Toyota’s global production fell in September for the first time in a year, while rivals Honda and Nissan increased output thanks to strong demand in China. Toyota Motor Corp. said yesterday that its worldwide production dropped 1.3% to 672,604 vehicles, marking the first year-on-year decrease in 12 months. The world’s No. 1 automaker said the fall was due to weak ...
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Toyota Prius Hybrid to build in Thailand
[singlepic id=1265 w=630 h= float=] Toyota Motor Corporation announced that it will begin manufacturing the Toyota Prius hybrid in Thailand starting from November 2010. The car will be built at Toyota’s Gateway Plant, near the Thai capital Bangkok, where it also makes the Corolla, Camry, Camry Hybrid and other models. Thailand will be the third country to make Toyota’s popular ...
Read More »Stainless steel exhaust holds the edge
As the love of speed and the embracing of low emission technology prepare to collide head on, the back end of the vehicle becomes ever more controversial. The exhaust on any vehicle serves several purposes. It will remove all the by-products of combustion from the engine and send them into the air, away from the driver and any passengers in ...
Read More »The new Mazda Renesis Rotary Engine 16X will be delay by another two years
As the global climate changed and initiative to save the mother earth, emissions requirements is tightly enforced over years. Consequently, the Mazda’s rotary engine is now failing to meet emissions requirements set by the engineering team at Mazda. “We will never give up” says Mitsuo Hitomi, general manager of Mazda’s powertrain division, referring to the automaker’s long-running investment into the ...
Read More »Hyundai Plans Luxury Division like Infiniti And Lexus
The success the Japanese rivals at Nissan and Toyota enjoy with their luxury divisions. At this time, Hyundai triggers to launch a luxury division to rival Infiniti and Lexus, and the first step in this direction might be made in the next three years. If everything on track, we would be able to see first Premium’ Hyundai cars on the ...
Read More »The Quick History of Lotus
Maker’s Marque: The History of Lotus – Lotus began as Lotus Engineering Limited in 1952 and has made cars on the site of a Second World War airfield in Norfolk since 1966. – Now owned by Malaysia’s Proton, it was the brainchild of Colin Chapman, a highly innovative engineer who had a lasting influence on motor racing and died a ...
Read More »Price of Hybrid Cars reduced after removal of excise duties under Malaysia Budget 2011
After the Malaysia Budget 2011 announcement, the removal of excise duties for hybrid cars means that the price tags of vehicles such as Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd’s Honda Civic Hybrid and UMW Toyota Motor Sdn Bhd’s Toyota Prius could be slashed drastically. [singlepic id=1265 w=630 h= float=] [singlepic id=1303 w=630 h= float=] It is estimated that the Honda Civic Hybrid ...
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