Honda provides all the engines for the Indy car racing series. I would not be surprised to see them in NASCAR in a few years.
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Honda provides all the engines for the Indy car racing series. I would not be surprised to see them in NASCAR in a few years.
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I just had a thought, electric cars are so quiet, so why not jazz them up with
a selection of emulated sounds of various makes of cars, for the drivers benefit.
Just imagine hopping into ones 500cc battery car select choice 1 and its immediately transformed into a throbbing v8 Chevy with a big bore exhaust, the whole works. or a ferrari ,porsche, a whole host of cars we can only dream of.
a selection of emulated sounds of various makes of cars, for the drivers benefit.
Just imagine hopping into ones 500cc battery car select choice 1 and its immediately transformed into a throbbing v8 Chevy with a big bore exhaust, the whole works. or a ferrari ,porsche, a whole host of cars we can only dream of.
That would be fun. Making those sounds use up electricity after all, so they may have a small energy price to pay.
When cars are this quiet and yes, hybrids are also this quiet, they make a perfect acoustic environment for high quality auto stereo systems with MP3 interfaces. I would prefer to go that route.
Electric cars and hybrids can be so quiet at times, slight quality imperfections such as road or tire noise, interior squeaks and rattles, wind noise, etc,. can be more easily heard than in a conventional car. Once the next generation of cars increasingly go electric or hybrid, the quality levels have to go up and up.
When cars are this quiet and yes, hybrids are also this quiet, they make a perfect acoustic environment for high quality auto stereo systems with MP3 interfaces. I would prefer to go that route.
Electric cars and hybrids can be so quiet at times, slight quality imperfections such as road or tire noise, interior squeaks and rattles, wind noise, etc,. can be more easily heard than in a conventional car. Once the next generation of cars increasingly go electric or hybrid, the quality levels have to go up and up.
More pics of the Panda.
BEIJING — Geely plans to formally unveil a new minicar dubbed Panda in mid-April at the upcoming 2008 Beijing Auto Show. The Panda, known internally as LC-1, will compete directly with the popular Chery QQ and is expected to be priced from around $4,200.
Geely also plans to introduce a new five-door edition of its compact King Kong sedan, as well as an updated version of the Beauty Leopard coupe, called the Chinese Dragon. Sister brand Maple will pull the wraps off its new Haiyue hatchback.
To be offered in two- and four-door variants, the Panda is designed to resemble its namesake, with a cartoonish face highlighted by two oval-shaped headlamps and an oversize grille opening. Power comes from a new 1.0-liter engine, said to be developed in-house.
Chinese press reports say Geely wants to export the car to Europe beginning in 2009.
The picture we see here recently leaked online is the Lc-1, codename for the Geely Panda. Ziliang Wang, Geely Auto’s vice president said on Guangzhou Autoshow that “the company plans to launch a new model next year before the Beijing Olympic Games, which the design looks like a giant panda. But the hatchback has not been officially named. It will go public together with Geely’s new logo.”
The “Panda element” of Lc-1 can be found in the minicar’s front lights design, which resemble eyes of giant panda, the national treasure of China. It will be powered by Geely’s self-developed CVVT engine (Continuous variable valve timing, which allows the intake and/or exhaust valve timing to be infinitely varied during engine operation.). The hatchback will be available in both four-door and two-door versions.
Geely Auto is a privately held automaker headquartered in China’s Zhejiang Province. The company will come and display at the North American International Auto Show next year with Changfeng Motor Group, BYD, and China America Cooperative Automotive Incorporated (Chamco).
BEIJING — Geely plans to formally unveil a new minicar dubbed Panda in mid-April at the upcoming 2008 Beijing Auto Show. The Panda, known internally as LC-1, will compete directly with the popular Chery QQ and is expected to be priced from around $4,200.
Geely also plans to introduce a new five-door edition of its compact King Kong sedan, as well as an updated version of the Beauty Leopard coupe, called the Chinese Dragon. Sister brand Maple will pull the wraps off its new Haiyue hatchback.
To be offered in two- and four-door variants, the Panda is designed to resemble its namesake, with a cartoonish face highlighted by two oval-shaped headlamps and an oversize grille opening. Power comes from a new 1.0-liter engine, said to be developed in-house.
Chinese press reports say Geely wants to export the car to Europe beginning in 2009.
The picture we see here recently leaked online is the Lc-1, codename for the Geely Panda. Ziliang Wang, Geely Auto’s vice president said on Guangzhou Autoshow that “the company plans to launch a new model next year before the Beijing Olympic Games, which the design looks like a giant panda. But the hatchback has not been officially named. It will go public together with Geely’s new logo.”
The “Panda element” of Lc-1 can be found in the minicar’s front lights design, which resemble eyes of giant panda, the national treasure of China. It will be powered by Geely’s self-developed CVVT engine (Continuous variable valve timing, which allows the intake and/or exhaust valve timing to be infinitely varied during engine operation.). The hatchback will be available in both four-door and two-door versions.
