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BMW 4-series configurator goes live

The configurator for the 2014 BMW 4-series is live at www.bmwusa.com. Potential buyers can check out the new coupe and flip between 12 colors, two engines and three main trim levels. We first saw the BMW 4-series concept in Detroit back in January and we took a deeper look in June.

Spyker CFO is set to step down in July as Saab raises more cash

As Saab Automobile struggles to get back on its feet, Spyker Cars NV announced Wednesday that its chief financial officer plans to resign. Hans Go will step down as statutory director of Spyker effective July 1, Spyker said in a statement today. Saab production restarted last Friday after it received financial assistance from its new China partner, Pang Da.

Gorden Wagener on how Mercedes is "moving from a traditional luxury brand to a modern luxury brand"

Mercedes' 'home' design studio in Sindelfingen, Germany is housed in an expansive 30,000-square meter building designed by Renzo Piano. The lobby is unassuming, but we're soon through into what Mercedes' grandly calls 'the Vision Room.' It's here that strategic meetings are held with the firm's board, and where we meet Gorden Wagener, Mercedes' head of design since 2008. It's in the Vision Room that Wagener convinced the Mercedes board of the merits of his overarching design philosophy: 'sensual purity'.