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Is the car industry heading toward the past?

Is the future of cars decidedly old school? An NPR blogger certainly thinks so. NPR Business Desk reporter Sonari Glinton recently likened the 2014 Detroit auto show to an era 40 years ago, reflecting the possibility that the renewed zeitgeist of an entire convention indicates a "retro" kind of thinking.

VW Group planning 10-speed DSG, new powerful diesel engine & more plug-in hybrids

The end of the internal combustion engine is nigh, they say, as the world tries to clean up its environmental act and works towards a goal of electric motors to power our personal transport. But car makers are fighting that belief by extracting more power for less fuel from ICE engines, and there’s still a very long way to go before the ICE engine is consigned to the history books. Volkswagen has already reduced the fuel consumption of both their diesel and petrol engines by 30 per cent since 2000 and plan a further reduction of 15 per cent by 2020.

2011 Porsche 911 GT2 RS: Sold out

2011 Porsche 911 GT2 RS - all 500 now sold Yes, the world is in recession. But things aren’t so bad that a £164k, 2011 Porsche 911 GT2 RS becomes hard to sell. In fact, so easy has it been to shift the 2011 GT2 RS that Porsche are probably kicking themselves for not making it a 1,000 run of cars instead of 500.