TOP 10  -  Porsche launches mandatory offer for VW's Audi

Porsche said in a statement it had no intention of removing Audi from the Volkswagen group and was thus offering only the legal minimum price of 485.83 euros per Audi share. The offer is valid until Oct 27.

[ Source : reuters ]

TOP 9  -  Nissan Launches New Murano Crossover SUV

The FINANCIAL -- Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. announces the release of the all-new, second-generation Nissan Murano crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV), which goes on sale on September 29 at Nissan dealers nationwide.

[ Source : finchannel ]

TOP 8  -  Rickshaw gets the Mini treatment in Beijing

Fancy car or expensive rickshaw? British car brand Mini has given the ubiquitous Asian mode of transport a luxurious twist, fusing a bicycle with the back of one of its cars.

[ Source : reuters ]

TOP 7  -  2008 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG

Mission, British Columbia - When I was growing up, I read every car magazine from cover-to-cover - my hunger for information about automobiles was insatiable. Several times each year, Road & Track magazine produced wonderful special issues focused on the world’s most exotic, and outright fastest, street-legal machines. It was here that I was introduced to the cars of AMG (Aufrecht Melcher Großaspach), the motorsport arm of Mercedes-Benz.

[ Source : canadiandriver ]

TOP 6  -  UPDATE 1-Kuwait's KIA invests $1.1 bln in local bourse-papers

The Kuwait Investment Authority, the sovereign wealth fund, stepped up investments at home and prepared to hunt for bargains in Asia, after saying it had lost interest in U.S. bank bailouts, state media said.

[ Source : reuters ]

TOP 5  -  Ford's Volvo Cars to expand job cuts: report

A spokeswoman for the company said she could neither comment on nor deny the report by Swedish public service channel SVT.

[ Source : reuters ]

TOP 4  -  Fiat and Serbia sign car-making deal

Fiat was slated to take a 67-per cent stake in the plant 110 kilometres south of Belgrade and raise output to 200,000 small, A-segment cars in 2010, most of them for export. Serbia's government would to keep the remaining stake for an unspecified period.

[ Source : monstersandcritics ]

TOP 3  -  Ferrari's Racing Weekend: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

Well what a disaster the Singapore Grand Prix turned out to be for Felipe Massa and the Ferrari team. Massa eased his way to pole position, and pre Piquet Jr.’s alarming error both Massa and Kimi Raikonnen seemed visibly in control of a race that looked to be heading for a one-two Ferrari finish, provided of course that Kimi could pass Hamilton on a track with limited overtaking opportunities.

[ Source : bleacherreport ]

TOP 2  -  BMW 7 series has set new design standards

I have bragged about this to everybody who has given me an ear. What I did not tell them was that the only reason I did not exceed this speed was the limitation of the car.

[ Source : bdafrica ]

TOP 1  -  Audi looking for another hat-trick at Petit Le Mans

The Audi R10 TDI has already scored a hat-trick at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. On 4 October Audi now also targets the third consecutive victory with the 650 hp plus diesel-powered sportscar in the French long-distance classic’s “little brother”. The 1000-mile race “Petit Le Mans” (”Little Le Mans”) has been held since 1998 at the race track Road Atlanta in Georgia, USA. It was the foundation for the American Le Mans Series established in 1999 and brings the Le Mans feeling year-in-year-out to the USA.

[ Source : planetlemans ]