Doing Arts to Car

After a leak in a magazine published in Sweden, Volvo finally officially publish the estate variant of the S60, the V60. Taper curve is shown from the form of glass on the side, near the pillar-C provides a very sporty curves in a station wagon that emphasizes practicality.

Head of the exterior design of the Volvo, Orjan Sterner, said, “From the design standpoint, the focus is to make this car as close as possible with a coupe, with a permanent attempt to defend more space on the back. “Our sporty station wagon does not aim to compete with the conventional estate car,” he added. “For consumers who want a more spacious room, we have a V70.”

The rear seats can be folded with the composition of 40/20/40 and can be folded flat to the floor of the trunk. Without the seats folded, Volvo offers a capacity of 430 liters of luggage space. V60 engine will be offered in a choice of five petrol engines, ranging from engine to engine capacity of 1.6 liter inline six-cylinder 3.0-liter. While diesel engines there are three five-cylinder engine choices 2.4 and 2.0 liter four-cylinder engine and 1.6 liters. The car that will be introduced at the Paris Motor Show this coming end of September will also be equipped with the latest safety features. It features, among others, Pedestrian Detection, where the car will automatically brake at a speed of about 22 miles per hour to avoid the crash on the pedestrian if the driver does not react at all.

British luxury car manufacturer, Jaguar, has just introduced the C-X75, which became one of the electric car concepts, the most impressive in this year on the Los Angeles Auto Show 2011.The vehicle is supported by a system that includes four electric motors and two micro gas turbine engines.

This concept car uses four electric motors powered 195-horsepower at each wheel. So that when calculated, will appear power of 780 hp. As for torque, this car is able to issue a power up to 1600 Nm, which is then channeled to the wheel drive system, all-wheel-drive.

Also installed are also gas turbines that can spin to 80,000 rpm, so that it can generate power of 188 hp to charge the battery and extend the car cruising range up to 560 miles without stopping. With that much power, able to create a vehicle to do a sprint from 0 to 100 km / h in just 3.4 seconds, and offers the highest speed up to 330 km / hour.

“C-X75, designed to celebrate 75 years of the marquee, and gives a glimpse into the future of Jaguar and its commitment to producing beautiful cars, and fast,” said a press release as quoted from autoevolution, Tuesday (23/11/2010). Jaguar itself is considering plans to produce C-X75 in the near future.

Toyota Motor Corp. will introduce six new hybrid vehicles and a gasoline-electric in 2012. These particulars submitted head of global product development engineers and Toyota Motor Corp. or TMC, Takeshi Uchiyamada, in a presentation in Detroit, Monday (09/13/2010).

According to Uchiyamada, Toyota will also introduce the cooperation of electric RAV4 SUV with Tesla Motors Inc. Manufacturers expect pure electric cars are entered in the ranks of the overall plan in the next decade, when Toyota’s focus on hybrid and plug-in electric.

Uchiyamada explained, among of these six hybrids, two from the Lexus and the other four models is hybrid just like the Prius,  with gasoline engine but low emission. “These hybrids are entirely new, unlike the former generation that has been marketed,” said Uchiyamada. Read the rest of this entry »

TORSLANDA – After annexed by Geely, the production Volvo, especially in Torslanda, Sweden increases. Here are assembled models such as XC90, XC70, V70, and S80. The original production target this year is only 145 000 units, but increased 6.8 percent to 155 000 units.

“This is a positive step and shows that Volvo move forward in accordance with the target. We hope to meet the demand in 2011 and continues to increase production,” said Magnus Hellsten, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing Volvo Cars.

Earlier in this month, Volvo announced to start producing V60 Station Wagon models with a capacity of 60 units per day. This model is equipped with five options petrol and three diesel engines. Among others, two petrol engines 3.0 liters (304PS/440Nm) and 2.0 liters (203PS/300Nm) and two Diesel – 2.4 liters of D5 (PS/420 205 Nm) and 2.0 liters of D3 (163PS / 400 Nm).

“I really think the workers will be able to perform better and increase this production to the best of the historical announcement for Torslanda factory,” added Magnus.

Super fast car manufacturer, Lamborghini, are reportedly preparing a model Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV). Versatile sports car that represents the development of the Rambo Lambo car which had been famous in the ’80s and used Volkswagen Touareg platform. “Sure, people will compare the success story with the Porsche Cayenne Porsche him with what would be achieved Lamborghini. As is known, the Cayenne with the Touareg also has similar platforms,” said autoevolution.com, Wednesday (21 / 7).

One thing is for sure, long before the news was sticking out making SUVs, Lamborghini had time to explore the market by producing LM002 SUV in 1986 and 1993. At that time, this model sold well ordered by the Arab billionaire.

Not only that. Some army units in the peninsula had been ordered LM002 version of military vehicles. Only, both Lamborghini and Volkswagen has not been willing to give a detailed description of the car’s affairs, whether the engine specifications, features, support, or time of production.

What would you want if you need Company Cars? Well, you and any other people will definitely choose the very perfect and brand new car of course. The good explanation for this is that you need a car to represent also the performance of your company.

Great cars actually needed to impress the client as well. So, choosing the very perfect cars as the company car is highly recommended.

If you see or come to the car dealers, you will kind of a little bit difficult to find the proper car for the company car because there are so many great cars which you can be chosen. In fact, various brands of cars are offering you their best in terms dazzling performance or any other aspects. What you have to do is take your time before you choose. Read the rest of this entry »

In Europe and North America, the selling of Yamaha is getting worse. Sales dropped to 20 percent over the same period last year. As a result, Yamaha make large efficiency measures.

“Since May, the Greek crisis impact was immediate. At first we just fell 10 percent forecast. It was bigger,” said Hiroyuki Yanagi, Chief Executive Officer of Yamaha in Tokyo, as reported by Bloomberg, today.

Drop in market demand for motorcycles in the two regions are forcing layoffs and the Yamaha made the decision to close some factories. The plan, Yamaha will close five manufacturing facilities in Japan and one factory ship in the United States in 2012.

Previously, in 2009, Yamaha had to disable a factory in Italy. Savings resulted in a massive wave of layoffs that reached 1,000 workers from the 1100 positions available.

Yamaha also had faced a similar case in April 1984. At that time, the market in North America dropped 45 percent and Europe dropped 25 percent. In fact, both regions contributed 25 percent of total global sales of Yamaha. Yanagi added, Yamaha could still rely on the market in the Asian region with a predicted growth of 14 percent compared to last year. Nevertheless Yamaha still has not revised its sales target before reaching the second quarter of fiscal year ended in August.

Incentive programs in the form of subsidies from the tax cuts the government of China there are many benefits. For that, 71 kinds of cars from 16 car manufacturers to enjoy these subsidies because they meet the criteria specified.

The main requirement to obtain a subsidy, shall meet the emission standards carbon dioxide (CO2) level 5 China. According to China Car Times, the Government of China announced that all brands and models of cars that get tax deduction up to 3000 Yuan.

China’s government hopes that with the incentives they donate to the companies, it will stimulate consumers to buy cars that are more environmentally friendly. Impact, in addition to boosting national car sales, automotive manufacturers are also encouraged in China to produce environmentally friendly cars, means also an increase in technology and investment. Read the rest of this entry »