While in Russia are holidays and sales statistics for April are not yet collected, have to operate overseas car sales figures. The overall conclusion of disappointing: the crisis continues. Interesting was the fact that the crisis has affected not at all classes of vehicles. There is a segment, sales of which, despite the general pessimistic attitude, climb the mountain.
At a press conference held at the international motor show in Seoul, the Korean manufacturer Hyundai announced that a hybrid concept Blue-Will be launched in series production. The car will go on sale in late 2012. According to the creators of the model, competing Blue-Will be with Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius.
Production capacity is the first stage of the plant at up to 100 thousand sets of body parts (2 million prefabricated parts and components) per year. In subsequent phases are planned significant increase in output. In the first phase of the project will create up to 260 new jobs in the future the number of staff will increase more than threefold. Investment in construction of the first stage of the plant is 66 million euros. The total investment will reach 208 million euros. Complete erection of a third set of businesses is planned in 2015
German automakers Volkswagen brought to the international Motor Show in Bologna multiple versions of its popular models of Golf, the most environmentally “clean” of which was Golf BiFuel. The car is equipped with a 1.6-liter engine capacity of 90 horsepower, “fed” as gasoline or liquefied gas. Note that this is the first released Concern car, which may use natural gas as fuel. Emissions of CO2 in the atmosphere of the new unit is installed in the concept-car Golf BiFuel, an average of 10% less than the model equipped with conventional gasoline engines.
If you are buying a beautiful razdumyvaete cabriolet for the next summer, it specifically for you company Infiniti produces a very interesting option of investing the money. The body of a series of “two-in-one, attractive design and a host of interesting options. This set may well go to your defensive bastions fell and there were stupid idea that at this car can travel in winter, and hand potyanulas for credit. Interestingly, the G37 Convertible - This is the fifth version of the body presented by Infiniti in Europe. And that characteristic, the creators themselves are not afraid to admit that the car is in a unique position to abuse his victim.
For manufacturers of luxury goods, it is difficult times: with certainty predict awaits them off or bankruptcy, can not one analyst. For example, a paradoxical situation in the market lyuksovyh cars. The British Bentley announced that due to falling sales forced to dismiss between 200 and 300 employees. In addition, the remaining members of the famous factory in the city Kryptonas will be sent to the unusually long Christmas vacation: commencing on 10 December, they will be completed only on 12 January next year.
In the most prestigious European competition to determine the best new car model at this time involves 36 models. All models candidate at the time of the vote to be sold in at least five European countries. Planned sales should not be less than 5000 cars per year, thus exclusive models are excluded from voting. Although this year in the number of applicants were such “Grand” premium class as the BMW X6 and the Jaguar XF. But the expensive models no chance to reach the final Car of the Year 2009, where the best in Europe, the model determines 59 automotive journalists.
In various European countries over the past months, sales of automobiles fell by an average of 10%. Perhaps this is due to unprecedented activity of all the automakers before the Paris car. Companies lured polutemnymi photographs sensational of novelties, show promise for the eight concepts, to revive their old models or to release something so that the brand is unnatural. In early October we waiting car extravaganza in Paris, which will consist of many including conceptual development, many of them have little “light up”.