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Automotive RSS FeedsHardly an A-list China city - With a population of around 8m, Shenyang barely makes it into the second tier of China’s gigantic cities. It’s certainly not up there with Shanghai (23m), Beijing (20m) or Guangzhou (16m) but, judging by the amount of construction going on here, Shenyang is heading for the first tier. The city is the capital of Liaoning Province in the northeast of China, an area of about 145,900 sq km and a total population of 43m. Liaoning is one of the country’s most important industrial bases covering a wide range of industries such as machinery and equipment, metal, electronics and petrochemicals. The region is also one of the most important raw materials production bases have a quarter of China’s iron reserves and deposits of crude oil. It is also BMW’s Chinese production base which is why I am here. The joint venture between the German carmaker and its Chinese partner Brilliance started producing 3-series models at Dadong in 2003, tomorrow the J...Feed Source: www.just-auto.com Israel's quick-drop battery stations open for business - The first battery-swap stations for EVs have just opened in Israel, but how will this brave experiment between Renault and Shai Agassi's Better Place fare? And is the promised 500km anxiety-free range now a reality?
I've driven the Fluence ZE, the model that Better Place and Renault are basing this experiment on, and I have to say, the car is good. In Israel, the goal is to establish a national network of battery-swap stations so that owners of the car can drive the length and breadth of this admitedly tiny country, without worrying about running out of juice. Better Place believes that if these 'quickdrop' (robotised drive-in three-minute battery swap) stations are seen to work, then buyers will begin to embrace EVs in droves.
Just over four years ago, the Renault-Nissan Alliance and the Israeli government signed a joint venture agreement that called for the establishment of an eventual 100 quick... FI Monaco race - I see the Formula 1 circus is next to descend on Monaco. I've always had mixed feelings about that race. On the plus side, what a great place and backdrop. It is a circuit that comes with mega-glamour. The TV pictures bring you the cars in the sunshine, banks of luxury hillside villas and hotels, a few palm trees, a reliably azure sea, the parked up super-yachts, casinos the mere thought of the sort of people, with their exotic and unobtainable lifestyles, that are actually there. You can see, but don't touch.
The negatives? Main one is that it is virtually impossible to overtake. It's actually a dull race from a driving perpsective, usually decided more by grid positions and pit stops. And also by it's nature, it's not a circuit that will be as safe as the race tracks (though it still seems popular with some drivers).
I recently interviewed ... AvtoVAZ hits milestone - Job#27m has rolled off the line at the AvtoVAZ plant. It was a Lada Priora in a not massively fetching 'snow queen' grey. You can perhaps see why Lada is struggling in the Russian car market with designs like this (functional hatchback at an attractive price, I'm sure, but also highly reminiscent of an early-1990s Ford Escort). And the Priora has to soldier on until 2016.
So, the challenge is clearly there for Renault-Nissan in terms of helping its new Alliance partner to modernised product. Mind you, if the company can convince Russians that Lada has changed for the better, it's a brand not exactly short on presence. Almost half the cars on the road are still Ladas. AvtoVAZ launches 27-millionth car... UNI-CUB: Honda looks beyond bikes, cars, robots & jets - Honda thinks it might have found itself another new revenue stream: personal mobility devices.
The UNI-CUB, which the company has just unveiled in Japan as a working prototype, could soon be the right product at the right time. Vehicle sales might be booming just now but that's due to government incentives designed to reverse last year's collapse, so the market is expected to resume its long term decline later this year. In short, Japan has minimal immigration and is greying at a far quicker rate than equivalent rich countries, while people have been having fewer children for decades.
The interesting thing about the video which demonstrates the UNI-CUB is the absence of what seems the obvious target audience: the less mobile and by implication, a large percentage of older people.... Autonomous cars - Autonomous vehicles that have the ability to drive themselves are a big talking point right now. The potential implications are huge. We had some insight from GM in this interview published last week.
And here's a video from Google that is well worth a look and an indicator of just how advanced things have now got. Mind-boggling.
