* An exclusive hand-made series of just 20 * Emotion-packed design and excellent game quality * The table costs 12,900 euros and can be ordered from quattro GmbH A football is always a football! You can kick an old one around just as easily as a modern one. The same applies to the good old [...]
BlueMotion Technology reduces TDI consumption to just 4.6 litres! Advanced efficiency: The Touran now uses up to 27% less fuel Advanced safety: First MPV with permanently active main beam Wolfsburg/D?sseldorf, 31 May 2010 – Volkswagen, Europe’s largest carmaker, is making motoring cleaner: with the launch of every new Volkswagen model, fuel consumption and emissions are [...]
-Hyundai to deliver 1 million footballs to African children through Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) -Yuna Kim, South Korea’s figure skating gold medallist to donate the first ball Hyundai Motor Company, one of the FIFA top partners, initiated a program called ’1 Million Dream Balls for Africa’, to commemorate its 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ sponsorship.
* New Meriva and new Astra win a total of seven categories * Opel honored as most innovative brand in automotive sector Russelsheim/Cologne. The winners of the “Plus X Award 2010”, the world’s largest contest for technologies, sport and lifestyle products, were announced at an awards ceremony in Cologne. Opel played a starring role, with [...]
Stuttgart Stuttgart – The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG super sports car is celebrating a brilliant victory in the huge design competition organised by Germany’s AUTO BILD magazine. Around 200,000 readers of 21 European editions of the specialist publication voted the new gull-wing model into top place as Europe’s most attractive car. In addition, the SLS AMG [...]
Munich. With victories in three out of five assessment categories, BMW has assumed a dominating role at the 2010 “Auto Bild Design Awards”. In the Europe-wide voting, the new BMW 5 Series Saloon, the BMW X1 and the concept car BMW Vision EfficientDynamics were able to assert themselves in each of their vehicle categories. This [...]
* First automaker to develop app specially for iPad * Free download in iTunes Store coming soon Wolfsburg, 28 May 2010 – Volkswagen is the first automaker to develop a digital customer magazine as an app specially for the iPad. The innovative digital product which goes by the name of DAS. lines up in good [...]
In January Buick debuted the Regal GS showcar at the 2010 North American International Auto Show. After a lot of positive consumer feedback, Buick announced that it will build the Regal GS. No further details are available at this time.
- Lithium-ion battery & 100% electric vehicle production to begin in 2012 – SMYRNA, Tenn. (May 26, 2010) – Nissan today broke ground on the project that brings Nissan LEAF production to the United States. The groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of construction on a manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tenn., that will produce the lithium-ion [...]
Beijing *BYD and Daimler AG to establish “Shenzhen BYD Daimler New Technology Co. Ltd,” a 50:50 research and technology center to develop electric cars in China *Mr. Wang Chuanfu, Chairman and President of BYD Company Limited: “Together with Daimler we are making excellent progress identifying opportunities to utilize the strengths of both companies to create [...]
