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New Honda CEO to focus on R&D

Takanobu Ito, newly named as the next president and CEO of Honda Motor Co., will redouble the company's focus on research as it grapples with a global market meltdown. Honda presidents traditionally cut their teeth at the automaker's cherished development subsidiary, Honda R&D Co. Ltd.

Saab’s Heritage Cars snaffled by the Bailiffs

The bailiffs have been in to the Saab Museum Just like every other car maker with a lineage, Saab likes to make the most of its car-making history. So it has a museum with everything from the UrSaab to the Aero-X on display. And now, it has a little addition – stickers on all its cars from the Swedish bailiff saying Utmätt Gods - sequestered for debt.

Plans for Smart’s three-seat sports car uncovered in patent drawings

Mercedes-Benz is developing a three-seat sports car for Smart. Depicted here in a series of European patent-application sketches obtained by AutoWeek, the radical new sports car forms part of an extended range of new Smart models planned for introduction by the middle of the next decade, including a more conventional four-seater to be produced in cooperation with Renault. Mercedes-Benz is reacting to increased competition from Toyota in the form of the iQ and the impending arrival of similar urban-based offerings from premium-brand rivals Audi and BMW.