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Sunday, 7 August 2011
Tesla Motors | CAR REVIEW | Tesla Motors, Inc. is an automobile company that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles (EVs) and electric vehicle powertrain components. It is currently the only automaker building and selling a zero-emission sports car, the Tesla Roadster, in serial production.
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| Tesla Model S 1, 2012 |
Tesla Motors is also developing the Model S, a zero-emission premium sedan which will be built at the 350,000-square-foot Tesla Motors Factory in Fremont, California, starting in 2012. Tesla also sells electric powertrain components, including lithium-ion battery packs, to other automakers like Daimler and Toyota.
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| Tesla Model S, 2012 |
Tesla Motors, founded by Elon Musk, Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard, is a company that produces a high-performance electric sports car, and is backed by a number of high-profile investors. Introduced in June 2006 to the public complete with a test drive by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Tesla Roadster is able to go from 0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds (competitive with Porsche and Lamborghini models), while also delivering 100 miles per gallon (double the efficiency of the Toyota Prius). The car’s base price is around $100,000, and can be ordered online.
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| Tesla Model S, 2012 |
Tesla Motors company is based on Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California. Tesla Motors is named after electrical engineer and physicist Nikola Tesla. The Tesla Roadster uses an AC motor descended directly from Tesla's original 1882 design, which he said came to him in a feverish hallucination due to exhaustion when he was working as an engineer and inventor in Austria-Hungary.
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| Tesla Roadster |
The Tesla Roadster, the company's first vehicle, is the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells and the first production EV with a range greater than 200 miles (320 km) per charge. The base model accelerates 0–60 mph (97 km/h) in 3.9 seconds and, according to Tesla Motor's environmental analysis, is twice as energy efficient as the Toyota Prius. As of June 30 2011, Tesla had delivered more than 1,840 Roadsters in at least 30 countries. Tesla has said that it will produce a total serial production run of 2,400 Roadsters. Tesla began producing right-hand-drive Roadsters in early 2010 for the UK and Ireland markets, then expanded sales to right-hand-drive markets of Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Tesla Motors is developing the Model S, an all-electric family sedan. Tesla Motors unveiled the car March 26, 2009 with an expected base price of U.S. $ 57,400 (or U.S. $ 49,900, after a U.S. federal tax credit). Model S will have three options for battery autonomy of 300 miles (480 km) per charge. In July 2011, TeslaMotors took about 5,600 reservations for the Model S and expects to start delivering cars to customers in 2012.
Tesla Motors employs approximately 900 full-time employees and is aggressively recruiting employees for positions at its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, with European headquarters in Maidenhead, United Kingdom, and a growing number of plant sales agents throughout in North America and Europe. Tesla Motors plans to build Model S in 2012 in Fremont, California, in an assembly plant formerly operated by Nummi, a company now defunct joint between Toyota and General Motors.
Tesla Motors has taken an interest in the site in May 2010 for U.S. $ 42 million, and opened the establishment in October 2010 that the Tesla plant. - CAR REVIEW
Tesla Motors
Vauxhall | Car Review | Vauxhall or Vauxhall Motors or Vauxhall Motors Ltd is a company name ofBritish automobile manufacturer owned by GM, General Motors. Vauxhall Motors Ltd is headquartered in Luton, United Kingdom.
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| Vauxhall Astra, 2010 |
Vauxhall was founded in 1857 as a pump and marine engine manufacturer, began manufacturing cars in 1903 and was acquired by GM in 1925. It has been the second-largest selling car brand in the UK for over two decades. The current Vauxhall range includes :Agila (city car), Astra (small family car), Corsa (supermini), Insignia (large family car), Meriva (mini MPV) and Zafira (compact MPV).
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| Vauxhall VXR8 Interior, 2011 |
Vauxhall has major manufacturing facilities in Luton (commercial vehicles) and Ellesmere Port, UK (passenger cars). The Luton plant currently employs around 1,170 staff and has a capacity of approximately 100,000 units. The Ellesmere Port plant currently employs around 2,100 staff and has a capacity of approximately 187,000 units.
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| Vauxhall Ampera, 2011 |
The Vauxhall product range is largely identical to that of Opel, GM's German subsidiary, and most models are principally designed in Rüsselsheim, Germany. A high proportion of Vauxhall-branded vehicles sold in the UK are produced at Opel factories in Germany, Spain and Poland, and roughly 80% of Vauxhall production is exported, most of which is sold under the Opel brand.
