Hyundai has announced that Peter Schreyer, Kia’s hugely successful chief design officer, will now head both Korean companies’ design centres in a bid to streamline resources and create synergy between the two sister brands. ...
Tags: Kia, Style Guru Schreyer, Design President
Affordable mid-sized family cars have outperformed their luxury counterparts in the latest round of crash testing by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) in the US. Thirteen out of 18 'moderately priced' mid-sized cars were ...
Tags: Honda, Suzuki Kizashi, Luxury Cars, car industry
Sales of medium cars surged beyond those of large cars in Australia for the first time in 2012,with the locally produced Toyota Camry leading the charge. After coming up just short of the large-car segment in 2011(75,984 versus ...
Tags: Medium car, Australia, Toyota, Benz, BMW
Proving paying more doesn't automatically equate to safer,some midsized cars do better than luxury models in the new frontal offset crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety(IIHS). Of the 18 sedans tested in the ...
Around our Connecticut-based Auto Test Center,where we have an abundance of overcrowded,indifferently maintained roads and four distinct seasons of crummy weather,we're drawn to automotive gadgets that promise to make us cooler,warmer,less ...
Tags: Auto Test Center, heated steering wheel, navigation, backup camera
Hyundai and Kia today announced that the companies are revising their fuel economy estimates downward after the EPA spot-checked several models and found that the results did not live up to Hyundai's and Kia's claims. The affected Hyundai ...
Tags: Hyundai, Kia, fuel economy
A one-off Batman-inspired Nissan Juke Nismo,built to celebrate the release of latest caped crusader film The Dark Knight Rises onto Blu-Ray and DVD,is up for grabs as part of an online competition in the UK. Built by Nissan and based on ...
Tags: Nissan Juke Nismo, Dark Knight Nismo, Batman-inspired, Nismo bodykit
The Kia Optima Turbo has been made available to right hand drive markets for the first time and Kia Australia is considering the performance sedan to spearhead its range for 2013. The Kia Optima Turbo, which is powered by a 2.0-litre ...
Tags: Optima Turbo, Consideration, Transportation