Entries from March 2008

Coming soon to India: Lexus

March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Lexus is hoping to make India its next big market. The luxury brand plans to target India’s growing high class with an initial offering of the LS 460, LX 470, and RX 350. Lexus is considerably late to game, with brands like Audi, BMW, and Mercedes Benz already well established in the country.
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Tags: Industry News · Lexus

Toyota opens shopping mall for cars in Japan

March 26th, 2008 · No Comments

What does the world’s richest automaker do with extra dough? Well it makes another shopping mall to sell and promote its cars. Similar to Toyota’s Mega Web, the new mall in Yokohama features the typical assortment of food courts and kiosks. All in all, the mall will showcase more than a hundred cars that [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Toyota

India creates Suzuki Swift Sedan, calls it DZire

March 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It has been claimed that Suzuki depends on its Indian Maruti operations to stay afloat, and it makes sense: no where else in the world will you see Suzukis have such a large market share than you will in India. Take a visit to India and the sea of Suzuki scooters, bikes, and cars [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Suzuki

More photos of that Malaysian GT-R crash

March 25th, 2008 · No Comments

WreckedExotics has posted more photos of the third GT-R to go down. The car might have crashed in Malaysia, but the car’s rear plate tells me it’s from Singapore. Sucks for the owner - take your car for a trip in Malaysia and come back empty handed. Any guesses to what it hit?

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Tags: Nissan · Skyline GTR · Spotting

Another new GT-R kills itself: Malaysia Crash Edition

March 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A member at NAGTROC has taken some photos of another crashed 2009 Nissans GT-R R35. The car still has its showroom shine but a something hard has kicked the crap out of the front end. This is the second black GT-R that has been spotted all crunched up, the other was in Hong [...]

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Tags: Nissan · Randomness · Skyline GTR · Spotting

Japanese seniors offered perks to ditch car keys

March 24th, 2008 · No Comments

TOKYO (AFP) — Elderly people in Tokyo who surrender their driver’s licences will soon enjoy perks when they go to department stores or order pizza, police said Wednesday. Tokyo police will next month launch the novel campaign in hopes of reducing the number of elderly motorists who should not be driving.

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Tags: Randomness

4,703 almost brand new Mazdas to be destroyed

March 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Two years ago, the Cougar Ace cargo ship and its load of 4,800 brand new Mazda vechicles (worth around $120 million), flipped over off the coast of Alaska. Initially Mazda had thought that the ship, which had only flipped to the side, could be salvaged and most of the cars onboard saved, restored, [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Mazda

Accord Wagon wins award for ‘High Quality Design’

March 22nd, 2008 · No Comments

The International Red Dot Award, which is apparently a very prestigious award for high quality design, has been won in Europe by Honda’s Accord Tourer (because it’s not sexy to say station wagon). Honda has previously won the award in 2001 for the Honda S2000 and just two years ago in 2006 with the [...]

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Tags: Car News · Honda · Industry News