With the purchase of the Porsche brand in August 2012, Volkswagen Group added a 12th nameplate to its broad portfolio, which stretches from Ducati motorcycles via VW mass-market vehicles to 40-ton trucks. Here is a brand-by-brand breakdown of VW Group’s most important marques.
A team of University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering students have won an EPA student design contest for developing an exhaust aftertreatment device that cuts CO, NOx and PM emissions from lawnmowers. EPA estimates that a standard gasoline-powered lawn mower emits 11 times the air pollution of a new car for each hour of operation.
The first six months of 2014 saw the new car market rise 10.6% over figures for 2013, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
By JEFF KAROUB
As Detroit struggles to climb out of bankruptcy, another Michigan city with strong ties to the auto industry may be about to fall into the same hole.
Audi’s A3 compact and Mercedes-Benz’s S-class flagship helped the two German automakers narrow their sales gaps with global luxury-car leader BMW in the first half.
Six-month auto sales by BMW’s namesake brand exceeded Audi’s deliveries by 16,997 vehicles compared with a difference of 23,760 a year earlier, according to figures released by the manufacturers this week. BMW’s lead against Mercedes shrank 6 percent to 102,827 cars.
