Report: VW takes issue with claim that GM is world’s largest automaker

Filed under: Car Buying , Marketing/Advertising , Earnings/Financials We hope General Motors hasn’t started planning that ticker-tape parade down Jefferson Avenue yet, as Volkswagen has apparently taken issue with the notion that GM might again be the world’s largest automaker . According to The Wall Street Journal , VW has said it will be adding some 200,000 units to its previously released sales total, contributions from some commercial truck manufacturers that are subsidiaries. Moreover, the WSJ has called into question GM’s practice of counting the vehicles sold by two Chinese partners in which GM does not have a controlling interest. Liuzhou Wuling Motors sold 1.2 million vehicles in China last year, according to the report, which the Journal says some analysts don’t count in tabulating their numbers

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Report: Spyker considers closure as Saab parent Swedish Auto loses board members

Filed under: Performance , Europe , Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Plants/Manufacturing , Saab , Spyker , Luxury Swedish Automobile NV (‘Swan’) continues to look to sell Dutch supercar manufacturer Spyker in the wake of the Saab bankruptcy. Swan said it will carry on with the sale despite the fact that the company’s supervisory board has just abandoned the crippled enterprise. According to The Washington Post , Swan announced it had begun negotiations to sell Spyker last September to a private equity firm for $41 million.

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Volkswagen Up! five-door hits the patent office

Filed under: Budget , Etc. , Europe , Crossover , Hatchback , Volkswagen Images of a five-door version of the Volkswagen Up! have surfaced courtesy of a European patent office. The German automaker confirmed a five-door version of the pint-sized vehicle was headed to market, and Volkswagen even went so far as to show off the Cross Up! Concept at the Frankfurt Motor Show . Judging by the patent photo, the production version of the five-door Up! will stick fairly close to the concept and will ride on a similarly tall suspension.

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Video: Watch this Audi transform into a moving picture show

Filed under: Sedan , Videos , Audi , Russia , Design/Style Though we still can’t explain the technology, we’re becoming big fans of projection mapping, as can also be seen in this video that has also been featured on these pages. From what we can gather, a Russian marketing team called Radugadesign was behind this production, and we can only assume that a lot of hard work and some sinister numbers crunching from a swath of powerful computers and graphics cards went into its making. As to why this presentation existed in the first place, we have no idea… other than some vague notion that it was produced for Marlboro

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Video: Dual power windows… emphasis on "dual"

Filed under: Etc. , Technology , Videos To paraphrase the Almond Joy commercial, sometimes you feel like a tint, sometimes you don’t. In states like California, having any tint on your front windows is verboten. It’s only casually enforced, but it’s still illegal.

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Official: Lada gears up for racing campaign with new Granta Sport

Filed under: Sedan , Russia , MISC , Racing Lada ? Racing? We’ve got to be kidding, right?

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