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Choose a page number: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Automotive RSS FeedsProdrive visit - I am visiting Prodrive at Banbury today and will get some time with Tony Butcher who heads up the auto technology side of the business. The firm is, of course, most well known for its motorsport activities (it's owned by David Richards). It should be an interesting few hours at Banbury - I'll get a tour of the facilities there also. There is, I believe, just a chance I will get a look at the Mini Countryman WRC MINI Countryman WRC completes shakedown...Feed Source: www.just-auto.com The killer hay bale - What a bizarre way to depart this mortal orb.
RIP, ELO founder and cellist. A vinyl copy of Eldorado still lurks somewhere in the DepEd's archives.... 'Thermal incidents' - Ferrari doggedly referring to vehicular fires as 'thermal incidents' and wanting to avoid the use of the more common and also more obviously alarming term (ie 'fire') is not exactly without precedent in the PR world.
American mobile phone company Kyocera once had a problem with overheating batteries that exploded. The PR people referred to batteries in the phones that might be prone to 'rapid disassembly'. And the term 'uncontrolled thermal event' has been used in the aerospace business before.
Other possible terms for explosions include 'spontaneous rapid disassembly event' and 'unplanned loss of containment'.
Crash? How about 'deconstructive deceleration event' ITALY: Ferrari 458 fires prompt global recall... Pump up the volume - News the component and tyre workers' dispute is also involving many of South Africa's forecourts reminds me of a time when I had a student weekend job in a petrol station as we refer to them in the UK.
For the princely sum of £1 per hour - £1 mind - I would trot out from my little hutch and fill punters' cars with petrol, diesel and whatever else they needed doing.
The manager - perhaps realising he wasn't exactly paying me movie star wages - decided to dangle the incentive of selling oil to the same customers - with the result I would use my non-existent sales skills to harangue drivers into buying the product -whether they needed it or not.
Health and safety didn't appear to be quite the priority it is now either - I would periodically clamber up onto the massive lorries delivering 25,000 litres of petrol a time - and 'dip the tanks' - just to make sure the volume was right, while also inspecting the mammoth underground tanks.
... More j-a Leaf driving - Our man Golding has a go at the Leaf.... Mini's new 'flow' ad - Clever new 'flow' ad for the Mini Countryman. Closest I've got to the new BMiniW so far.... Copy? IPR infringement? That's flattery squire... - The broad subject of car copies, 'Frankencars', technology rip-offs and intellectual property theft and rights infringements generally in China has been done to death before (not that that means it has gone away, of course).
Over there they are pretty adept and quick at a bit of snazzy reverse engineering (to a certain level, anyway) that can turn a Yaris into a much cheaper Florid. There's a cultural thing that allegedly means they see it as a form of flattery and they are collectively moving away from that anyway now etc, etc. The blatant copies are overwhelmingly sold in China so the international fuss is limited - and international OEMs have been caught in a tricky position, politically. Upset powerful people in China or turn a blind eye as long as it's fully understood that the model stays for sale only in China?
Anyway, I did just come across this website with links to reports that do some interesting c... 'Messi engine' - I am not alone in the just-auto/Aroq office in being fascinated by the often bizarre and eyebrow raising things that go on in the world of football (soccer if you're American) - on and off the pitch.
And the crazy world of the high-end footballer never ceases to amaze. Whether its mysteriously crashing your Ferrari (Mr C Ronaldo), getting lairy for the paparazzi outside a London nightclub at 2am (too many takers to mention though Ledley King springs to mind), these young guys with their wealth and adulation give us something to talk about even before they kick a ball.
Product and brand endorsements? I guess a certain David Beckham provides the model to follow. Designer brand associations are the holy grail. Get a few of them and more will come a knockin' - but don't overdo it in developing your prestige personal brand over a number of years.
I have just come across something a little incongruous while on Chery Auto's webs... 'Straddling bus' - Just when you think you have pretty much seen and heard everything on the problems of and solutions to chronic road congestion in urban areas
There's something called the 'straddling bus' concept in China that is apparently being seriously proposed over there.
