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Main > Car Makers News > Honda > Honda celebrates 40 years in Australia Honda Australia today celebrates its 40th birthday.From its humble beginnings in a two-bedroom flat in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra, Australia is now one of Honda’s leading markets. Honda Australia’s first General Manager, Mr. Hidehiko Shiomi, set up business in a Millswyn Street flat and represented half of the initial workforce. His colleague at this time was Mr. David Morwood. There are now over 500 people employed by Honda in Australia including the motorcycle, power... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-04 06:57:33 Article Views Rating: 397 Main > Forums and Clubs > forums > CarAdvice Forum v3.0 launch Last year was certainly jam-packed for us behind the scenes here at CarAdvice, so much so that we completely lost track of the forums which were quickly overrun with spam.In 2009 we are set to breathe life back into the forum with a new design, new layout and a fresh start which we hope will generate some helpful, constructive and entertaining discussion. This doesn’t mean we expect 2009 to be any less hectic - quite the contrary actually as you will all soon find out - so we will be... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-27 08:30:56 Article Views Rating: 908 Main > Car Makers News > Kia > 2009 Kia Cerato First Steer Kia has a bit of a penchant for spelling words with a ‘K’ , for possibly obvious reasons, so I’m going to make a suggestion to it here, consider adding ‘Konservative’ to the lexicon – at least where it relates to the estimate that it will sell just 3000 of the all-new Cerato small sedan in Australia this year.While on the one hand the company has been talking up the new Cerato as a contender against the major players in the small car segment here, that’s Toyota... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-26 08:08:53 Article Views Rating: 978 Main > Car Makers News > Nissan > Nissan chief Ghosn: Auto makers in defensive mode | detnews.com | The Detroit News RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The head of one of the world's largest car companies said Sunday that auto manufacturers are going to be in defensive mode for the next couple of years as they cope with the economic meltdown. Nissan Motor Co. Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn also said he expects manufacturers to reduce their investments and inventory as car sales continue to fall. Ghosn said that in 2007, global auto sales were 69 million cars, while last year it was 63 million. But the trend in the past two to... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-26 06:38:15 Article Views Rating: 231 Main > Car Makers News > Mitsubishi > Mitusbishi’s mini car scheduled for 2010 Mitsubishi Motors is planning a mini low-cost world car for 2010, based on the company’s mini car platform. The new car will initially be geared toward Europe, China or Southeast Asia. The company plans to simply export its Japanese-spec mini car, albeit with a bigger engine and more equipment. By Japanese law, mini cars are limited to having engines no bigger than 660cc and dimensions no more than 3.41 metres long and 1.52 metres wide. They are hugely popular in Japan 1/3 of all new-car sales... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-19 12:37:51 Article Views Rating: 582 Main > Car Makers News > GM > With GM on the brink, what will happen to the Corvette? Some Corvette fans and avid forum members over at GM Inside News have already asked the unfathomable question of what automaker should take over the reigns of America's longest-running sports car if its parent company were to lose custody. Their answer, rather shockingly, was Toyota. We sure hope it doesn't come to that. Still, tough questions deserve thoughtful answers, and Motor Trend is asking away. Even if The General survives, what does the future hold for Team Corvette, which has seen its ranks... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-29 08:01:12 Article Views Rating: 167 Main > Car Makers News > Porsche > BREAKING: More Porsche Panamera pics surface var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/More_official_shots_of_the_Porsche_Panamera'; Thanks for the heads-up to our friends at Supercars.net, where a forum poster has uploaded more official shots of the Porsche Panamera apparently lifted from Autoweek.nl ahead of its official reveal extravaganza scheduled for Monday. The first photo and technical details trickled out last night, and the new batch gives you a better view of the car's controversial rump, which is already polarizing enthusiasts the world... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-24 08:19:11 Article Views Rating: 158 Main > Car Makers News > Other > National leaders to attend summit | The Detroit News | detnews.com DETROIT -- A dozen Fortune 100 chief executives, representing the automotive, health, energy, publishing and other industries, are slated to speak at the inaugural National Summit at Ford Field in June. Rick Wagoner, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corp., and Robert Nardelli, chairman and CEO of Chrysler LLC, are among those who will address participants during the three-day forum, sponsored by the Detroit Economic Club. Two hundred of the country's most influential leaders from business, government... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-24 08:19:09 Article Views Rating: 111 Main > Auto Shows > Other > Battery powered cars Moreover, the problem in association with batteries isn’t their operability storing electricity - a battery will strip till an electric car taxi 90% as respects the swallow employed so that keep it. In exactly its forms, therefore, hydrogen is a fuel that’s manufactured from supplementary fuels, either biomass, fossil fuel, device electricity. In connection with batteries gets 123 miles - advances in percussion art are inevitable, in what way sambo cars enter the trend of automotive... Full article... Article added: 2008-11-14 06:00:08 Article Views Rating: 370 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Hybrids and Green Cars Are Popular in China The world economy is falling down but there will be always somebody who can make profit even at the bad times like this. According to the analysts at the CIEBS 6th Annual China Automotive Industry Forum in Shanghai the car manufacturers who devoted themselves to the production of fuel efficient and green cars, won’t lose as much as the other ones. Even though in some parts of the world the fuel prices went down, they are still high in many countries. More than that the crisis made people realize how... Full article... 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