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  Volkswagen developing low-cost cars

  10 April 2007 / 15 comments

  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 sold first in […]

  
  

   

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  Volvo to drop R performance badge

  9 April 2007 / 29 comments

  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 is just not […]

  
  

   

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  Kia might develop pick-up truck for US market

  9 April 2007 / 10 comments

  Other than Thailand, everyone knows Americans have a healthy appetite for pick-up trucks, which is why anyone who wants to do a pick-up truck must think of whether it can do well in the American […]

  
  

   

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  Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen

  9 April 2007 / 9 comments

  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 stationwagon, is called […]

  
  

   

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  New BMW 528i and 535i for US market

  5 April 2007 / 7 comments

  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 will come in […]

  
  

   

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  Chevrolet Concept Cars: Trax, Beat and Groove

  5 April 2007 / 43 comments

  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 designed by GM […]

  
  

   

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  Honda S2000 Club Racer Prototype

  5 April 2007 / 13 comments

  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 Auto Show called […]

  
  

   

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  Caterham Superlight R400

  5 April 2007 / 15 comments

  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 refers to it’s […]

  
  

   

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  Volkswagen Touareg 2 (facelift) launched in US

  5 April 2007 / 16 comments

  After it’s more premium sibling, it’s now the Touareg’s turn to be facelifted, and Volkswagen is calling it the Volkswagen Touareg 2 in the US market. The 2008 Volkswagen Touareg 2 features an updated VR6 […]

  
  

   

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  CEO gets grilled by DaimlerChrysler shareholders

  5 April 2007 / 11 comments

  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 DaimlerChrysler supposed “merger […]

  
  

   

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