Volvo V60 Series

Volvo has officially disclosed it's up coming S60 sedan at the recent Shanghai Motor Show, and plans to display the car at the Geneva Motor Show next March, before going into production next summer. At this time, another rumor has spreader in the marketplace, that a new V60 Station Wagon namely, based on the S60 sedan could be released at about the same time as the sedan, and will be added to the existing V40, V50 and V70 line of Wagons.
The American owned Swedish car maker sees great potential to win market share from the Mercedes's C class Estate wagon, the BMW 3 Series Touring, Audi's A4 Avant, as well as some of the other luxury wagons. V60 may share the same engines as the S60, which will include the newly developed turbo-charged 1.6L engine 180hp, front wheel drive with 6 speed PowerShift. The V60 wagon may also come with All wheel drive.
Is not it amazing for a car company who does not even know who it may belong to next year, to keep thinking of getting new market shares? Ford may sell Volvo to China's car maker Geely for U.S. $ 2 billions, aftering buying it for more than U.S. $ 6 billion a while ago. Let's hope that the new Chinese owner could make better use of the 'safe car' image Volvo has established all along, cause that's the real assets owned Volvo's in the mind of car buyers.

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Hydrogen car test top three Japanese

Toyota, Nissan and Honda to participate in fuel cell demonstrations in Japan last week. All three automotive companies are bringing fuel-cell vehicles to the best two-day trip from Tokyo to Fukuoka after the previous night in Osaka. This activity lasted 11 to 12 November 2009. Three cars, Honda FCX Clarity, Nissan X-Trail FCV and the Toyota Highlander FCHV-adv. In 2007, FCHV travel from Osaka to Tokyo by a single tank of hydrogen.
These three hydrogen-fueled cars to travel and spend 1.137km hydrogen 28.8kg. That means on average one kilogram of hydrogen to travel 132km. So a car using hydrogen 8.6kg with the distance 132km/kg. In other words a single tank of hydrogen can walk 792km. One kilogram of hydrogen has the energy content equivalent to one gallon of gasoline. Left 19 hours. The trial demonstrates the efficiency of hydrogen even better than conventional gasoline engines.
Demonstration was organized by the Japan Hydrogen and Fuel-cell project. The third largest car manufacturer in Japan continues to develop fuel cell technology and hydrogen remain convinced the best long term solution.

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Toyota Avanza G launched Matik

Toyota-Astra Motor launches 1.3G AT in Jakarta, Tuesday (17 / 8) which will be followed Avanza E automatic. With the launch of this new model, the number of variants of Avanza into five three-manual and two automatic. Additional types of new, Toyota-Astra Motor Avanza expect demand will grow even faster.Automatic transmission used type G and E the same as that used variants of the top Avanza S, 4-speed automatic. What distinguishes only the final gear ratio for better acceleration pursue.
If during the automatic version of the price of USD 15 million more expensive than the manual versions, the Toyota-Astra Motor automatic versions priced USD $ 10 million more expensive. Thus, the price for Avanza 1.3 E AT USD 142 million, while the Avanza 1.3 G AT USD 155.6 million. Price on the road in Jakarta. Avanza offers a choice of seven colors, namely Silver Metallic, Champagne Metallic, Wine Red, Drak Gray, Black Mica, Aqua Metallic, and Light Green Metallic.

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