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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Kelley Blue Book hands out 2008 Brand Image Awards Automakers work very hard at the branding process, which takes years and years of effort to achieve. For instance, when a consumer hears Porsche, he or she likely sthink of sports cars and iconic design principles -- despite the fact that the German brand sells plenty of SUVs, too. And when a brand starts to get a negative image, it can take years to overcome that bad stigma -- just ask Ford. So, with all of this in mind, Kelley Blue Book has announced the winners of its 2008 Brand Image Awards, which... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:41 Article Views Rating: 182 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Flipside: Is crash safety endangering accident victims? Crash safety ratings are a big selling point – who's going to buy a car with just two stars? In pursuit of salable collision performance, automakers have turned to stronger metals and better construction, and consumers can reap the benefit by choosing from a panoply of highly rated vehicles. A problem arises, however, if that safety design is ever called upon to perform. Lots of vehicles now sport high strength steel in critical areas like roof pillars, and while it certainly helps protect... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:41 Article Views Rating: 221 Main > Car Makers News > Renault > Grand Prix: Renault F1 opens internship program Click the image above to view in high resolutionIf you're a recently graduated or soon to graduate student in a technical or scientific field, listen up, because this could very well be the internship that could jump-start your career. Every year for the past five, the Renault F1 team has picked the top entry in a contest for a six-month internship. The competition is run by the Altran Engineering Academy, the technological manpower agency that consults for the team. Entries are accepted in eight... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:41 Article Views Rating: 209 Main > Car Makers News > Saab > Saab launches Pure BioPower Eco Clothing Collection Saab has embraced E85 as an alternative fuel in Europe as a way to offer good performance and relatively good emissions using small turbocharged engines. Because ethanol has a higher octane rating than gasoline, boost pressure can be raised, allowing for a higher specific power output. It also helps that Saab already had a history of being quirky and using turbocharged engines in their vehicles. As an added bonus, it also gets to capitalize on the "green" aspect of the biofuel, and is leaving no... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:41 Article Views Rating: 206 Main > Car Makers News > Mitsubishi > New York 2008: The Mitsubishi i is A-OKei Click image for a high-res gallery of the turbocharged Mitsubishi iI'm the resident kei car obsessive here at Autoblog. That means I'm the guy who actually thinks, "That is awesome," when he reads the Google translated announcement of yet another Suzuki Wagon R variant. Hell, I did two posts on the one-off Hello Kitty Mitsubishi i. Keis are cool. So, you can imagine how happy I was to see that Mitsubishi brought along a small fleet of its i minicars to the New York Auto Show this year. Mitsubishi's... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:37 Article Views Rating: 229 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > Munich BMW Museum Reopening BMW museum was closed for reconstruction and it is going to be open for public again on the 21st of June this year. The owners decided they could make the place larger and show more exhibits there. It has been a unique building from the very beginning of its existence. When it was built in 1973, people were impressed with its architecture. It has been designed by an Austrian professor and consists out of two building different in shape. The top of one of them shows a huge BMW logo which is well seen... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:37 Article Views Rating: 205 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > New Honda Plant in Japan The Honda company announced they wanted to work more on mini-vehicles and decided to build a new plant in central Japan. They think the vehicles with the engine size 660 cubic centimeters are going to stay popular for the next years. For a long time little fuel-efficient cars have been popular in Japan. After the gas-prices went high, the demand on these vehicles grew worldwide. Since Honda already has a plant producing mini-vehicles, they plan to share the production with the new one. The old plant is... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:36 Article Views Rating: 237 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Avro 720 Mirage Special Edition A very limited edition of Ford GT is going to come out soon. British auto tuning company, Avro Motor Cars, is planning to make a new legend, Avro 720 Mirage. Only ten of these unique cars will be made. The designers put 720 horsepower in this car as well as 220 mph top-speed and 627 pound-feet torque. Accufab provides a throttle body, an inlet sleeve and an x-pipe exhaust system. An enormous supercharger is made by Whipple. Avro has orange color with black details. Its front and rear track is wider than... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:35 Article Views Rating: 237 Main > Car Makers News > Other > 2008 New-York Auto Show Starts Today Everybody was waiting for the grand opening of the New-York Auto Show. For two days press was full of the articles about the vehicles presented there. Finally today is the first day when the show starts and will take place for 10 days till March 30. This year New-York started earlier. Geneva Auto Show has been finished two weeks ago and the New-York Show starts right after it. Earlier the time difference between them was bigger for a comparison, there was the whole month between the shows last year. The... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:34 Article Views Rating: 233 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto briefs NEW YORK -- Toyota Motor Corp. has cut its forecast for the U.S. auto market this year and now expects overall industry sales of around 15.5 million cars and trucks, according to Toyota executives at the New York car show. That range "is looking to be a more reasonable and realistic view," Randy Pflughaupt, vice president for marketing at Toyota Motor Sales USA, said at the auto show. At the start of the year, the Japanese automaker had predicted the market would be flat in 2008, with sales totaling... 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