12th November, 2007
Bourdais ends Champ Car career with another win
Mexico City, Mexico (Sports Network) - Sebastien Bourdais ended his Champ Car career in grand style winning Sunday's Gran Premio Tecate Champ Car season finale at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. The No.1 Newman/Haas/Lanigan driver crossed the finish line 1.905 seconds ahead of Will Power.
The victory was Bourdais' eighth of ......
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12th November, 2007
Malaysia firm's 'Muslim car' plan
The Malaysian carmaker Proton has announced plans to develop an "Islamic car", designed for Muslim motorists.
Proton is planning on teaming up with manufacturers in Iran and Turkey to create the unique vehicle.
The car could boast special features like a compass pointing to Mecca and a dedicated space to ......
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11th November, 2007
California's auto standards would save Canadians $37 billion: study
Canadian motorists could save about $37 billion over the next decade if car manufacturers were forced to meet California's fuel consumption standards for new cars, suggests a new report released by an environmental consultant.
The study, produced for ClimateforChange.ca, said consumers might face additional costs to purchase cars with better technology, ......
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11th November, 2007
Finish line looms for Auto and Truck Show
Harry Hedgpeth of Spring Branch came to the 2007 San Antonio Auto & Truck Show on Saturday to see if he could find a small pickup he might like to replace his aging full-size model.
As he looked over the 100,000th Tundra built at Toyota's new San Antonio plant, he ......
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9th November, 2007
Kansas auto premiums among lowest in nation
Kansans spend less on auto insurance than residents in nearly every state in the nation, according to a study by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.
The report shows the average auto insurance premium in Kansas was $590 per vehicle in 2005, down $13 from the state's 2004 average. It ......
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8th November, 2007
Chery Automobile Acquires a Big Order of Super Bulletproof Cars from South Africa
Chery Armored and Sateh Afrique from South Africa officially signed a sales contract. It is known that Sateh Afrique will order 200 units of super bulletproof car from Chery. This is another breakthrough of Chery bulletproof cars in the international market since Sep. 23, 2007 when the first batch of ......
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8th November, 2007
Global Automobile’s Rock100 - Revolution in automobile inds
Xenitis Group is all set to herald Automobile Revolution in India. In keeping with the promise of national roll out of 2-wheelers within 6 months, Global Automobiles Pvt Ltd, A Xenitis Group company, the first 2-wheeler manufacturing company in Eastern India has unveiled the much awaited People’s Bike @ Rs ......
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5th November, 2007
Honda - The first Japanese auto plant to build a car in America turns 25
The 5,300 associates at Honda's Marysville Auto Plant will not miss a beat as they spend the day building more than 1,800 cars and light trucks. Later this month, they will hit another milestone - production of the plant's nine-millionth vehicle.
Associates recently launched the eighth-generation Honda Accord at the plant. ......
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5th November, 2007
Mazda's new branch office in Beijing
A Mazda Motor Corp. unit in Shanghai that oversees Mazda's Chinese operations said Monday it has established a branch office in Beijing to supervise the Japanese automaker's sales network in the country.
Mazda Motor (Shanghai) Business Management & Consulting Co. decided on the move as it sees a need to ......
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2nd November, 2007
Japan Automakers' U.S. Market Share Down
Japanese automakers' combined share of the U.S. new vehicle market stood at 36.6 pct in October, down 1.2 percentage point from the previous month, Autodata Corp. statistics showed Thursday.
New vehicle sales by Japanese industry leader Toyota Motor Corp. <7203> increased 0.5 pct from a year before to 197,592 units, a ......
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