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| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:52 AM PDT  Peugeot HX1 Metamorphosis Peugeot presenterà al salone di Francoforte la concept HX1 Metamorphosis, una inedita monovolume 6 posti ibrida plug-in. La linea evolve i concetti espressi dai modelli più recenti della casa, come la 508, mentre l'aerodinamica, forte di un cx di o,28, è ottimizzata dai piccoli spoiler attivi posizionati sul lunotto posteriore, che si aprono oltre i 100 km/h.... |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:52 AM PDT  Peugeot HX1 is officieel klaar voor de IAA We hadden laatst al wat gelekt materiaal voor je maar nu is hij officieel: dit is de Peugeot HX1 Concept Car die we in Frankfurt gaan zien! (more…) |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:13 AM PDT  Especulación gráfica: Lexus GS familiar Filed under: Lexus, Familiares Es posible, aunque no seguro, que el nuevo Lexus GS termine con un hermanito de carrocería coupé, en un principio con el propósito de cubrir el hueco dejado por el desaventurado SC430. ¿Y una versión familiar? Según algunos medios, Lexus tiene intención de lanzar un IS de tipología wagon con la llegada de la nueva generación, así que nadie nos dice que sus diseñadores no hayan pensado ya... |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:13 AM PDT  Caresto T6 R te koop op eBay [video] De moderne interpretatie van een hot rod, ontworpen door een voormalig ontwikkelaar van Volvo en Koenigsegg. Die wil je toch gewoon hebben? (more…) |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:13 AM PDT New Aston Martin to Start at $540,000 Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. will price its new V12 Zagato supercar at £330,000 ($540,000) when it begins sales next summer in the U.K. News reports say value-added taxes there could drive the price to nearly £400,000 ($650,000). Production of the supercar will be limited to 150 units. Aston will show street [...] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:13 AM PDT Bentley: W-12 Engines Core to Brand The availability of a gasoline-direct-injection 4.0-liter V-8 engine in the 2012 Bentley Continental GT doesn't mean the company will drop its trademark W-12. In fact, CEO Wolfgang Durheimer tells Car and Driver that 12-cylinder powerplants will continue to be a cornerstone of the brand. But Bentley is dropping its E85 option. |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:13 AM PDT Engineers Wanted in Germany Germany needs 77,000 more engineers, including those in the automotive industry, than are currently available, according to a report by VDI. The German engineering association says the record-high shortage is due to retirements and a declining enrollment in technical programs. Carmakers in Germany are scrambling to find and retain engineers as [...] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:13 AM PDT Japanese Group Shows Tiny EV A consortium of 57 Japanese companies in Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, has developed a prototype electric vehicle designed for use in factories. The one-seater has a go-kart-like chassis that is 70 inches long and 47 inches wide. The vehicle weighs 660 lbs. The group says the car has a 62-mile driving range [...] |
| Posted: 29 Aug 2011 12:13 AM PDT A123 to Supply Batteries to Hybrid Retrofitter Auburn Hills, Mich.-based ALTe LLC says it has signed a long-term supply agreement with A123 Systems Inc. to use that company's lithium-ion battery in light trucks retrofitted with an extended-range hybrid drivetrain. The 21.6-kWh battery packs, which use A123's nanophosphate technology, will be teamed with a Delco Remy electric motor, four-cylinder [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:35 PM PDT Problemi ai commenti su Blogo La migrazione dei server Blogo, di cui vi abbiamo parlato settimana scorsa, ha lasciato qualche strascico problematico nei commenti: in molti blog non è possibile commentare normalmente. Ci scusiamo per il disagio e vi invitiamo a portare pazienza: i tecnici sono al lavoro per risolvere il disguido che ha colpito il nostro servizio Antispam, portandolo a non riconoscere più i messaggi di commento legittimi.... |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 11:34 PM PDT  Ventas julio 2011: Bélgica Filed under: Industria Durante el pasado mes de julio las matriculaciones de vehículos nuevos en Bélgica cayeron en un 11,2% en relación al mismo mes del año anterior, alcanzando un volumen total de 34.886 