The Auto Collections at the Imperial Palace Hotel & Casino is on the verge of making history as it prepares to ship antique cars on loan to the first-ever automobile museum in China, becoming the only non-native participant in this joint venture with the Chinese government.
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China will restrict the number of domestic auto companies allowed to sell cars overseas in a sector restructuring that aims to ramp up industry competitiveness.
The new rules, which take effect in January 2007, will limit the number of export licenses granted to China’s fast-growing car industry, the China Daily quoted Zhang Ji, a departmental official […]

Honda Motor Co. will build a $550 million auto assembly plant near Greensburg, Ind., as part of a $1.18 billion global expansion, company officials said Wednesday, ending a five-state scramble and bringing jobs to a state hit hard by manufacturing losses.
The factory will employ 2,000 workers and eventually produce 200,000 vehicles annually, officials said at […]

Looks like the wraps have come off a bit early on the eagerly anticipated 2007 Jaguar XKR. It’s interesting we’re seeing convertible pics well before coupe pics well before the British Auto Show. Well, these official, but possibly not officially released, photos found on the interwebs today show the XKR with the 416hp 4.2-liter V8 […]

Italy’s Fiat Group, flush with the success of its flagship Fiat brand, has plans to more than double the sales volume of its niche-market Alfa Romeo and Lancia brands by 2010.
The aggressive target will put Alfa Romeo sales at 300,000 units annually, from 125,829 in 2005. Alfa Romeo plans to sell 180,000 units in 2006. […]

The Morgan Motor Company announced on its website that the classically-styled Aeromax coupe will see limited production.
Originally designed and built as a custom one-off for a private customer, Morgan did a study to see if a production version would be viable. That answer turned out to be yes, and 100 very fortunate buyers will be […]

Snap. Don’t know who is getting canned over this rather large leak, but official pics of the Jaguar XKR that was supposed to make its world debut at the British Motor Show in July have made their way onto the world wide web. From what we know the XKR will come with a supercharged 4.2L […]

Like many Silicon Valley engineers, Martin Eberhard loves cars, especially fast ones. But the self-described “closet gearhead” didn’t feel comfortable buying a hot rod that guzzled gas from the Middle East or some other troubled region.
So three years ago, Eberhard and friend Marc Tarpenning launched Tesla Motors Inc. Their goal: to design a sports car […]

The sharp voice cracks over the air as the TV camera pans to a white Cadillac that has just pulled into the garage of Will Castro, Speed channel’s newest and hippest host of the 24-hour auto channel’s newest and hippest show, “Unique Whips.”
“White suit. White shoes. White glasses even,” Castro says. “I love it.”
And who […]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld policy guidelines allowing the use of “regional recalls”, which are campaigns limited to a particular geographical area. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration issued a letter in 1998 that established some guidelines for automakers to conduct recalls on selected vehicles based upon an […]