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| Vauxhall Corsa, 2011 |
The griffin emblem, which is still in use, is derived from the coat of arms of Falkes de Breauté, a mercenary soldier who was granted the Manor of Luton for services to King John in the thirteenth century. By marriage, he also gained the rights to an area near London, south of the Thames. The house he built, Fulk's Hall, became known in time as Vauxhall. Vauxhall Iron Works adopted this emblem from the coat of arms to emphasise its links to the local area. When Vauxhall Iron Works moved to Luton in 1905, the griffin emblem coincidentally returned to its ancestral home.
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| Vauxhall Zavira, 2011 |
Alexander Wilson founded the company in the Dusian Road, Vauxhall, London in 1857. Originally named Alex Wilson and Company, then Vauxhall Iron Works, the company built pumps and marine engines. In 1903, the company built its first car, a five-horsepower model steered using a tiller, with two forward gears and no reverse gear. This led to a better design which was made available for sale.
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| Vauxhall Astra VXR, 2005 |
In 1903, the first ever Vauxhall car was the 6HP with its slow-revving single cylinder engine and a chassis that was Forward Thinking – amalgamating the chassis and lower body into a composite steel and wood structure. Vauxhall’s sporting debut also came in October 1903 with a time trail in the ninth Vauxhall ever made.
To expand, the company moved the majority of its production to Luton in 1905. The company continued to trade under the name Vauxhall Iron Works until 1907, when the modern name of Vauxhall Motors was adopted. The company was characterised by its sporting models, but after World War I the company's designs were more austere.
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| Vauxhall Cavalier, 1980 |
In 1908, the A-type grew out of the Y-type prototype that beat Rolls Royce on a 200 mile speed test at the newly opened Brooklands track, laying more foundations for a dynasty of sporting Vauxhalls. The A-type sported a wide range of formal, touring and sporting coachwork. In 1910, The Prince Henry, with its distinctive pointed radiator was the most famous Edwardian Vauxhall of all, enjoyed by wealthy customers who regarded sporting motoring as something of an adventure coupled with an interest in new technology.
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| Vauxhall Cresta PA, 1960 |
In 1922, Luton wanted out and out racing cars to compete in ever more competitive events. The 1922 TT Vauxhall was all that and more. A 3.0 litre racing car with engines by design legend H R Ricardo. Two overhead camshafts with four valves per cylinder, roller big ends in an aluminium block with wet sump lubrication pointed the way forward.
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| Vauxhall Velox Series L, 1950 |
With its overhead valve engine, in 1923, the Vauxhall E-type 30-98 became the fastest catalogued car in Britain. Bodies included an elegant 4-seat Velox open tourer and a dramatic nautical-looking ‘boat-tailed’ Wensum with polished wood panelling.
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| Vauxhall, 1929 |
In 1925, General Motors buys Vauxhall for $2.5 million in a deal encouraged by GM President Alfred P Sloan Jnr. The first Vauxhall made under GM was a short wheelbase 21HP model. - CAR REVIEW
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Saturday, 6 August 2011
Maruti Suzuki news august 2011, Indian consumers still confident | CAR SALES | Something curious is happening at Maruti Suzuki. 2011 has been cruel on India's largest carmaker - a crippling strike followed by plunging sales (25% down in July) has left the company and auto analysts reaching out for their seat belts. The company expects measly single-digit growth for the industry this year. At the same time, more and more people are actually walking into showrooms to actually check out new cars, says Mayank Pareek, executive marketing director Maruti Suzuki.
"This signals two things - sentiments are good and the intention to buy is intact but they are holding on to the purchase for interest rates or other reasons," says Pareek. "The consumption story is powerful and intact. Long-term bullishness remains."
Deep Kalra, CEO of Makemytrip.com, India's largest online travel portal, points out to the traveller numbers in the holiday-segment of the company's business. In the past two years, the number has more than doubled to 4,50,000. This season, Kashmir, says Kalra, had the best tourist season ever and there were no hotel rooms available for booking. India's domestic aviation traffic grew by 14 % in June - second only to Brazil (15.1%) globally. In Mumbai, the mood at the Future Group, the country's largest modern retailer, is equally upbeat. Damodar Mall, the group customer director, sees "growth coming in on the higher side".
