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2013 Honda Brio Amaze
Honda

Honda also goes cheap with Brio Amaze

For their home market, the Japanese make some incredibly small cars that are very fuel efficient and cheap to run which are called kei cars. Those automotive miniatures can be quite interesting, even if they didn't really catch on outside the Land of the Rising Sun. 2013 Honda Brio Amaze Some other examples they do sell outside Japan can be...

2013 Dacia Sandero Stepway spyshots
Dacia

2013 Dacia Sandero Stepway spied

Romania's low cost brand has arrived on the market quite a while back. In fact, not even the revival under the Renault wing isn't that much of a new story. This story seems to have gotten back at the company which is in the middle of a major plan to widen the range and even refresh some of the original...

Dacia Sandero Stepway
Dacia

Dacia will try the 5000€ price again

Dacia is currently enjoying massive success thanks to its low budget car range thanks to the admirable value for money figures they're producing. That is remarkable, particularly as Renault haven't exactly managed to produce the car they'd promise from the beginning, the 5000€ new car. The Logan model came very close to it at one point but the benchmark was...

Shanghai Motor Show Vag Group
VW

Volkswagen to go cheap on Chinese

A new plan from Volkswagen came up at the 2011 Shanghai Motor Show, one that sounds pretty bad and could end up being great. It seems like VW is working towards introducing a new low-cost brand specifically for the Chinese market, the Spanish one at Seat. Let's get down to the point, Volkswagen has recently been producing some cars that...

GM Shanghai Logo
General Motors

GM China stands to sell more than GM USA

After quite a bit of a shock to come from the automotive industry not that long ago here's another. A subsidiary company of GM could achieve something different, they might sell more cars than the parent company in the states. This actually seems to be going on as in an interview for Autocar, company boss Kevin Wale has made an...

Mitsubishi iMiev
Mitsubishi

PSA & Mitsubishi negotiations could be ending soon

According to a report last Friday by French newspaper "Les Echos" the negotiations that had been undergoing at PSA with Mitsubishi may be nearing a conclusion. PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation have been talking about using one of the Japanese company's platforms for small, low-range cars. Mitsubishi’s low-cost “Global Small” platform that will be produced in Thailand is the main...