unidades vendidas. Por marcas las más destacadas fueron: SUBEN Skoda +15,8% Kia +24,3% Lexus +115,5% BAJAN Citroën -30,9% Fiat -50,1% Mazda -46,0% Continue reading Ventas julio 2011: BélgicaVentas julio 2011: Bélgica originally appeared on Autoblog Español on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 02:10:00... |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT Japanese Parliament to Vote on New Prime Minister Today Members of Japan's ruling Democratic Party elect a new prime minister Monday following Friday's resignation of Naoto Kan. The winner will become the country's fifth prime minister since the popular Junichiro Koizumi left office in 2006. Trade Minister Banri Kaieda has emerged as the front runner in the race. But no [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT China Vehicle Exports Soar 76% Automakers in China shipped 44,800 passenger vehicles to other countries last month, up 76% from July 2010, according to the China Assn. of Automobile Manufacturers. The group says January-July exports are up 79% year over year to 262,500 vehicles. Chery Automobile Co., China's largest car exporter, delivered 88,800 vehicles overseas through [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT Tan Elected President of Singapore Former Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan scored a narrow victory in Singapore's presidential election on Saturday. His six-year term starts Sept. 1. Although Tan was the government's preferred candidate, the razor-thin margin of victory (0.34%) is a blow against the party's authority. Saturday's vote was the first contested presidential election in 18 [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT U.S. Firm Becomes Mazda's Biggest Shareholder New York City-base asset management firm AllianceBernstein LP has acquired a 6.7% stake in Mazda Motor Corp., thus making it the company's largest shareholder, The Nikkei reports. AllianceBernstein handles investments for such clients as pension funds, foundations and sovereign wealth funds. The firm told shareholders last month it planned to sell [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT India, China to Lead Global Light-Vehicle Sales Growth Worldwide sales of vehicles weighing 6 tons or less will expand by 2.7% to 74.2 million units this year and 6.4% to 28.5 million in 2012, predicts IHS Automotive Inc. The research group says sales across Europe will increase slightly this year to 18.5 million units, as strong growth in Russia [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:57 PM PDT SAIC to Offer New Buick-Based Sedan in China Next Year SAIC Motor Corp. says it will introduce a midsize sedan in 2012 that shares its Epsilon platform with partner General Motors Co.'s Buick Regal. Code-named the BP31, SAIC's model will be sold under the company's Roewe brand. It will be one of the nine new and redesigned models SAIC intends to [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:56 PM PDT Continental to Quadruple Tire Capacity in India Continental AG says it will invest €50 million ($72 million) in India over two years to boost its annual tiremaking capacity there fourfold to more than 2 million units. Earlier this year Conti completed its acquisition of Indian partner Modi Tyres Co. and Modi's bias-ply tire plant in Modipuram. Conti also [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:56 PM PDT Infiniti Hopes to Quadruple Market Share in China Nissan Motor Co.'s Infiniti brand hopes to quadruple its share of China's luxury segment to 8% by 2016, CEO Carlos Ghosn tells analysts. Audi currently leads that segment in China with a 34% share, followed by BMW (22%) Mercedes-Benz (14%) and Lexus 8%, according to China Daily, which cites data [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:56 PM PDT GM, UAW Labor Talks Moving Quickly Contract negotiations between General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers union are in an advanced stage, the Detroit Free Press reports, citing an unidentified source. The newspaper says the parties are addressing key issues such as restoring lost benefits for retirees, adding U.S. jobs and devising a more generous profit-sharing [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 10:56 PM PDT Global Light-Vehicle Sales Growth to Double Next Year Worldwide sales of vehicles weighing 6 tons or less will expand by 2.7% to 74.2 million units this year and 6.4% to 28.5 million in 2012, predicts IHS Automotive Inc. The research group says the U.S. market will grow