VW Group Moves On From Conquering Speed, Conquers Economy

2013/4 VW XL1VW is on-and-off the largest car company in the world. Or rather VW Group (Volkswagen AG or VAG) is. If VW were your boss, VAG would be your boss's boss. It owns no fewer than twelve brands, those being Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Ducati [motorbikes], Lamborghini, MAN [lorries], Porsche, Scania [also lorries], SEAT, Škoda, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and VW itself. With that list of brands you get some serious firepower, and...

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Photoshop Game: Alonsobombing

Following Fernando Alonso on Twitter (@alo_oficial) has been an education. Not only have I learnt that he has a "Tomita" anime figurine that he takes around with him, and that he's extremely dedicated to his physical training, but he also likes to take a picture of himself with his fans behind him. Thing is, because he does this on his cameraphone, it always looks like he's photobombing his own pictures. So why not have him photobomb some others?If...

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NISMO Finally Developing An R35 GT-R

Painted model of a regular pre-facelift GT-RNISMO has a long and proud history of making fast Nissans faster. Of course, this has primarily been done to the Skyline GT-R in the past, but with Nissan initially not wanting to let the R35 non-Skyline GT-R be seen as a tuner's car, lest it not be taken seriously as a global performance machine, we've had to put up with cosmetic bits and a Juke hot hatch thing. Well with all the plans for expansion afoot,...

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Mercedes-Benz's G63 AMG 6x6 Will End You

It's increasingly apparent that German car companies have gone mad. Porsche appear to have made a Cayman that's better than the 911, BMW are just renaming established models and filling every niche in the world (as well as planning to make a big Mini-branded MPV), Audi are using their legendary RS moniker on a small crossover and want your car to be an HD light show that runs on carbon dioxide in the next 5-10 years, and now Mercedes-Benz is releasing...

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