2008: A Very Bad Year
A year ago, prognosticators debated whether 2008 light-vehicle sales would be just above or just below 15 million units in US.
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China Climbing, Japan Falling
China’s total vehicle sales will likely reach 9.4 million units for the full year of 2009, according to the State Information Center’s forecast, reported by Bejing Youth Daily on Wednesday.
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Seat Exeo Features Revealed
SE buyers can look forward to rear parking sensors, automatic lights and wipers, and an auto-dimming rearview mirror among the standard features.
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Toyota, Honda to Tweak JIT for Insurance
Japanese automakers Toyota and Honda are likely to modify their JIT manufacturing system to avoid possible supplier bankruptcies disrupting production, Bloomberg reported last week.
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Yellow is Back
In 1936, France began requiring that all vehicles’ forward illumination devices — headlamps, fog lamps, and driving lamps — emit light of a specific pure yellow colour called selective yellow.
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Audi’s All-LED Headlamps
The Audi R8 is the first car in the world to be equipped with all-LED headlamps. For the first time the high intensity diodes have been used for low beam and high beam settings, as well as for DRL,
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IFA sees 5% global downturn
German automotive research company, the Institut für Automobilwirtschaft (IFA), is forecasting a 5% downturn in global vehicle markets in 2009 to 50.4m vehicles.
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Europe sales off 26%
European new car sales fell 26% to 925,000 units, down from 1,238,000 in 2007, according to UK-based analysts Jato Dynamics.
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Audi will unveil A7 in Detroit
Audi will unveil a concept for its new A7 at the Detroit auto show in January.
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30th awards of French « Automobile Magazine »
French Automobile Magazine presented last week their 6 awards.
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