Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
The actual Aston Martin DB10 driven by Daniel Craig, James Bond, is just sold at auction. Ten of the DB10 cars were made for the movie, and one of them just crossed the block at a special James Bond auction at Christie's. Aston Martin DB10 has a working 4.7-liter V8 engine and is able to get up to 190 mph, a carbon-fiber body that's perfect for the world's best known secret agent, and underneath the beautiful design, six-speed manual gearbox from a V8 Vantage. You can't actually drive it on public roads as it's not certified or homologated for public use. But...
The world’s largest automaker Toyota would buy out the rest of minivehicle unit Daihatsu - an all-stock deal worth about $3 billion and part of its strategy to strengthen its push into compact cars for emerging markets.Toyota acquired a controlling interest of 51 percent in Daihatsu in 1988. But now it is raising its stake to 100 percent by a reciprocal share-swap agreement that will see Daihatsu's other shareholders take 0.27 shares in the larger company for each share in the smaller.This move will help to improve Daihatsu small cars by having a unified strategy in the sengment, alt...
Hyundai Motor America plans stock Hyundai dealers with the models people want to buy. First they want a factory to build Santa Fe Sport models alongside the Elantra and Sonata. Second, they will bring new models.Hyundai said that the upcoming Elantra Sport model will be the “most dynamic model” ever and that it will be the most powerful production Elantra yet. The last generation Elantra Sport used a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine that made 173 horsepower, so expect the new model to make more power than that.While Hyundai could use an updated version of the 2.0-liter four-cylinder ...
The state of New Mexico on Wednesday sued Volkswagen and subsidiaries Porsche and Audi for using software in their diesel vehicles to cheat U.S. emissions tests, calling the companies "shameless" and vowing to exact costly revenge. Attorney General Hector Balderas filed the lawsuit in state district court late last Tuesday. "It’s not lawful to profiteer and breach the trust of New Mexico consumers, and Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche will be held accountable for their deceptions," Balderas said. "Volkswagen preyed upon hardworking New Mexicans who want to prote...
The classic American cars of the 40s, 50s and 60s will always have a place in the hall of fame of car manufacturing, and a place of honor on any car exhibition or auto show. If analyzing the specific 40's style of the US-made classic vehicles, after world war II they became lower, longer and broader in look, as well as more massive and hefty. At those times American cars offered huge trunk sizes, width and length. In the 1940s a new car cost about $800 and a gallon of gas was about 18 cents - not a bad deal. Nowadays these cars became classics and they continue to turn...
