Fiat 500L Beats Edition revealed & new engines for the 2014 500L

Fiat launches the 500L Beats Edition (pictured) MINI managed to make us believe that the MINI Countryman is a proper MINI only bigger, and Fiat are having a degree of success in convincing car buyers that the 500L is just a grown-up Fiat 500. Although, judging by the new 500L limited edition – the Fiat 500L Beats Edition – buyers are not too grown up to appreciated a limited edition with a USP of an uprated sound system by Dr. Dre and Interscope Geffen A&M Records chairman and record producer Jimmy Iovine.

Whitacre says GM is making progress, could be profitable in 2010

General Motors Co. could be profitable later in 2010 if it can continue sales momentum and economic conditions even out, CEO Ed Whitacre said on Wednesday. “Certainly we're aimed at profitability as quickly as we can get there,” he said.

Porsche 918 Spyder to get 875bhp to take on McLaren P1 & LaFerrari

The Porche 918 Spyder – Porsche’s hybrid supercar – is to get a power boost and go on a diet to better compete with the McLaren P1 and LaFerrari. But the duo of hybrid supercars at Geneva will become a trio at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September when the Porsche 918 Spyder gets revealed in final production form before heading for a select group of customers in 2014. It does seem to have taken Porsche quite a while to get the 918 Spyder in production-ready guise  but it seems they may have been waiting to see what McLaren and Ferrari had up their collective sleeves before settling on a production specification for the 918 Spyder.