GM (General Motors) Offers Lower-Priced 2012 Chevy Volt

GM (General Motors) Offers Lower-Priced 2012 Chevy Volt

GM (General Motors) said today that dealers in all 50 states to receive orders for 2012 Chevy Volt, which will come in a model priced below $ 40,000 / $ 39,995 (including destination fee but no other taxes and fees).
Chevy Volt 2012 will be offered with two additional interior accents:
  • flavored white and red. • new colors and two brand spankin 'exterior. • Summit White and Blue Topaz Metallic.
  Some additional features for the Volt in 2012 included:
• Keyless entry lock is standard with passive. • OnStar turn-by-turn navigation. • Chevrolet MyLink. • Alloy 17-inch with black inserts (late availability).
Significantly for GM (General Motors), the Volt will now be sold nationally, not only in seven states and the District of Columbia. The company took the approach of a regional launch in an effort to work out kinks in home sales and installation process of filling stations.
Since GM (General Motors) and Nissan, which makes all-electric leaf, begin to give them a plug-in sedan about six months ago, auto industry observers have traced the total monthly sales, with the two car makers around even in total sales for the year-to-date.
GM (General Motors) said it expects to sell 45,000 Chevy Volts to fleet and retail customers in 2012. Refresh Volt will include several new features, including three years of OnStar navigation service, and warranty eight-year/100, 000 miles equal to the battery.
Volt has a range of 379 miles. Fuel economy varies widely depending on how often a rechargeable battery. EPA assess the Volt at 37 miles per gallon on the charge-defend mode and 93 miles per gallon for all-electric driving. Depending on conditions, GM (General Motors) said the Volt runs for 35 miles on the battery first and then kick the gas engine to run the generator to maintain battery charge.

China drives Porsche record as Cayenne wait means buying a Carrera

China drives Porsche record as Cayenne wait means buying a Carrera

Liu Yirong walked into a Porsche dealership in Shanghai planning to buy the carmaker's $137,000 Cayenne SUV. Chinese customers ordering a Cayenne with a 3.0-liter engine wait an average of 15 months for delivery, the longest for the vehicle globally.

Porsche forecasts record 2011 global deliveries as China sales grow 35 percent, putting the Asian nation on track to overtake the U.S. as its largest market in 2014, said Helmut Broeker, the automaker's head of China.

Porsche, BMW AG and Daimler AG unit Mercedes-Benz all posted four-month sales increases in China exceeding 30 percent as rising numbers of wealthy Chinese seek out German luxury cars as status symbols.

The most basic Cayenne model costs 893,000 yuan ($137,000) in China, while its closest competitor, BMW's X6 SUV, starts at 1.05 million yuan. Porsche has been tailoring cars and marketing activities to Chinese tastes to lock in more buyers. The carmaker created a new color called "China Pink" after a customer in Chongqing wanted her Cayman painted the same shade as her make-up, said Jan Kuppen, Porsche's China product manager.

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The added attention will help lift China to about a quarter of Porsche's deliveries in 2014, up from 15 percent now, Broeker said in an interview in Shanghai.

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Luxury-car sales in China will rise 20 percent this year after surging 48 percent to 459,000 vehicles last year, according to industry researcher JD Power & Associates.

Porsche, maker of the 911 sports car and four-door Panamera, may consider producing a planned small SUV called the Cajun in China in the future. The Cayenne's popularity may also have a negative impact if the carmaker doesn't shorten waiting times. Tony Tian and his three business partners dropped by the company's dealership along Shanghai's busy Nanjing Street in search of a company car.

5 Facts Lamborghini Super Fast Cars

5 Facts Lamborghini Super Fast Cars

Most agree that the super car Lamborghini is very interesting. Many rich people who do not hesitate to buy this car for collection. Here are five facts you need to know about the Italian car, as quoted from planetoddity.com:

Facts first
Lamborghini is one of the fastest cars in the world. Cars Le Mans version of the Murcielago R-GT can run with the speed of 370 kilometers per hour. In addition, the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 also has that can be invited to run 340 km per hour. Both models use a V12 engine with a capacity over 6,000 cc.

The second fact
Did you know that Lamborghini was built by an independent company, but went bankrupt in 1978 and sold to Chrysler. In 1998, the German company, Audi AG, took over and became the owner of Lamborghini.

The third fact
Most Lamborghini models are produced by the engine 12 sillinder in configuration V (V12), although the newest model, Gallardo, the V10 engine. What is clear, Lamborghini never produce cars with less than a V8 engine.

Fourth Facts
Lamborghini was first produced in 1963 and with the name 350GTV. With a top speed of 280 km per hour, 350GTV very fast in that year. Lamborghini's first car that can run faster than 300 km per hour was produced in 1974, the Countach model.

Facts fifth
Countach, Diablo, and Murcielago all have scissor doors - which rotate and move forward on a hinge near the front door, but not for the Gallardo. Countach and Diablo is no longer manufactured, so the Lamborghini car with scissor doors is currently only Murcielago.

Gold-Plated Sports Car Confiscated By Authorities In China

Gold-Plated Sports Car Confiscated By Authorities In China

Infiniti G37 sports cars with 24 carat gold plated on display at a jewelry store in Nanjing, eastern China.

It took four months to coat the entire surface of the car with gold.

This gold-plated car was towed by police in China due to violation of traffic regulations late March. The car was parked haphazardly and do not have the correct vehicle plate.