Peugeot, the number two European carmaker and General Motors, currently the world’s largest automaker by volume, are analyzing the idea of establishing an alliance, with various sources reporting that the two companies are in advanced talk on the subject.

The Peugeot Citroen Alliance has already established various partnerships with other carmakers, such as BMW, Ford and Toyota, but it seems that the tie-up with GM would go beyond this stage.

GM today nonchalantly drops the fact that Cadillac is the most desirable brand in America when you ask men. They do drop a bit of information about a study and spice things up with a few sales figures, but we only want to know one thing: were all the men that were asked over 70 or something? “The 2012 “Most Desired Brands in the U.S.

A day after spy photographer spotted the BMW i8 during a cold weather testing session, the other member of the i family, BMW i3, shows up on the radar.

The fully electric i3 is also going through winter testing preparing for its market launch in 2013. At 3845mm in length, 2011mm in width and 1537mm in height, the five-door i3 is 120mm longer, 326mm wider and 132mm higher than the Mini One.

Our friends at Autoblog posted some speculation about BMW’s potential interest in Saab. I dismissed that out of hand upon reading it.

Saab, unfortunately, is damaged goods (read nigh on ‘radioactive’) at the moment. Their sales in the last few years have been abysmal. And BMW doesn’t really want midrange (C & D class) cars in FWD, rather they will restrict their FWD offerings to A & B class cars.

New spy photos and a video of the BMW i8 emerge from Sweden. The upcoming hybrid sportscar continues its cold weather testing trials and the spy photographers gives us a peak at the engine sound.

Compared to the spy photos seen a few days ago, this prototype seems to be the one closer to production.