The U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has awarded its “Top Safety Pick” designation to 19 cars and eight SUVs for the 2010 model year.
Volkswagen have moved a step closer to achieving their goal of 10 million units sold in a year after forming a capital tie-up earlier on Wednesday with Suzuki Motor.
Audi sales rose 8.9% in November and BMW reported an 11.5% rise.
Audi sold 82,750 vehicles last month, bringing volumes to 870,600 in the first 11 months
Chinese car sales and production both exceeded 12 million between January and November, state media has said and the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers expects car sales and output to top 13 million for the full year.
As of 4 January 2010, seven new members are appointed to the Renault Management Committee:
Inspired by the use and presentation of light in interior architecture, specialists at the BMW Group have revised and updated the complete interior in terms of light technology. An important source of inspiration in this context was the BMW Group’s cooperation with a strong partner company working so far only in architecture: Bartenbach Lichtlabor. The result is a brand-new world of experience in the automobile.
“The new light concept opens up brand-new design options and ideas in highlighting and accentuating the interior.”
(Hans-Peter Bailer, High-Value Design Project)
To create an emotional setting as a genuine experience, the BMW Group’s current Light Research Project covers a much wider range of design and features than in the past. The objective is to create and enhance an individual and harmonious cocoon of light within the car, leading to a brand-new concept inspired by interior architecture.
| “The welcome scenario “–(Jan Seeburg, responsible for interior space design) |
The new light concept: welcoming and pleasant for the eyes:
This new light concept is astounding in its effect even from outside. Opening the car by remote control, the driver and passengers experience a welcome scenario with a stimulating feeling of generosity right from the start through the windows.
Audi presented their new A8 last week at Miami. Like the R8, the new A8 uses full-LED headlamps. The low beams comprise ten individual modules forming an arc situated below the wing-shaped chrome contour called the “wing.”
The Motor Vehicle Lighting Council, a U.S. advocacy consortium of lighting suppliers and vendors, say the limited visibility drivers face in the dark, snowy winter is a factor in about 2.8 million crashes, 23,000 fatal crashes and 2,300 pedestrian deaths per year in the United States.
NAIAS 2009 featured more than 50 vehicle debuts; with over 30 of those being worldwide introductions. More than 650,000 visitors passed through the doors during public days.
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