World Auto News & Reviews

During our visit to Porsche last month, we were surprised to learn that there is not one single Panamera in the United States ever since the model made its debut. Well, Porsche has just announced that the first 31 U.S. bound Porsche Panamera models are in the air and on their way to North America, where they will be seen for the first time by the U.S. public at a series of major events during the Monterey Peninsula Automotive Week (the week of August 9-16).
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The evergreen Fiat Panda city car has reached a new milestone as the 1,500,000th example of the model rolled off the Italian company’s Poland plant in Tychy. The landmark model is a left hand drive car in magnetic blue with a 1.3 MultiJet engine that is destined for an Italian customer. The second generation Panda was introduced in 2003 winning several awards including the European Car of the Year 2004 title. Fiat said that this year a record number of 285,000 units will be produced.
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Nissan Motor Co.,Ltd., today announced its production, sales and export results for June 2009 and for the first half of calendar year 2009 (January-June period).
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General Motors is launching the Chevrolet Agile exclusively to the South American market towards the end of 2009. The Agile, rendered in these official pictures, is a compact hatchback that also serves to give crossover appeal.
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Michael Schumacher on Wednesday announced he is looking forward to the challenge of replacing his injured former Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa at forthcoming grands prix.”I met this afternoon with Stefano Domenicali and Luca di Montezemolo and together we decided that I will prepare myself to take the place of Felipe,” the 40-year-old German, who retired in 2006, said.

Schumacher hung up his helmet as a record-holding seven time world champion and winner of 91 grands prix and insists he has never regretted his decision.
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