Spring is here, and it's the perfect time to discover fresh feelings of adventure.If you are willing to explore your need for speed, then RepoKar is the right place for you! RepoKar is a fun, high-octane online Public Auto Auction where you'r...
In June, the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) rates making cars more expensive to finance, a drop in used car prices and to keep cars longer. A projection by Bank of America Merrill Lynch indicated that auto sales could rise to 20 million new cars by 2018. The less-good news for the automakers is that the analysts expect “a very significant downturn after that.”Americans are buying more cars now, the number of miles driven today is down about 6.7% compared with June 2005. On the basis of just total miles driven, in August U.S. drivers posted a new record of nearl...
BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) -- Toyota Motor Corp. said on Friday more than 50 of its employees were injured by Wednesday night's explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin that killed 56 people."We have now heard that over 50 employees who live in the surrounding area, including in company accommodation, have been injured," Toyota said in a written statement.Toyota said it was not aware of any employee deaths.The explosions resulted in broken windows at two dealerships, one operated by FAW Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd., and one operated by GAC Toyota Motor Co., Ltd, Toyota said, adding...
TOKYO (Bloomberg) -- Takata Corp. President Shigehisa Takada made a public apology for the eight deaths and hundreds of injuries related to the company’s airbags dating back more than a decade.Takada, 49, bowed and apologized at a press briefing in Tokyo after the company’s annual shareholders meeting today. He said the safety components supplier is considering ways to help victims, including by setting up a fund to compensate them.“I apologize for not having been able to communicate directly earlier, and also apologize for people who died or were injured,” Takada said....
Automobile history is rich and complex and as a result there are some pretty interesting, and also some pretty weird facts and statistics accrued over the years.US President Lyndon B. Johnson owned an amphibious car and used to drive guests into the lake to scare them, screaming about brake failure. There have been more Ford Fiestas sold in the UK than people in LebanonA 4,115,000 Ford Fiesta models have been sold in the UK, making the model the best-selling car in the UK. By comparison, the entire country of Lebanon has a total population of only 4,104,000 citizens.Koenigsegg’s fou...
Who would have known that it's the diesel vehicles, which for decades have been proclaimed as friendly-environment cars, are the ones that actually pollute the atmosphere most of them all? Experts blame on diesel engine pollution thousands of early deaths' cases per year. Shocking, isn't it? It has been asserted recently that the diesel vehicles are more polluting than gasoline vehicles and do not return better mileage as it was considered earlier. Europe and England, where they have the biggest number of this type of cars, are finally seeing their mistake. London and Pa...