... Opel-Vauxhall's Project Junior gets a model name at last - The wait is over and there was truth in the rumour: both Opel and Vauxhall versions of the Junior small car project are to be called 'Adam'.
The Adam won't be seen in the metal until the Paris show in late September, with LHD cars reaching showroooms across Europe just in time for Christmas. The Vauxhall Adam plus Ireland's Opel model will follow in early 2013.
The announcement of this new model's name also sees us publishing our first list of cars making a global debut at Paris. You can find it here.... Labour costs in car manufacturing - just how important are they? - How do costs compare between a car manufacturing plant in the UK and a plant in Turkey? Earlier this week I got the opportunity to put that question to Tony Walker, Deputy Managing Director, Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK. His answer surprised me. He said that much of the cost of manufacturing is down to parts and logistics. Okay and labour at the assembly plant? He put that at just 6-8%. I must say I thought it would be a larger proportion than that. Making the C-segment sedan in Turkey for shipment to markets in southern/southeastern Europe therefore makes sense. And Burnaston serves as the manufacturing plant for the higher spec C-segment hatch that mainly sells in northern Europe; no big incentive to go for lower labour costs there on the basis of that kind of percentage.
There's an interesting difference between Toyota and Nissan in their respective UK plant strategies. Nissan uses Sunderland for nichey models like Qashqai and Juke (Leaf from next year). It now bri... Suzuki sidelined - I guess the corporate amalgamation that was DaimlerChrysler is a good example of an auto industry coming together that ultimately failed. On paper there was a rationale that made some sense. In practice, it just didn't work out. The two partners didn't share much in the end. The less they shared, the less they felt they needed to share. The synergies never materialised in the ways they should have and shareholder value gradually evaporated. One partner (Chrysler) felt aggrieved that it wasn't on an equal footing with the other and the other (Mercedes-Benz) arguably developed something of a superiority complex.
The Renault Nissan Alliance however, has worked well. The key there, perhaps, is that the relationship is an alliance, not a takeover or merger. Areas of cooperation – notably parts procurement and platform sharing – are well defined, corporate independence protected under limited cross shareholdings and politically comfortable board make-ups.
Volkswa... China Infographic - Infographic? As the name suggests, it's the graphic visual representation of information, data or knowledge. Cave paintings and maps are early examples of attempts to visualise info. 'Pictograms' in the signs we understand every day are another example. Anyway, 'infographics' today are also seen as a means to convey a story via the use of statistics and charts. We've been dipping our toes in the water. This infographic looks at China's booming auto industry and its constituents. I'd be interested to know what people think
China Infographic - Click to enlarge
... Opel Junior's model name revealed - Germany's Autobild says it has learned the name of Opel's forthcoming Mini rival: Adam.
Using the founder's first name to mark the company's 150th anniversary makes sense for Opel, but surely there will be a different model name for the Vauxhall variant? Dave Leggett, who's just read this blog, suggests 'Eve'.
Opel and Vauxhall were set to announce the car's name(s?) on 8th May - so far there has been no official confirmation or denial of Autobild's claim.... Codenames and platforms of future models for the Chinese market - The second press day of the Beijing motor show is under way and our round-up of new vehicle premieres now stretches to over 100. But what are their codenames, which ones will be built, and when, not to mention on what platforms, and in which plants?
I devote a large part of most working days to tracking down, checking and cross-checking information for future vehicle programmes. Then I update PLDB, just-auto's global database of current and future vehicles. There's currently over 1,500 models listed there, so if you're interested in what's ahead (out to 2025) for China-built cars and light trucks, you can take a free demo tour.
As well as spending lots of time updating all the future models coming for the Chinese market, I've also been adding ... The Beijing blog - Wednesday 25 April
13.30 (CST)
That's me sorted. Done all I need to do at the conference and heading back to the hotel to put my feet up. Ant should be in the air now, winging his way homewards. I have it all to do tomorrow. After yesterday's appalling weather it really is quite nice outside and you can actually see blue sky above. Maybe a walk then.
