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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Britain new car sales down 37 percent in November | The Detroit News | detnews.com LONDON -- New car sales in Britain fell 37 percent in November compared to the same month in 2007, with total sales hovering just above 100,000, another sign the automotive sector is being hit hard by the financial crisis, an industry group said Thursday. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said sales to the private market were off 45 percent. For the year to date, total sales were down 10.7 percent compared to last year. "November has been another difficult month for the motor industry and... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-04 15:50:49 Article Views Rating: 134 Main > Car Makers News > Alfa Romeo > First Alfa Romeo Competizione Comes to the U.S. Alfa Romeo plans to make only 500 units of 8C Competizione and deliver some of them to the U.S. The limited edition car has 4.7-liter eight cylinder engine which outputs 450 horsepower and six-speed robotized transmission. 8C’s have to be ordered directly from Alfa Romeo’s headquarters in Modera, Italy. The Maserati facility has been specifically restructured for the production of the Competizione which started in the beginning of autumn. After all the 500 units are made Alfa Romeo will cease the... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-04 15:19:01 Article Views Rating: 266 Main > Car Makers News > Alfa Romeo > Alfa Romeo 8C Spider 500 rpm. The pyramid seats are upholstered chic Frau flower furring an parochial and innovative prearrangement concerning the weave, goodwill which the leather is bound for a natural fibre, creating a look relative to great visual impact. An unmistakable pullman well-built to measure for the owner's personality. Since always, gear comfort and dynamic performance are qualities specific in alfa romeo cars: trendy this inessive superego have alter into veritable musty points. Starting in there with... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-28 10:46:36 Article Views Rating: 342 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Carbon fiber baby seat keeps Junior secure If James Bond ever had to carry a baby instead of a bombshell in that DBS Ford Edge, here is the kind of seat worthy of the agent and his cargo. Created by Rory Craig, a student at the Art Center College of Design, the carbon fiber seat with Sparco belts is 3-way adjustable, reclines, and can be pulled apart to be a side infant carrier. There are even holes down the back of the seat for perfect harness adjustment. It's called the Wing Man, but you can't buy it yet – right now it's just a... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-19 07:11:45 Article Views Rating: 78 Main > Car Makers News > Other > 2009 Car of the Year in Europe Last year Fiat 500 became the European Car of the Year. An Italian car is a pretty obvious result for an award like this. This year it is a little different. There were seven finalists this year judged by 59 jurors. The COTY jury is made out of motorist journalists from 23 European countries. The award ceremony took place in Paris, on November 17. Opel Insignia was announced 2009 Car of the Year in Europe, which was great news for General Motors after all the sad stages the company is going through... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-19 07:11:38 Article Views Rating: 91 Main > Car Makers News > Opel > Automobile Year - 2009 Over the rank of the best in Europe, as always, were very severe struggle. Among the applicants, and the sixth generation of folk «Golf», and already successful make noise in the Old World pretty Fiesta, and once again more than a serious candidate from the Italians from Alfa Romeo - MiTo. But the best was the Opel. But the Germans have long been won this contest. The latter, who was able to climb to the summit, a Volkswagen Golf - in the distant 1993. Opel succeeded in what had been unable... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-19 06:17:32 Article Views Rating: 327 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Pelosi pushes fast auto aid | The Detroit News | detnews.com WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Tuesday she wants a quick vote next week to allow the troubled domestic auto industry to tap into the $700 billion Wall Street bailout. Pelosi's commitment came after another sharp decline in General Motors Corp. shares, which closed Tuesday at $2.92, down 13 percent, on concerns the company will run out of cash by the end of the year. Earlier in the day, the company's stock hit a 65-year-low. "It is essential for the domestic automobile manufacturing... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-12 12:48:05 Article Views Rating: 67 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto briefs General Motors Corp . has reached an agreement with shareholders to settle securities litigation for $277 million, according to federal court records. The agreement, disclosed in a quarterly regulatory filing Thursday, would settle a federal lawsuit filed in April 2006 alleging GM and others violated standard accounting practices. GM would pay half the money into an escrow account within 30 days of preliminary approval of the settlement by a U.S. District Court judge in Detroit. The other half would be... Full article... Article added: 2008-08-08 07:29:56 Article Views Rating: 224 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Off-road thrills on the cheap LOESS HILLS, Iowa -- Deep in the thickly wooded hills of rural Iowa I am zipping along narrow dirt trails on a popular new vehicle type. This is not a street legal model from a familiar automotive brand, but the latest in a breed of junior off-road machines. Kawasaki is well known for its motorcycles, but it is also one of the leaders in a fast expanding segment of recreation utility vehicles or RUVs. These RUVs are basically rugged, two-seat go-anywhere mini-off-roaders with a distinctly sporty flavor... Full article... Article added: 2008-08-08 07:29:54 Article Views Rating: 98 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Off-road thrills on the cheap LOESS HILLS, Iowa -- Deep in the thickly wooded hills of rural Iowa I am zipping along narrow dirt trails on a popular new vehicle type. This is not a street legal model from a familiar automotive brand, but the latest in a breed of junior off-road machines. Kawasaki is well known for its motorcycles, but it is also one of the leaders in a fast expanding segment of recreation utility vehicles or RUVs. These RUVs are basically rugged, two-seat go-anywhere mini-off-roaders with a distinctly sporty flavor... Full article... Article added: 2008-08-08 07:29:51 Article Views Rating: 109 |
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