Posts Tagged ‘Japanese Auto workers’
Friday, July 25th, 2008
Not the next-gen model, but click above for Audi TT-S high-res gallery
Audi's next-gen TT may be getting a significant re-design, with a mid-engine placement if the swirling speculation around the interwebs is true. Now in its second-generation, the TT sits on Volkswagen's PQ35 platform (shared with......
Tags: 3-Series, bambi meets godzilla, brake light, brand source, building safety, fleet vehicles, gm daewoo, grand prize, honda civic, honda racing f1, Japanese Auto workers, lap timer, machine guns, MarconiFoundation, paint job, powertrain, probation, spy photographers, thief, trent lott, UkPolice, yuppie
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Volkswagen up! Space concept.It was rumored last week and now it's been confirmed: Volkswagen's up! minicar will be switched from a rear-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout to a front-engine, front-wheel-drive arrangement when it goes on sale in 2011. According ......
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Volkswagen is working hard to make the up! a reality, but the technological challenges of a rear engine, RWD car are proving to be more daunting than expected. The VW engineering team is reportedly having trouble conjuring up a low cost rear-engine layout. The problem has been trying to accommodate ......
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
We see a lot of rendered speculation on upcoming models, but they're seldom penned by renowned designers. However as Fiat prepares to revive the classic Topolino, Italian magazine Ruoteclassiche commissioned designer Paolo Martin – former of Bertone, Pininfarina and Ghia – to render his interpre......
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
After countless spy photos and appearances at auto shows for the past several years in two different styling forms, the Lexus LF-A made its first official appearance on the road this weekend at the Nürburgring 24 hour race. At some point during the weekends festivities, Automobile managed to snag a......
Tags: 1950s, affordable luxury cars, aluminum wheels, b2k, blancpain, building safety, chairman bob, corvette callaway, dealership facility, EkSportR, goliaths, goregaon, honda civic tour, Japanese Auto workers, laguna seca, light cameras, malad, milton keynes, monolith, nav system, paint job, scion, wagon version, wheel arches, wreck supercar, wrecked Carrera GT, zero sense
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
click above to enlargeThe photo above looks too cool not to be a future RX-8 incarnation, but the rendering merely represents one Mazda fan's interpretation of the next Rotary-powered sports coupe. Forum poster Rhoadwh over at Fomoconews concocted the sweet-looking coupe after picking up on the most......
Tags: 2008AudiTt, analog sunset, AnalogOnstar, car magazines, comers, DrivingSimulator, geniuses, Japanese Auto workers, LT4, mazda, open invitation, OverheadValveV8, photo, rx 8, seeing the future, top marketing, transparency
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006
If there is anything the Rick Wagoner has learned during his time at GM, it's that you never piss off the unions. That morsel of knowledge might be something that Carlos Ghosn has to consider now that the United Auto Workers (UAW) has come out in opposition of a possible merger of General Motors and......
Tags: auto works, buyouts, car connection, carlos ghosn, CarlosGhosn, compatriot, complexity, general motors, gm, japanese auto, Japanese Auto workers, JapaneseAutoWorkers, JAW, manner contrary, merger, morsel, nissan, renault, renault nissan, rick wagoner, RickWagoner, ron gettelfinger, RonGettelfinger, salaries, term stability, uaw, union leaders, united auto workers, UnitedAutoWorkers
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