Official car sales figures released today suggest Volkswagen sales in Australia have been affected by recent negative media coverage that led to a recall. VW registered a drop of nearly 20 per cent compared with this time last year, ...
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The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive has lapped Germany's Nurburgring in 7min 56.234sec, making it the first electrically powered series production vehicle to complete the legendary circuit in under eight minutes. The world's most ...
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The German automaker has announced that later this year it will offer Matrix LED headlamps with individually-controlled LEDs that adapt to oncoming traffic sensed by a camera and to road topography data supplied by a GPS system. Audi has ...
Recently, Audi has released details about its new Matrix LED headlamps, and announced that its next A8 will be put on sale at the end of 2013, what's more attractive, LED Matrix headlamps will be applied in Audi A8. Audi stated that its ...
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The 2014 Mercedes-Benz C-Class continues to gradually reveal itself with spy photographers this time getting good shots of the new sedan’s grille and front end. Benz’s latest-generation rival for the BMW 3 Series is tipped ...
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The redesigned-for-2014 Lexus IS will have to climb some pretty steep hills to prove itself a credible sports sedan, competing against the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series, Cadillac ATS, and Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Maybe the highest mountain to ...
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Tesla has long been coy in responding to rumors that the company's Model S will support battery swapping. No more. Last night at a California event, the company demonstrated the ability to hot-swap batteries in a Model S in about 90 ...
Volkswagen Australia says it has no plans to launch an investigation into the safety of any additional vehicles on top of those that have already been recalled. The German manufacturer last week announced a voluntary recall of 33,941 cars ...
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German carmaker Audi has commissioned the new EUR900m expanded car manufacturing plant in Gyor, Hungary, bringing the overall investments in Gyor to EUR5.7bn. The new plant, which increases the overall floor space of Audi Hungaria to ...
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All the buzz surrounding autonomous, or self-driving cars usually includes a caveat that this technology is at least 10 years away from being ready for prime time, even though Audi, Google, and Lexus have already been racking up miles and ...
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German car market Audi has signed a collaboration agreement with Massachusetts; US based signal processing technology developer Analog Devices to collaborate on automotive solutions. Both the companies will collaborate strategically in ...
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On Thursday (June 5) Audi said, because of the overseas business is good, the sales rose significantly in May 2013. it sold 137200 vehicles in the world, up 6.4% from a year earlier. Since early 2013, Audi sold a total of 640200 vehicles, ...
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The Ford 1.0-litre EcoBoost has been named the International Engine of the Year for the second consecutive year. Ford’s direct-injection turbocharged three-cylinder petrol engine achieved the highest score in the history of the ...
The Audi S8 is set to reach Australian showrooms in the first half of 2014 after the local division reversed its original decision to overlook the high-performance limousine for our market. Audi Australia managing director Andrew Doyle ...
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A test car believed to be the revised Audi R8 GT has been caught by CarAdvice's spy photographers undergoing high-speed track testing at Germany's Nurburgring. Wearing V10 badges, front aero canards and a large rear wing, our spies ...
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