European Car News

The compact sedan segment is a fast-growing playground leveraged by many luxury brands to add cheaper entry-level models to their range. BMW is now offering a new 1-Series sedan in China. The new model will be pitted squarely against the German flag-bearers, the Mercedes CLA and the Audi A3. Even though they had a long-standing base to use in the form of the 1-Series hatchback, BMW has taken their time to create the sedan. For now, the 1-Series sedan will be a China-exclusive model. But in the future, it might make its way into other markets as well.

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The second generation of the “new” Volkswagen Beetle is a much more interesting car than the one before it, but it’s struggling to make headway in our GTI-loving market. So VW has been offering this R-Line kit for a while now, to spice things up.

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The latest generation of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class has received a facelift ahead of its debut at the 2017 Shanghai Motor Show. The facelift spans across the regular, AMG and the Maybach variants of the Mercedes flagship.

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Hot on the heels of Opel’s world premieres of its flagship models, the Insignia Grand Sport and the Insignia Sports Tourer at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show, the carmaker has announced that there will be a third new variant called the Insignia Country Tourer.

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The all-new Alaskan one-ton pickup was introduced by Renault at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show. It is one among the trio of pickups that share the same platform, the other two being the Mercedes-Benz X-Class and the Nissan Navara.

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Mercedes-Benz has revealed the 2018 GLC 63 AMG and GLC 63 AMG Coupe at the 2017 New York Auto Show.

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We got an exclusive sneak preview of the architecture underpinning the all-new (D5 generation) Audi A8 that will be revealed in July. Rather than fixating on an ‘aluminium-intensive’ formula, as touted by some manufacturers in their bid to shed kilos from their cars, Audi has adopted a multi-material approach to the make-up of the next-gen flagship sedan.

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This here is a concept by a modification outfit called Dartz. Based on a Mercedes Benz-AMG GLS 63, the Black Alligator is made exclusively for a small bunch of customers eccentric enough to adorn the interiors with alligator leather. Yes, that’s how the name came up. 

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Jaguar Classic debuted its first ‘Reborn’ Jaguar E-type at the Techno-Classica Essen show in April. An initial batch of 10 “expertly sourced and comprehensively restored” examples of the ancient E-type are now offered for sale direct from the new Jaguar Land Rover Classic Works facility in the UK.

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Recalls related to Takata airbags have started to pop up again, like a gift that keeps on giving. Mercedes-Benz is also in the spotlight as a million of their latest models turn out to be a fire risk. Here are all the recalls issued in the month of March.

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