This means that a woman who works Jyothi - plows AAM India and the equivalent of the American, Joe the plumber - is to keep the zipper in her purse open? Do you continue to spend on groceries, and splurge on shopping sprees for his shopping center, despite 11 rate hikes in the central bank over the last 18 months? Will he buy a small car that was going to buy more than two years, by the end of the year? Going Pareek Kalra and see what their business, it seems that the great Indian consumer is not used for power, although many of the macroeconomic data lose their charm. - CAR SALES
Maruti Suzuki news august 2011, Indian consumers still confident
Friday, 5 August 2011
Westfield Sportscars | Car Review | Westfield Sportscars are manufacturers of both factory built and kit versions of several two-seater, open top sportscars. Their main product line is a Lotus Seven inspired car - vehicles originally designed by Colin Chapman with only the bare essentials for motoring in order to give the rawest and most exhilarating driving experience.
Whilst Caterham Cars bought the rights from Lotus Cars, Chris Smith set up a rival company and manufactured kits with very similar styling and construction. This led Caterham to threaten litigation (based on Industrial design rights) in the late 1980s which was eventually settled out of court and resulted in Westfield improving and changing the design of their cars. Whilst externally sharing a common look, Westfield and Caterham cars are somewhat different in construction. Westfield prefers to employ the same glass fibre body method that Lotus has traditionally used for their other models such as the Elise, Esprit, and Elan, rather than the aluminium used by Caterham.
Westfield has also pioneered technical innovations such as Independent rear suspension and a wider chassis, which other manufacturers have since adopted. The company has recently introduced a version of its SEi kit that uses donor parts from the Mazda Mx5 Miata. This is generally called an SDV (Single Donor Vehicle) kit. There is also an SDV kit that uses a Ford Sierra as a donor.
According to figures given to the magazine Total Kit Car, Westfield produces about 450 SEi and XTR chassis each year.
In the first series of BBC's Top Gear, a Westfield XTR2 driven by the black Stig set a faster lap time than the reigning record holder of that series, the Pagani Zonda.
In December 2006, Westfield became a part of Potenza Sports Cars Limited. In December 2007, it was announced that GTM Cars also became a part of Potenza Sports Cars. - CAR REVIEW
Westfield Sportscars
New Nissan Sunny Petrol & Diesel, mileage & price in India | Car Sales | Nissan Motors India Ltd. (NMIL) is having its manufacturing facility at Chennai in association with Renault in India. Nissan is presently selling Teana, a luxury sedan and Xrial and Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) and 370 Z a sport car model by importing them. Nissan Micra is a small car hatchback model that is manufactured in India and sold in Indiain both petrol and diesel versions. Nissan can be able to sell about 13,000 Micra cars last year and is planning to increase the sales of Nissan Micra to 40,000 cars this year in 2011.
According to Nissan cars company sources it is planning to produce 4,00,000 cars from the Indian manufacturing facility and is planning to export about 2,00,000 fromIndia. Nissan motors have announced the launch of new sedan model Nissan Sunny in Indian car markets. Nissan sunny is a mid size sedan and shall be available in both petrol and diesel variants for Indian markets. Nissan Motors is further planning to increase its dealer network in India to 200.
Nissan Motors is also planning to manufacture the spare parts locally with in India to maintain them cheaper compared with other and compete with other cars. Nissan Motors further stated that is planning an SUV to compete with Toyota Innova in association with Ashok Leyland in India.
New Nissan Sunny 2011 Petrol & diesel Mileage:
It is revealed that sunny is designed with V platform. It is expected that the petrol version shall be launched with 1.5 liter engine and the diesel version with 1.6 liter engine with 5 manual gear systems. The mileage of both Diesel and petrol versions of Nissan sunny is yet to be revealed.
New Nissan Sunny 2011 petrol / diesel sedan price in India:
Though the company not yet announced the price, it is expected that the base model of Nissan sunny petrol is expected to be around Rs. 8 lakhs and the diesel variant with a price of Rs.1 lakh more than the petrol version.
Nissan sunny has to compete with Maruti sx4, Maruti swift dzire, Hyundai Verna and Toyota Etios in its class for both petrol and diesel variants. - CAR SALES
New Nissan Sunny Petrol & Diesel, mileage & price in India
Hino | CAR REVIEW | Hino, or Hino Motors, Ltd., is a producer of diesel trucks, buses, and other heavy-duty vehicles, based in Hino, Tokyo, Japan. Hino Motors, Ltd., since 1973, has been the leading medium and heavy-duty diesel trucks manufacturer in Japan. It is a subsidiary of its holding company, Toyota Motor Corporation.
