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Nissan has confirmed that it will not build small, rear-wheel-drive sports cars soon.The model which may have tackled the likes of Toyota’s 86 and the Mazda MX-5 in the sales-race would have sat below the current 370Z and GT-R models in the carmaker’s range.But now, according to reports out of Europe, the small sports car plans have been returned to the shelf where they may sit for quite some time. According to Nissan Senior Vice President Shiro Nakamura, the company has a modular platform currently under development that could underpin a model range featuring both electric and fos...
Roborace – a new driverless electric car series (from Formula E and Kinetik) is gaining shape with the first images of racing vehicles revealed. A new kind of vehicle was designed by the Daniel Simon.The cars has 4.8-metres long, and 2-metres wide, with a wheelbase of 2.8 metres and weighing in at 1000kg. To put that in context, the car will be 200mm shorter than a Formula E single-seater but 200mm wider. It weighs 112kg more than a FE machine, despite that car's all-up figure including the driver’s weight.Nvidia said that it will put its Drive PX 2 AI - the world’s most ...
The world’s largest automaker Toyota would buy out the rest of minivehicle unit Daihatsu - an all-stock deal worth about $3 billion and part of its strategy to strengthen its push into compact cars for emerging markets.Toyota acquired a controlling interest of 51 percent in Daihatsu in 1988. But now it is raising its stake to 100 percent by a reciprocal share-swap agreement that will see Daihatsu's other shareholders take 0.27 shares in the larger company for each share in the smaller.This move will help to improve Daihatsu small cars by having a unified strategy in the sengment, alt...
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 ...