about 8% this year to 12.5 million vehicles and by the same [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:41 PM PDT  RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF: le Porsche RWB secondo Akira Nakai RAUH-Welt BEGRIFF nasce dalla passione di Akira Nakai per le Porsche 911: RWB sintetizza ed amalgama l'eccellenza del costruttore tedesco con la fantasia "Manga" e l'amore per le cose fatte bene di Nakai. Il risultato, anzi, i risultati sono da far schizzare gli occhi fuori dalle orbite. Le vecchie generazioni della noveundici vengono rinvigorite, pompate sino all'estremo con passaruota che scoppiano, alettoni al limite del normale e colorazioni decisamente vistose.... |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:41 PM PDT 2012 Ford Edge 2.0-Liter EcoBoost First Drive: Turbocharged Four-Cylinder, 30 mpg Highway A turbocharged four-cylinder aims to give this crossover the edge. Americans like big stuff. We like big houses, big helpings of food, and big cars with big honkin' engines. But no one—anywhere—likes big fuel bills, and with a gallon of gas here costing much more than the loose change found in our big, cushy couches, [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:41 PM PDT 2012 Ford Explorer EcoBoost: Probing the Limits of EcoBoost Ford's EcoBoost cocktail proves not quite as tasty in the Explorer. Ford has pledged to make its downsized, turbocharged, direct-injection EcoBoost motors available as options in 90 percent of its American product line by 2013. So far, the technology cocktail has been served up in the Taurus SHO and Flex, as well as the Lincoln [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:41 PM PDT FAW's B90 Sedan to launch in early 2012 The B90 has been on the front page of China Car Times on multiple occasions this past month and we are still no closer to understanding what underpins the B90, rumor has it that the B90 is riding on the last generation of Mazda6 that FAW inherited from its partner, FAW shortened the platform for [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 08:26 PM PDT BYD's all singing all dancing G6 to hit the market soon with 1.5T under the hood The BYD F6 was BYD's first large size sedan and one of the first modern Chinese made sedans in its segment at the time, the F6 did achieve some good sales but it was a little rough around the edges. The F6 has now moved up the alphabet a few notches and has become the [...] |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 05:19 PM PDT  Video: Jay Leno checks out some strange and beautiful American things at Pebble Filed under: Classics, Convertible, Videos, Ford, Celebrities, Specialty Jay Leno always gets to take his turn behind the wheels of lots of big, fast, beautiful things that make the enthusiast get all choked up with high-horsepower emotion and exhaust gasses. But he can also check out things that are just weird and beautiful without actually driving - and in these two cases, those things are American. There are two videos after the jump... |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 04:41 PM PDT  Video: Fifth Gear prova la nuova BMW Serie 1 In questo video filmato con iPhone, Fifth Gear mette alla prova la nuova BMW Serie 1. Si parte dal capitolo connettività: dotata dell'ultima generazione del sistema di bordo iDrive, la hatchback tedesca è capace di navigare in internet e sui social network più famosi. Basta collegare il proprio smartphone nell'apposito alloggiamento ed il gioco è fatto.... |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 04:03 PM PDT Video: Come ti ripesco una 911 Turbo dal fiume... Se siete deboli di cuore non guardate questo video. Se invece sentite di voler rischiare, sappiate che state per vedere in che condizioni è stata ridotta questa povera Porsche 911 Turbo Serie 996 finita dentro in fiume. La storia è questa: il giovane proprietario della Turbo, un ventiquattrenne, ha gentilmente concesso ad un amico, 29 anni, il volante del suo bolide da oltre 400 Cv.... |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2011 04:03 PM PDT  El Hyundai Veloster llega al mercado chileno Filed under: Hyundai, Cupés, Deportivos, Compactos Hyundai acaba de poner a la venta en tierras chilenas el Veloster, un coupé con tres puertas laterales y diseño muy personal. Inicalmente se lanza en cuatro variantes diferentes alimentadas con un mismo motor de gasolina. La oferta del Veloster centra la atención sobre el bloque 1.6 GDI de 132 CV.... |
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