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Byline: David Phillips The latest incarnation of the Acura Integra, an expected replacement for the ILX, has been spotted undergoing road tests in central Ohio, the hub of American Honda's [...]

Byline: Autocar Pro News Desk Kia Motors India has announced that it has sold 7,275 units, comprising 7,114 Seltos SUVs and 161 Carnival MPVs, in June 2020, indicating a path [...]

Vauxhall/Opel Trixx is small, and also, tall with electrically propelled doors and is equipped with Easytronic transmission, allowing one to either leave it in automatic, or select gears through the rectangles in the wheel rim. The new car features a 1248cc engine, power of 69bhp and torque of 125lb ft at 1750rpm.

The launch of the new Pontiac Sunfire and Chevrolet Cavalier duo is one of the lead stories at GM for 1995. Both have about a 50-mm-wider track, 75-mm-longer wheelbase, and [...]

Japanese auto manufacturers have introduced compact cars with large interiors and underfloor fuel tanks.

The rise of city car sales in the US was underlined when Mitsubishi revealed the Mirage supermini in New York. Modifications for US sale are limited to the styling, which [...]

Kia's second-generation Soul, unveiled at the New York motor show, promises improved dynamics and more interior space without sacrificing the edgy looks of the original. Kia says that the new [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Kia is banking on eye-catching looks, upscale features and major leaps in ride quality to give its redesigned 2014 Forte more of an edge in the cutthroat [...]

The G70 concept previews a compact car that uses weight reduction and aerodynamics to reduce fuel use. The concept is named for the CO2 emissions of 70g/km the company says [...]

Smart will unveil a slight face-lift to the ForTwo microcar to give it a more dynamic appearance. The ForTwo has a larger front grille with a more prominent, integrated Smart [...]

Just as it has for the past several years, Chrysler used the 1994 Detroit Auto Show as a springboard to 'pre-launch' its upcoming new products. This year, the spotlight was [...]

Byline: Paul McVeigh Kia is targeting conquest sales with the new Rio subcompact. The automaker is pricing the base Rio about 1,700 euros below rivals to put the car on [...]

I Brake for Gucci To mark its ninetieth anniversary, Italy's foremost accessorizer has teamed up with Fiat to create 500 by Gucci, a compact, on-message machine. Upholstered in interlocking G' [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle and Luca Ciferri In the next three years, Jeep will extend its lineup with a new subcompact and a revived Grand Wagoneer. It will also build three [...]

Byline: Diana T. Kurylko The March earthquake in Japan has forced Subaru to delay the launch of its redesigned Impreza compact and the rest of its 2012 models for two [...]

Launch date: June, continental Europe; September, UK and Ireland Base price: 12,400 euros (Italy) Platform: Fiat Small Where built: Tychy, Poland Annual sales forecast: 120,000 in 2012 CO2 emissions: 97g/km [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle The Fiat 500 subcompact may be Italian through and through, but the U.S. version that arrives in dealerships late this year will cater to American tastes. The [...]

Everyone knows about the $2,500 price tag for Tata Motors' Nano, billed as the world's cheapest car. But Warren Harris, COO of Tata Technologies, which helped with the Nano's engineering, [...]

Byline: David Barkholz Kia Motors America has a strong incentive to stay attuned to the rapidly changing tastes for in-car communications because it has a high percentage of young buyers, [...]

Volkswagen is building buzz for the release of its 2010 GTI with a campaign that relies heavily--and so far, solely--on getting the car built into a racing game designed for [...]

Byline: Bradford Wernle Dodge is dropping its fastest, most powerful small car for the 2010 model year. The Dodge Caliber SRT4 a turbocharged, muscle-bound version of the Caliber is being [...]

Byline: Rick Kranz A Toyota global car slightly longer than the two-passenger Smart is likely to go on sale in America next year as a Scion. The Toyota iQ, big [...]

Byline: AutoWeek Small multipurpose vehicles are big business in Europe. With a hoard of multipurpose options available, Kia injects some style into its latest creation to stand out from the [...]

Byline: Amy Wilson In the Alan Mulally era, the Verve concept is Ford Motor Co.'s first stab at leveraging global design resources to create a U.S. vehicle. Under CEO Mulally, [...]

Land Rover is considering launching a smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicle. Its smallest vehicle, the Freelander compact sports, emits 194g of CO2 per km compared with a target average of 140g […]

Byline: David Sedgwick General Motors will sell the next-generation Opel Corsa in the US, Bob Lutz, GM's global product chief, said at the Paris auto show. GM will sell the [...]

Byline: WES RAYNAL How long has it been since General Motors took a serious whack at the small-car performance market with an all-new car? Well, the new Chevrolet Cobalt goes […]

Anticipated launch times for Renault's small cars * J77 van - this year * X-90 - this year * Clio - 2005 * Twingo - [...]

Byline: MARK VAUGHN Los Angeles jump starts the 2003 auto show season just 36 hours into the new year, when the press files into the Los Angeles Convention Center on […]

We laughed out loud when Nissan designer director Shiro Nakamura described the new British-built Micra's 'aggressive, muscular stance.' What? It's about the size of a breakfast table, but important in […]

With its new compact sedan, the Aerio, American Suzuki Motor Corp. for the first time is aiming for a mainstream segment in North America. By doing so, it takes on [...]

SAN DIEGO - It's a marketing axiom that Americans don't like hatchbacks. But Mazda North American Operations will test the premise with a five-door version of the Protege compact sedan. [...]

The new Honda Civic's development was led by two men: Tomoyoki Sugiyama and Katsunori Mori. Sugiyama is the representative for automotive development who oversees the Civic series worldwide for Honda [...]

SAN DIEGO - How important is the Civic to American Honda? Consider this: About half of Honda Civic buyers in America never consider another car when they shop. Sixty percent [...]

LOS ANGELES - Moving to give its dealers an additional car line to sell, Kia Motors America Inc. has introduced a hatchback variant of its Sephia sedan. Called the Spectra, [...]

DETROIT - Marketing the Ford Focus is all about generating buzz. Ford Division wants to regularly entice young American drivers with attention-grabbing news about the new small car. The strategy [...]

The future has arrived, with the introduction of several cleaner cars powered by engines that combine gasoline and battery power. But observers expect initial sales will get off to a [...]

But volvo's new compact S40 and V40 also offer turbo performance and aggressive pricing. Sis for Sedan. That one's easy. And '40' designates the compact, entry-level Volvo, smaller than the [...]

The Premacy is a compact MPV accommodating up to seven Japanese in its three-row seating or five Europeans in two. The 4295-mm (169-in.) long vehicle is 20 mm (0.8 in.) [...]