The Hino traces its roots back to the founding of Tokyo Gas Industry Company in 1910. In 1910 Chiyoda Gas Co. was established and competed fiercely against incumbent Tokyo Gas Company fighting for gas lighting users. Tokyo Gas Industry was a parts supplier for Chiyoda Gas but it was defeated and merged into Tokyo Gas in 1912. Losing her largest client, Tokyo Gas Industry Co. broadened their product line including electronic parts, and renamed herself as Tokyo Gas and Electric Industry, TG&E and was often abbreviated as Gasuden. It produced its first motor vehicle in 1917, the Model TGE "A-Type" truck. In 1937, TG&E merged its automobile division with that of Automobile Industry Co., Ltd. and Kyodo Kokusan K.K., to form Tokyo Automobile Industry Co., Ltd., with TG&E as a shareholder. Four years later, the company changed its name to Diesel Motor Industry Co., Ltd., which would eventually become Isuzu Motors Limited.
The following year (1942), the new entity of Hino Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. spun itself out from Diesel Motor Industry Co., Ltd., and the Hino name was born. Following the end of World War II, the company had to stop producing large diesel engines for marine applications, and with the signing of the treaty, the company dropped the "Heavy" from its name and formally concentrated on the heavy-duty trailer-trucks, buses and diesel engines markets, as Hino Industry Co., Ltd. The company took its name from the location of its headquarters in Hino city within Tokyo prefecture.
To sharpen its marketing focus to customers, in 1948, the company added the name "Diesel" to become Hino Diesel Industry Co., Ltd.
In 1953, Hino entered the private car market, by manufacturing Renaults under licence, and in 1961 it started building its own Contessa 900 sedan with an 893cc rear-mounted engine. The Italian stylist Giovanni Michelotti redesigned the Contessa line in 1964 with a 1300cc rear-mounted engine. Fed by two SU type carburettors, this developed 60 hp (44 kW) in the sedan and 70 hp (51 kW) in the coupé version. However, Hino ceased private car production very quickly in 1967 after joining the Toyota group. The Contessa 900 and later the 1300 in 4 doors sedan were assembled in Israel at the Kaiser-Illin assembly plant in Haifa. They were produced between the years 1963 to 1967.
Hino Trucks are also assembled in The Republic of Ireland by J Harris on the Naas/Nangor Roads.
Hino’s drive is centred on a concept that it calls human engineering. Human engineering refers to the development of technical solutions to the unique challenges facing each customer. Hino trucks are engineered to make your working experience a safe, reliable and comfortable one.
HINO sets new industry quality standards with trucks that have become synonymous with durability, reliability and low cost of ownership.The Hino family of light-duty, medium-duty and heavy-duty trucks offer outstanding engineering, the latest technology, and safety and comfort features that make your work easier. - CAR REVIEW
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Thursday, 4 August 2011
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| Fiat Barchetta 4w, 1995 |
Fiat-based cars are manufactured all over the world, the most widely produced outside Italy, is built in Brazil, where they are best-sellers. It also has factories in Argentina and Poland. Fiat has a long history of licensing its products in other countries. The activities of the joint venture can be found in Italy, France, Turkey, India, Pakistan, China, Serbia and Russia.
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| Fiat 124 Spider, 1985 |
Agnelli's grandson Gianni Agnelli was Fiat chairman from 1966 until 1996, and honorary chairman from then until his death on 24 January 2003, while Cesare Romiti served as chairman. After their removal, Paolo Fresco served as chairman and Paolo Cantarella as CEO. Umberto Agnelli then took over as chairman from 2002 to 2004. After Umberto Agnelli's death on 28 May 2004, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo was named chairman, but Agnelli heir John Elkann became vice chairman at age 28 and other family members are on the board. At this point, CEO Giuseppe Morchio immediately offered his resignation. Sergio Marchionne was named to replace him on 1 June 2004.
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| Fiat 124 Spider, 1975 |
In September 2010, shareholders approved a plan to split Fiat's industrial businesses from the group. Truck manufacturer Iveco, farm gear maker CNH Global NV and the industrial part of Fiat Powertrain Technologies were demerged into a new entity, Fiat Industrial, at the beginning of 2011. Fiat Industrial has a separate listing on the Milan stock exchange beginning 3 January 2011.
