HIROSHIMA, Japan – Mazda Motor Corporation will showcase the global premiere of the Mazda TAKERI next-generation midsize sedan concept car at the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show. Mazda will also hold the Japan debut of the new CX-5 crossover SUV equipped with the full array of Mazda’s breakthrough SKYACTIV TECHNOLOGY*1 as well as other new technologies [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Mazda Takeri to bow at 2011 Tokyo Motor Show
Monday, October 31st, 2011Mazda‘s Tassie mountain climbers head to higher ground
Monday, October 31st, 2011Tasmanian motorsport personalities Jamie and Simon Vandenberg will contest their first ever rally outside of the Apple Isle when they hit the tarmac for Mazda at next month’s Targa High Country in Victoria.
The multiple Tasmanian rally champion siblings will pilot Mazda Motorsport’s turbo rotary RX-8 SP at the event held around Victoria’s North Eastern Alps [...]
Renault Trucks At Solutrans: Passion And Innovation
Monday, October 31st, 2011The first major theme at the 2011 edition of Solutrans, the international transport solutions show, is our passion for trucks. It breaks down into two domains: the Magnum, which will be celebrating 20 years of success this year, and truck racing.
First of all, the Magnum universe, seen very much as Renault Trucks’ emblematic vehicle. For [...]
Audi A7, Audi Q7 win 2012 Active Lifestyle Vehicle of the Year Awards
Monday, October 31st, 2011The Audi A7 and the Audi Q7 won their respective categories in the 2012 Active Lifestyle of the Year Awards, which stands as the only competition of its kind in the U.S. to combine the opinions of automotive journalists and elite athletes.
Both Audi models were among the 32 finalists for recognition in the eighth-annual ALV [...]
The World’s Largest Electric-Powered Truck Undergoing Tests With Carrefour
Monday, October 31st, 2011The world of goods road transport has to face an enormous environmental challenge. To meet it, the industry players are now examining all possible solutions to reduce its negative effects, or even eliminate them altogether. One of the options under consideration, the use of electrical energy, has extremely interesting potential.
the company of Gérard Collomb, the [...]
Pilot project kicks off with Audi A1 e-tron in Munich
Monday, October 31st, 201120 units of the Audi A1 e-tron are on the roads of the Munich pilot region. Some trial participants even got the keys to their electric cars weeks ago. Audi, E.ON, the public utility Stadtwerke München and Technische Universität München (TUM) are project partners in this fleet trial. E.ON and SWM are in charge of [...]
Audi A4 and Audi 80 Audi celebrates its ten millionth midsize car
Monday, October 31st, 2011The models in Audi’s midsize class – the Audi A4 and its predecessor, the Audi 80 – constitute the heart of the brand. The company recently celebrated a true milestone in production. In early October, the ten millionth midsize Audi rolled off the assembly line: a Misano Red Audi S4 with a black and alabaster-white [...]
Dunbar Armored Selects Freightliner Trucks for Hybrid Solution
Monday, October 31st, 2011PORTLAND, Ore – Freightliner Trucks announced that Dunbar Armored has taken delivery of the first-ever hybrid-electric armored truck – a Freightliner Business Class® M2 106 Hybrid. Easily configured for a wide variety of bodies and different applications, the Business Class M2 106 Hybrid is ideal for stop-and-go and stationary power take-off (PTO) operations.
Dunbar Armored, [...]
Freightliner Trucks Releases 2012 Official Hauler of NASCAR® Calendar
Monday, October 31st, 2011PORTLAND, Ore. – Freightliner Trucks announced the release of its 2012 Official Hauler of NASCAR® calendar, which showcases many of the NASCAR teams and their fleets. Throughout the NASCAR season, teams such as Front Row Racing, Joe Gibbs Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing, Penske Racing, Richard Childress Racing, Richard Petty Motorsports, Robby Gordon Motorsports, and [...]
The new BMW M5: Soon to be a star on the road
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Munich – The upcoming launch of the new BMW M5 has set pulses racing, thanks, among other things, to its athletic and elegant design, V8 engine with M TwinPower Turbo technology developing 412 kW/560 hp, seven-speed M Double Clutch Transmission with Drivelogic, and Active M Differential. And now the Forza Motorsport 4 racing simulation [...]
Introducing The All-New 6th Generation BMW 3 Series Sedan
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Woodcliff Lake, NJ – With the announcement of the sixth generation BMW 3 Series Sedan, the benchmark by which all sport sedans are measured just got raised. The pioneering history of the 3 Series serves as inspiration for the new sports sedan, whose powerful styling represents a fresh interpretation and conscientious development of traditional BMW [...]
Organisers of EM 2012 go for Setra
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Neu-Ulm: the organisers of the 2012 European Football Championship to be hosted jointly by Poland and the Ukraine from the 8th June to 1st July have put their trust in Setra coaches from Daimler AG.Hartmut Schick, Head of Daimler Buses: “We are happy and proud to be able to support one of the most important [...]
Passenger Cars: Registrations Down 1.1% Nine Months Into 2011
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011In September, demand for new passenger cars was slightly up in the EU* (+0.6%), totaling 1,231,147 units. No calendar effect occurred as the month counted the same number of working days as in September 2010. Over nine months, 10,121,423 new cars were registered in the region, or 1.1% less than in the same period a [...]
South Korea wins Drivers’ Fuel Challenge
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011The qualifying rounds for the Drivers’ Fuel Challenge final were held at the Volvo Demo Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. Seventeen winners from local competitions on Volvo Trucks’ European and Asian markets got together to fight for the title of the world’s most fuel-efficient driver. The eventual finalists were Enrique Sanchez Parrondo from Spain, who won [...]
