General Motors Corp. is planning to manufacture Chevrolet cars in Malaysia and details are expected to be finalised in the next few months, the Star reported on Wednesday, citing a company official.
“Our intention is to add to General Motor’s Thailand story by extending our manufacturing presence to Malaysia,” the newspaper quoted Steve Carlisle, GM president […]

What do you do after winning Car of the Year honors and having to add a second plant that works two shifts just to keep up with orders?Why, you raise prices, of course. That’s exactly what Chevrolet did, upping the price of its 2008 Malibu sedan by $300 for cars built after April 2. The […]

India’s luxury car market, till recently was dominated by just one player, Mercedes Benz and a few individual imports, registered a 50% growth last year, with the sale of 4,500 cars. That was the first effect of the entry of more players.
This year, they expect to sell between 6,000-7,000, with more players and more models. […]

Aston Martin triumphed in both GT1 and GT4 categories in front of a 25,000-strong crowd in the first race of the FIA GT Championship at Silverstone over the weekend.
In poor weather with heavy fog and rain, the famous Tourist Trophy was won by Karl Wendlinger and Ryan Sharp in the number 33 Jetalliance Aston Martin […]

Mercedes-Benz announces its significant presence at the 2008 British International Motor Show, to be held at London ExCeL from 23 July – 3 August.
Coming 105 years after Mercedes-Benz UK’s first appearance at an official Motor Show (held in 1903 at The Crystal Palace), the company will display a range of its latest models and services.
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The Hyundai Sonata has been updated for its 2009 model year. Not that it shows very much on the outside. Only the most ardent Hyundai-o-phile (and how many of those can there be?) that would notice the slightly deeper grille, tweaked lights and subtly revised bumpers.
However, anyone who has expressed misgivings about previous Sonata interiors […]

High, wide and fuel-hungry, the gleaming black Cadillac Escalade on display at the Beijing auto show is an unlikely car for an era of record oil prices.
But while sport utility vehicle sales in the U.S. are tumbling, automakers are finding that for China’s newly prosperous car buyers, bigger is still better.
So General Motors Corp. has […]

When did BMW hire Goldilocks as a product-development consultant?
The last few cars from the Bavarian automaker’s legendary M performance division could be absolute bears: raw, difficult to drive and overpriced.
The 2008 M3 sedan, on the other hand, is just right.
The latest M car is as docile and cuddly as a stuffed teddy bear in day-to-day […]

Luxury cars are the flagbearers of the latest gadgets and safety devices.
Technology is perhaps the biggest hook that luxury car makers use to lure more buyers. Cars at the high end of the market bristle with the latest technological advances and, for those of us with more modest budgets, the good news is that within […]

Tata Motors ended months of speculation yesterday when it agreed to buy Land Rover and Jaguar for just $2.3bn (£1.15bn) in a deal that gives short-term security for 16,000 workers at the luxury marques.
The final price – less than half what Ford had paid for the companies, not to mention the billions it pumped into […]