Blind spot, parking assist new features from Ford for 2010
Find below the Motor Trend’s analysis of new offerings from Ford
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PSA Workforce Must Shrink: Varin
PSA Peugeot Citroën’s chairman Philippe Varin says the automaker must axe 6,000 jobs in France—10% of their local workforce—between now and 2012 in order to boost productivity by 20%.
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3Q Results Analysis
Suppliers continue to see large falls in sales from the previous year, but certain suppliers start to reap the benefits of restructuring.
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ACEA: Passenger Car Sales Up 11%
European passenger car sales rose 11% in October, with a marked contrast between Western European markets, which grew strongly, and Eastern European markets which tumbled, industry association ACEA said on Monday.
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Shanghai GM’s First Own-Brand Car
Shanghai GM’s General Manager Ding Lei says after 4 years’ R&D, the new Chevrolet Sail is ready to be launched as the local operation’s first own-brand vehicle.
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ADAC: Xenon Lights 70% Safer
ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V), the largest German Automobile Club with over 15 million members, published in November the results of extensive tests on Xenon headlamps, conducted with the cooperation of Hella, to evaluate whether Xenon light was worth the price for the driver in terms of safety and performance.
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The tests were performed on 5 car models, comparing Halogen and Xenon equipped versions.
Test cars were VW Golf 6, Opel Insignia, Skoda Superb, Mercedes E-Klasse, Nissan Qashqai.
A full LED HL equipped car, the Audi R8 was also tested, to compare this new technology with Xenon.
This evaluation proves the enormous advantage of Xenon in terms of good and safe light, and concludes Xenon lights are well worth their price.
From left to right: VW Golf 6, Opel Insignia, Skoda Superb, Mercedes E-Klasse, Nissan Qashqai, all Halogen equipped and the same cars Xenon equipped, Audi R8.
Safer road with xenon light
Talking about feeling:
– The widespread perception amongst drivers that Xenon light is dangerous because of disability glare for the opposite vehicle was not confirmed by the ADAC test results.
– On the contrary, Xenon is even less bright than halogen light, said Testleiter Martin Ruhdorfer from ADAC. The effect is purely psychological.
– Many drivers make the mistake to look directly into the lights of the in-coming cars. But they should in principle overlook the light.
Xenon will light the road better and allow adaptative lighting thanks to its generous quantity of light.
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“Time to Grow Up”: Jaguar Design Chief
It’s time for Jaguar Cars to “grow up” and stand on its own four wheels, the automaker’s top designer Iam Callum says.
In some ways, Jaguar has returned to its roots as a niche vehicle maker known
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First Look: New Volvo S60
Volvo have released the first official pictures of the all-new Volvo S60. The new car will be unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show at the beginning of March next year.
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HITPOOL Retractable LED License Plate Lights
The lowly licence plate light gets little respect.
3M’s recent effort to introduce self-illuminating plates met with regulatory disapproval,
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