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Jaguar Celebrates Best August Sales in Two Years

Kleo — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:07:26 +0000

August sales figures reveal that Jaguar sales in the UK up 45 per cent year to date and 74 per cent versus August 2009. Geoff Cousins, Managing Director, Jaguar UK said: “While August is traditionally a quieter month for car sales in the UK, we have had our busiest August for two years. Some compelling [...]

Toyota expands four-cylinder Tacoma lineup for 2011

Kleo — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:05:33 +0000

Toyota’s popular Tacoma small pickup mostly stands pat for the new model year, although the automaker is taking advantage of its new, expanded San Antonio production line to offer a few new configurations. Previously, the base 2.7-liter four-cylinder engine was only offered in a limited number of bodystyles on the Toyota Tacoma. For 2011, however, [...]

Another Record Month For Suzuki

Kleo — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:51:09 +0000

Suzuki continues to rewrite the record books in 2010 with another best ever sales month keeping the company in line for another bumper year. Suzuki had its best ever August, selling a total of 2098 cars. That represented a 35 per cent increase on the 2009 August figure against a market up 12 per cent [...]

Mazda Secures Its Best-Eever August

Kleo — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:43:39 +0000

Mazda Australia has secured its best-ever August sales result with a total of 6,473 new passenger and commercial vehicles finding homes last month. This eclipses the previous August record set in 2007 by almost 400 units. According to August VFACTS figures Mazda has sold 56,718 new vehicles so far this year with a market share [...]

McLaren to Launch 5 new models in next 5 years

Kleo — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:41:33 +0000

According to a recent report, McLaren has ambitious plans to build 4,500 vehicles by 2015. To do this, the company will launch a new model (or variant) every year for the next five years. While details are limited, each vehicle will strive for “substance over flash,” and “lower volume, higher standards,” according to McLaren North [...]

Video: Top Gear USA releases exclusive preview featuring Lamborghinis

Kleo — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:10:42 +0000

Top Gear USA will be coming to the History channel later this fall and while we’re pretty excited, we doubt it’s going to be as good as its British counterpart… or will it? The folks at the History channel have just released an exclusive preview showing Adam Ferrara, Tanner Foust and Rutledge Wood as each [...]

Rattner’s book says Obama administration wanted Ghosn to run GM

Kleo — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:56:55 +0000

Steven Rattner was president Obama’s auto adviser who was at the helm of the government’s bailout of Chrysler and GM in 2009. He is now set to publish a tell-all book about his six months at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The book, entitled “Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto [...]

Kia recalls Sorento and Soul due to faulty wiring harness

Kleo — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:55:13 +0000

Kia Motors America announced today that it will be issuing a recall of about 35,000 Sorento and Soul models due to a faulty wiring harness issue that could potentially cause fires. The bulk of the recalled vehicles includes about 23,972 2010 Soul compact crossovers equipped with a feature which illuminates speakers in the door panel, [...]

Subaru Celeno Sports Sedan Concept by Xuacu Pérez Quesada

Kleo — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:51:40 +0000

Looking at Subaru’s relatively boring lineup (barring the STI, and to a lesser extent, the WRX), it’s refreshing to find people interested in bringing some new ideas to the brand. In the case of the Celeno, that person is budding car designer Xuacu Pérez Quesada. Mr. Quesada interned for Italdesign and received an M.A. in [...]

BMW jostling Lexus for top spot is U.S. luxury market

Kleo — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:42:46 +0000

Lexus has long been America’s favorite luxury brand, but that could change by the end of the year as BMW continues to see strong U.S. sales. BMW’s U.S. sales increased 1.6 percent in August, marking the brand’s third straight month atop the luxury charts. Thanks to strong sales of its 1-Series and 7-Series models, BMW’s [...]