08.30 (CST)
Here I am back at the Automotive News China conference, feeling a lot better than I ought to after a few beers out with Ant last night. He arranged for us to meet at his favourite Italian restaurant - well, he's been there once before - and I set out into the night. First stop was the concierge to translate the address into Mandarin. I've done this before you know.
That done, a mile long queue for a cab and when it did arrive the driver hadn't got a clue re the address. The doorman had a go before disappearin... The Chinese arrive - Two minor firsts for me yesterday. A visit to the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) proving ground in north Warwickshire where a small off-road workout had been laid out for the new Great Wall Steed pickup - the first Chinese vehicle on sale here in the UK.
MIRA's been around a lot longer than Millbrook and is the less flashy version. No posh entertainment centre, just business. The drive to the offroad bit almost dislodged fillings - pickups being prone to a lousy ride unless a decent load of builders' mix is in the back - and I could have sworn we'd crossed at least two more counties before we got there.
The Steed looks and feels more late 90s than mid-2000s but it is a far better first-out-of-the-gate than some of the products Japan foisted on the west in its early export days. Sure, the motors were reliable but the bodies rusted, some models didn't like f... Opel-Vauxhall to reveal Mini rival's name - Its launch at the Paris motor show might be over five months away, but Opel and Vauxhall are set to announce the model name for Project GM4403.
A source at Vauxhall has told me that Tuesday 8th May is the date when all will be revealed. Will it be 'Junior'? Will it be 'Allegra'? Or might it even be 'TRIXX'?
I recently spoke to Rita Forst, Opel-Vauxhall's head of Engineering, and pressed her for details about the Junior project. If you missed the interview, you'll find it here.... Europe: Nissan overtakes Fiat - The combination of the ongoing economic downturn and a crippling truckers' strike in its home market saw Fiat outsold across Europe last month by Nissan.
The numbers, which were issued by ACEA earlier on 17th April, list combined sales for 25 EU and three EFTA markets. In a market down 6.6% year on year, Volkswagen Group saw its share rise by 1.7%, meaning that it finished the month with 23.7% of all passenger vehicle sales in Europe. That's more than double what the traditional number two, PSA, managed (11.9%, down 19.2%).
Volkswagen was of course greatly helped by the ongoing expansion of the German market. The BMW (73,899) and Mercedes-Benz (65,814) brands also saw their sales up last month at a regional level, to such an extent that they also surpassed the total for Fiat-badged vehicles (58,480). In March 2011, Fiat's total was 80,174, putting it 10,000 and 20,000 units ahead of BMW and Benz respectively. This time last year, Fiat was also some 20,000 units ahead o... The 'lost decade' is reality - I was talking to Jonathan Poskitt, analyst at LMC Automotive, earlier this week about the latest West European car sales numbers.
In essence, the car sales numbers are coming in as expected. Germany (and to a lesser extent the UK) is holding up, but France, Italy and Spain are either declining rapidly or in the doldrums (Spain). And there's not much joy in the smaller markets (Greece was down 43% last month).
If the economic picture is as it is, austerity budgets coming into play and national economies generally struggling, car sales will inevitably take a hit. The forecasters have got this one right.
The conversation turned to the longer-term outlook. There wasn't too much cheer there. A long adjustment is in prospect, the eurozone currency structural issues firmly on a long-term horizon. Household incomes will be under pressure for a while yet.
This brought me to a recent conversation with Honda Europe's Ken Keir. Several things stuck. One, he said that... Mixed recovery in the auto biz - The auto business, and indeed business generally, hasn't looked too bad lately. Sure, there are ongoing worries over the oil price and price inflation. That has the potential to nudge global interest rates up and cause nervous investors to worry, with all the usual adverse consequences for fragile confidence and the global economy. And the sizeable financial problems in Europe have not gone away – though the lid appears to be on that one for now.
However, stock markets around the world have been rallying so far this year, investors apparently optimistic on prospects for corporate earnings. Interest rates remain very low. Many firms are making money. Emerging markets are still peppy.
In the world of autos, the US market continues to surprise and show better than expected recovery. This recovery may be off a low base compared with where the market used to be, but this 'new normal' appears to be one that many firms can turn a profit on. And some are raising their fo... Ducati and Piech's 75th - I see Daimler has denied interest in purchasing Italian motorcycle firm Ducati.
