Jobs at Ford’s Bridgend plant should be safe until 2012 after Indian company Tata agreed to use its engines as part of a deal to buy Jaguar and Land Rover.
Car giant Ford is selling its luxury UK-based car brands to Tata for £1bn, it has been confirmed.
As part of the deal, Tata will buy engines […]

Jaguar and Land Rover: the uncertainty is over
As motor industry business stories go, this is a big one. Rumours of Indian industrial conglomerate Tata’s takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover have been circulating for months as various other suitors have faded from speculation, but owner Ford would never rule out selling the companies separately despite […]

In Dallas, a businessman has spent half a million dollars to install nine pumps that dispense E85, E10, and biodiesel. The catch: the businessman is a HUMMER dealer, and the pumps are next to his dealership. The station is called Classic Clean Fuels, and it is intended to make a statement for next year’s H2 […]

Hermes and Bugatti have decided to collaborate on an industrial design project that marries their respective expertise: the craftsmanship of the Parisian-based saddle maker and the precision automotive engineering of the Molsheim-based car maker.
The project will revive a relationship initiated in the 1920’s between Emile Hermès and Ettore Bugatti.

India’s Tata Motors Ltd geared up for a bigger international presence on Wednesday with the expected announcement of its $2 billion-plus purchase of luxury brands Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor Co.
Shares in India’s leading vehicle maker dipped on worries about how the deal would be funded and how the global marquee brands would […]

For India, this is the year of the small car, with the launch later this year of the world’s cheapest car, Tata Motors’ Nano, priced at just over Rs 1 lakh. This small car will have company at the premium end, too, with European majors bringing in their premium small cars, starting with the Fiat […]

Mini is readying its R56-based replacement for the current Cooper droptop, and it will retain its cloth roof. While there’s been widespread adoption of retractable hardtops, the Coop is staying soft. That’s good for weight and center of gravity, so the ‘vert will still handle charmingly. True to the Cooper’s retro mission, Senior VP of […]

 
Found something interesting guys and I dont think anyone has seen it yet. Fiat Palio crash test video from Chile. The car has done well and the body structure has held up really well. The front door is almost unaffected.