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Customer interest prompts Fiat to launch Scudo in New Zealand

Fiats award winning model Scudo which created hype in customers all over New Zealand, prompted Fiat to launch it in coming spring, In order to facilitate its potential customers in planning their purchases and placing orders, Fiat released market details and pricing in advance. Scudo falls in the range of Fiat Ducato van.
Like Ducato, Scudo [...]

Volkswagen AG to invest 1 billion USD for factory in USA

Volkswagen AG’s supervisory board has approved a plan to build a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, investing 620 million Euro (around 1 billion USD). The plant is likely to commence production in early 2011.
CEO of Volkswagen AG, Prof Martin Winterkorn, described this as an important step in the implementation of its volume strategy and hinted that [...]

Peugeot’s green cars on display at the forthcoming London ExCel Motor Show

Peugeot, known for its leadership in manufacture of low-emission cars will display a wide range of its green cars at the London ExCel Motor Show from July 222nd to August 3rd. Its “cheap to tax” 107 KISS SE and 308 RCZ concept will be the show debut. These low-emission vehicles and many other [...]

SEAT launches all-new Ibiza in the UK

The Ibiza five-door hatchback will be available in the UK market for sale this week. With this, the Spanish carmaker SEAT will be launching a new product offensive in the car market.
SEAT, a member of Volkswagen Automotive group has plans to double its range of models to 16 by 2012 and to achieve sales of [...]

Pendragon turns panicky, axes staff due to economic slowdown

The big UK businesses have started falling victim to economic slowdown which is going from bad to worse as the global oil prices continue to shoot up without any respite.
Pendragon, UK’s largest car dealer group, has been forced to cut down its existing strength of staff by 500. The announcement was made in the car [...]

French finance officials worried over popularity of Green Taxes

The French government’s enthusiasm for using taxes as weapon to bring in green revolution is making its officials worried over the popularity of the “bonus-malus” system for cars and consumer products. Government, through its tax regime, proposes to reward those who contribute to the green revolution and punish those who negate its efforts. People who [...]

Ford Europe records 16.9 per cent jump in its sales

Ford Europe sold a record 1,003,700 vehicles in 51 markets in the first half of 2008.
Vice president, Marketing, Sales & Service, Ingvar Sviggum, of Ford Europe, declared that crossing one million sales in six months reflected on customers’ confidence in Ford’s products. He expressed pleasure over increase in its market share to 8.8 percent in [...]

250 kmph top speed Volkswagen arrives in New Zealand

Volkswagen’s fastest ever car, the new Passat R36 with top speed of 250kph and powered by 220 kw (300 hp) 3.6 litre, six cylinder direct injection petrol engine is now on sale in New Zealand The top speed is electronically regulated. It outstrips all Volkswagen cars in accelerating from 0 to 100 kmph. Its [...]

Launch of new BMW 7 Series will set a new benchmark

The launch of BMW 7 Series, the flagship BMW model range in November this year will set a new benchmark in technical innovation and luxury. The model will represent union of fuel savings and emission reducing technologies. BMW 7 Series will debut with a host of world firsts. It will provide a choice of [...]

Volvo’s Golden Jubilee in Germany

Volvo Car Germany GmbH, based in Rodenkirchen in Cologne, controls the impressive performance of Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden.  The Swedish premium brand auto manufacturer founded in 1928, started its first subsidiary in 1958 in Frankfurt and registered its trademark with the German Patent Office in the same year.
This year Volvo Car Germany is celebrating its [...]