Shift-It is morning, our daily roundup of one-stop all automated news that really matters – all in one place at 09:00. Or, you could spend all day waiting for another site for the package to you one story at a time. Would not your time more important? 1st Gear: Range Rover Range Rover Sport has been revised for 2012 – and the repair is the name of the game. It has a new eight-speed automatic box 'and a number of toys includes 17-speaker audio system and a new voice command. Land Rover might be talking about the focus on reducing emissions, but ironically petrol 510bhp 5.
0 supercharged V8 remains unchanged. Also, four discovery has got an upgrade as well – with eight-speed automatic tranny. Accessories 2: China's passenger car sales in June rose 3. 5% from a year earlier to 1. 02 million units, the China Passenger Car Association said today to Bloomberg in a statement e-mail.
3rd Gear: Jay Williams, mayor of Youngstown, Ohio, named director of governmental organizationscharged with helping communities affected by the decline in the automotive industry. Williams, 39, will oversee the Office of Recovery and Community Auto Workers, which was created as part of the government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009. Williams, who has been mayor of Youngstown since 2006, will resign from office August 1. 4 Gear: Chrysler has no plans to revive its 300 sedan stretches. Cadillac front-wheel-drive sedan is not selling well in the uniform market.
So, even though their own, and the days of the Lincoln Town Car is numbered, Lincoln might somehow end up winning the fancy uniform market by default. With a FWD crossover. Seriously, front-wheel-drive Lincoln MKT would end up leading the uniform sales just by changing the name to "Town Car" for the uniform and the limo market. Accessories 5: As the debate rages Australian government's decision to exclude the fuel from the carbon tax schemes, new research shows fuel prices have reached stratospheric levels willfore the majority of Australians would consider buying or leasing an EV. Traction in the Australia-specific surveys that are part of a global study entitled 'Getting: Do consumers riding the wave of electric vehicles? "Consulting firm Deloitte also found that pump prices need to reach higher levels before the majority of consumers would be more willing to consider on a regular car EV Accessories 6:.
Lotus Evora has been awarded a five-year stay of execution after the Group Lotus boss, and a big fan Jalopnik, Dany Bahar Revealed big changes to the company based in Norfolk radical, even magical, plans Autocar reports that Bahar has confirmed that the new Elan has been postponed until 2017, thereby extending the life of today . . . Evora Rev Other tweaks include confirmation of a five-year plan to build its own 570 bhp 4. 8-liter V8 in the Esprit's engine to power a new Hethel, planned for 2013 Reverse:! ⏎ Yes, there will be a Jaguar XFR carts too [Telegraaf] young ⏎ car to foreign buyers.
[Detroit News] ⏎ Citroen for the Rally Through New York for the celebration of Bastille Day. [New York Times] ⏎ Chrysler Grand Voyager revised. [Autocar] ⏎ Hyundai Accent small car with big ambitions. [Detroit News] ⏎ Bullish on Autos. [CNBC] ⏎ Aston Martin Says Head-Luxury Car Maker 'Window Right' Waiting for IPO [Bloomberg] Drive-in ⏎ staging a revival this summer.
[Detroit News] Today in Automotive History: On this day in 2000-eight weeks to the day after the fourth-generation NASCAR Adam Petty was killed during practice at New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire-driver Kenny Irwin Jr. died at the Speedway the same. , Near the same place, after his car hit a wall at 150 mph while running practice. [History]. .