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• Watch How the Alfa Romeo 4C is Born and Built at Maserati’s Modena Plant
• $3 Million eleMMent PALAZZO RV is a Super Luxurious Yacht on Wheels [w/Video]
• Mercedes-Benz Starts Production of New S-Class in Sindelfingen [w/Video]
• Mercedes A45 AMG Beats CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake in Quarter-Mile Race!
• Schmidt Revolution Turns the Wick on BMW 335i F30 Sedan
• Ubisoft Confirms Release of The Crew Open-World Driving Game for Early 2014
• Audi Drivers Most Likely to Cheat on Partner, Peugeot Owners the Most Loyal, Survey Finds
• Chris Harris Drives the All-New 2014 Porsche 911 GT3
• Rolls-Royce Hopes Wraith Coupe will Boost Russia Sales
• MG Drops New Photos and Details of the UK Market MG3
• Did These Texas Cops Overreact by Tazing Alleged Hit and Run Driver?
• BMW Says 100,000 People Booked Test-Drives for the i3 EV
• Ferrari U.S. Boss Says Mexico Is the New China
• Merc's 355HP A45 AMG Coming to the UK in August Priced from £37,845
• Showroom Flood Drowns F-Type, Along With Other Jags and Land-Rovers in Germany
• L'Automobile Shows Off New Peugeot 308 in Detail, Inside and Out
• SsangYong Actyon Slapped in the Face with a BMW Kidney Grille
• China Threatens the EU with Higher Import Duties on Luxury Cars
• New Euro Market 2014 Toyota Corolla Sedan Presentation Photos from Turkey and Videos
• Porsche Gives Its 2014 Le Mans Prototype the Maiden Test
• Oh, What a Fail: Motorcyclist Doing Wheelie Rear-Ends a Cop Car
• New VW Amarok Special Edition for UK Limited to 300 Units
• New Videos of Sony's Gran Turismo 6 From E3 2013
• Opel and Vauxhall Reveal Refreshed 2014 Insignia Sedan and Sports Tourer

Watch How the Alfa Romeo 4C is Born and Built at Maserati’s Modena Plant Posted: 12 Jun 2013 06:18 PM PDT Following yesterday's details about the manufacturing process of the Alfa Romeo 4C sportscar, the Italian brand released a video that shows how the vehicle is actually built, and it's a pretty interesting process to watch. Starting with the construction of the carbon fiber monocoque chassis, the video shows all the complicated and time-consuming production steps where manual labor takes the center role. Alfa Romeo says the minimum "takt time" (the manufacturing speed needed to guarantee delivery) is 20 minutes. For comparison, the shortest "takt time" in mass production plants is approximately 50 seconds. Read more »

$3 Million eleMMent PALAZZO RV is a Super Luxurious Yacht on Wheels [w/Video] Posted: 12 Jun 2013 05:24 PM PDT If you live in a small flat for which you pay far too much in rent, then you won't really like this $3 million RV built specially for oil sheikhs – the ones who pick which G65 (not 63) AMG they are to use to conquer the dunes on any given day (gold-plated, platinum-plated or gold- and platinum-plated with ruby accents and carefully carved Citrine crystals for indicators). These people will feel right at home in the newly-launched eleMMent PALAZZO by Austria's Marchi Mobile, which gets a double capital M in its name, and it alone is reportedly worth around one quarter of the entire asking price. Read more »

Mercedes-Benz Starts Production of New S-Class in Sindelfingen [w/Video] Posted: 12 Jun 2013 04:58 PM PDT Following an investment of around €1 billion ($1.33 billion) in the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant, Daimler today started production of the new S-Class sedan. Between 2011 and 2014, around €350 million is being invested in the body shop, around €130 million in the press shop and around €70 million in assembly, amongst others. Read more »

Mercedes A45 AMG Beats CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake in Quarter-Mile Race! Posted: 12 Jun 2013 04:26 PM PDT Yes, that's right, the little "hot hatch" from Mercedes-Benz, the A45 AMG has just been put up against the much bigger, more expensive and more powerful CLS63 AMG Shooting Brake and it beat it! AutoExpress discovered that the smaller and cheaper car was measurably faster over the standard quarter mile, in a result which really surprised us as well. Read more »

Schmidt Revolution Turns the Wick on BMW 335i F30 Sedan Posted: 12 Jun 2013 03:47 PM PDT While the huge "Performance2" decals and blue and red stripes aren't for everyone, Schmidt Revolution thinks the rest of the goods it offers for the latest generation BMW 335i F30 sedan are. The German tuner starts by telling us about the new 20-inch three-piece rims with outer rings made from a special "stainless steel alloy" fitted on Continental 5P tires size 235/35-20 on the front axle and 265/30-20 on the rear. The wheel package is priced at €6,499, which comes to about US$8,700 / £5,550. Read more »

