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Millions of Americans are battling with the elements on Saturday as Jonas brought hurricane-force winds and feet of snow to ten states.About 150,000 North Carolina homes and businesses are shuddering in the cold after ice and strong winds caused power outages. The State Highway Patrol warned motorists on Saturday to stay off roads that were coated with invisible sheets of ice. Troopers had responded to more than 2,000 crashes since icy conditions moved in on Wednesday.Storm Jonas had left the East Coast covered with a think blanket of snow on Saturday as it hovers over the East Coast of t...
The diesel-emissions scandal had forced Audi carmakers to implement new arrival of its e-tron Quattro battery-powered SUV. They do everything to bringing its all-electric e-tron Quattro and hydrogen fuel-cell h-tron Quattro models to the market. “Everybody is of course concerned about the aftereffects of the diesel crisis, and the thinking is that Audi has to show people we are serious about these kinds of cars.” Audi says in its release that the electric model will fit between the Q5 and Q7 models, suggesting that it could very well be called Q6, as originally rumored.It...
Volkswagen has named a new executive Hinrich J. Woebcken to supervise the North American region, assuming responsibility for all the activities of the VW brand. Mr. Woebcken will take up his duties in April. Mr. Woebcken previously served on the board of Munich-based auto supplier Knorr Bremse AG, and formerly worked at BMW AG for about 10 years, Volkswagen said.This change will allow the company to move forward with strategic reinforcement in the region with bundling development, procurement, production and sales activities in the USA, Mexico and Canada.Volkswagen brand has also reconfigured ...
For 2016, BMW expects that 40 percent of its sales will be crossovers, up from 34 percent last year.“In the first nine months (of 2015), across the board, we had too few X1, X3 and X5s,” said CEO Ludwig Willisch.BMW is expanding its Spartanburg, S.C., factory, and annual production will grow by 100,000 units in 2016 to 450,000 vehicles. It makes a lot of sense to sell these cars in the U.S., as the plant is advantageously situated.“In a couple of years when we have the X7, the crossovers production will be even higher,” he added. BMW’s crossover lineup consists of...
In an attempt to improve the public image after the emissions scandal, Volkswagen is planning to drop the famous "Das Auto" slogan in the coming advertising campaign.Launched in 2007 under ousted boss Martin Winterkorn, the slogan has had the advantage of simplicity, merely meaning "The Car". However, the German carmaker's leaders, anxious to proclaim a reformed corporate culture, have criticised it as out of step with a company trying to show new-found humility. Volkswagen is trying to grapple with how to pull itself out of a nosedive that has threatened to aliena...
