Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp (SAIC) sold 1,225,000 vehicles in the first half of 2009—up 29% from a year earlier—rank No.1 among Chinese automakers, according to Xinhua.
European car sales rose in June for the first time in 14 months. New-car registrations increased 2% to 1.46 million vehicles, the first gain since April 2008. Sales for the first six months fell 10%.
Volvo Truck have joined the euroFOT research project, which aims to achieve safer and more efficient road transport.
EuroFOT (Field Operation Test) is the first large-scale project of its kind in the E.U.,
Valeo last week announced an important change in their organisational structure. The newly-simplified structure, centred around four business groups, is designed to accelerate the growth of the Group’s product families in all of its markets and improve efficiency.
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“Lamps are demanding: Packaging issues, pedestrian safety, crash behaviour, the law in ECE and SAE, vision, optics, heat and ventilation, tooling and costs”
Malte Mößner of the Volvo Car Corporation and Christophe Dubosc from Valeo are the main players of the headlamp of the Volvo S60.
Malte Mößner was educated at the Technical University of Stuttgart, Germany and the Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Creativity is his passion; he is a designer, not just a stylist.
After positions as senior designer and team leader at the Volkswagen Design Center Wolfsburg and Potsdam, he moved up north to set up Exterior Detailing, Light and Quality for Volvo.
Christophe Dubosc was educated at POLYTECH’ University at Montpellier, France. His ‘adventure’ towards design began with the first clear outer lenses. These new ‘windows’ suddenly opened unknown fields of creativity. Eventually they led to the creation of current Valeo Styling Network which contributes to a better understanding of customers’ needs and to their translation into the best balance between style, performance and cost. He shared the same passion for creativity as Mößner, but with the difference that he plays on constraints to translate the customers’ concepts into real parts.
The exterior illumination of the S60 Concept became a substantial project right after Mößner’s arrival in Sweden March 2008.
His personal aim was to embody Scandinavian culture and Volvo heritage down to light detailing right fromt he start. First impressions of Sweden – the coastline, rock formations and the sea – drove the brainstorming around the theme of Viking ships.
Overall sales, including buses and trucks, rose 36% year on year in June, the biggest jump since February 2006, to reach 1.14m.
According to data released by JD Power Automotive Forecasting, car sales in Western Europe grew by 4% over last year in June, the first positive year-on-year result for over a year.
U.S. auto sales fell 27% in June, marking the smallest drop for the industry in nine months while dashing hopes that demand would rise to a 2009 high.
After a six-week trip through bankruptcy, the “new” General Motors was born Friday owned by the government and free of tens of billions in debt and shed of unaffordable brands, dealerships and plants.
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