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Main > Car Makers News > Jaguar > Jaguar buy seen as sign India has arrived NEW DELHI -- To understand India's economic rise, look to its cars. The iconic Indian automobile of a generation ago was the Ambassador, a noisy, boxy clunker that was ubiquitous despite its ungainly 1950s style. Compare that with the newest Indian-owned line of cars, the famously sleek and sophisticated Jaguar, which Tata Motors, India's biggest auto company, purchased Wednesday, along with Land Rover, in a landmark $2.3 billion deal. The vehicle upgrade could be a metaphor for the transformation the... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-01 05:38:28 Article Views Rating: 217 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto briefs DETROIT -- A federal bankruptcy court judge on Monday approved Delphi Corp. 's request to extend deadlines with General Motors Corp . and the Internal Revenue Service as it attempts to line up the financing it needs to exit from bankruptcy. The agreement with the IRS, which was set to expire Monday, will now expire April 7. Under the agreement, the IRS will continue pension-funding waivers first granted in 2007. Without the waivers, Delphi says it could face a tax claim of $1.4 billion, which it says... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-01 05:38:28 Article Views Rating: 168 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Travis Pastrana invents and completes the hydrojump Click above for a few more pics of the hydrojumpMotocrosser, X-Game gold-medal winner and Subaru USA rally car driver extraordinaire Travis Pastrana has once again gone and done something so crazy that we wonder how the man can still be among the living. Previously, Pastrana became the first rider ever to land a double-backflip in competition, and now he's gone and done something else unthinkable: the hydrojump. After speeding to about 70 miles per hour, Pastrana hydroplaned his Suzuki dirtbike in... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-28 05:34:01 Article Views Rating: 191 Main > Car Makers News > Suzuki > Maruti Suzuki unveils ironically named Swift DZire sedan Click above if you must for more of the Maruti Suzuki Swift DZire It's a shame that more of Suzuki's line-up isn't as well designed and executed as the nimble little Swift hatchback. But we swear, this was not what we had in mind. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., the country's largest automaker and majority owned its the Japanese parent company, has taken the wraps off of the ironically named Swift DZire today, initial spy shots of which we lamented several months ago. Rather contrary to its name, we're left... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-27 07:35:10 Article Views Rating: 174 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Buy American, get Chinese engine OSHAWA, Ontario -- General Motors car engines were once the stuff of American legend. The Beach Boys sang, "nothing can touch my 409," about a powerful Chevy V-8. Oldsmobile owners in 1981 were so angered that their cars had been fitted with Chevrolet engines instead of Oldsmobile "Rockets," the subject of another hit song, that they successfully sued GM over the swap. The company has since eliminated brand distinctions between engines, saddling them with names unlikely to inspire songwriters, like... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-27 07:35:09 Article Views Rating: 153 Main > Car Makers News > Suzuki > In the Autoblog Garage: 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara Xsport Click above to view high-res gallery of the 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara XsportWhen driving a vehicle for review, we always keep a list of pros and cons. At just a glance we can see which list is longer and instantly know if it's a vehicle that we'd personally drive. At the end of the evaluation we throw in a few verbs, several random adjectives and some technical jargon to make us all sound knowledgeable and it's a review! Just kidding. A little, at least.The 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara Xsport that just left... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-25 07:31:11 Article Views Rating: 208 Main > Car Makers News > Other > "Twist the Throttle" motorcycle documentary series launches online Over the weekend, Dylan Weiss from Cry Havoc Productions, Inc. let us know that his latest motorcycle-specific documentary went live at Discovery's Turbo online site. We've spent some time watching the footage, and we think it's awesome. Focusing in on Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, BMW, Ducati, MV Agusta and Bimota, the crew took plenty of footage home with them and managed to ride some of the greatest modern sportbikes ever created along the way. Best of all, over four hours of video is available... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:38 Article Views Rating: 246 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: 228 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 |
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