Home / International News (Page 1581)

• 

  Subaru Group N rally cars to be built in Singapore

  26 March 2006 / 8 comments

  Motor Image, a Tan Chong International Ltd company based in Singapore will be building Subaru Impreza rally cars together with Prodrive UK, the company behind the Subaru Rally Team. The rally cars will be produced […]

   

  ---



• 

  Updates on Satria Replacement Model from Proton Cars Australia

  26 March 2006 / 16 comments

  GoAuto carries some news on Proton’s model timeline for the Australian market, which could give us a guideline on when models will be released on our own shores. Probably take off a few months to […]

   

  ---



• 

  Race Rally Research Australia

  26 March 2006 / 4 comments

  Proton Cars Australia intends to set up their own Race Rally Research divison within seven months, based on the Lotus Sport franchise. Proton Cars Australia MD John Startari said Proton Cars Australia’s Race Rally Research […]

   

  ---



• 

  Malaysia-USA Free Trade Agreement to open market for car export

  20 March 2006 / 23 comments

  Malaysian car manufacturers Proton, Perodua might be able to enter the US market with the upcoming Free Trade Agreement between Malaysia and the USA. Malaysia is currently the USA’s 10th largest trading partner, with transactions […]

   

  ---



• 

  The end of the BMW E-code

  15 March 2006 / 17 comments

  When you’re at a table with a few car enthusiasts, you’d hear them flinging around words like W211, E36, GC8, E90, EK, EG, SV4, H22A and 4G93 as if it were some alien language code. […]

   

  ---



• 

  Toyota and Subaru to co-develop hybrid engine

  13 March 2006 / 2 comments

  Since Toyota’s 8.7% stake purchase in Fuji Heavy Industries which makes Subaru cars, there has been on-going talks on the usage of Toyota’s hybrid engines in Subaru cars. But this proved to be difficult due […]

   

  ---



• 

  GM reduces Suzuki stakeholding from 20% to 3%

  8 March 2006 / 2 comments

  GM is going on a share dumping spree. It previously unloaded Subaru shares partly to Toyota and the rest onto the open market. It’s recent stake dump is in the form of Suzuki Motor Corp […]

   

  ---



• 

  Chevrolet Aveo gets thumbs down from Euro NCAP

  3 March 2006 / 11 comments

  The latest round of Euro NCAP tests was not very favourable for the Chevrolet Aveo, a rebadged Daewoo Kalos. Among all the cars in the latest batch of tests which included the Kia Cerato, Peugeot […]

   

  ---



• 

  Students build hybrid sportscar powered by soybeans

  3 March 2006 / 32 comments

  A group of students from the West Philadelphia High School’s Academy for Automotive and Mechanical Engineering have come up with a prototype hybrid car that runs on soybean fuel. And it’s a sports car, which […]

   

  ---



• 

  Kia may use Naza’s Gurun plant for regional/global production

  27 February 2006 / 7 comments

  Kia Motors Corp General Manager for Marketing William Choi mentioned in an interview with reporters at the Geneva Motor Show that Kia might consider using Naza Kia’s plant in Gurun, Kedah to cope with increasing […]

   

  ---



• 

  Honda to develop Honda Fit Hybrid?

  24 February 2006 / 5 comments

  Rumours are that Honda is developing a hybrid version of it’s Honda Fit (Honda Jazz on our shores) for worldwide release as early as Q2 2008. It is intended to be the first budget hybrid, […]

   

  ---



• 

  Smart Roadster lives on

  22 February 2006 / 4 comments

  In one of my previous posts I mentioned DaimlerChrysler’s efforts to restructure and replan Smarts business model, a company which has not turned a profit in almost 8 years. Casualties of the restructuring operation includes […]

   

  ---



• 

  Proton and Chery partnership?

  21 February 2006 / 21 comments

  A few days ago there were rumours on Proton partnering up with Jinhua Young Man Automobile for it’s maiden entry into the Chinese market. Yesterday, industry sources were quoted to say Proton would be tieing […]

   

  ---



• 

  2007 Mazda CX-7 Crossover Production Begins

  21 February 2006 / 15 comments

  The Nissan Murano can be said to be the very first crossover – combining the practicality of the SUV with the sportiness of a coupe. This is Mazda’s offensive at the new North American automobile […]

   

  ---



• 

  Proton courts Hindustan Motors for India market

  20 February 2006 / 11 comments

  Proton had attempted to enter the India market with talks with Hindustan Motors in 2003 but talks didn’t really amount to much. Now Proton has started talks again with Mahindra and Hindustan Motors for a […]

   

  ---

Latest Fuel Prices