It looks like a cross between a RoRo ferry, catamaran, tram and a bendy bus on steroids. The promotional video is well worth a look. Is it serious? They do have appalling traffic congestion in Chinese cities - vehicle parc growing all the time with 10% pa GDP growth and a humungous auto industry now present - and air pollution is something they are very concerned about.
Maybe it could work on selective busy dual carriageways, no turning for cars. Can't quite see it on the Euston Road.
Would you drive under one? Watch the video and try and keep a straight face.
... Peugeot's 3008 HYbrid4 'plug-in' - It will be interesting to see how the Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4 - a diesel hybrid - does in the market next year. But wait until 2012 and the 'plug-in' version of the same car is planned for introduction. Peugeot says that the plug-in 3008 HYbrid4 will return 141 miles per gallon (British mpgs I think, or 2 litres/100km) and average just 50g/CO2. I wonder what the range on a fully charged battery will be PARIS PREVIEW: PSA to debut world's first diesel hybrid production car... Language of Tolstoy - I've spent a large proportion of this week trying to get through to a certain Russian car company with varying degrees of success.
A large part of the calls have been attempting to talk to the media relations department, but the operator doesn't speak English and I don't speak Russian.
A quick bash at Google language tools comes up with a romanised version of media as 'sredstva massovoi informatsii.' The only bit of that I could understand was informatsii, so I repeated this several times in what my colleagues said was becoming an increasing attempt at a Russian accent.
In fact, kind souls that they are, they insisted I was sounding like the Russian meerkat from the UK's sensationally successful TV ad for car insurance that has been running for quite some time.
Now Russian is the language of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, et al and a beautiful-sounding language at that, so far be it from me to ruin it. Needless to say, all I got for my 'informatsii' effort... Life after GM... - There's a heart-warming tale from Kalamazoo, Michigan, on what happened when GM closed a plant there.
The former GM site is now a business park that houses 13 companies and hundreds of employees, in stark contrast to more than 75 manufacturing plants across North America that remain idle since Detroit's Big Three automakers began shuttering operations in 1980.
Kaiser Aluminum has invested more than $100 million in the Kalamazoo plant where 150 workers are now turning out parts for the aerospace, defense and other industries; Seneca Medical Inc. set up a distribution centre for medical and surgical supplies inside the old factory while it builds a new facility on 10 acres it acquired on the campus; numerous smaller companies have leased space; and Candlewood Suites opened a new 95-unit hotel on the site last autumn.
"When General Motors closed the plant in 1999, we had a potential white elephant on our hands," recalled Ron Kitchens, CEO of Southwest Michigan Firs... Moscow supremacy - From Jaguar comes the XJ Sentinel - which as its name suggests is a fairly tough cookie that is sure to be a hit with those who feel they might be the target of some pretty robust characters.
Unveiled at the Moscow Motor Show the Sentinel looks like it could cope with just anything anyone so-minded could throw at it - and that includes Jaguar itself - which seems to have had some fun trying to blow its own car up.
Talk of Moscow reminds me of my last visit around two years ago, when the Russian capital's notoriously gridlocked streets were as vivid a reminder as anything of the country's rapid embrace of all things western - it took almost as long to get to the hotel as it did to fly from London.
And many moons ago I was also on a trip to Moscow with the guide book sternly warning us that under no circumstances wer... Cable car - My ongoing battle with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (still not a snappy title) has entered a new phase, having watched our local television news here in the UK's Midlands region yesterday (24 August).
There on the screen was the new British business secretary touring - among other automotive sites - a test track near Warwick to meet apprentices and engineers from Aston Martin and Jaguar.
BBC Midlands ran a piece highlighting Cable's jaunt to the region, which appeared to include the Liberal Democrat business secretary enjoying some er, most un-Liberal like supercar driving in Aston Martin and Jaguar vehicles.
OK, Jaguar's hybrid car is called the 'Limo Green,' so maybe that'll assuage the more traditional wing of his party.
And the visit came hot on the heels of the business department chief's fairly tough comments on the UK industry recently, which weren't exactly highlighted when I attended his ... No small beer for Italdesign - This is an interesting ad featuring a Roman taxi driver and highlighting the clever people at Italdesign Giugiaro in Turin.