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| Fiat Gamine yellow, 1968 |
Fiat Clubs - "United by the same passion"
From historical models such as the 124 to the Cinquecento – a real myth not only in Italy – up to the more recent Fiat models: people all over the world are inspired by the same interest for our brand. Meet them at the on-line Fiat Clubs and take part in rallies and events.
Fiat WorldWide: The natural evolution of a great company. The company always active in the international arena, that never lost its flair for innovation. This why are present all over the world together with all the Fiat Clubs founded by Fiat fans who share your interest and enthusiasm. Fiat Clubs website: www.fiat.com. - CAR REVIEW
Fiat
From historical models such as the 124 to the Cinquecento – a real myth not only in Italy – up to the more recent Fiat models: people all over the world are inspired by the same interest for our brand. Meet them at the on-line Fiat Clubs and take part in rallies and events.
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| Fiat Gooding Pebble Beach, 1953 |
Fiat WorldWide: The natural evolution of a great company. The company always active in the international arena, that never lost its flair for innovation. This why are present all over the world together with all the Fiat Clubs founded by Fiat fans who share your interest and enthusiasm. Fiat Clubs website: www.fiat.com. - CAR REVIEW
Fiat
CAR REVIEW | Dodge | Dodge is a brand of cars, sport utility vehicles (SUV), multi-purpose vehicles (MPV), and pickup, produced and marketed by the Chrysler Group, LLC in 60 countries around the world. Dodge was founded by the Dodge Brothers Company in 1900 to supply parts and assemblies for Detroit's automotive industry. Dodge started to make their full own cars in 1914. The Dodge brand then was sold to Chrysler in 1928.
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| Dodge RAM, 1997 |
The Dodge sale to Chrysler was passed through the short-lived Daimler-Chrysler merger of 1998–2007 as part of the Chrysler Group, was a part of Chrysler LLC owned by Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity investment firm, and is now a part of the Chrysler Group LLC which has an alliance with Fiat. Fiat has plans to evolve many Dodge, Chrysler, and Jeep existing platforms and products into Fiat-Chrysler co-developed vehicles.
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| Dodge CHallenger R/T, 1970 |
After establishing the company of Dodge Brothers by Horace and John Dodge in 1900, the company produced engine components and chassis of the vehicle. John Dodge in 1913 said that he no longer willing to only as "supplier" for Henry Ford, then in 1914 he and Horace agreed to make four-cylinder vehicles (Dodge Model 30). They made this car has all-steel body, while most other companies there are still elements of the wood. Besides the existing 12 volt electrical system, (cars with 6 volt electrical system was still existed until the 1950s) and a sliding-gear transmission. The company developed by the Dodge brothers were successful because of their good quality, and the company soon became the second largest company by sales in the U.S. market in 1916.
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| Dodge Polara, 1966 |
By 1914, Horace had found a solution by creating the new four-cylinder Dodge Model 30. Marketed as a slightly more upscale competitor to the ubiquitous Ford Model T, it pioneered or made standard many features later taken for granted: all-steel body construction (the vast majority of cars worldwide still used wood-framing under steel panels, though Stoneleigh and BSA used steel bodies as early as 1911); 12-volt electrical system (6-volt systems would remain the norm until the 1950s); and sliding-gear transmission (the best-selling Model T would retain an antiquated planetary design until its demise in 1927). As a result of this, and the brothers' well-earned reputation for quality through the parts they made for other successful vehicles, Dodge Brothers cars were ranked at second place for U.S. sales as early as 1916. That same year, Henry Ford decided to stop paying stock dividends to finance the construction of his new River Rouge complex. This led the Dodges to file suit to protect their annual stock earnings of approximately one million dollars; this led Ford to buy out his shareholders, and the Dodges were paid some US$25 million.
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| Chrysler Dodge Custom Royal, 1959 |
The Dodge Brothers vehicles in 1916 also won acclaim for durability while in service with the U.S. Army's Pancho Villa Expedition into Mexico. A notable example was in May, when the Sixth Infantry received a reported sighting of Julio Cardenas, one of the most trusted subordinates Villa. Lieutenant George S. Patton led ten soldiers and two civilian guides in three Dodge Model 30 touring cars to conduct a raid on a ranch house in San Miguelito, Sonora. In the firefight the party killed the three men, one of whom was identified as Cardenas. Patton's men tied the body to escape hoods, back at headquarters in Dublán and enthusiastically of American journalists. - CAR REVIEW
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