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| Posted: 04 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST  Ventas enero 2012: Finlandia Filed under: Industria Durante el pasado mes de enero las matriculaciones de vehículos nuevos en Finlandia se incrementaron en un 3,4% en comparación con el mismo periodo del año anterior, alcanzando un volumen total de 14.263 unidades vendidas. Por marcas las más destacadas fueron: SUBEN Mitsubishi +59,7% Hyundai +38,9% Land Rover +231,3% BAJAN Mazda -29,8% Honda -40,8% SEAT -25,3% Continue reading Ventas enero 2012: FinlandiaVentas enero 2012: Finlandia originally appeared on Autoblog Español on Sat, 04... |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2012 12:00 AM PST Komt Infiniti met een eigen variant van de GT-R? Het hoofd van de afdeling advanced planning van Infiniti in Tokyo, Francois Bancon, ziet het in ieder geval wel zitten. (more…) verwante verhalenVideo: 2012 GT-R sprint tegen GT2 RS en SuperleggeraHoe staat knalgroen de Lexus LFA? |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 10:31 PM PST  Spot Superbowl Chevrolet Sonic: Stunt Anthem Chevrolet mostra in una delle pubblicità del Superbowl dedicate alla Sonic tutte le imprese estreme realizzate dalla piccola utilitaria americana. Partendo dal kickflip realizzato qualche mese fa, lo spot del Superbowl ripercorre gli stunt organizzati per la promozione dell'auto, come il bungee jump o il lancio con il paracadute, fino ad arrivare alla pubblicità con gli OK Go che verrà svelata durante il Superbowl.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 10:31 PM PST  This Day in Automotive History: Ford buys Lincoln Lincoln badges through the ages. Image courtesy Ford Motor Company On February 4, 1922, Ford Motor Company officially closed the deal on the purchase of the bankrupt Lincoln Motor Company from Henry Leland, giving Ford a true luxury division to compete against the likes of Cadillac, Packard and Auburn. Founded just a few years earlier, in 1917, by Henry Leland to manufacture V-12 aircraft engines for the war effort, Lincoln's valiant attempt at... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 09:50 PM PST All-new Honda Civic: Honda Australia announces pricing and specifications Honda Australia has announced pricing and specifications of the all-new Honda Civic, which is said to feature advanced technology, improved handling and value for money. Honda Australia Director Mt Stephen Collins said, "The iconic Civic namep... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:47 PM PST Quarterly Profit Slides 11% at American Axle American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc.'s net earnings fell to $31 million in last year's fourth quarter from $35 million in the same period of 2010, despite a 4% increase in revenue to $606 million. AAM's operating income dropped 5% to $49 million. Results in nearly every category worsened in the [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 07:47 PM PST  Fotos espía: Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Break Filed under: Mercedes-Benz, Fotos espía, Familiares Haz clic en la foto para saltar a la galería No nos hacen falta fotos para saber que el CLS Shooting Break será uno de los familiares más elegantes del mercado; después de todo heredará, los genes de una de las berlinas más proporcionadas y bellas de Mercedes.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 06:25 PM PST Isuzu Scraps Plan to Move Russia Production Russian carmaker Sollers OJSC has canceled plans for joint venture partner Isuzu Motors Ltd. to shift its truck production from Tatarstan to Sollers' Vladivostok plant, 3,600 miles east on the country's Pacific coast, The Nikkei reports. Sollers scrapped the move because the strong yen is driving up the cost of components [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:44 PM PST Mitsubishi Outlander VRX Review The Mitsubishi Outlander has long held a reputation of Japanese reliability and build quality since the launch of the second-generation in 2006. In the last six years the Outlander has remained a strong contender in the hotly contested compact SUV R... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:43 PM PST Mitsubishi Outlander VRX Review The Mitsubishi Outlander has long held a reputation of Japanese reliability and build quality since the launch of the second-generation in 2006. In the last six years the Outlander has remained a strong contender in the hotly contested compact SUV R... