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Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 29/10/2008 @ 07:50:15, By marioman3138

This is for any car articles you see in a newspaper and want to share. as this was electronic, I put in the picture gallery of this recked Ferrari: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/large-gallery/0,25543,5035442-5014156-1,00.html

Gag Halfrunt

Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 29/10/2008 @ 21:01:54, By Gag Halfrunt

VW goes from the Beetle to the world's most valuable company

The automotive industry is on its knees. General Motors is burning through $1bn a month and is worth a fraction of what it was. Other manufacturers including Ford and Honda are cutting production.

But Volkswagen, the business that gave the world the Beetle and the camper van, found itself the most valuable company in the developed world yesterday, the result of another bout of financial speculation that went spectacularly wrong.

Panic-buying by hedge funds drove the company's share price into the stratosphere, allowing VW at one point to leapfrog oil giant ExxonMobil to become the biggest company by stockmarket value at just short of a staggering €300bn (£240bn). Amid the buying frenzy, the shares touched €1,005 each, five times the level at which they were changing hands on Friday.

End of the road for Soviet elite's must-have car

Sleek, low-slung and preferably black, it was once an object of desire for every Soviet bureaucrat. Now, more than half a century after it was first produced, Russia is stopping production of the legendary Volga saloon.

Once a symbol of stylish living and the preferred car of mid-level apparatchiki, the Volga has struggled to compete with the inomarki - foreign cars - that have flooded the automobile market since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

The car manufacturer, Gaz, owned by Oleg Deripaska, confirmed this week that mass production of the famous limousine will end within two months.

Note that, although the models based on the M24 will be discontinued, the Volga marque will continue on the new Siber.

antp

Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 29/10/2008 @ 23:40:44, By antp

Didn't they already announce the dismiss of these GAZ models some years ago?

Gag Halfrunt

Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 30/10/2008 @ 00:14:22, By Gag Halfrunt

Yes, but IIRC there was a sudden increase in sales as people took their last chance to buy a new Volga, and it was enough to persuade GAZ to keep the Volga in production.

Latest Edition: 30/10/2008 @ 00:14:42

ingo

Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 30/10/2008 @ 18:20:48, By ingo

Just a short surf along the car-page of the news-site www.spiegel.de gives some interesting articles. I'm just posting them, if you need any translation-help (I think, some of these areticles were also published somewhere in other languages), let me know:

A specially developed US-police-car:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,586675,00.html

For Europeans a shocking monster-car:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrberichte/0,1518,583369,00.html

The 10 bizarrest car-safety-ideas.
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,587261,00.html
No.4 is something for walter -it's in his car, too:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,587261-4,00.html

The most popular cars in Germany
1) http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,586950,00.html
2)
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,586954,00.html

A new VW for America, chanceless in Europe (because based on a Chrysler)
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrberichte/0,1518,586265,00.html

Italy's fastest police-car:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,586375,00.html

ingo

Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 30/10/2008 @ 18:50:33, By ingo

Uups, the postig is still made, but I wasn't ready.

A hard work: Infiniti tries to take a foot on the European market. In Germany they will open shortly 6 (six!) dealers:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrberichte/0,1518,584256,00.html

Unfortunately no pics: in a few hours the Autobahn A1 South of Hamburg had to be closed two times. At first 70.000 eggs were lying on the lanes (30 km traffic-jam), a bit later you had 19.000 liters of beer had flooded the street:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,583950,00.html

About "W"'s Cadillac:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/0,1518,581518,00.html

Ah, I've found that one, I was looking for:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrkultur/0,1518,580732,00.html
About Dodge and the way, how this brand shall be installed on the German market, as a car for "lads". It's explained, what a "lad" is, a tough, rough guy with tatoos, hot girls and a lot of beer, a "real man" - in the opinion of Dodge the typical Dodge-customer.
Strange for us, because until now overe here noone had the idea to advert a brand specially for that type of people.

Latest Edition: 30/10/2008 @ 18:51:04

ingo

Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 30/10/2008 @ 18:58:49, By ingo

A real good page for fans of classic cars:
http://www.motor-klassik.de/

Bruce Willis's muscle cars for sale:
http://www.motor-klassik.de/medien/foto-shows/messeSauktionen/mpsfshw_show_505703_14700.hbs?backtrack=%2Fhome&

This would be a great trip, I think. I've seen a TV-reportage in the past. From Plymouth/South England to Dakar/Senegal in cars, which their maximum price of 100 Pounds/144 Euro and maximal tuned or pimped up for 15 Pounds/22 Euro.
Sh.., I should have known that, before I gave my 1987 Passat GT Variant away for free...
http://www.motor-klassik.de/auto_U_technik/impressionen_-_oldtimerreisen/hxcms_article_513797_14702.hbs

ingo

Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 30/10/2008 @ 19:01:43, By ingo

@wickey: see the videos-links on the right side. All about Volvo.
http://www.motor-klassik.de/service/specials/historie:_sicherheit_im_auto/hxcms_article_501197_1- 4702.hbs

ingo

Car articles you see in newspapers

Published 30/10/2008 @ 19:12:04, By ingo

The newspapers and magazines of the "BILD" are not something for everyone, but the "Auto Bild Klassik"-articles are usually well made - because written by guys, which have formerly worked for the "Motor Klassik" and the "Oldtimer Markt". They have knowledge.
http://www.autobild.de/klassik_5902.html

That guy made a 70ies-family-vacation-revival-tour -@walter: not with his Audi V8 :wink:

http://www.autobildblog.de/category/nachrichten/sandmanns-audi-v8/