Posts Tagged ‘profile lines’

Coming to America? Peugeot entering new segments, markets

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Peugeot is a long way off from its ambitious target of selling 4 million units annually by the end of the decade. This year its sales projects put it at 2 million, but chief executive Jean-Philippe Collin has a plan in place to reach the targets set out by parent company PSA.The plan involves expans......

Paris ‘08 Preview: Peugeot teases with RC… hybrid concept

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Click above for a hi-res gallery of the Peugeot RC... With the semi-annual auto salon returning to Paris this fall, you can expect France's major automakers to make a big splash this year. Peugeot is preparing to unveil a new concept car, and has given us a bit of a heads-up in the form of a few ima......

Hyundai outsells Honda

Friday, July 4th, 2008
World’s fifth largest automaker–HyundaiHyundai-Kia has become the world’s fifth biggest carmaker following huge growth over the past decade.The Hyundai Kia Automotive Group was formed through the merging of South Korea’s largest car company, Hyundai Motor Company, and the nation’s second l......

Hyundai-Kia pass Honda to become world’s 5th largest automaker

Friday, July 4th, 2008
Less than a decade ago, the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group was ranked 11th in the world in total sales volume. According to the latest publishing of the Automotive News 2008 Global Data Book, the automaker has impressively passed Honda to take 5th position. To climb six positions in just eight years i......

Grid set for 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot starting 1-2-3

Friday, June 13th, 2008
As we reported yesterday, Peugeot was clearly the fastest in qualifying for this weekend's running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The record-setting runs of all three 908 HDi diesel-powered LMP1 cars places Peugeot's entire field of entries 1-2-3 on the starting grid. That's impressive considering two ......

Peugeot destroys Le Mans lap record in qualifying

Thursday, June 12th, 2008
The 76th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans takes place this weekend, and just like last year, Audi and Peugeot will be duking it out in front with their diesel-powered LMP1 cars. The Audi R10 is a proven race machine, both durable and fast, but the Peugeot 908 has often times proved faster. Late ye......

VIDEO: Peugeot goes flying at Le Mans

Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Le Mans has seen its fair share of spectacular crashes, perhaps most notably the Mercedes CLR-GTR that caught air and did several flips before landing outside the guard rail back in 1999. While not as outrageous as the Mercedes, Peugeot caught some air as well this past weekend at the 24 Hours of Le......

BMW/PSA engines to be used in more than just the MINI, 7-series hybrid coming

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
BMW and PSA teamed up to produce the 1.6-liter four-cylinder currently found in the R56 MINI Cooper, but according to an interview with BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer, the four-pot will also find its way into the BMW 1-series. The pre-release of his interview in the Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung didn't......

Officially Official: Peugeot production of 308 RC Z Coupe

Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Click above for high-res gallery of the Peugeot 308 RC Z Coupe ConceptOriginally expected to be announced a while back at the Geneva Motor Show, Peugeot has finally officially announced today at the Lisbon Motor Show that the attractive RC Z concept will go into production. Using styling cues from t......

Build-up! Skoda campaigns for small car manufacturing

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Click above to view the VW up! in hi-res Only a few months ago we brought you initial reports that Skoda was campaigning within the Volkswagen Auto Group to get its own version of the upcoming Volkswagen up! range. The Czech subsidiary, however, may get even more than that as emerging reports sugges......