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST  Video Teaser Pininfarina Cambiano Nuovo video teaser ufficiale dedicato alla Pininfarina Cambiano, la concept car che la cemebre carrozzeria italiana presenterà nel corso del Salone di Ginevra in marzo. Si tratta di una berlina sportiva "concepita con una grande attenzione all'ambiente, sia nella motorizzazione che nella scelta dei materiali". Nel 2012 il gruppo Pininfarina celebra sia i 30 anni del Centro Stile che i 10 anni del Centro Engineering, entrambi ospitati nella città piemontese di... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST  Excellence in Energy Efficiency Act promises $1 billion prize for 100 MPG car Filed under: MPG, Legislation and Policy, USA Are you a U.S. automaker? Do you want a billion dollars? Have we got a deal for you! Just build 60,000 cars that get 100 miles per gallon and the government will send a truckload of cash to your office doors (or, perhaps, mail a check). H.R.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST  Video: Jonathon Ward talks about his Icon Derelicts in latest eGarage video Filed under: Classics, Videos, Design/Style There are very few things that get the unanimous approval of everyone here at Autoblog. One of them is Icon 4x4, which makes impossibly expensive yet worth-every-penny reimaginings of history's best off-roaders. For this year's SEMA Show, Icon debuted something new that had nothing to do with off-roading, yet still had our whole team salivating. Christened a "Derelict" by Icon founder and designer Jonathon Ward, this 1952 Chevy... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST American Auto Prices Jump 11% to Record High U.S. consumers on average paid a record-high $28,340 for a new car or light truck last year, up $2,840 from 2008, according to J.D. Powers and Associates' annual automotive industry outlook. The average incentive has fallen 11% to $2,680 per vehicle during the three-year period, according to the research firm. It [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST Spy Shots: Mercedes-Benz CLS Shooting Brake snapped winter testing Filed under: Spy Photos, Performance, Wagon, Hatchback, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury Mercedes-Benz hasn't exactly been secretive about its desire to offer a five-door hatchback version of its ultra-stylish CLS sedan. After all, the first concept for the latest CLS, which was introduced as a 2012 model, introduced us to the CLS Shooting Break Concept at the Beijing Motor Show in 2010.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST Auto Sales Rise 9% in Argentina, Output Slides 11% Carmakers sold a record 62,000 new vehicles in Argentina last month compared with 57,900 in January 2011, the Argentina Auto Manufacturing Assn. Vehicle production dropped to 42,000 units in January from 26,300 units a year earlier. Exports declined 28% to 26,300 vehicles, or 60% of total output. Analysts say Argentina's production levels [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST Lingenfelter Chevrolet Camaro Tuning The tuners at Lingenfelter have released two new tuning kits for the Chevrolet Camaro sports car. It starts out with [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 05:02 PM PST AB Volvo Earnings Soar, But New Orders Dip Truckmaker AB Volvo netted 4.7 billion kronor (€530 million) in the fourth quarter of this year, up 46% from the same period in 2010, as revenue climbed 18% to 86.5 billion kronor (€9.8 billion). The company's operating profit rose 26% to 7 billion kronor (€790 million). Truck sales jumped 32% to 238,400 [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 04:21 PM PST  What we know about the 2013 Volkswagen Golf, next-gen GTI Filed under: Coupe, Sedan, Wagon, Crossover, Hatchback, Audi, Volkswagen, Design/Style The next GTI will be an order of magnitude better, bringing it back in line with the original hot hatch. Lighter, faster, stronger, better. That's what we can expect from the seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf, due to be unveiled at the 2012 Paris Motor Show before it hits dealerships across Europe this fall and eventually lands on U.S.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST  Honda: la Civic entrerà nel WTCC! Honda suona la riscossa. Dopo anni di insistenza sul solo tema dell'ecologia, in Giappone hanno finalmente capito che il business dell'auto senza passione non va da nessuna parte. E così hanno (ri)scoperto la sportività (promettendoci il remake della NSX), e lo sport automobilistico: oggi il costruttore del Sol Levante ha comunicato in via ufficiale -e in maniera un po' inaspettata- che si cimenterà con la nuova Civic nel WTCC, il Mondiale... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST  Watch an SVT Raptor be built on Ultimate Factories this weekend [w/video] Filed under: Performance, Truck, Etc., Plants/Manufacturing, Work, Ford There's something inexplicably mesmerizing about watching a factory in action. Seeing the innumerable complex mechanisms mesh in perfect harmony to create the products we know and love is part of what makes shows like National Geographic's Ultimate Factories so interesting. Now the program is headed to Dearborn for a look at how the Ford F-150 Ecoboost and F-150 SVT Raptor come together on the... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST U.S. Jobless Rate Drops to Three-Year Low of 8.3% American employers hired 243,000 workers last month, the biggest increase since April, the Dept. of Labor reports. The department also upwardly revised employment figures for November and December by 60,000 jobs. The Labor Dept. says the unemployment rate fell from 8.5% in December to 8.3% in January, the lowest level since [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST Toyota Expects Its Global Sales to Rise 21% This Year Toyota Motor Corp. predicts it will sell 9.58 million vehicles this year compared with 7.95 million units in 2011, as its output rebounds from natural disasters in Japan and Thailand last year. Toyota's forecast, which includes its Daihatsu and Hino units, would top its own sales record of 9.37 million units [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST  Confirmed: Passat popularity has VW hiring an extra 200 in Chattanooga Filed under: Sedan, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Plants/Manufacturing, Volkswagen The good people of Tennessee are no doubt thrilled to have a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga. The facility already features well over 2,000 good-paying manufacturing jobs, and now the German automaker is bolstering employment by another 200 full-time VW staffers, boosting the employment total to 2,500 full-time and temp workers. VW says it is making the move to enable the plant to increase production from 31 vehicles... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 03:39 PM PST Toyota Expects Its Global Sales to Rise 21% This Year Toyota Motor Corp. predicts it will sell 9.58 million vehicles this year compared with 7.95 million units in 2011, as its output rebounds from natural disasters in Japan and Thailand last year. Toyota's forecast, which includes its Daihatsu and Hino units, would top its own sales record of 9.37 million units [...] |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:57 PM PST  Who was for, who was against CARB's ZEV mandate "over-compliance" rule Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Green Culture, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Legislation and Policy What impact will the "over-compliance" rule - some would say loophole - in the California Air Resources Board's recent changes to the Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Mandate have? The short and obvious answer is that only time will tell, but one can make the case both that it's a good thing and that it's a bad thing.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:57 PM PST  Y vuelta la burra al trigo: Infiniti piensa en su propio Nissan GT-R Filed under: Cupés, Deportivos, Infiniti Haz clic en la foto para saltar a la galería Hay rumores que no sólo se resisten a desaparecer, sino que regresan de la tumba para perseguirnos cuando ya los dábamos por muertos. El de hoy te tiene que sonar por fuerza, porque lleva martilleándonos la cabeza desde 2008: Infiniti quiere su propio derivado del GT-R.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:57 PM PST  Official: 24 Hours of LeMons now welcomes driverless entries Filed under: Motorsports, Classics, Etc., Technology In an effort to stay on the bleeding edge of old crap-bucket technology, the 24 Hours of LeMons has now created a prize specifically for autonomous vehicles. The X Ceedingly Bad Idea Prize will award one million shiny new nickels to the first team that manages to pilot an autonomous vehicle to a win.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:16 PM PST  Smart-dude heeft serieus parkeervaardigheidsgebrek Alsof we vandaag nog niet genoeg ellende op de weg hebben gezien…Check even hoe Koning Knuppel zijn Smart in een plek probeert te zetten waar de hele familie Nicolich inclusief 3 dubbelas-Tabberts nog met gemak in past. En dan is er nog ruimte over voor de Boeing van John Travolta.... |
| Posted: 03 Feb 2012 02:16 PM PST  Official: Ducati heading back to Pikes Peak International Hill Climb for 2012 [w/video] Filed under: Motorsports, Performance, Etc., Videos, Motorcycle Ducati has announced that it will be back at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in July. The company will once again partner with the Spider Grips team using Multistrada 1200 machines. The Multistrada is the same bike that propelled Ducati to first and third place last year.... |
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