Geely Auto is a privately held automaker headquartered in China’s Zhejiang Province. The company will come and display at the North American International Auto Show next year with Changfeng Motor Group, BYD, and China America Cooperative Automotive Incorporated (Chamco).
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China automobile sales zoom past U.S.
2009-02-12 09:26:33 Print
(Source: China Daily)
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BEIJING, Feb. 12 -- In January, China sold 735,500 units of vehicles, 14.35 percent less year-on-year amid falling demand, with a slight drop of 0.83 percent from December, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said yesterday.
The figure still far surpasses the sales dive in the US where monthly sales plummeted 37 percent from last January to 656,693 vehicles, the worst since 1963.
"The sales figures in January were encouraging. It showed how the new government policies helped boost vehicle buys in China," said Zhu Yiping, Associate Secretary General, CAAM.
While the January sales confirmed the market stagnancy since last year, the high domestic automobile inventories came down after automakers cut production whereas demand exceeded expectations.
Automobile inventories fell more than 80,000 units to hit the lowest point in 13 months, said the association.
China produced 658,800 units of vehicles last month, a 20.22 percent drop compared with a year earlier, but an increase of 5.07 percent over December.
2009-02-12 09:26:33 Print
(Source: China Daily)
Photo Gallery>>>
BEIJING, Feb. 12 -- In January, China sold 735,500 units of vehicles, 14.35 percent less year-on-year amid falling demand, with a slight drop of 0.83 percent from December, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said yesterday.
The figure still far surpasses the sales dive in the US where monthly sales plummeted 37 percent from last January to 656,693 vehicles, the worst since 1963.
"The sales figures in January were encouraging. It showed how the new government policies helped boost vehicle buys in China," said Zhu Yiping, Associate Secretary General, CAAM.
While the January sales confirmed the market stagnancy since last year, the high domestic automobile inventories came down after automakers cut production whereas demand exceeded expectations.
Automobile inventories fell more than 80,000 units to hit the lowest point in 13 months, said the association.
China produced 658,800 units of vehicles last month, a 20.22 percent drop compared with a year earlier, but an increase of 5.07 percent over December.
February 10, 2009
By DAN STRUMPF and ELAINE KURTENBACH
Monthly auto sales in China surpassed those in the U.S. for the first time last month, but automakers and industry watchers say the news may tell us more about the troubles in the U.S. than about China's growing car market.
"China has the potential very easily to become the largest car market in the world," said Tom Wilkinson, a spokesman for General Motors Corp., but "it was probably a bit of an aberration in January."
Data released Tuesday by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers shows 735,000 new cars were sold in China last month, down 14.4 percent from the record of 860,000 set in January 2008. U.S. sales, meanwhile, fell 37 percent to 656,976 vehicles -- a 26-year low.
It's another indication of China's economic clout, but it may take a while before China becomes the world's largest auto market.
"Right now, with the U.S. in correction mode, we're going to get these kinds of anomalies," said Rebecca Lindland, auto analyst for IHS Global Insight. "We could get them throughout the course of this year and throughout next year if we don't get an economic recovery."
U.S. auto sales have shrunk from an annual sales rate of around 16 million to sales of 13.2 million vehicles in 2008. Analysts and automakers are predicting industrywide sales to drop as low as 10.5 million this year as high unemployment and low consumer confidence keep people from purchasing big-ticket items.
Chinese vehicle sales also have cooled, but hardly as dramatically. In 2008, China's auto sales grew 6.7 percent to 9.38 million units -- the first time growth has fallen below 10 percent since 1999.
If American car demand revives in coming months, the U.S. likely will remain ahead in annual sales -- at least for another year. IHS Global Insight still predicts 2009 sales in China of between 9 million and 9.5 million, and U.S. sales of 10.5 million.
China's vehicle market has grown dramatically in recent years, overtaking Japan in 2006 to become the world's second-largest by annual sales. With 1.3 billion people, China may inevitably leapfrog the U.S., with a population of 300 million, into the No. 1 spot, but that moment may still be many years away, Lindland said.
"Even long term, I think the economics have a long way to go before China consistently passes us," Lindland said.
China's best-selling automakers are GM and Germany's Volkswagen AG, but its own ambitious producers, such as Chery Automobile Co., are growing fast.
GM said it sold a record 1.09 million vehicles in China last year, up 6 percent from 2007. With its growing middle class and vast potential as a consumer market, China is vital for GM, Volkswagen and Toyota Motor Corp. as they count on demand there to offset weakness in the U.S. and elsewhere.
"There's no question that it's a huge potential market if you look at the number of people there, and as more people start to enter the middle class," GM's Wilkinson said. "A car is something a lot of people aspire to."
