| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTOSHOWS | SUBSCRIBE | MARKETPLACE |  Thursday, September 30, 2010 |  | The Lotus Eterne sedan is set to go on sale in 2015.... | | The new management team at Lotus Cars laid out an aggressive plan for the future on Thursday at the Paris motor show--a future that calls for four new cars, including a sedan. And Lotus is dusting off two of its memorable nameplates for these future cars--Esprit and Elan--and christening the sedan the Eterne. Here's a quick rundown of the future for Lotus:... |
|  | | Audi's E-tron electric sports car was one of our favorites at the Detroit auto show in January. Now the E-tron is back, at the Paris show, without a roof but with the addition of a twin-turbo V6 diesel behind the seats. Electricity still plays a major role in the E-tron Spyder--the front wheels...
|  | | Captivating in a bright shade of golden yellow, it sat in the center of the Ford stage at the Paris motor show as a sign of performance panache in pedestrian rides. Yes, the Ford Focus ST could be a grocery getter with its expansive hatch and roomy interior. But this is the car that enthusiasts...
|  | | Volkswagen of America Inc. has released new teaser images of the mid-sized sedan slated for assembly in Chattanooga, Tenn. The German design influence is apparent in the three renderings, which show front, side and rear views of the coming sedan, which is larger than the Passat. Volkswagen has...
|  | | While most fans concentrate on the on-track action at Road Atlanta this weekend, take a minute to pay respect to Jerry Rinaldo. You might not ever have heard of him, but just about everyone who has worked in a racing paddock in the United States for the past four decades knows the man. Rinaldo...
|  | | With chatter swirling about potential expansion of the Renault-Nissan alliance, CEO Carlos Ghosn on Thursday put his support directly into expanding the automakers' relationship with Daimler AG. “We know we have a powerhouse,” Ghosn said in a media roundtable at the Paris auto show....
|  | | BMW AG's new front-wheel drive family of cars will be sold in the United States but the question is whether the U.S. market is ready to accept vehicles smaller than the 1-series coupe, said Ian Robertson, BMW AG board member for sales and marketing. The new class is being called UKL--an...
|  | | Ford’s new World Rally Championship challenger, the Fiesta RS World Rally Car, made its debut on Thursday at the Paris motor show. The diminutive rally racer will make its first competitive start in Rally Sweden in February. Based on the Ford Fiesta S2000-class rally car, the new Fiesta RS ...
|  | | The three-door Range Rover Evoque won't stand alone in showrooms. Land Rover on Thursday confirmed that there is a five-door Evoque for those who need a little more utility from their SUV. The five-door Evoque is expected to debut at the Los Angeles auto show in November. The Evoque, based on...
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|  | | What's hotter at an auto show than a Jaguar sports car? Jaguar says that its C-X75 concept, shown at the Paris auto show, is both a celebration of 75 years of Jaguar design (XK120, C-type, D-type, XJ13 come to mind) and a look into the future. Designed as an electric two-seat supercar, the aluminum ...
|  | | The Lotus Formula One team is back in the news, but this time it doesn't have anything to do with the ongoing dispute over who owns the right to use the famous Lotus name in Grand Prix racing; instead, the team announced on Wednesday that it has extended the contract of technical boss Mike Gascoyne ...
|  | | Volkswagen chairman Martin Winterkorn reaffirmed his company's ambitious and audacious goals on Wednesday night on the eve of the Paris motor show: pass Toyota and General Motors for the title of world's largest automaker in 2018.Winterkorn was the final speaker after an event that featured...
|  | | Michael Schumacher will be back in Formula One with Mercedes GP next season--and he has lost none of his talent, according to team principal Ross Brawn, who masterminded Schumacher's world championships in the 1990s at Benetton and with Ferrari this decade.Brawn made the comments to the official F1 ...
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