There does seem to be some OEM interest in the respected premium Italian two-wheeler brand. The house of brands that is Volkswagen Group is also rumoured to be interested. I can imagine the mighty Piech getting a little excited about the prospect of Ducati being brought in under the wing of, say, Audi.
Somebody I was speaking to the other day had an interesting observation. April 17 is Ferdinand Piech's 75th birthday. That falls a few days before the VW Group AGM. The timing could be very good for an announcement.
'Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me ' GERMANY: Daimler denies Ducati reports... Not cut out to be an assembler -
I will not be called upon to assemble Nissans any time soon.
Having just spent the day at the company's Sunderland factory in north east England, I found that I couldn't pass the basic skills test, the first towards getting a job on the line. It involved screwing three plates onto a frame and, although I completed the task, it was not within the 'qualifying' time. This will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with my DIY efforts.
Time means everything on the Sunderland line where the tac time is 59 seconds as the plant churns out more than 420,000 cars a year - Qashqais, Jukes and Notes. And there's more to come with Leaf starting production there next year.
That is the next challenge along with bringing a new battery plant on stream which will supply both Nissan and Renault vehicles. We were visiting the factory for a progress report and all is going to plan.
Plant director Kevin Fitzpatrick said: "My ambition is to keep Sunderland as the nu... Strong auto sales expected ahead of Memorial Day weekend - (0) Comments Memorial Day weekend has been strong for auto sales in the last two years, and that trend is likely to continue this weekend, an analyst for automotive ... FedEx Delivers On Green Goals With Electric Trucks - FedEx delivery trucks are getting greener. On Wednesday, the first of nine electric trucks were set to roll out of a FedEx distribution center in Silicon Valley. By year's end 34 of the ... Nissan's luxury Infiniti brand opens doors of headquarters in Hong Kong - HONG KONG -- Nissan's upscale Infiniti brand unveiled its new global headquarters in Hong Kong on Tuesday, as the Japanese automaker uses the southern Chinese financial center to grab a bigger ... Cathay Life buys Auto 21 factory for NT$4.39 billion - Cathay Life yesterday purchased a factory of Auto 21 in Tucheng District, New Taipei City, for NT$4.39 billion, a premium of 7.7 percent over the base price, said Taiwan Financial Asset Service ... Rogue is Nissan's best-selling SUV - ????????? Americans still love riding high above the ground in their vehicles but have been opting for smaller sport utility vehicles to save on gasoline costs. ????????? No wonder, then, that ... Semi spills crushed cars, closes ramp - The truck failed to negotiate the ramp and flipped over at 1:55 p.m., authorities said. Florida Highway Patrol and Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office are at the scene of the ... Officials investigate suspicious fire at Pittsburg auto shop - PITTSBURG -- Authorities are conducting an arson investigation into a fire at an auto mechanic's shop Tuesday afternoon, a Contra Costa County Fire District official said.At 4:04 p.m., ... Nissan Is Worried About Europe, but Invests in Spain - , we continue to hope that we will see a recovery in the same way as we've seen some recovery in the United States, but of course, the jury is still very much out," Palmer said. The ... Disputants in row over Mitsubishi mine deal to talk - British resources giant Anglo American PLC and Chilean state-run copper company Codelco said in a statement Tuesday they have reached an agreement to launch discussions to settle the squabble. In ... Toyota's first-quarter surge drives past GM - Toyota became the world's biggest automaker in 2008, but after slipping to 7.35 million units last year, it was overtaken by both GM, which sold about 9 million vehicles, and VW's more ... Cars.com Reviews the 2012 Nissan Sentra - The Nissan Sentra has faced a steady stream of new competitors since the sixth generation of the sedan debuted in 2006. It remains a competent choice, but there are better options, according to ... Auto industry fumes; Maruti, GM, Hyundai worry hike may hit sales - petrol price hike saying the increase will hurt the sector which is already reeling under a slump. "Petrol cars are not selling as such already. With this record hike, the situation will go ... Nissan announces electric van production - Nissan Motor Co. announced on Wednesday it will launch global production of an all-electric van, the e-NV200, as early as next year in the Spanish city of Barcelona, creating 700 jobs. The Japanese ... Late Auto-Loan Payments Down - By ALEX VEIGA, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - The rate of late payments for auto loans fell nationally in the first three months of the year to the lowest level in more than a decade, even as ... Chevy SS takes on Chrysler RWD sedans - he Chevrolet SS is a new rear-wheel-drive performance sedan that will join the U.S, lineup next year as a 2014 model. The SS will also be Chevrolet's next NASCAR Sprint Cup racecar and will ... 