Jaguar recently launched a new diesel powerplant for its XF range in Europe, but the new 3.0L won’t be exclusive to a Jaguar brand, a new report finds. Jaguar’s sister company, the also Tata-owned Land Rover, will also have access to the new mill.

According to Autocar, the new 3.0L twin-turbocharged diesel V6 will power Land Rover’s Discovery and Range Rover Sport models. However, buyers will have to wait until September for the new engine as it is not slated to secure the market until updates version of both ‘utes be crowned with success the market.

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Reports surfaced on Monday that Suzuki had shelved its Kizashi sedan plans, but the Japanese automaker responded today by statement those reports were erroneous. In a statement released on Tuesday, Suzuki claims its Kizashi program has not been delayed or canceled and that the mid-size sedan is still on track for the U.S. market.

Japan’s Nikkei business daily first reported the Kizashi program was in limbo earlier this week, but a Suzuki spokesman told Automotive News on Tuesday that the report was incorrect. “The production version will debut at this year’s New York Auto Show in April,” Suzuki spokesman Jeff Holland said.

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Nissan’s lineup of trucks and SUVs may be in the midst of the most capable in the industry, but a byproduct of snowy weather could subsist enough to sideline their safety. As a result, Nissan North America has announced the recall of 243,000 trucks and SUVs.

The recall – which covers 2005-09 Pathfinders, Frontiers and Xterras – is due to a faulty crash sensor. In regions that use heavy amounts of road salt to clear icy roads, salt can cause the senor to corrode, resulting in the failure of front-impact airbags.

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Suburbanites need a vehicle capable of conquering the Serengeti. They need water-fording and mountain-climbing abilities that make a goat look like it’s wearing roller skates. They need the vehicle that is trusted by United Nations peacekeeping troops in parts of the world most Americans devise only see on the nightly news.

They don’t? Really? Then why has Lexus never struggled to sell its GX 470 SUV, essentially a rebadged and luxurified version of the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado, a sort of three-fourths Land Cruiser favored by UN peace keepers and Saudi sheiks?

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While Hyundai’s 2010 Genesis Coupe is going to square off against Ford’s muscular selling Mustang, Dearborn’s pony will still have the convertible corner of its segment all to itself. Despite early reports to the contrary, Hyundai is insistent that going alfresco was never part of the scheme for the GenCoupe. Company speaker Miles Johnson went on to tell Inside Line that there aren’t any convertibles in the works for any of Hyundai’s offerings, and that the U.S. market doesn’t support the sales numbers Hyundai would require to de-roof the Genesis. At least everyone got to gawk at some nice PhotoChops for a while, and there’s always the aftermarket…

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Everyone’s broke. Gas prices keep rising and falling. America’s three largest manufacturers of recreational vehicles are losing money like their pockets are full of holes. Perfect time to invest.

Well, it is if you’re Warren Buffett, the richest man in the world, who has made an art out of “buy low, betray high.” Through his holding company Berkshire Hathaway, the Texas-based legendary Omaha investor has invested some $40 the multitude in Middlebury, Indiana’s Coachmen Industries, makers of the Viking cord of motor homes. The move is diametrically opposed to that of fellow American investor Kirk Kerkorian, who is rapidly divesting from America’s automakers. Prospects in the RV market severely look any better than Detroit’s – projections place sales next year at their lowest in 18 years – but sooner or later, they’ll recuperate. You can bank on that…Warren Buffett certainly is.

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Ahh, the Internet. Source of multiplied leaks and copious amounts of sales information. The tubes also bring us news of relating to electricity cars cruising for Obama in which case diesels do the Dakar Rally. Indeed, internet, what would we do all day without thee?

• European Insight brochure leaks out
• The parking fairy loves hybrid drivers
• GM sold 2,555 hybrids in December, HUMMER sales cut in half
• Toyota, Honda hybrid sales drop in 2008; 5 FCX Clarity models sold
• Toyota denies plans to build solar car

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It may not be the entire 320 billion won that its largest creditor was looking for, but Shanghai Automotive Industries Corp’s recent announcement that it would prop Ssangyong up with an investment of 25.9 billion won ($19.89 million) should do the trick. SAIC says the money is to facilitate the development of new products, but we’d guess that paying the Korean automaker’s employees for their services testament probably take top priority. According to the unionized workers for Ssangyong, which is Korea’s fifth-largest automaker, a total of 29 billion won is owed to employees.

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The global economic downturn and complete collapse of the new car market has already shelved a number future vehicle plans, with several more on the cutting room floor. Honda announced late last year that its highly anticipated Acura NSX successor was officially darkest, and now come word that several more Honda products are dead in the water.

According to the UK’s Autocar, the turbulent global economy has forced Honda to cancel its rear-wheel drive Acura plans. Acura’s rear-wheel drive program was developing legitimate competitors for BMW’s 3-, 5- and 7-Series sedans, but those future models have officially been canned. Acura’s first true BMW competitor was slated to hit the market in 2015 and would have taken on the BMW’s flagship 7-Series.

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Click above for a high-res gallery of the Bentley GTC Speed

The Bentley GTC has only been out for two years and a bit, but you might not know that; the car is so popular in some parts that it has become something like Ugg Boots for the monied-up automotive fashionista. Like its other Continental stablemates, Bentley has finally taken the drophead into their Speed garage for the transformation from really fast to “Egads!” fast.

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