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The Norfolk, UK based ECO Racing team's biodiesel-powered LMP1 prototype car is scheduled to make its competition debut at this coming weekend's American Le Mans Series sportscar racing championship season finale at the Laguna Seca circuit in California.

The Norfolk, UK based ECO Racing team's biodiesel-powered LMP1 prototype car is scheduled to make its competition debut at this coming weekend's American Le Mans Series sportscar racing championship season finale at the Laguna Seca circuit in California.

You would be hard pressed to find somebody to argue that gas mileage isn't important to most people these days. Even as gas prices float downward, we're still paying lots...

Stuttgart - Employees at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Germany are under investigation for deliberately producing defective cars, prosecutors said Sunday. Several workers at the Daimler plant in Sindelfingen are suspected of having manipulated the vehic...

GB Auto, Egypt's only publicly traded automotive company, posted a net income of LE417m for the first nine months of 2008, a 72% increase over the same period in 2007. The company reported sales of 44,198 passenger cars. The company's gross profit margin rose to 17.7%, an increase of 3.6%.

Two years for a car repair? These days everybody wants to save a little money. For that matter I've always wanted to save money -- these days, those days, way...

Toyota rolled its first Venza wagon off the factory floor in Kentucky this week as the automaker tries to push further into the small-vehicle market.

A report on the website of the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport says that a vote was held at a meeting of Formula One team representatives during last weekend's F1 Brazilian Grand Prix meeting on a proposal to delay the introduction of Kinetic energy Recovery systems (KERS) which are scheduled to be permitted for use in F1 from 2009 onwards.

A report on the website of the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport says that a vote was held at a meeting of Formula One team representatives during last weekend's F1 Brazilian Grand Prix meeting on a proposal to delay the introduction of Kinetic energy Recovery systems (KERS) which are scheduled to be permitted for use in F1 from 2009 onwards.

A report on the website of the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport says that a vote was held at a meeting of Formula One team representatives during last weekend's F1 Brazilian Grand Prix meeting on a proposal to delay the introduction of Kinetic energy Recovery systems (KERS) which are scheduled to be permitted for use in F1 from 2009 onwards.