Ubisoft Confirms Release of The Crew Open-World Driving Game for Early 2014 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 03:16 PM PDT There are a few titles we have our eyes on at this year's edition of the E3 games conference held in Los Angeles, California, and aside from our predictable interest for Gran Turismo 6, an announcement from publisher Ubisoft has made us even more excited. They showed off an announcement trailer for an upcoming open-world car action game, called 'The Crew'. Based a bit on the storyline of the more recent Fast&Furious movies, the game will put the player in the shoes of an outlaw, at the wheel what promises to be a wide selection of vehicles. Read more »

Audi Drivers Most Likely to Cheat on Partner, Peugeot Owners the Most Loyal, Survey Finds Posted: 12 Jun 2013 02:48 PM PDT If a survey was commissioned to find out the most annoying passengers according to drivers, why one about cheating on one's partner based on make of the car driven? Believe it or not, it's real and it has been commissioned by a married dating website called Illicit Encounters, which polled its 750,000 members. According to the responses from the users of the website, Audi owners are the most likely drivers to have an affair, with 22.2% of them saying they cheated. Premium car brands dominate the unusual ranking, with BMW drivers taking second place as most adulterous drivers (13.8 percent), followed by Mercedes-Benz (8.7 percent) and Volvo (7.6 percent). Read more »

Chris Harris Drives the All-New 2014 Porsche 911 GT3 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 01:47 PM PDT In many ways, the VW Golf GTI, the BMW M3 and the Porsche 911 GT3 have always been children of the same German family. Sure, there are fundamental differences from pricing to driving layouts, but you will also find key similarities in their core DNA and it's not hard to see how the owner of one car could effortlessly jump into the other one – preferably, in the same order we mentioned them earlier. The king of German, and for many drivers around the world, of all sports cars, is the 911 GT3, which represents the epitome of Porscheness. Read more »

Rolls-Royce Hopes Wraith Coupe will Boost Russia Sales Posted: 12 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT Rolls-Royce sells around 100 cars per year in Russia, according to a recent report published by Bloomberg. It also states that the Anglo-German carmaker is not standing still, and is planning to increase that figure with the introduction of the sporty Wraith coupe, just as the country is planning to impose higher taxes on vehicles costing more than the equivalent of $154,700. Read more »

MG Drops New Photos and Details of the UK Market MG3 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 12:42 PM PDT MG released new photos and equipment information of its UK market MG3 supermini. Available in three trim levels, 10 colors and a range of at least 10 graphic packs, MG says the personalisation options for the MG3 are "almost endless", but we'd take that with a few grains of salt. Read more »

Did These Texas Cops Overreact by Tazing Alleged Hit and Run Driver? Posted: 12 Jun 2013 12:09 PM PDT A Texas man who was tazed by cops on May 23, 2013, is now crying foul over police brutality. A copy of the video shot from the camera on the arresting Cleburne motorcycle officer's uniform was released to the public upon the request of a family member of Donny James Hinshaw, 30. According to the police, Hinshaw was involved in a hit-and-run accident. When the cops pulled him over, the 30-year old man exited his truck, at which point, motorcycle officer Robert Sigler quickly approaches and tells him, "Hands on the truck. You're under arrest". Read more »

BMW Says 100,000 People Booked Test-Drives for the i3 EV Posted: 12 Jun 2013 11:37 AM PDT BMW has about 100,000 reservations from people who want to test the i3 electric vehicle, sales boss Ian Robertson said. He added that the carmaker also has "significant numbers of deposits" for the car, declining to give the exact number. The interest for the i3 leads the executive to believe the car will be a game-changer in the sector. "We are confident that with the i3 and i8 we will shift the needle because we will shape some of this technology" in the EV sector, Robertson said at the Automotive News Europe Congress today. Read more »

Ferrari U.S. Boss Says Mexico Is the New China Posted: 12 Jun 2013 11:06 AM PDT Mexico is the next big thing for luxury automakers, Ferrari North America CEO Marco Mattiacci believes. "Mexico is the next China," the executive said during a discussion about the future of the luxury industry. According to Mattiacci, the massive growth anticipated in revenue and manufacturing is not necessarily due to Ferrari, but more to the expansion of the auto industry in the last 13 years because of dramatic wealth creation, increased appetite for industry and important investments from abroad. Read more »

Merc's 355HP A45 AMG Coming to the UK in August Priced from £37,845 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 10:29 AM PDT The new Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG hot hatch has a lot going for it – it looks good, it packs a powerful 2.0-liter turbocharged four-pot with the highest specific output of any production engine at 179hp (181PS) per liter, and also gets four-wheel drive, just to mention a few of the highlights. Today, we also learned when and how much it will cost in the UK. First deliveries will take place in the beginning of August with on-the-road prices starting from £37,845, which makes the dual-clutch transmission-only A45 AMG close to £7,000 more expensive than the 316hp (320PS) BMW M135i (RWD) with a manual gearbox, and nearly £4,000 more than the 8sp automatic version. Read more »

