Friday, May 29, 2009
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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Sunday, May 24, 2009
Cadillac CTS
Named by Motor Trend as the 2008 car of the year, the Cadillac CTS is the first car in North America outfitted with both Gracenote's MusicID® and Playlist™ products, providing a solution that not only enhances the in-car digital entertainment experience, but makes listening to music while driving safer and easier. With a 40GB hard-drive-media system, "pause and play" functionality to pause and rewind live AM/FM broadcasts, and support for iPod, USB, and auxiliary audio jacks, the CTS is a music enthusiast's dream. Saturday, May 23, 2009
Pasar otomatif dunia akan “serempak ambruk”
[/caption] Jakarta - Pasar otomatif dunia akan “serempak ambruk” pada 2009 karena didera krisis likuiditas dan tekanan krisis ekonomi secara umum, demikian riset dari sebuah lembaga pemberi referensi paling berpengaruh di dunia, JD Power and Associates seperti dikutip Reuters, Jumat.
Lembaga yang berpusat di Detroit, AS ini memperkirakan, penjualan kendaraan ringan akan jatuh hingga 13,2 juta unit pada 2009 setelah selama tahun ini hanya bisa menjual 13,6 juta unit.
JD Power menilai pemulihan pasar yang sesungguhnya akan memakan waktu lebih dari 18 bulan atau 1,5 tahun.
“Setelah kekuatan penjualan industri otomotif global menurun di sepanjang 2008, maka pada 2009 nanti industri ini akan mengalami kejatuhan secara serempak,” kata Jeff Schuster, direktur eksekutif bidang penakaran industri otomotif dari JD Power.
Sepanjang dampak krisis keuangan terhadap pasar negara maju lebih keras ketimbang terhadap pasar ekonomi berkembang, maka tak ada satu negara atau kawasan pun yang benar-benar kebal dari malapetaka (ekonomi) ini, tambah Schuster.
Mazda CX-7 crossover
Mark Lennihan / APDennis Bubenheimer dusts a Mazda CX-7 crossover on the Mazda display at the New York auto show. The show is the nation’s oldest and usually best-attended event of the auto show year.
Honda Element
Lucas Jackson / ReutersHeather Cammisa with the Humane Society and a dog named ‘Sammy’ demonstrate the dog-friendly features of a Honda Element Dog Friendly Concept vehicle.
show attendee Colin Mathews
Spencer Platt / Getty ImagesNew York auto show attendee Colin Mathews of Carconnection.com looks at a transmission on display on the show’s floor.
iMiEV
Stan Honda / AFP - Getty ImagesThe Mitsubishi Motors ‘iMiEV’ electric prototype vehicle is inspected by members of the media at the New York auto show. Over 1 million visitors are expected to pour into Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Convention Center for the annual event.
