[EuroCarBlog] Ford is going through a period of crisis at the moment, having been overtaken by Volkswagon, in debt, producing European utilities instead of the usual SUVs and pick-ups, and looking for customers for the Volvo brand after having already sold off Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover.
Now it looks like Mazda could be next, [...]

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Update: New Honda City photos from China and Full Details
More information, and a full feature list, has come out about the recently spied all-new 2008 Honda City. The new details, out of Thailand, include the addition of ABS, airbags, G-CON body contruction and i-Vtec engine. The baby Honda also gets paddle shifters.
The new Honda City [...]

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Sources familiar with Japan’s car industry are expecting Mitsubishi to launch a Crossover version of the Lancer Sportback as early as 2010. The news comes after numerous Japanese car magazines have published speculative renders of a normal Lancer jacked up with raised suspension and plastered with ugly cladding to serve as side body panels. The [...]

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A member over at NASIOC has gotten ahold of what seems to be a corporate memo to a dealership in which  corporate reveals the Impreza WRX will get an additional 41HP, bringing the total number of horses up to a whopping 265HP. Also available will be a manual transmission, upgraded suspension and STI styling [...]

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A less than stellar reception and plummeting sales have led Lexus to announce there will be nothing to replace the Lexus SC. The SC never really had it that good in the bigger world of sporty Porsches and snobby BMWs. Lexus had initially planned to reinvent the SC, but constant delays and reconsiderations have scrapped [...]

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Update: It turns out that these images are not from Mazda but from an amateur car designer.
A few photos of what could be the next generation Mazda 3 have appeared on the internet. While we’re certainly expecting a new Mazda3 sometime soon, the design looks more like a concept than an actual production design. It’s [...]

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The gang at 7Tune has scanned an article from the latest issue of BestCar where bondo and stickers have been combined to make a full-size mock-up of what the next Nissan Z could look like. Due out later this year, the real 370Z will resemble the 3.7 liter V6 commonly found on the Infiniti G37. [...]

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While Nissan is developing a sucessor to their medium range sports 350Z (the 370Z) there seems to be a new Infiniti coupe in the works aswell. A source close to Nissan has told Edmunds that Infiniti, owned by Nissan, has a brand new coupe in store that shares the mechanics with the less noble Nissan [...]

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