US car enthusiasts have been waiting for the Subaru BRZ to come to the marker for a long time, but it seems that not even now, when the vehicle is a sure presence, they can’t relax, as, according to Car and Driver, the automotive producer only plans to brings 6,000 units of the coupe to America.
The company didn’t comment on the report, which states that the company had previously explained that in order for the BRZ to make financial sense in the US, it had to sell between 5,000 and …

Electric car company Fisker can’t catch a break lately; days after its Karma embarrassingly broke down before Consumer Reports could even begin testing it, a former employee has alleged Fisker knowingly pushed the Karma to market before it was fully baked so as to qualify for US government loans. The decision to begin releasing the Karma to market was made so as to improve Fisker’s chances of securing the next stage of its Department of Energy finance, the ex-insider told GigaOm, payouts of which had already been frozen after the …

-BMW notched up record sales in January and February
-Sticks to 8%-10% forecast for operating profit margin in 2012 despite 11.8% in 2011
-Fourth-quarter net profit falls partly on launch costs of revamped models
-Capital spending on the rise as group considers opening factories in emerging markets
-Shares fall in early trading
MUNICH (Dow Jones)–BMW AG (BMW.XE) Tuesday said sales and profits will rise this year but stuck to conservative guidance for its operating profit margin despite forecasting it will sell more than two million cars in 2016, four years earlier than planned.
“This is the …

March 12, 2012 /
Audi AG (NSU) is in talks to buy Ducati Motor Holding SpA (DMH), the maker of luxury motorbikes ridden by celebrities such as Brad Pitt, from owner Investindustrial SpA, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Audi, which has the right of first refusal on a purchase until mid-April, is considering a total price of about 850 million euros ($1.12 billion) for the Italian company, which would include assuming some 800 million euros in liabilities, said one of the people, who declined to be identified discussing private …

Mercedes’ new-look B-class has the style of its swankier siblings, but watch out for the ride.
Since my leisure activities involve muddy dogs, greasy car bits, salty boat bits, oil paints and large packages of ill-defined proportions, and exclude advanced chef-ing, d’hôtels des Posh and cashmere V-necks in delicate pastel colours, I’m not really a target customer for a Mercedes-Benz saloon. The life, suggested by these southern German cars, of plutocratic luxury combined with ravening business ethics and perhaps even paid staff has never particularly appealed.
Perhaps it’s for that reason that …