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Toyota's hybrid sales top one million

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Jack Carfrae, 08 June 2007 12:16

Toyota, and its luxury arm Lexus, have notched up more than a million hybrid sales for the first time. First launched in Japan in 1997, the Prius has racked-up 758,000 sales internationally, 13,826 of them in the UK. And a third of the 1,047,000 hybrids built by Toyota found homes in its domestic Japanese market. The company claims its hybrids ...

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Toyota's hybrid sales top one million

Toyota's hybrid sales top one million

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Jack Carfrae, 08 June 2007 12:16

Toyota, and its luxury arm Lexus, have notched up more than a million hybrid sales for the first time. First launched in Japan in 1997, the Prius has racked-up 758,000 sales internationally, 13,826 of them in the UK. And a third of the 1,047,000 hybrids built by Toyota found homes in its domestic Japanese market. The company claims its hybrids ...

Rolls meets massive demand from Chinese super-rich

Rolls meets massive demand from Chinese super-rich

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Jack Carfrae, 26 April 2007 01:28

Four showrooms not enough to serve the needs of all those impoverished rice pickers? Apparently not. This is Rolls' fifth Chinese dealership and its eightieth worldwide. Rolls Royce announced the opening of its new showroom at the increasingly important Shanghai Auto show today. The luxury car market is big business in China. Last year Rolls Royce sales leapt by 60 ...

First Chinese MGs built

First Chinese MGs built

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Jack Carfrae, 27 March 2007 02:17

Today is an historic day for Nanjing Automotive as the first MG built outside Longbridge will leave the production line at Nanjing’s factory in China. Around 1000 visitors are gathering at the plant to join in with the celebrations, where the new, Chinese-built MGs will be on display (above). The first cars off the production lines are the MG TF ...

Auto Union sale scotched

Auto Union sale scotched

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Jack Carfrae, 19 March 2007 02:35

Christie’s has pulled the ultra-rare 1939 Auto Union Type D grand prix car from auction this month. It had been expected to hit a new record of nearly £8 million. As reported previously, the Auto Union was attracting great interest because it is one of only two surviving examples from the late 1930s. However, the legitimacy of the Type D ...

Euro NCAP latest

Euro NCAP latest

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Jack Carfrae, 28 February 2007 10:12

Euro NCAP releases results on five new models Should Euro NCAP recalibrate its results? We suspect it should, as virtually every new car launched these days scores a high four- or five-star overall rating for occupant protection. The new results announced today are no different: Small family carsFiat Bravo: 5 stars (occupant safety), 3 stars (child safety), 2 stars (pedestrian ...

Autos to overtake manuals

Autos to overtake manuals

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Jack Carfrae, 28 February 2007 07:39

Automatic transmissions will finally overtake manuals as the top-selling gearbox choice in 2007. Autos have been long established as the more popular option Stateside and in Japan, but it seems that Europe has now finally caught the two-pedal bug. With the ever-increasing popularity of semi-automatic gearboxes (Tiptronic, DSG, CVT and a whole flood of other acronyms), it isn’t hard to ...

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