It's actually for Corona Extra beer but its star attraction is the extraordinary Italdesign Quaranta prototype based on the 1968 Bizzrrina Manta.
Quite apart from referencing every Italian cliché in the book - pasta, Italian man still with mama, Italian man gesturing wildly and making sure his hair looks good - the car itself is absolutely stunning.
The ad itself is actually pretty good though - the Roman backdrop firmly associates the core brand with luxury and heritage - although would anyone know it's Italdesign behind the motor?
And it ends with a humorous shot of the cabbie getting in a taxi himself having - presumably - had to give the Quaranta back.
Should Corona decide to expand the concept maybe they could do a UK ad with... Learning to ride the Prancing Horse - It seems Ferrari has had a spate of incidents with its rather swift 458 Italia brand.
Three fires - plus one unfortunate incident when a 458 was involved in a London Heathrow storage blaze - have got the good folk at Ferrari scratching their heads.
There have also been a reported number of accidents - although that is maybe more common than thought with new supercars - this is a very fast motor car and anyone not experienced at handling it might well have a few teething problems.
Interestingly, Ferrari often runs courses at several sites around the world to teach new customers just how to handle models such as the 599 GTO.
Anyone considering parting with what is a fair amount of cash for a Ferrari, might well give some thought to going on one.... It'd be quicker to wok - Next time you happen to be stuck in a queue, spare a thought for the residents of Beijing, who have apparently just had to endure a nine-day traffic jam.
Motorists were caught up in an extraordinary 100km logjam that wasn't exactly helped by road works and broken-down cars on the Beijing-Tibet road.
China's phenomenal economic growth is all very well but consumers are going to start falling out of love with cars if they're constantly crawling or at a standstill.
However, one of the reasons for China's huge economic success is its resourceful population.
It appears local residents along the highway were offering noodles at four times the usual price to hungry truck drivers.
It's an ill wind ... Not dead, just sleeping - Classic British cars - which ones need reviving?
The Daily Telegraph opines.... Carnage on the roads - I have looked into road death stats before and the aggregate numbers are undeniably scary.
Tens of thousands being killed on the roads annually in Western Europe (30,000-40,000 sticks in the mind - I think a broadly similar figure for the USA) is undeniably a big headline number and not to be casually dismissed.
And I obviously applaud the efforts of all those charged with getting accident rates and casualties down. The fact that - in Europe - accident rates vary so much by country suggests that there are things that can be done to improve safety, so there's no room for complacency or simply shrugging the shoulders. Car design, safety technology, highway construction/layout, street 'furniture', rules of the road and driver education - especially for the inexperienced kids - all have roles to play.
That said, a degree of perspective is needed. The physical transportation of people and goods will never be entirely risk free. More people die fro... Detroit dinosaurs not dead - Remember those 1980s photos of UAW officials banning imports from UAW car parks and encouraging the public to take a sledgehammer to a Datsun?
Thought such dinosaur union attitudes were over?
