  BTimes: 4 players interested in Tata franchise

  15 April 2008 / 15 comments

  Business Times reports quoting sources that there are currently four runners in the race for the Tata franchise in Malaysia, currently held by DRB-HICOM’s Scott & English (M) Sdn Bhd. The current franchise agreement will […]

   

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  Mercedes-Benz CLE-Class Artist’s Impression

  7 April 2008 / 8 comments

  Click to enlarge Mercedes-Benz has long been rumoured to be coming up with the CLE-Class, a coupe based on the C-Class, but what we’ve got so far is only the CLC-Class, a restyled hatchback version […]

   

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  RS model for 7th generation Ford Fiesta

  31 March 2008 / 6 comments

  A more hardcore and lightweight version of the Mk7 Ford Fiesta (shown above) is in the works, and like its higher performance Focus sibling, it will be called the Ford Fiesta RS. According to Auto […]

   

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  Proton Satria Neo Super 2000 touring car

  28 February 2008 / 27 comments

  It appears that a group of people have been working on a Super 2000 Proton Satria Neo rally car. Yahoo Eurosport UK reports that the people behind this car is most likely Mellors Elliot Motorsport […]

   

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  New “Raptor” Ford F150 with long travel shocks and turbocharged Boss V8

  30 January 2008 / 17 comments

  Ford is reportedly working on a new project called the Raptor, essentially a very powerful Ford F150 with long travel shocks from Fox Racing and a turbocharged V8 from the new “Boss” family. The Fox […]

   

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  Is this the upcoming Mazda RX-9?

  4 January 2008 / 41 comments

  These are supposed to be leaked product images of the upcoming successor to the Mazda RX series of rotary coupes – the Mazda RX-9. Under the hood will be the new RENESIS 16X, a 1.6 […]

   

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