Misc.
Volkswagen hit 5 million sales in China during 25 years
As we keep saying different posts, China is the most surprising car market in history. It’s past is interesting, the present is boiling hot and volatile, but the future is the most hard to guess. And fought for by car makers and marketing strategies [...]
Motor Trend magazine names Subaru Outback SUV of the Year
Since 1949, Motor Trend magazine has prized Car of the Year. Today the magazine has around one million monthly readers, and the industry considers it’s prizes the most relevant distinctions in the States. Guess which car makers is the only to have [...]
Future Eco-Friendly Cars To Include Fake Vroom for Safety?
Automakers have succeeded something desired for decades: cars that are almost perfectly silent. This quietness reduces what is referred to as phonic pollution . But now a new, unforeseen problem has risen: cars are dangerously silent. Yes, that’s ri [...]
Massa recovered and returns for F1 training
After the famed crash in Hungary on July 25, F1 pilot Felipe Massa was back behind the wheel of a Formula One car on Monday. This caused cheers on the spot as well as, I’m pretty sure, in houses around the world where fans watched Massa back in the business. The Brazilian prodigy took a [...]
Audi sales 15.000 in China, a 37% rise
Audi is a German company which produces luxury cars under the Volkswagen Group. Not all cars however are aimed at the luxury consumer, nor are prices soaring high all the time. Th e name Audi is based on a Latin translation of the surname of the founder August Horch, itself the German word for “listen!”. [...]
Frankfurt Auto Show ladies – must see gallery of glamour hostess girls
Give it to Germany to make killer cars, killer music, but this old center Europe territory is not too bad when it comes to … women either. Well, each company brought its best looking assistants to the Frankfurt Auto Show, but local managers surely h [...]
Toyota floormats reason for recall?
There has been quite a buzz on the web lately about Toyota recalls concerning floormats. Yes, that’s right – mats. This is no joking matter, as Toyota company representatives gave the public numbers on hog big this recalls is. And the scale is huge, T-Rex style: around 4 milion Toyota and Lexus vehicles. A numbe [...]
10 Worst High Speed Crashes Ever, per Wrecked Exotics
Wrecked Exotics has put together a list of the fastest crashes they’ve ever seen and it’s quite the compendium of carnage. Below, evidence proving bad decision making will eventually catch up to you. I’m quite impressed with how intact m [...]
China’s vehicles exports drop with 57% due to trade barriers
Bloomberg reported today that Asia’s biggest auto market, China, is having huge problems with export figures. Thus, a so-far whooping 57% slide in shipment has been reported. This situation worries not only China, but all of Asia and, not the least [...]
Mercedes-Benz sales rise with 50% in China
September 11: Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz division posted another sales record last month in China, with 6,400 vehicles sold, up 52% from a year earlier. Its China sales in the Jan-Aug period rose by 50% to 37,800 units. Mercedes-Benz has set its monthly sales record in the China market for three straight months this y [...]