GM is already is one of biggest automakers in China, with billions of dollars invested in joint ventures. The Detroit automaker has been counting on the growth in China and other emerging markets to help offset losses elsewhere. It currently sells cars under nearly all GM brands and through a joint venture called SAIC-GM-Wuling.
Wuling sales accounted for more than half of GM cars sold in China last year, spokesman John McDonald said, with a huge portion coming from the popular Sunshine minivan.
To spur the slowing auto market, the Chinese government has rolled out measures to help boost vehicle sales as part of a multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package while it also tries to promote cleaner, more energy-efficient engines.
The sales tax on cars with engines less than 1.6 liters has been cut by half to 5 percent through the end of the year. The government also is spending 5 billion yuan (about $730 million) on subsidies to farmers to replace three-wheeled vehicles or outdated trucks with small, 1.3-liter-or-less vehicles.
Another 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) is going into upgrading automakers' technology and developing alternative energy vehicles.
Trucks and buses make up a larger share of China's sales than those of the United States or Japan. Some observers say that makes direct comparisons misleading. But many rural Chinese use such commercial vehicles for everyday family use.
Elaine Kurtenbach reported from Shanghai.
By DAN STRUMPF and ELAINE KURTENBACH
Monthly auto sales in China surpassed those in the U.S. for the first time last month, but automakers and industry watchers say the news may tell us more about the troubles in the U.S. than about China's growing car market.
"China has the potential very easily to become the largest car market in the world," said Tom Wilkinson, a spokesman for General Motors Corp., but "it was probably a bit of an aberration in January."
Data released Tuesday by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers shows 735,000 new cars were sold in China last month, down 14.4 percent from the record of 860,000 set in January 2008. U.S. sales, meanwhile, fell 37 percent to 656,976 vehicles -- a 26-year low.
It's another indication of China's economic clout, but it may take a while before China becomes the world's largest auto market.
"Right now, with the U.S. in correction mode, we're going to get these kinds of anomalies," said Rebecca Lindland, auto analyst for IHS Global Insight. "We could get them throughout the course of this year and throughout next year if we don't get an economic recovery."
U.S. auto sales have shrunk from an annual sales rate of around 16 million to sales of 13.2 million vehicles in 2008. Analysts and automakers are predicting industrywide sales to drop as low as 10.5 million this year as high unemployment and low consumer confidence keep people from purchasing big-ticket items.
Chinese vehicle sales also have cooled, but hardly as dramatically. In 2008, China's auto sales grew 6.7 percent to 9.38 million units -- the first time growth has fallen below 10 percent since 1999.
If American car demand revives in coming months, the U.S. likely will remain ahead in annual sales -- at least for another year. IHS Global Insight still predicts 2009 sales in China of between 9 million and 9.5 million, and U.S. sales of 10.5 million.
China's vehicle market has grown dramatically in recent years, overtaking Japan in 2006 to become the world's second-largest by annual sales. With 1.3 billion people, China may inevitably leapfrog the U.S., with a population of 300 million, into the No. 1 spot, but that moment may still be many years away, Lindland said.
"Even long term, I think the economics have a long way to go before China consistently passes us," Lindland said.
China's best-selling automakers are GM and Germany's Volkswagen AG, but its own ambitious producers, such as Chery Automobile Co., are growing fast.
GM said it sold a record 1.09 million vehicles in China last year, up 6 percent from 2007. With its growing middle class and vast potential as a consumer market, China is vital for GM, Volkswagen and Toyota Motor Corp. as they count on demand there to offset weakness in the U.S. and elsewhere.
"There's no question that it's a huge potential market if you look at the number of people there, and as more people start to enter the middle class," GM's Wilkinson said. "A car is something a lot of people aspire to."
GM is already is one of biggest automakers in China, with billions of dollars invested in joint ventures. The Detroit automaker has been counting on the growth in China and other emerging markets to help offset losses elsewhere. It currently sells cars under nearly all GM brands and through a joint venture called SAIC-GM-Wuling.
Wuling sales accounted for more than half of GM cars sold in China last year, spokesman John McDonald said, with a huge portion coming from the popular Sunshine minivan.
To spur the slowing auto market, the Chinese government has rolled out measures to help boost vehicle sales as part of a multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package while it also tries to promote cleaner, more energy-efficient engines.
The sales tax on cars with engines less than 1.6 liters has been cut by half to 5 percent through the end of the year. The government also is spending 5 billion yuan (about $730 million) on subsidies to farmers to replace three-wheeled vehicles or outdated trucks with small, 1.3-liter-or-less vehicles.
Another 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) is going into upgrading automakers' technology and developing alternative energy vehicles.
Trucks and buses make up a larger share of China's sales than those of the United States or Japan. Some observers say that makes direct comparisons misleading. But many rural Chinese use such commercial vehicles for everyday family use.
Elaine Kurtenbach reported from Shanghai.
..I'll check out that link!