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Rival criticizes state treasurer's moves on Chrysler bankruptcy - INDIANAPOLIS -- State Treasurer Richard Mourdock has come under attack by his Democratic opponent for investing in Chrysler bonds when they'd sunk to "junk" status, and for then spending $2 million on ... Chrysler's salvation might be a hit -- south of the border - FORTUNE -- The elfin Fiat 500, scheduled to arrive in U.S. showrooms before New Year's, will surely be a hit with some. The important question is: How few?Chrysler, which is controlled by Italy's Fiat ... Red Bull fastest in Italian GP practice - PICKING UP SPEED: Despite predictions from within the team that the Red Bulls would be handicapped by lack of straight-line speed at the ultra-fast Monza circuit, Sebastian Vettel was quickest in the ... How We Picked Our College-Car Winner - Last week, we published our latest Cars.comparison that pitted three small cars against each other in a battle for the best pick for those heading to college. 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Toyota is dealt another legal setback - Arbitrator rules that former Toyota attorney Dimitrios Biller may use internal company documents to support his claim that the automaker hid evidence in lawsuits.... Not a Good Investment; CarGurus Finds Hybrid Vehicles Cost More to Own Than Comparable Gas-Powered Vehicles - http://www.cargurus.com/ ), a leading online automotive community, has determined that the majority of hybrid vehicles cost more to own and drive than comparable gas-powered vehicles. Based on the ana ... How Big Oil will stop my children from driving electric cars | Sam Arie - Electric cars produce up to 75% less carbon. But the chances are I am not going to get one, and nor are my children. Photograph: Vincent Kessler/Reuters... McLaren leads first Monza practice - COUNTDOWN TO BLAST-OFF: Jenson Button sits in his McLaren preparing for Friday's first free practice for the 2010 Italian GP at Monza. Photo: Reuters... 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Mercedes-Benz is apparently working on a new ‘Magic Body Control’ system to improve suspension and plans to introduce ‘Magic Sky C ... U.S. traffic fatalities fall to lowest level in 60 years - Washington -- The number of people killed on American highways dropped to a 60-year low in 2009, thanks in large part to safer cars, safer roads, better-trained young drivers and a limping economy. St ... Ford to roll back lineup revisions - Ford Motor Co. will scale back slightly on vehicle updates next year as the automaker continues to cut costs and focus on reducing debt. Ford is replacing 33 percent of its product line in 2010, but " ... Ford ends plan for SUV in Kentucky - Ford Motor Co. has canceled plans to move production of a small sport-utility vehicle from Europe to Kentucky because currency exchange rates no longer favor U.S. production, according to two people f ... 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TRW Automotive Says Current Holders To Sell 7.5 Million Shares - DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (TRW) said investors and some of its managers will sell 7.5 million shares in a public offering.... At Ford Hood, Wounded Soldiers' Mission Is to Heal - Branch Davidians ' fiery last stand, is a short drive to the north of Killeen, home of Fort Hood. A team from the NewsHour and London-based Independent Television News came to Texas to take a look at ... Ford's plans to build Kuga crossover in doubt - Workers at a Ford assembly plant in Louisville are expecting to learn this month what vehicles they will be building once Explorer production comes to an end, but it is looking increasingly unlikely t ... Time for an Internet do-over - Network World - The National Science Foundation (NSF) has doled out grants worth up to $32 million in total to a pack of universities dedicated to rethinking everything about the Internet from from it ... Tom Brady not at fault in auto accident; QB practice with Patriots - , 49, the operator of the vehicle who was taken to a local hospital after responders removed him from his car via the "jaws of life," was given a citation for failure to stop at a red light.Brady was ... Travis Pastrana Sets Fastest Time in Automobile up Notorious Mt. Washington Auto Road at Red Bull Speed Chasers - Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The 149-year-old Mt. Washington Auto Road has seen the likes of horses and carriages, camels, people, bicycles and most famously, competition race cars. Yesterday, traveling at ... Ford not likely to make Kuga in Louisville - is backing off plans to produce the Ford Kuga compact sport utility vehicle at the Louisville Assembly Plant, according to a Bloomberg News story. Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) will keep Kuga ... Honda increases price for Odyssey - Honda has announced an increase in pricing for the Alabama-made 2011 Odyssey minivan. The company said prices would range from $27,800 for the LX to $43,250 for the Touring edition. The pricing repre ... Honda's new Odyssey to start at $27,800 - Honda Motor Co.'s all-new 2011 Odyssey minivan will be priced from $27,800 for the base Odyssey LX model to $43,250 for the Odyssey Touring Elite, excluding the $780 destination and handling charge. H ... GM invests in Ann Arbor-based battery start-up - Washington -- General Motors Co.'s $100 million venture capital arm made its second investment this week, taking a small equity stake in a Michigan battery company. GM spokeswoman Sherri Childers-Arb ... PETA Calls On South Carolina DMV Chief to Add Warning to Driver's Manual About Leaving Dogs in Hot Cars - -- Today, PETA sent a letter to Marcia S. Adams, director of the South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), urging her to follow the California's lead by adding language to the state's driver' ... Copyright © 2010, TopLooker.com. All Rights Reserved. |