Hyundai Nuvis
Stan Honda / AFP - Getty ImagesThe gull-wing door of the Hyundai Nuvis concept vehicle is shown during the press preview days of the 2009 New York auto show. The annual event, held in Manhattan’s Jacob Javits Convention Center, is open to the public from April 10 to April 19.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Alfa Romeo GT Coupe
Alfa Romeo SpiderAlfa Romeo BreraAlfa Romeo 159Alfa Romeo GT CoupeAlfa Romeo 8C CompetizioneAlfa Romeo MiToAlfa Romeo 166Alfa Romeo 156Alfa Romeo 147The Alfa Romeo GT Coupe is available with a range of three engines and two equipment levels. It is distinguished by a good relationship between price and equipment.2004 Alfa Romeo GT CoupeAlfa Romeo GT CoupeAn equal to one engine and similar
Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione
Alfa Romeo SpiderAlfa Romeo BreraAlfa Romeo 159Alfa Romeo GT CoupeAlfa Romeo 8C CompetizioneAlfa Romeo MiToAlfa Romeo 166Alfa Romeo 156Alfa Romeo 147The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione - a two-seater coupe is based on Maserati, with front central engine and rear. The design is Alfa Romeo, the production and the main mechanical elements of Maserati.2007 Alfa Romeo 8C CompetizioneAlfa Romeo 8C
Alfa Romeo MiTo
Alfa Romeo SpiderAlfa Romeo BreraAlfa Romeo 159Alfa Romeo GT CoupeAlfa Romeo 8C CompetizioneAlfa Romeo MiToAlfa Romeo 166Alfa Romeo 156Alfa Romeo 147The Alfa Romeo MiTo is a model smaller than the 147 which is on sale from € 14,700 car with only three doors. It is available with three petrol engines and two Diesel. The gasoline is 78, 120 and 155 hp (all 1.4 l). The Diesel is a 1.3 JTDm 90 hp and
Thursday, May 14, 2009
The Evolution of The Car
Cars have come a very long way in the last 100 years or so. They used to be slow-moving, cumbersome things that weren't a whole lot better than walking, and they were unattainable to most people because they were cost prohibitive. Plus, there just weren't that many of them. Now cars are everywhere, and they have changed so much. They not only go much faster and are much more reliable than their predecessors, but they have features that wouldn't have even been imagined or dreamt about in the past. Even simple things that most people take for granted like windows that open and close and air conditioning weren't in the first cars. There were no radios, and there certainly weren't any navigation systems or diagnostics that allowed your car to 'tell you' when something was wrong or the door wasn't closed tightly. The first cars weren't much above horse-drawn carriages, and they broke down a lot. People were always fiddling with them to keep them running properly and there were no warranties. Long distance trips weren't realistic, and there weren't gas stations on every corner, either. Slowly, though, cars started to develop and acquire more features like air conditioning, heating, and windows that could be rolled up and down - which were eventually replaced with power windows in most vehicles of today.
Radios and things like them came later, and the first were AM/FM only. Eight-track tapes, cassettes, and CDs came along eventually, as did navigation systems, diagnostic checks, and being able to plug your iPod into your car and play the music that's on it through the stereo. Whether these things are actually needed is debatable, of course, but that doesn't mean that they aren't wanted or that they don't enhance the experience of travelling. Now that there are good warranties on cars and they are very reliable, people can take long trips without being so concerned about them breaking down. There are always places to fuel up and get a snack, and there are auto clubs that you can call if a tyre goes flat or the engine gives up - or if you run out of fuel. It's nothing like driving a car 100, 50, or even 25 years ago, and it makes one wonder what kinds of options are going to be seen on cars in the future. Undoubtedly there will be many more changes and features to come.
Radios and things like them came later, and the first were AM/FM only. Eight-track tapes, cassettes, and CDs came along eventually, as did navigation systems, diagnostic checks, and being able to plug your iPod into your car and play the music that's on it through the stereo. Whether these things are actually needed is debatable, of course, but that doesn't mean that they aren't wanted or that they don't enhance the experience of travelling. Now that there are good warranties on cars and they are very reliable, people can take long trips without being so concerned about them breaking down. There are always places to fuel up and get a snack, and there are auto clubs that you can call if a tyre goes flat or the engine gives up - or if you run out of fuel. It's nothing like driving a car 100, 50, or even 25 years ago, and it makes one wonder what kinds of options are going to be seen on cars in the future. Undoubtedly there will be many more changes and features to come.
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20 Inch Rims...riding parts Style
If a custom ride with high performance and a ton of style is what you are after, then Chrome 20 Inch Wheels would be the way to go. With 20 inch wheels your car not only looks better, it will seem to drive better
If you are thinking of putting 20 Inch Chrome Rims on your ride there are some things to think about before doing so, if you are riding on 320is then by adding the 20 inch rims it will cause tire rubbing and therefore your ride loses performance.
