The Holden Malibu mid-sized sedan has launched locally, priced from $28,490 plus on-road costs. Two grades – $28,490 Malibu CD and $31,990 Malibu CDX – come standard with a 123kW/225Nm 2.4-litre four cylinder petrol engine. ...
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Porsche’s former chief financial officer has been convicted of credit fraud by a German court in a criminal case relating to a failed 2009 bid by the sports car maker to buy Volkswagen. Bloomberg reports Holger Haerter was convicted ...
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The drive train and engine layout significantly influences the handling characteristics of an automobile, and is crucially important in the design of a sports car. The front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout (FR) is common to sports cars of ...
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The Kia Provo concept is a clear signal that the South Korean brand is planning an ambitious move to take on the Mini. Kia has unveiled its stunning “coupe-style hatchback” concept the day before its official debut at the 2013 ...
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Each year, the most popular report in the Consumer Reports Annual Auto Issue is Top Picks, which spotlights the 10 best cars of the year. In a previous blog, we looked at which brands perennially make the list, but what about those brands ...
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A shadowy teaser image of the Spyker B6 concept has appeared online ahead of its premiere at next month’s 2013 Geneva motor show. The low-volume Dutch sports car maker – most famous in recent years for its brief and tumultuous ...
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Burlington, Ontario – Comtek Advanced Structures sponsors the University of Western Aero Design team to support their efforts in the SAE Aero Design competition on March 15th to 17th in Fort Worth, Texas. The Aero Design team, an ...
Images purportedly revealing the planned design of the never-released 2013 Saab 9-3 have been leaked by a Swedish automotive website. Three low-resolution screenshots of the next-generation Saab 9-3 were published by Auto Motor und Sport, ...
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The auto industry has a very confusing family tree. The past few years have seen partnerships, sales, separations, bankruptcies, and entire divisions killed off, making it difficult to keep up with who owns which car brands. As automakers ...
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New Saab owner National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) has signed a partnership worth $291 million with the City of Qingdao in China’s Shandong province giving the city a stake in the Hong Kong-owned manufacturer. To be made in ...
National Electric Vehicles Sweden AB (NEVS), the owner of Saab Automobiles, has signed an agreement with the Chinese city of Qingdao to make and sell Electric Vehicles (EV). The company expects to manufacture electric cars for the Chinese ...
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Saab Cars Australia has been placed into voluntary administration, forcing the closure of the company’s Port Melbourne operations and the loss of six local jobs. The appointment of Ferrier Hodgson partners Stewart McCallum and Peter ...
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Java's recent security woes are not scaring off developers, who don't see Java as any more vulnerable than any other platform. "There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Java," says Gonzalo Diethelm, in charge of architecture and development ...
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Defence companies can effectively “put a red line through public cloud offerings” because of the security risks involved, according to a senior IT solutions manager at Swedish military equipment manufacturer Saab. Christer ...
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Both AMD and Oracle will participate in OpenJDK Project "Sumatra" Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Oracle have formed a partnership to explore heterogeneous computing for servers. Both AMD and Oracle will participate in OpenJDK ...
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