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 09 November 2011 - It's not just Toyota Motor Corp.'s recalls last year or Japan's earthquake driving General Motors Co. back to being the world's largest automaker. With 6.79 million sales through September of this year, GM leads Toyota by 1 million vehicles. Germany's Volkswagen AG is the surprising second with 6.17 million vehicles sold this year.

04 August 2011 - The Japanese automaker has announced a quartet of future vehicle safety systems, currently under development, which it is looking at introducing into its vehicles. Aimed at protecting older drivers and pedestrians, their development is in response to Japanese road accident statistics that show that more than half of road traffic deaths are of people aged 65 and over

2 August 2011 - The KL-Kuala Selangor Expressway (Latar) is now open and will be toll-free until Aug 31. Motorists will be charged RM2 per toll once the free trial period ends on August 31. Minister of Works, Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor said the concessionaire had agreed to extend the toll-free period beyond the normal one-month trial period.

30 July 2011 - At the international revealing of the new BMW i3 and i8 concepts at the Frankfurt Messe. BMW revealed the two cars in a dark hall, and while waiting for the press conference to start, the disguised i8 prototype that has been previewed before in the past drove past us on the main stage, in complete eerie silence that made me do a double take and wonder if I had really seen a car go past, or was it some funky 3D projection.

28 July 2011 - British motorists wanting to stick to being friendly with the police officers now have the added help of the latest app from RoadPilot Mobile that is available for the Apple iPhone. The new software is an innovative GPS speed camera locator application.

26 July 2011 - Volkswagen has updated the Eos with Volkswagen’s latest family looks, clearly linking the Eos to its solid roofed Mk6 Golf stablemate, while the pre-facelift looked like a convertible Mk5 Golf. The Eos is a “coupe-cabriolet” in the sense that it has a convertible metal roof and not a cloth roof like the other Golf-based open top in the Volkswagen family, the Golf Cabriolet.