Are you thinking about lowering your ride? Although 60mm would make your car phat, more than likely it will result in tire rubbing and rough cruising. 40mm, on the other hand, is sure to result in less rubbing and a smoother ride. 20 inch custom wheels will complete your look. Contact your local dealer for the hook-up!
ou get to pick from a wide variety of designs and styles which can be selected from the following alloy, bronze, black, chrome, brushed, machined and platinum, which are only a few of them. Choosing the most suitable one for you is a bit confusing and time consuming, but will certainly be satisfying in the end. No matter what your choice is your car will finally appear great.
heck with your local dealer to determine with 20 inch rims really are the best choice for your car's suspension, engine and body style. You don't want to lower your vehicle's performance for the sake of style alone. You want to upgrade the style and performance of your car and there are plenty of other options available.
f course, you want to be riding in style. Take a look at your car. The look of the car flowing up from the tires, as well as the way the tires take hold of the pavement can make that difference. So, if you want to be the envy of all your friends, then you need to get up, hit the gas, and roll down to your dealer for some custom 20 inch rims.
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SRT-10 Dodge Viper The fastest sports car
SRT-10 Dodge Viper The fastest sports car
SRT-10 Dodge Viper Powered by a 8.3 Litre V10 which is essentially a Dodge truck V8 with two extra cylinders grafted on, the Viper has incredible straight line performance. Handling and build quality of the Viper is however less refined and reassuring compared to its European rivals.Dodge Viper began in 1996.
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External review by Rodney Rawson
The Dodge Viper - The viper idea all started in 1988 with just a clay model. Soon after the car was was constructed and displayed at put on display auto shows. The Chrysler Corporation did not expect the Viper to be such a big hit. The viper certainly got a lot of people interested, and in 1992 The first Viper RT/10 Roadster was produced. It initially came in only two color choices, black and the more common red. In 1996 The Dodge Viper GTS was introduced. The GTS was a hard top instead of the soft top RT/10.
SRT-10 Dodge Viper The fastest sports car
In the late 1980's and early 90's Chrysler was running out of money, and fast, and that is part of the reason for the Viper, they needed a 'halo car' car that could help them with their money problems and it worked.
In 1994 a television series starring the Dodge Viper was aired on NBC it was called of course, Viper. The show took place in a futuristic city and the Viper was a type of police car. It starts out like an ordinary Viper and with the push of a button it turned into the Defender, the ultimate crime fighting machine. Chrysler created the show to help there sales with the viper.
In 2003 the Dodge Viper was changed dramatically, in both appearance and performance. The Dodge Viper was the fastest sports car for under 100 thousand, until the Chevrolet Corvette ZO6 came along. Dodge plans to counter the Corvette with a new, faster and nicer Viper in 2008. Let's hope. The Viper is a true American sports car.
SRT-10 Dodge Viper The fastest sports car
SRT-10 Dodge Viper The fastest sports car
SRT-10 Dodge Viper Powered by a 8.3 Litre V10 which is essentially a Dodge truck V8 with two extra cylinders grafted on, the Viper has incredible straight line performance. Handling and build quality of the Viper is however less refined and reassuring compared to its European rivals.Dodge Viper began in 1996.
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External review by Rodney Rawson
The Dodge Viper - The viper idea all started in 1988 with just a clay model. Soon after the car was was constructed and displayed at put on display auto shows. The Chrysler Corporation did not expect the Viper to be such a big hit. The viper certainly got a lot of people interested, and in 1992 The first Viper RT/10 Roadster was produced. It initially came in only two color choices, black and the more common red. In 1996 The Dodge Viper GTS was introduced. The GTS was a hard top instead of the soft top RT/10.
SRT-10 Dodge Viper The fastest sports car
In the late 1980's and early 90's Chrysler was running out of money, and fast, and that is part of the reason for the Viper, they needed a 'halo car' car that could help them with their money problems and it worked.
In 1994 a television series starring the Dodge Viper was aired on NBC it was called of course, Viper. The show took place in a futuristic city and the Viper was a type of police car. It starts out like an ordinary Viper and with the push of a button it turned into the Defender, the ultimate crime fighting machine. Chrysler created the show to help there sales with the viper.
