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The General Motors recently had announced that the China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines was unable to complete the acquisition of its own Hummer brand. Therefore it was considered dropped under the result of failed sale and General Motors will soon begin to wind down all the Hummer operations.
In one year ago times, General Motors did mentioned and announced to the public that they are going to divest Hummer as part of focusing all their efforts on Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac that was in the potential of going further more success. The General Motors have been considered since it was a number of possibilities of Hummer along the way and they are quite disappointed on the deal with Tengzhong and now the General Motors will work closely with the Hummer employees, dealers and suppliers in order to wind down the business in an orderly and responsible manner.
As with all the winding down of a Pontiac and Saturn brands before this, General Motors did promised to honor all under Hummer’s warranties, providing service support and space parts to all previous buyer or even owner all around the world. However, it still was sad news to know that the Hummer will be winding down.
Newest news of Fiat was about the power train division FPT will be introducing its soon two cylinder engine at the Geneva in the early next month. Firstly it had been given the feeling that the FPT was the first to be bringing back the two-cylinder engine back to the cars in this modern time. Then once think back again, the Tata model did it first with the 35 horsepower Bosch that was been powered with 2 cylinder 624 cc engine in the Nano.
As for the TWIN-AIR’s 2 cylinder engine will then produce 85 horsepower via the turbo charging and it was now part of a new range of the small engines that able to produce from 65 horsepower to 105 horsepower. The engine’s CO2 emissions are then rated at 95g/km. At Geneva, it will be installed in for a Fiat 500 and a production 500 with this engine will be then launched in the next July. The best thing was it only consumes 15% less fuel and has 25% more power than an 8 valve 1.2 liter, while comparisons engine with a 16 valve 1.4 liter shows a savings of 30% and the same performance. In the terms of installation space, the engine is 23% shorter and 10% lighter. Fiat did mention that it was because of its small size, the engine is quite very suitable to be coupled with a motor-assist or mild hybrid type of electric motor positioned between the engine and the transmission.
This way the motor will be able to further improve economy via harvesting wasted energy through brake energy regeneration and using the same energy to help the TWIN-AIR engine through electric motor assist.
Recently Fairuz Fauzy has been added more laps too his Formula 1 portfolio once again this time at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Fauzy was the part 11 drivers from the 11 different teams. Both of the USF1 and Campos have yet to be the part of the test list as the former is currently negotiating with the FIA that to enable it to miss the first few races of the season itself.
In this time, Fauzy managed to register a total of 76 laps and his personal best time was 1:28:002 had putting him in the final position. The team itself had even revealed that it was a very productive day as the team managed to conduct some of the engine Lambda running tests as well as evaluated various control systems on the car. As in the record database, the fastest time was set by the Red Bull team’s Mark Webber with the time of 1:21:487. As for the Australian was now currently way ahead of William’s Nico Hulkenberg and Mercedes GP Petronas’ Nico Rosberg.
The Virgin Racing’s Lucas di Grassi Finished ahead of Fauzy by the time of almost just a second. Lastly, Jarno Trulli will then taking over the driver’s seat for the next test session on the later on today.
Revealed at Geneva Motor Show on 4th of March 2010, the new Lexus CT-200H is a hybrid car with advanced hatchback look is delivered to gain the attention of young drivers as it has desirable style.
The European manger of Lexus Company Andy Pfeiffenberger stated on Tuesday that they predict that the company will attract great number of people due to the lovely and dynamic style of the new Lexus CT-200H.
The Manager also added that the development and evolution in designing made by Lexus which was obviously shown in the L-Finesse design and was applied into the car is main reason to get all attention of audience and younger costumers.
" Lexus CT-200H is the start of Lexus after being unsuccessful with the brand of Toyota's Luxury to attract the attention of younger audience, but with the new shown car this will be changed to another direction " Critics of Luxury Company Opinion to Reporters.
The Suitable car for right time, this is what Mr Pfeiffenberger said and he added that this new car with its dynamic and stylish design give it the chance to do like what the Compact premium Segement last year as it reached the highest top in Premium Market ; beside that European cars' buyers are looking to have smaller , useful cars to environment with less pollution and of course give them feel of rest and pleasure in driving .
Here was the other image of the Hyundai i-flow concept which will be revealing at the Geneva next week. The i-flow eventually advanced the fluidic sculpture design language Hyundai currently using on car like Sonata and Tucson. Under such sheet metal was Hyundai’s first diesel electric hybrid power train vehicle.
As in the package, eventually it consist of a brand new 1.7 liter engine that came with two stage turbo charging, lithium ion polymer batteries and a six speed gearing with dual clutch transmission. After combined with the drag coefficient of 0.25Cd, the i-flow’s CO2 output is a low of 85 g/km and it only consuming of three liter of fuel for every 100 km distance.
Hyundai did say that the i-flow cabin could be redefined the perception of space in a sedan body style and with this concept will be using in the next generation materials and technologies that co-developed with top chemical company BASF. Elements such as the seats and centre of the console have BASF’s input for minimal weight and volume while the cockpit’s main interface screens were recognizes not only touch but also gestural inputs.
As for the glossy liquid metal eco friendly waterborne coating developed by the BASF Coating that contains special effect pigments that able to give the surface look likes a polished metal appearance that good for highlighting the car’s complex lines too.
Hello mates,
The General Motors recently had announced that the China’s Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines was unable to complete the acquisition of its own Hummer brand. Therefore it was considered dropped under the result of failed sale and General Motors will soon begin to wind down all the Hummer operations.
Newest news of Fiat was about the power train division FPT will be introducing its soon two cylinder engine at the Geneva in the early next month. Firstly it had been given the feeling that the FPT was the first to be bringing back the two-cylinder engine back to the cars in this modern time. Then once think back again, the Tata model did it first with the 35 horsepower Bosch that was been powered with 2 cylinder 624 cc engine in the Nano.
Recently Fairuz Fauzy has been added more laps too his Formula 1 portfolio once again this time at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Fauzy was the part 11 drivers from the 11 different teams. Both of the USF1 and Campos have yet to be the part of the test list as the former is currently negotiating with the FIA that to enable it to miss the first few races of the season itself.
Revealed at Geneva Motor Show on 4th of March 2010, the new Lexus CT-200H is a hybrid car with advanced hatchback look is delivered to gain the attention of young drivers as it has desirable style.
Here was the other image of the Hyundai i-flow concept which will be revealing at the Geneva next week. The i-flow eventually advanced the fluidic sculpture design language Hyundai currently using on car like Sonata and Tucson. Under such sheet metal was Hyundai’s first diesel electric hybrid power train vehicle.