The new Audi RS6 sedan is almost ready for primetime, as these latest spy shots of this virtually undisguised RS6 prototype suggest. This German rocket sedan will pack the same twin-turbo 5.0-liter V-10 with 580 horsepower and 479 lb-ft of torque under its hood as Audi’s RS6 Avant, which was first shown at the 2007 […]

A sexy model stands next to a Nissan X-Trail SUV during the Vietnam Auto Expo 2008 at Vietnam Exhibition & Fair Centre in Hanoi

Ford Explorers are shown on a dealership lot in Detroit, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. High gasoline prices are affecting once-popular truck-based SUVs, leading some automakers to close the factories that make them and many industry analysts to declare the SUVs extinct as U.S. consumers flee rapidly from trucks to cars

Wilfried Aulbur, managing director and chief executive of Mercedes-Benz India, poses next to a Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG sports car during its India launch in Mumbai

Audi is fitting new 2.0 TDI diesel and 2.0 TFSI petrol engines in the A4 line-up, with deliveries of these models from next month.
The 120bhp/214lb ft 2.0 TDI (from £22,150) joins the 140bhp 2.0 diesel already on offer. It returns 55mpg and emits a tax-friendly 134g/km of carbon dioxide. In the A4 saloon, it gives […]

The Toyota Yaris (pictured) has won the Green Car of the Year award from the Environmental Transport Association (ETA), while Dodge’s SRT-10 sports car has been deemed “the least green”.
Announcing the winner to coincide with Green Transport Week next week (otherwise it’s a strange time to announce a yearly winner, surely there are six months […]

A new trend is seeing German automakers offering the public some exciting entry-level cars, and the ability to park a newer Benz, Audi or Bimmer in their driveways for less than ever before. Mercedes has their B200, Audi has the A3, and now, BMW’s offering us the 1-Series.

The One
Not that the 3-Series could be accused […]

South Korean models pose with Germany’s Mercedes-Benz newest model, the CLS 350, during a press unveiling in Seoul, 2005. US President George W. Bush’s administration accused the Democratic-led Congress on Monday of using a variety of excuses to delay ratifying a free trade deal with key ally South Korea.

hybrid car ‘Prius’ displayed at Toyota Motor Corp’s showroom Toyota Mega Web in Tokyo. Toyota is building a 20 billion yen (US$192 million; euro122 million) plant in Japan to produce batteries for gas-electric hybrid vehicles, as it seeks to keep its lead in an intensifying race for green cars set off by soaring fuel prices, […]

We’re talking here about a select few for whom an expensive luxury car like a Mercedes-Benz does not satisfy. They yearn for something more, something special and beyond the norm. In other words, they desire something their contemporaries don’t have - or perhaps don’t even want.
In the realm of automobiles, more luxurious accommodations help some, […]