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SELF-LEARNING INTELLIGENT LAND ROVER
Cutting-edge technology is being pioneered by researchers at Jaguar Land Rover to develop a truly intelligent self-learning vehicle that will offer a completely personalised driving experience and help prevent accidents by reducing driver distraction.
NEW MIDSIZE VOLKSWAGEN SUV TO BE PRODUCED IN USA
Today, Volkswagen announced that their new midsize SUV will be manufactured in the Chattanooga plant in Tennessee, USA. The Group will be investing a total of approximately US$900 million in the production of a newly developed, seven-passenger SUV, and creating 2,000 additional jobs in the US. About US$600 million will be invested in Tennessee.
SIX-MILLIONTH AUDI WITH ALL-WHEEL DRIVE
Jubilee at Audi: The six-millionth Audi with quattro drive rolls off the production line at the Ingolstadt plant on 11 July – only about one and a half years after the five-millionth quattro. Audi will deliver the jubilee car, an Audi SQ5 in monsoon gray metallic, to a family in the United States.
ALL NEW XC90 WILL BE THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL AND CLEANEST SUV
The all-new Volvo XC90 will offer an unrivalled combination of power and clean operation when it is launched later this year. The all-wheel drive seven seater offers drivers up to 400 horsepower but with carbon dioxide emissions of around 60 g/km. There has never been an SUV offering this level of power this cleanly.
3rd GENERATION OF POWER WHEELS F-150
Ford and Fisher-Price took the F-150 in a whole new dimension, unveiling the Power Wheels F-150.
NISSAN OPENS NEW PLANT IN THAILAND
Nissan yesterday announced the opening of its second production plant in Thailand.
FASTEST RANGE ROVER EVER BUILT
The Range Rover Sport SVR – created by the Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations team – will make its public debut at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed on June 27 to 29.
THE LAST ONE – AUSTRALASIAN SAFARI 2014
After seven years in Western Australia, it’s with a heavy heart that we wish to advise the 2014 Australasian Safari will be the last one held in Western Australia.
FACTORY SUPPORT FOR OUTLANDER PHEV COMPETING IN ASIA CROSS COUNTRY RALLY
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation announced that it will dispatch a team of technical support engineers for an Outlander PHEV entered in the T1.3 4×4 Electric class of the grueling 2,200 km FIA-certified Asia Cross Country Rally 2014 (AXCR) from August 9 through 15, to be run from Thailand to Cambodia.
FORD AT THE CUTTING EDGE
Ford today revealed the all-new Edge, a high tech smart utility vehicle that will go on sale across Europe for the first time in 2015, as the third chapter in Ford’s SUV expansion plan for Europe – joining the new Kuga medium-sized SUV and the all-new EcoSport small SUV.
