Mitsubishi to Pull the Plug on the Lancer EVO X in the UK

If you live in Britain and have been eyeing a brand new Lancer EVO X, you may want to hurry up and complete your order as Mitsubishi UK's managing director, Lance Bradley, told Autocar magazine that the all-wheel drive sports saloon will be axed from the UK once the company sells the last 10 units that remain in stock.

The Mitsubishi executive said that imports of the Evolution X have ceased now because of the increasing strength of the Japanese Yen, which eventually made it impossible for the company to continue selling the car in the UK.

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Omega Tool Lawyers Up and Pulls Down Pictures and Video of Corvette C7's Bumper

Any doubts we may have had about a video that hit the web on Monday and which showed a front bumper from what most believed to be the next Corvette (C7) were completely erased today once we received an email from a law firm representing Omega Tool Corp. asking us to remove the print screens.

The automotive supplier said the video depicted the mold of a front bumper of a General Motors prototype and that it was posted online without the company's consent by a "third-party".

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Watch How a Front Splitter gets a Carbon Fiber Look with the Hydrographic Process

There many ways to apply a carbon fiber film on a component of your car or various other surfaces, for that matter, but one of the lesser-known techniques is Hydrographics, also referred to as immersion printing and water transfer imaging.

In a nutshell, Hydrographics is a process that offers a 360-degree transfer of any kind of graphics onto three-dimensional objects, just as long as the material is non-porous and can be immersed into water without the fear of being damaged.

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VW Brand's Sales Up 10.2 Percent at 2.7 Million Cars in the First Half of the Year

The Volkswagen brand (not to be confused with the VW Group) recorded an impressive 10.2 percent growth in sales in the first half of the year, handing over 2.79 million passenger cars to customers all over the world.

The German automaker also announced a 13.7 percent increase for the month of June, when it delivered 498,600 cars, and all this in spite of the financial turmoil in Europe.

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BMW Group and PSA Peugeot-Citroen to Break Up Electrification Partnership

It's only been a little over a year since the BMW and the PSA Peugeot Citroën groups announced a joint venture named the BMW Peugeot Citroën Electrification (BPCE) for the development, production and purchasing of hybrid and electric powertrain components, and even less since operations began last October, but the two automakers are already parting ways. Read more »