The Automobile Club de l’Ouest announced revised technical regulations that will go into effect for the 2011 season and the current LMP1 and LMP2 classes will be combined into a single class based on the current P2 regulations but with smaller racing engines.

2011 Honda LMP2 engine

The new rules also imply the creation of a new P2 class but that’s least relevant right now, what I’m

The 2010 International Engine of the Year awards seen an end to proceedings and in that end there were ten different engines being honored in 11 categories, plus an overall winner chosen.

VW 1.4 TSI engine - Overall best engine of the year

The engines were rated by a jury of automotive journalists from around the world had the difficult task of rating the engines and ranking each of them in categories that featured sizes from sub 1 liter three cylinders to a 6.2 liter V8 and go from

The North American branch of Saab Cars has recently launched its first sales event as a new company in the form of a leasing program built around the 2010 Saab 9-3.

2010 SAAB 9-3

The lease program will enable you to put a brand new Saab 9-3 in your driveway with a two liter engine and an automatic transmission if you’ve got a down payment of $3,374 and can later on afford to pay $399 a month.

General Motors had planned to to bring the seven-seater Chevrolet Orlando crossover to the United States but has recently reconsidered and decided not to do it after all.

Chevrolet Orlando

According to Mark Reuss, GM’s president for North America, the man who made the decision to cancel these plans the brand needs to focus on the

Nissan is hoping that their electric Leaf will attract interest of people bothered about the environment and will lead the way towards the electrification of automobile transportation.

2010 Nissan Leaf

On a side note to the Nissan Leaf’s marketing Nissan Division for Nissan North America Vice President Al Castignetti had a relatively unsurprising statement to make about the

Toyota announced that they completed a massive part of the fabled, very mediated and very expensive recall of their cars.

Toyota

The recall involved seeing more than three million Toyota and Lexus brand vehicles fixed so far.

That immense number is broken down into three main categories:

Toyota have just announced that they will recommence construction on its Mississippi plant about the same time they are going to begin producing the Corolla there late next year.

2010 Toyota Corolla Sedan

With the Corolla being produced at this particular plant once again a major shift in production will occur due to the current climate.

The plant in

2011 will be the year when the new McLaren Supercar, the MP4-12C, goes on sale worldwide and while there isn’t much more to be known about it, the company has just announced it’s initial network of dealers.

McLaren MP4-12C

The launch will see 35 retailers the new 2011 McLaren MP4-12C but, according to McLaren the network is planned to grow by 2012.

The “home” European market will see a