In 2003 the Dodge Viper was changed dramatically, in both appearance and performance. The Dodge Viper was the fastest sports car for under 100 thousand, until the Chevrolet Corvette ZO6 came along. Dodge plans to counter the Corvette with a new, faster and nicer Viper in 2008. Let's hope. The Viper is a true American sports car.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
South Korea
The South Korean automobile industry is today the fifth largest in the world in terms of production volume and the sixth largest in terms of export volume. 50 years ago, its initial operations were merely the assembling of parts imported from Japan and the United States. The Hyundai Kia Automotive Group is today the second largest automaker in Asia, after Toyota. South Korean car marques have grown to compete with top established European brands. Annual domestic output exceeded one million units in 1988. In the 1990s, the industry manufactured numerous in-house models, demonstrating not only its capabilities, and signalling its coming of age thanks to the heavy investment to infrastructure in the country over the decades.
Japan
Japan, with its large population squeezed into very high density cities with good public transit, has limited roadways that carry very heavy traffic. Hence most automobiles are small in terms of size and weight. From a humble beginning, Japan is now the biggest auto manufacturing country in the world. Nissan began making trucks in 1914, and sold cars under the Datsun brand until it switched to Nissan in the 1980s. It opened its first U.S. plant in Tennessee in the early 1980s and a U.K. plant in 1986. Its luxury models carry the brand Infiniti. Honda, which began with motorcycles, emerged after World War II. Its luxury vehicles are sold under the Acura brand. Toyota began making cars in the 1930s and is now the world's largest producer. Its luxury models carry the Lexus brand. Toyota is famous for its innovative, quality-conscious management style, and its hybrid gas-electric vehicles, especially the Prius, which was launched in 1997. Other major companies include Subaru, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Suzuki, and Isuzu. Japan became the world's leading auto maker in 1980,[citation needed] the first year since 1905 that the United States had been outproduced by any other nation.
China
China's automobile industry is in rapid development since the year 2000. In 2008, 9.345 million motor vehicles were manufactured in China, surpassing United States as the second largest automobile maker, after Japan. Moreover, due to the current financial crisis, China is the largest automobile market in the world for the first four months of year 2009, with total sale of 3.84 million vehicles. China may surpass United States and become the largest car market for the whole year of 2009. The top 5 car sellers are Volkswagen, GM, Toyota, Nissan and Chery.
Canada
Canada is currently the 9th largest auto producer in the world, down from 7th a few years ago. Brazil and Spain recently surpassed Canadian production for the first time ever. Canada's highest ranking ever was 2nd largest producer in the world between 1918 and 1923. The Canadian auto industry traces its roots to the very beginning of the automobile. The first large-scale production of automobiles in Canada took place in Walkerville, near Windsor, Ontario in 1904. In the first year of operations, Gordon McGregor and Wallace Campbell, along with a handful of workmen produced 117 Model "C" Ford vehicles at the Walkerville Wagon Works factory.
Through marquees such as Brooks Steam, Redpath, Tudhope, McKay, Galt Gas-Electric, Gray-Dort, Brockville Atlas, C.C.M., and McLaughlin, Canada had many domestic auto brands. In 1918 McLaughlin was bought by an American firm, General Motors, and was re-branded as General Motors of Canada.
Driven by the demands of World War I, Canada's automotive industry had grown, by 1923, into the second-largest in the world, although it was still comprised of relatively inefficient plants producing many models behind a high tariff wall. High consumer prices and production inefficiencies characterized the Canadian auto industry prior to the signing of the 1965 Automotive Products Trade Agreement with the United States.
The 1964 Automotive Products Trade Agreement or “Auto Pact” represents the single most important factor in making the Canadian automotive industry what it is today: a strong, successful industry that has a significant positive impact on the Canadian economy. Key features of the Auto Pact were the 1:1 production to sales ratio and Canadian Value Added requirements.
