The Skoda Octavia RS has been spied undergoing final tuning ahead of its official unveiling at July’s Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK. CarAdvice’s spy photographers captured the new Octavia RS almost completely ...
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A Mercedes-Benz CLA Shooting Brake looks even more likely to expand the new A-Class family beyond the current three-car line-up, with the brand’s design chief all but guaranteeing its future addition. Mercedes-Benz head of design ...
The Volkswagen Gran Lavida has been unveiled at the 2013 Shanghai auto show, revealing a wagon version of the China-only sedan shown at last year’s event. Based on a 17-year-old platform that underpinned the Volkswagen Golf Mk4, ...
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The Smart Fortwo by Jeremy Scott has been unveiled at the Shanghai auto show ahead of a limited production run of the quirky winged city car. Doing its best impersonation of a 1950s Cadillac, the Fortwo by Jeremy Scott – named after ...
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Interserve has started the first phase construction works of Jaguar Land Rover's new engine manufacturing center at South Staffordshire business park near Wolverhampton in the UK. The automaker is investing over GBP500m in the new plant, ...
Ford is planning to invest £24m at its Bridgend engine plant in Wales for manufacturing the new 1.5L EcoBoost gasoline engine. Additionally, Welsh Government has supported Ford's investment by offering £12m in non repayable ...
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The next-generation Volkswagen Golf R will be lighter and more powerful when it goes on sale in early 2014. VW is yet to reveal the flagship version of its new Volkswagen Golf Mark 7 range that has just gone on sale in Australia, but one ...
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Audi Australia is forecasting 15,000 sales for 2013, a number it thought it wouldn't reach until 2015. Audi Australia's new managing director Andrew Doyle, who joined the local arm on March 1 from a position as Audi MD in Ireland, said ...
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Audi Australia is planning to introduce its first plug-in hybrid model, the Audi A3 e-tron, to the local market late next year. While currently "not confirmed 100 per cent yet", Audi Australia managing director Andrew Doyle said the ...
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Coming to Australia late this year, the MG 3 light hatchback made its official debut at the Shanghai motor show. Based on the MG ZERO concept, the MG 3 was designed and engineered in the UK, but it will be built in China. The ...
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The Maserati Ghibli has been unveiled at the 2013 Shanghai auto show, revealing details on what will be the brand's most affordable and first ever diesel-powered model. Sitting below its larger Quattroporte sibling, the Maserati Ghibli ...
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The Lexus GS300h has been unveiled at the Shanghai auto show, adding a second hybrid option to the GS range. The Lexus GS300h slots into the Japanese manufacturer's premium large line-up beneath the existing petrol-electric GS450h, ...
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The Peugeot 2008 sub-compact SUV is gearing up for launch in Europe ahead of its arrival in Australia around October this year. The mini SUV will be one of the first of its kind to hit Australian shores and likely open up the segment for ...
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Till April 12th, Shanghai Tower, Shanghai's new landmark under construction, had completed core cylinder structure pour for 108 storeys of its main building. Its height reached 501.3m, surpassed neighbors of 421m Jinmao Tower and 492m ...
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German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-Benz has unveiled ten models of Unimog along with two and three-axle variants of the low-entry Econic special-purpose vehicle. The new vehicles are powered by the new BlueEfficiency Power ...
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