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'The Blue Oval is back' - Moody's Investors Service raised Ford's senior unsecured credit rating from Ba2 to Baa3, making it the second ratings agency to restore the automaker's investment-grade debt rating, ... Group representing Detroit 3 resists Japan's effort to join partnership - WASHINGTON -- A trade group representing Detroit's automakers is resisting Japan's effort to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership, unless there are rules governing currency manipulation, a ... Mazda MX-5 to spawn Alfa Romeo roadster - The next-generation Mazda MX-5 will underpin a new Alfa Romeo two-seater as part of a newly formed alliance between Mazda and Fiat. Mazda and Alfa's parent company Fiat Group Automobiles have ... Paranormal Files': South Carolina Lizard Man Attacks Cars, But Is He Real - Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files " (Tue., 9 p.m. ET on Syfy). Certainly the locals thought the creature was real, as evidenced by vehicular damage they showed the team. The "lizard ... 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The company's sales increased by 23% in the last quarter while its profit jumped by ... The Blue Oval is Ford's again as credit upgrade frees automaker's assets from mortgage - Bill Ford Jr. joined more than 500 Ford employees outside of Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. on May 22, 2012, to form a human Blue Oval with blue and white t-shirts. / Ford Motor Company ... BMW knocks off Toyota as most valuable brand - in the BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands study. The results of the annual ranking of the world’s top brands by market research company Millward Brown show a 10 per cent rise in ... Toyota to use redesigned Camry for 2013 season - SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) Toyota will use a re-designed Camry for NASCAR's 2013 Sprint Cup season. All four NASCAR manufacturers will go to updated or new cars next season. Toyota is sticking ... 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U.S. auto sales will increase 12.5% in 2012, economist says - Sales of new cars and trucks in the U.S. should exceed 14.4 million this year, a 12.5% increase over 2011, despite lackluster economic growth and a housing market that still ... Rich folks say 'no thanks' to electric Rolls-Royce - NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- When Rolls-Royce unveiled its all-electric version of the Phantom luxury sedan in March of 2011, they wanted to gather customer feedback to see if this was something the ... California Senate passes bill for self-driving cars - Alex Padilla (D-Pacoima), establishes guidelines for "autonomous vehicles" to be tested and operated in California. The bill now goes to the Assembly for consideration next month. Tech ... 2012 BMW 328i Video - The 2012 BMW 3 Series is more powerful and more fuel efficient than ever, but there's one glaring issue that almost derails the whole thing: Its start-stop system is unbearably intrusive, ... 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Hots Rods, vintage cars take the stage in Escondido - Vintage cars from before 1974, hot rods and classics will be on display 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 26 in Grape Day Park. New cars from several local dealerships will be out in the park along with music, ... Nissan Aiming for 10% of China Luxury Car Market - said it aims to triple global sales of its premium Infiniti brand by 2016 and take 10 percent of China's luxury vehicle market, challenging leaders like Audi and Mercedes Benz ... Sonia says no to red beacon for MP cars - New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi has nixed that ultimate in power status symbols - the red beacon or lal batti atop cars - for MPs.Mrs Gandhi, who is also the chairperson of the UPA, was reportedly ... Nuance announces Dragon Drive! speech recognition for connected cars - Thinkstock image Nuance Communications' Dragon Drive! starts with Dragon Drive! Messaging, an application for connected cars designed with speech recognition for email, text and ... 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