2010 MG 6

August 17, 2010 Filed Under: Miscellaneous
2010 MG 6 - Front Angle Picture

MG Motor has unveiled the MG6, the first all new MG motor car since the launch of the MGF sports car. The MG6 proudly displays a new modernized version of the famous MG octagon badge for the first time. This new design is planned to carry forward on to all new MG models. The MG6 is a sporting five seat fastback model, designed to capture the character of the MG brand and bring something different to the volume market. MG6 Key Dimensions • Length:... 

Boosted Powertrain Moves the Bonneville Suzuki Kizashi Sport Sedan into New Segment – Over 200 Mph

August 12, 2010 Filed Under: Auto News
2010 Bonneville Suzuki Kizashi Picture

Since its introduction to the press in July of 2009, Suzuki’s Kizashi has been recognized as a midsize sedan with a difference – or two. Boasting a rigid structure, composed platform, suspension tuned on the famed Nurburgring and available all-wheel drive, the Kizashi has enjoyed accolades from both media and consumers; most notably, the Kizashi ranked first in AutoPacific’s 2010 Vehicle Satisfaction survey. And with 185 horsepower... 

Production celebration at Volkswagen: 100,000 third-generation Sciroccos

August 12, 2010 Filed Under: Auto News
100,000 third-generation Scirocco, Production celebration at Volkswagen Autoeuropa plant, Palmela, Portugal

Since its market launch in 1974, this compact sports coupé has been the most successful Volkswagen in its segment: 795,650 vehicles were sold up to 1992. Currently, the third generation is being manufactured. Today, at the VW Autoeuropa – Automóveis Ltda. plant in Portugal, just two years after its market launch, the hundred-thousandth third-generation Scirocco rolled off the production line. “The Scirocco is one of the most important... 

Porsche has Built its 25,000th Panamera in the Leipzig Factory

July 31, 2010 Filed Under: Auto News
25,000th Porsche Panamera

Stuttgart/Leipzig – The new fourth Porsche model series is enjoying such popularity only ten months after the start of sales, the Leipzig factory of the Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart has already built the 25,000th Panamera. In addition to the Panamera, the new generation of the sporty, all-terrain vehicle – the Cayenne – is also being produced in the same facility in the State of Saxony. The anniversary vehicle, a ruby-red... 

Lance Stroll: A talented young Canadian for the Ferrari Driver Academy

June 14, 2010 Filed Under: Auto News
Felipe Massa, Lance Stroll, Fernando Alonso, indoor karting track, Montreal Canada

The Ferrari Driver Academy has taken on a new talent, this time coming from Canada. At just eleven years of age, Lance Stroll, born on 29 October 1998 in Montreal (Quebec), is the youngest driver to enter the Maranello program. Although very young, Lance’s karting curriculum is already impressive enough to have attracted the attention of the Ferrari Driving Academy: already on his record are two wins in the Canadian national championship in... 

Tesla Motors Announces Factory in Northern California

May 21, 2010 Filed Under: Auto News
2012 Tesla Model S - Tesla Motors Factory in Northern California

Tesla Motors has purchased the former NUMMI factory in Fremont, California, where it will build the Model S sedan and future Tesla vehicles. As recently as April of 2010, the NUMMI factory was used by Toyota to produce the Corolla and Tacoma vehicles using the industry-leading Toyota production system. It is one of the largest, most advanced and cleanest automotive production plants in the world. It is capable of producing half a million vehicles... 

FORD TO BUILD ITS FIRST HYBRID ELECTRIC MODELS FOR EUROPEAN CUSTOMERS

May 13, 2010 Filed Under: Auto News
Ford C-MAX and Grand C-MAX 2010 Valencia Spain

Ford’s Valencia plant in Spain will build the company’s first hybrid models for European customers with two advanced technology derivatives of the all-new five-seat Ford C-MAX compact multi-activity model to be launched in 2013 – a full Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV), and a Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). Valencia was confirmed in 2009 as the European single source for all versions of the all-new Ford C-MAX and Grand C-MAX... 

Panamera is Porsche’s best-selling model in the USA for the first time

May 13, 2010 Filed Under: Auto News
Porsche Panamera Turbo with Shanghai skyline

In April the Panamera became Porsche’s best-selling model in the US for the first time. A record number of 678 customers chose the four-passenger Gran Turismo. The premium sports car manufacturer had to operate in a difficult overall market environment and sold 1,747 units from its current model lines to US customers. This is a fall of around six percent on the same month last year. In addition to the Panamera, which has been available on the... 

2010 MAZDA3 and MAZDASPEED3

May 7, 2010 Filed Under: Mazda
2010 Mazda3 and MazdaSpeed3 - Front Angle

With the launch of the all-new 2010 MAZDA3 and MAZDASPEED3, a small team of designers and engineers at Mazda R&D in Irvine, Calif., decided to celebrate with a pair of special projects, debuting for the first time at the 2009 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show. Figuring out how to commemorate the completion of the MAZDA3 was easy. Mazda’s line of exciting, fun-to-drive cars are born from the passion of the people who design... 

Volkswagen Presents Golf blue-e-motion Concept to German Chancellor

May 4, 2010 Filed Under: Auto News
Volkswagen Golf blue-e-motion concept revealed

Today, German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel will have a close look at a concept of the future Golf blue-e-motion in Berlin. Volkswagen is forging new links to the era of electric mobility with this pure electric drive version of the most successful European car ever produced. In 2013, after the debut of the Up blue-e-motion (a new city specialist), the Golf blue-e-motion and the technically closely-related Jetta blue-e-motion will launch on the market.... 

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