Author Archive: 4x4magazine
LAUNCH OF MALAYSIA 4X4 JAMBOREE 2012
4×4 Adventure Club Kuala Lumpur (ACKL) together with the newly setup 4×4 Adventure Club Malaysia (ACM) signed an agreement with Wenzhou Automobile & Motor Sports Association from China to promote 4×4 motor sports tourism in both countries and in the region.
ELECTRIFIED RAV4
Toyota USA unveiled the highly anticipated all-new Toyota RAV4 EV – an all electric compact SUV jointly developed with California-based Tesla Motors – at the 26th International Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles, California.
OFFER NISSAN CAN’T REFUSE
Nissan has announced that its innovative Juke-R crossover will be made available to buy in a very limited run on build-to-order basis.
300,000TH FREELANDER 2 GOES TO BRAZIL
Land Rover employees at Halewood Operations in Merseyside have celebrated an important milestone achievement following the production of the 300,000th Land Rover Freelander 2.
NEXT BMW X1
After some two-and-a-half years, sales of the compact BMW X model built in Leipzig, Germany and in Tiexi, China have already exceeded 275 000 units. Now this all-round talent emerges with renewed vigour to meet a raft of new challenges.
ACURA’s STARRING ROLE IN THE AVENGERS
Honda’s luxury brand, Acura, has joined forces with Marvel Entertainment for this summer’s most anticipated film, The Avengers. Following the use of Acura models in Marvel’s 2011 film Thor, Acura is building on its established role as the official vehicle of S.H.I.E.L.D.
FROM AUSTRALIA TO SOUTH AMERICA
One amateur motorbike competitor in this year’s Australasian Safari will live the dream with a free entry into Dakar, the world’s toughest motorsport event, thanks to an agreement between Australasian Safari and Dakar.
ETERNITI’S FIRST SUPER-SUV
Eterniti Motors, the London-based boutique luxury carmaker, unveild the engineering prototype of its first car at Beijing’s Auto China 2012 international motor show. The car, named Artemis, is the world’s first Super-SUV – a term created by Eterniti for a new class of vehicle providing the higher levels of luxury, performance and exclusivity.
URBAN CROSSOVER FORM PEUGEOT
Elegant and cheeky, refined and charismatic, sporty and seductive, with the Urban Crossover Concept, unveiled at the Beijing Motor Show, Peugeot offers a new vision of a compact Crossover that is modern and dynamic.
SPICED-UP EVOQUE
Land Rover unveiled in Beijing a new Range Rover Evoque Special Edition. The exclusively designed Evoque is the result of a collaboration between Land Rover Design with Victoria Beckham, winner of the coveted Designer Brand of the Year award at the 2011 British Fashion Awards.
