Indeed, he often looks outside the car world for inspiration on how to define the look of the brand.
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Letting someone else build your parts and even your entire production of certain models makes sense in today's car world.
The track at Sonoma will also host the first U.S. FIA World Touring Car Championship, AutoGP World Series and the United States Touring Car Championship in a busy motor sports weekend.
The Lancer has been the dominant car in world rallying since 1996, and Tommi Makinen's four world title owed as much to his car's speed, consistency and reliability as to his own skills behind the wheel.
General Motors wants to turn Chevrolet into its "foundation brand" around the world--a cheap car for the world's masses.
Germany - the largest economy in Europe and one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world - saw its car sales drop 2.9% in 2012 compared with the previous year.
Prokhorov introduced the car to the world last month he's now letting members of the proletariat see the car for themselves at the Yo-mobile Hybrid Pavilion, where three models of the car are being shown to the public: the microcar (wee hatchback on the right above), a coupe, and even a minitruck.
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This year, Buick tied for first place as the most reliable car in the world.
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But the map of the world car industry looks as if it has already been drawn up.
The all-electric Nissan Leaf beat out 39 competitors to claim the title, 2011 World Car of the Year.
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The World Car of the Year competition is open to mass-produced vehicles that are available on at least two continents.
It had a top speed of 150 mph, which at the time made it the fastest production car in the world.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of what Enzo Ferrari reportedly called the most beautiful car in the world: the Jaguar E-Type.
The Spark is already a world car, and selling it here brings the domestic industry in line with the rest of the globe.
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Sooner or later, Brazil and the rest of Mercosur must decide whether they want to become a real force in the world car market.
It's worth repeating: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport is the fastest production car in the world--faster than an underwater torpedo or a bullet train.
Carbusters online regularly goes after the primacy of the automobile, and the World Car-Free Network inveighs against driving from a berth in the Czech Republic.
"It's the greatest band car in the world because you can fit the drums and everybody in it and it's got some style, " Stills notes.
Mercedes says the 1959 220S was the first passenger car in the world to feature a dedicated crash structure around the cabin, replete with crumple zones.
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In Brazil, Argentina, Russia and India, it has also opened or started building huge new factories to make its so-called world car, the smart and rugged little Palio.
Real-world car buyers should prefer the four-cylinder car, reasoning that the fractional loss of horsepower is more than compensated by the 328i's price, the fuel economy and the comparative lightness.
This is, perhaps, the only car in the world that really needs one -- given the fact that if you run out of fuel, you're dead in the water -- and it's nowhere to be found.
Fiat, once known for the acronym Fix-It-Again-Tony, more recently known for Jennifer Lopez ads, has announced that its 500L model will be the first car in the world to come standard with a Lavazza espresso machine, making its debut in Italy before buzzing across Europe.
The new versions of the Punto and Palio in a few years will share chassis as well as engines and gearboxes, enabling production of some 2m vehicles from a single platform, and yielding the sort of economies of scale these days enjoyed only by the likes of Toyota, with its Corolla world car.
Another example of his unorthodox thinking is his observation that painting the roofs of buildings around the world white and using light-coloured road surfaces rather than blacktop would reflect a lot of sunlight back into space possibly enough to have an effect on global warming as big as taking every car in the world off the road for a decade.
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In 2010, China surpassed the US as the largest car market in the world.
World class car companies like Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Nissan, Hyundai, and BMW, have moved to the region.
Exotic car makers around the world are, if not imitating the Corvette's construction method, duplicating it in principle.
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