Today, the Canadian auto industry is closely linked to that of the U.S., due to the Automotive Products Trade Agreement and later the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). There are five firms manufacturing automobiles in Canada, all in the province of Ontario: General Motors of Canada, Honda Canada, Chrysler Canada, Toyota Canada, and Ford of Canada. True Canadian domestics have long since gone under or been absorbed into the US "Big 3". The auto industry is Canada's biggest sector, and the province of Ontario surpassed Michigan in 2006 to become the largest auto-producing jurisdiction on the American continent. In addition to production facilities, 3,500 car dealers employ 140,000 individuals.
Magna International is Canada's biggest domestic firm in the sector, and is the world's third-largest auto parts firm, producing entire vehicles at its Magna Steyr plant in Austria.
Britain
The British motor industry has always been export oriented[citation needed]. Today it employs about 850,000 people and produces about 1.5 million cars and 216,000 commercial vehicles per year, 75% of which are exported. The top five UK car producers are Nissan, Toyota, Honda, MINI and Land Rover. However, international competitiveness of UK cars have declined consistently since the 1990s and the country became unable to sustain production on par with Germany or France. Since 2000, motor vehicle production fell from 1,813,894 to 1,750,253. The country was overtaken by fast industrializing economies such as Brazil, India and Mexico.The UK is the 12th largest automobile producer in the world but Russia is poised to overtake it in 2008.
Brazil
The Brazilian automotive industry produced almost 3 million vehicles in 2007. Most of large global companies are present in Brazil, such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ford, GM, Nissan, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Mercedes-Benz, Renault etc, and also the emerging national companies such as Troller, Marcopolo S.A., Agrale, Randon among others.
The Brazilian industry in regulated by the Associação Nacional dos Fabricantes de Veículos Automotores (Anfavea), created in 1956, which includes Auto makers (automobiles, light vehicles, trucks and buses)and Agriculture machines with factories in Brazil.
Anfavea is part of the Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA), based in Paris.
Automotive industry
The automotive industry designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells the world's motor vehicles. In 2007, more than 73 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide.
In 2007, a total of 71.9 million new automobiles were sold worldwide: 22.9 million in Europe, 21.4 million in Asia-Pacific, 19.4 million in USA and Canada, 4.4 million in Latin America, 2.4 million in the Middle East and 1.4 million in Africa. The markets in North America and Japan were stagnant, while those in South America and Asia grew strongly. Of the major markets, Russia, Brazil, India and China saw the most rapid growth.
About 250 million vehicles are in the United States. Around the world, there were about 806 million cars and light trucks on the road in 2007; they burn over 260 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel yearly. The numbers are increasing rapidly, especially in China and India.[3] Urban transport systems based around the car have proved unsustainable, consuming excessive energy, affecting the health of populations, and delivering a declining level of service despite increasing investments. Many of these negative impacts fall disproportionately on those social groups who are also least likely to own and drive cars. The sustainable transport movement focuses on solutions to these problems.
In 2008, with rapidly rising oil prices, industries such as the automotive industry, are experiencing a combination of pricing pressures from raw material costs and changes in consumer buying habits. The industry is also facing increasing external competition from the public transport sector, as consumers re-evaluate their private vehicle usage. Roughly half of the US's fifty one light vehicle plants are projected to permanently close in the coming years with the loss of another 200,000 jobs in the sector, on top of the 560,000 jobs lost this decade.
Tesla Motors pushing Model S
Model S is the latest electric car to be manufactured by Tesla Motors. Slated to be released in 2011, the Model S is a beautiful sedan said to accommodate up to five adults and could be complemented with two children. The sedan features beautiful curves in the front with small compartment on the back. It has the structure of a simple sedan but the design has made all the difference.With regards
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Ford
The Ford Foundation, somewhat quietly over the past five or six years, has been running one of the finest arts education initiatives I have ever encountered. While that program is in a sunset mode, fingers crossed that there will be room for arts education in Ford's new work.
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