Showroom Flood Drowns F-Type, Along With Other Jags and Land-Rovers in Germany Posted: 12 Jun 2013 09:49 AM PDT Many people in Germany (and Hungary) have been forced to abandon their homes and head for higher ground, due to severe flooding that is ravaging parts of the continent. Around 23,000 people were forced to flee their homes in the German city of Magdeburg, and in Central Europe, a reported 12 people have died ever since the heavy rains started last week. However, material losses are undoubtedly also mounting, because the water doesn't care if the debris it flings about in its currents is human or made of metals and plastic... Read more »

L'Automobile Shows Off New Peugeot 308 in Detail, Inside and Out Posted: 12 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT The new Peugeot 308 has been met with a generally positive attitude towards the way it looks, and with improved efficiency, levels of technology and the new style. it shows PSA is trying hard to come up with something competitive in the class, for once…The first reviews of the car have yet to be released, but until then we can still get a better look at it via a new video released by L'Automobile Magazine, of France. Read more »

SsangYong Actyon Slapped in the Face with a BMW Kidney Grille Posted: 12 Jun 2013 08:38 AM PDT Before you unleash some bitter words onto SsangYong about the resemblance between the Actyon compact sport utility vehicle and the BMW X6 Sports Activity Coupé (SAC), you might want to know that the Koreans had presented their high-riding and sloped-roof hatchback-style model in 2005, or three years before the Bavarians came out with their luxury proposal. Still, we're pretty impressed at how well BMW's double kidney grille and logos blend in on this SsangYong Actyon, which was spotted parked partially on a sidewalk in Poland. Read more »

China Threatens the EU with Higher Import Duties on Luxury Cars Posted: 12 Jun 2013 07:49 AM PDT Starting a trade war with the world's largest car market is not a very wise decision for any country that has a strong auto industry, much less for the European Union, which is home to some of the most important carmakers in the world. However, this is really on the verge of happening, as the EU has imposed duties on Chinese solar panels, infuriating the government of the world's most populous country, which retaliated by launching an anti-dumping investigation into imported European wine. Read more »

New Euro Market 2014 Toyota Corolla Sedan Presentation Photos from Turkey and Videos Posted: 12 Jun 2013 07:22 AM PDT What do impersonators of Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe sharing the stage with a scantily dressed lady who may or may not be doubling as a star (does she remind you of anyone?), have to do with the world premiere of the new European market 2014 Toyota Corolla in Istanbul, Turkey? To be frank, we've no idea how they all fit in or why these people were chosen to be part of the presentation - unless Toyota wanted to make some sort of point about the longevity of the Corolla name, still it's no star… Read more »

Porsche Gives Its 2014 Le Mans Prototype the Maiden Test Posted: 12 Jun 2013 06:54 AM PDT The new Porsche LMP1 sports prototype, which will compete in the sports car World Endurance Championship (WEC) and in the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 2014, successfully completed its first rollout today on the Porsche test track in Weissach. Porsche works driver Timo Bernhard took the new car through its initial function check before the eyes of the entire Board of Porsche AG, as the LMP1 racer debuted on the track several weeks earlier than originally planned. Read more »

Oh, What a Fail: Motorcyclist Doing Wheelie Rear-Ends a Cop Car Posted: 12 Jun 2013 06:20 AM PDT We don't know about you, but we think that when you're riding a bike and taunting the police, you might want to keep both wheels on the road and your eyes firmly set on the cops. Just saying… If you don't, you might end up like this free-spirited chap who is making viral headlines after one of his riding buddies who was coming from behind captured this incident on his helmet camera. Read more »

New VW Amarok Special Edition for UK Limited to 300 Units Posted: 12 Jun 2013 06:00 AM PDT Here's another special edition model for Britain, this time from Volkswagen that created a limited batch of Amarok pickup trucks fitted with more than £3,400 of additional equipment, which it says offers a customer saving of over £2,000. Only 300 will be made available in the UK beginning from July with prices starting from £22,495 (excluding VAT) for the manual transmission model and rising to £24,225 (excluding VAT) for the automatic transmission version. Read more »

New Videos of Sony's Gran Turismo 6 From E3 2013 Posted: 12 Jun 2013 05:40 AM PDT Gran Turismo 6 is arguably a highly-anticipated game for current PS3 and future PS4 owners who love/loved the fifth game, and indeed the entire series. Any car person could get into playing it, as the level of driving realism (i.e. the difficulty) can be adjusted for all tastes and skill levels. Now, despite the fact that some have said that this new iteration of the series is more of a 5.5 than a fully-fledged 6, but since 5 was just such a large and complete package, we think people won't mind it… Read more »

Opel and Vauxhall Reveal Refreshed 2014 Insignia Sedan and Sports Tourer Posted: 12 Jun 2013 05:14 AM PDT The Opel/Vauxhall Insignia was such a massive step forward from the dreadful Vectra that it appeared as if the GM-controlled automaker had started completely from scratch and made something worthy of praise. The Insignia has proved to be a strong buy, and now it is getting updated to stay strong in the face of perpetually-improving rivals, which are now not only limited to its specific class, as it most definitely reels in a few Audi A4 and Mercedes-Benz C-Class buyers with an option-less premium car, or a fully-kitted out Insignia with leather, and all of the goodies buyers like to have. Read more »

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