The global automotive market is still faltering, and even brands like Audi,
Mercedes, and BMW are taking action to overcome the failing global economy. Part
of this process of healing from the downturn is to lower production costs by
producing cars closer to their anticipated homes.
Mercedes has already announced that it will manufacture its C-Class in it
U.S. plant, starting in 2014. Audi has also let us know that it will be
utilizing...
For the first time in its history, the BMW Group, which includes the BMW, MINI
and Rolls Royce brands, delivered over one million vehicles (1,036,088 units to
be precise) in the first seven months of the year recording a 7.6 percent
increase over the same period in 2011 when it delivered 962,493 cars.
The German company also reported its best-ever sales result for July with a
total of 135,537 deliveries, up 5.0 percent compared...
After five years of development and countless Nürburgring Nordschleife hot laps,
Cadillac engineers finally handed over their new ATS to us for a few hours of
road driving and instrumented testing. One day with GM’s first Alpha-platform
car was enough to confirm that the ATS is the real deal—a true compact sports
sedan with the size, specs, and speed to run with the segment’s aristocracy,
especially BMW’s 3-series.
The ATS offers...
