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That the Nissan GT-R lapped the Nurburgring circuit in Germany a month or two ago in a blistering time of 7 minutes, 26.7 seconds is well known. What isn’t is the zero to 100km/h acceleration time of 3.5 seconds it set during the lap. For the record, the GT-R is officially “the fastest four-seater production [...]

American automaker Chrysler Group has announced that they would launch the gas/electric hybrid versions of their Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen SUVs next year.
These models would be powered with their 5.7-liter Hemi V8 engine. The company said in a statement that these SUVs would use a “two-mode” hybrid system they developed in collaboration with General [...]

Japan’s Toyota has overtaken US rival General Motors to become the world’s biggest carmaker, a spokesman for the company has said.
According to company figures, Toyota sold 2.348 million vehicles in the first three months of 2007.
General Motors (GM) is estimated to have sold 2.26 million cars and small trucks during the same period.
Japanese carmakers have [...]

Now that they both have big pickup trucks on the market, Toyota Canada Inc. and Honda Canada Inc. intend to open new dealerships in Western Canada, senior executives of both companies say.
Without full-size pickup trucks to sell until recently, both companies have felt shut out of farming communities and other rural territories where such vehicles [...]

Willa Norris, 8, left, and Hannah Fowler, 10, sit in a 2008 Chrysler Town and Country minivan during a demonstration of Sirius Backseat TV on Thursday, March 29, 2007 in New York. Chrysler, which invented the minivan, is teaming with Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. to bring three channels, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel and Cartoon Network, to [...]

Automakers kicked off National
Alternative Fuel Autos Week by announcing that there are 10.5 million
Alternative Fuel Autos on the nation’s roads today, according to 2006 sales
data from R.L. Polk and Co.
The Polk sales figures also reveal that an unprecedented 1.5 million
Alternative Fuel Autos were sold in 2006, surpassing automakers’ sales
expectations by 50 [...]

This is a sneak peak at a possible new arrival Freelander SUV from Land Rover. Initially aimed at the European market, it is uncertain whether the baby ute will be brought to North America. However, with rising fuel costs and the demand still high for so-called SUVs, discussions are ongoing. Code-named L358 and often referred [...]

DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. will rename its slow-selling Five Hundred model the Taurus, a name Ford previously had used for a car that became the nation’s top-seller, two company officials said Tuesday.
The officials spoke to The Associated Press on the condition they not be identified by name because the official announcement had not [...]