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World Car Of The Year 2007 Awards

The results of the World Car Of The Year 2007 awards have been announced, and the winner is the Lexus LS460! The LS is available on our local shores in long wheelbase …

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Volkswagen developing low-cost cars

Volkswagen under Martin Winterkorn's leadership is currently developing two low-end car platforms in parallel. One is being developed in Brazil, and following the lead of the low cost Renault/Dacia Logan, would be …

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Volvo to drop R performance badge

Volvo's R badge was originally intended to change the public's perception on Volvo. While being known for safety is a great branding achivement by itself, it wanted people to know that Volvo …

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Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen

Volkswagen doesn't seem to be able to decide what it wants to call it's station wagons. The Passat stationwagon is called the Passat Variant, while this Jetta stationwagon, essentially also a Golf …

BMW

New BMW 528i and 535i for US market

BMW's 5-Series Facelift model line-up for the US market will be slightly different than the European line-up previously announced when the 5-Series Facelift was unveiled. In the US, the 2008 BMW 5-Series …

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Chevrolet Concept Cars: Trax, Beat and Groove

This trio of new minicars are part of Chevrolet's initiative to introduce new minicars because of the recent market shift to a preferance for economical and fuel efficient cars. The cars were …

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Honda S2000 Club Racer Prototype

Honda will add yet another new variant to the Honda S2000 model range, called the Honda S2000 Club Racer. A prototype version is currently being displayed at the 2007 New York International …

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Caterham Superlight R400

Caterham's new Superlight R400 is a part of a range that are the successors to the original Lotus Seven by Colin Chapman launched 50 years ago. The 400 in the Superlight R400 …

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CEO gets grilled by DaimlerChrysler shareholders

DaimlerChrysler CEO Dieter Zetsche was "grilled" at a shareholder's meeting yesterday, for not moving fast enough to dispose of Chrysler, seen as a patient leeching off the profitable German half of the …

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2008 Subaru B9 Tribeca Facelift

This is one of the most radical facelifts I've seen on a car model yet, changing from something radical into something not so radical. This is the face of the facelifted Subaru …

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New Toyota Vios launched in Thailand

[ LATEST UPDATE: Click here to find out more details on the Toyota Vios that will be available here in Malaysia, straight from the Malaysian press preview launch! ] [ UPDATE: Toyota …

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Carlsson CK35: Carlsson tunes up the W204

Yet another German tuner has laid their hands on the new W204 Mercedes Benz C-Class. This time, it's Carlsson, who took the standard Mercedes Benz C350 and engineered this new Carlsson CK35. …

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New Ford Fiesta coming up soon

Ford will be using the recently unveiled Mazda2 platform as the base for it's next generation Ford Fiesta, and word is that it's going to come with a softroader option. With the …

BMW

BMW to showcase BMW Z9 Concept at Shanghai

The last time BMW offered a high-priced limited-run exotic sports car was the BMW Z8, with 5,703 units sold between the years 2000 to 2003. The E52 Z8 was a production variants …

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Fiat Grande Punto Abarth

Fiat's Abarth in-house tuning division will be making a comeback with the new Fiat Grande Punto Abarth. Set to bring Fiat back into the hot hatch game, the Grande Punto Abarth will …

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Chevrolet Trax Global Minicar

The Chevrolet Trax is the successor to the Chevrolet Spark in all but name, being a 4-door minicar with a 1 litre engine. Like the Spark/Matiz, it was developed by Daewoo. The …

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Volkswagen says Proton talks still on

[ UPDATE: The talks have finally ended in a no go. Click here for latest update. ] I have no idea where Singapore's Straits Times got it's information from, but Volkswagen spokesman …

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Mercedes Benz CL65 AMG Revealed!

The latest AMG tuned-up version of the luxurious CL Coupe has been unveiled at the 2007 New York Auto Show. Powered by a 6.0 litre AMG-engineered V12 bi-turbo engine, the CL65 AMG …