Toyota has announced that it will commercially produce the hydrogen car presented this year, the FCV. It will share many elements with the Toyota Prius, although with a range of 500 kilometers. The price would be around 80,000 euros and its launch is planned for 2015.
Carlos Tavares ha sido confirmado como el próximo CEO del Grupo PSA, luego de más de 30 años de trabajo con Renault. El ejecutivo tendrá que dar solución a los problemas de pérdidas del grupo francés, intentando hacer el mismo trabajo que hizo en Renault. De esta manera, el Grupo PSA contaría con su tercer CEO en siete años.
Honda ha presentado el Civic Tourer, un familiar con la última tecnología en materia de seguridad, pero que también aplica las últimas ideas de diseño para optimizar el espacio lo mejor posible. Utilizará la serie de motores i-DTEC e i-VTEC diésel y gasolina y el Magic Seat System, ubicando el depósito de combustible bajo los asientos delanteros.
The new Wolverhampton plant will produce from 2014 a four-cylinder diesel, to be joined one and a half years later by another engine of the same displacement but petrol and turbocharged. The company’s technical director says they are even studying the development of a three-cylinder 1.5.
Volkswagen se dispone a continuar el desarrollo del coche de bajo coste que proyecta, inicialmente, para su venta exclusivamente en China. Se discute si podría llegar a otros mercados, además de los requisitos que debería cumplir el nuevo modelo. Su presentación se ha trasladado a 2014.
Volvo announces that the V60 Plug-in Hybrid will arrive in Spain. Available from February 2014, with a starting price of 60,900 euros, this model uses the most modern hybrid technology, the first model to go on sale with a hybrid diesel powertrain. Volvo will not abandon its well-earned reputation for safety, with several systems featured on this V60.
The Opel Ampera has been on the European market for almost two years, and Opel takes stock of the car’s performance so far. The Netherlands and Germany are among the countries where the Ampera has been most popular, with consumption figures of as low as 0.5 L/100 km and savings of 13,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
The new CEO of Mazda has announced that, for the time being, the brand will not invest in developing new generations of rotary engines, a true symbol in past models. For the development of these engines to be economically viable, more vehicle sales would be needed, an outstanding issue for Mazda.
Spain and Great Britain are the only two European markets where new car sales have recovered. The rest, such as Italy and France, are still struggling with negative figures. Germany has not been spared from the latest trends either, which in Spain have not occurred thanks to the PIVE plans.
The next generation of the sports car will make up for the controversy surrounding the BladeGlider by offering a much more traditional vehicle concept. According to the brand’s development director, Andy Palmer, its engine will not produce less power than that of the current model.
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