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TODAY ON ROADST3R - Car STORIES (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Vijay Leasing has placed an order for 125 of these FM-series Volvo Trucks!Based in Hyderabad, Vijay Leasing Company has placed an order for 125 Volvo FM-series trucks. This is the largest order that Volvo Trucks has ever received in the 10 years during which it's been present in India.The sale is being...
TODAY ON ROADST3R - Car STORIES (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Swedish car manufacturer Volvo, in line with its DRIVe Towards Zero campaign will be launching a hybrid vehicle by 2012. The announcement also puts spotlight to the partnership formed between Volvo and energy firm Vattenfall. Vattenfall will be helping Volvo in the production of their first plug in...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
When I stopped by my local self-service yard to photograph the Crusher-bound '49 Ford on Friday, I discovered that I'd walked into Half Price Weekend. Might as well do some shopping! The usual crowds of grimly determined men were plucking engines from minivans, of course, but I wasn't interested in minivans. Now that I'm applying the lessons learned during Race Car Wiring Hell to my Personal Hell...
Heathers vintage designs, hand made jewellery &... (Free subscription) | yesterday
Open at last !!!!! what a week last week was..... I closed my workroom /shop in Shalford on the 27th June packed up loaded my Volvo up ferried over to my new shop 6 miles away... good old hubby helped me with the large furniture and the rest of the week was spent loading , unloading , packing and unpacking, arranging ......then re-arranging...... until finally on Saturday the 4th i opened my door ...
Like Humour - only different (Free subscription) | yesterday
Apparently there is some sort of financial crisis going on. This means that rich people who have saved their money are earning less interest than they used to and may now have to work for a living instead. Conversely those who work for a living and have no savings, mainly due to paying exhorbitant taxes to fund the lifestyle of the idle rich, now find that their mortgages have gone down, meaning that...
Lindiblog (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Having two geriatric cats who seem to revel in getting either David or myself up in the night, I was disturbed at 3 am then jumped on at what seemed a very short time after sometime about 4am !,I gave up.. Lizzie got her tea at 4.40 ! we were off to Poole to catch the early Cat to Cherbourg. Its always a bit of a palaver getting my volvo backed into strange corners but uneventful on the whole and we...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
2010 Honda Insight - Click above for high-res image gallery Initial strong sales of the 2010 Honda Insight slowed last month, but new models of the Toyota Prius and Ford Fusion helped give hybrids car sales in June 2009 a nine percent increase over last June. In the U.S., dealers sold 26,205 new hybrids in June, 49.6 of which (12,998 units) were Priuses. Compared to May, hybird sales were up two percent,...
Driive (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
For several years now Hertz has offered a ‘Prestige Collection’ of high-end vehicles to rent including models from brands like Lincoln and Cadillac. The rental car company has now decided to take it up a notch by offering two vehicles from those German luxury experts at Mercedes-Benz.Both the new C-Class and GLK350 will joint the Prestige Collection alongside models from Audi, Infiniti,...
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009
Sweden's Riksbank has taken a pro-inflationary step other central banks can only envy: negative interest rates. Don't ask me to explain the mechanism, but the bank is now offering an effective deposit rate of negative .25%. The move appears to have succeeded in weakening the Swedish crown against the Euro. Inflationists in the U.S. have been debating similar ideas, and even some more surprising stuff,...
X1 News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Taken from Bruce's driveway this morning was this picture of 20105 making haste on L11 07.15 from Lowestoft. About a minute later 20118 passed by eastbound . The 10.05 from Peterborough passes the Fair Green turn today with 20118. After the weather broke today there was some pleasant evening sunshine being enjoyed by the passengers on 37563 which was working L8 15.25 Lowestoft - Peterborough . The...
Thermodynamics in hell (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
TRRRRAAAAAAABBBBBBYYYYYYY. Off to HB shortly to collect the Trabant, finally get back to some enjoyable tearing about, rather than the somewhat sedate Volvo. Nothing against the Volvo... But you really have to work at driving it to have fun, the type of fun that is non-stop when driving the DDR's finest vehicle. The Trabant has 80 mile old tyres all round, new brake parts, solid floors, good shocks...
TODAY ON ROADST3R - Car STORIES (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Volvo might actually be producing fuel cell powered cars in the not-too-distant future!In partnership with Midroc and OCAS, the Swedish Energy Agency and the Volvo Group are investing SEK200 million (Rs 123 crore) in Volvo's development of fuel cells. To accelerate the introduction of fuel cells into...
Leftlane (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
Besting its strong U.S. performance, Ford’s Canadian division managed a healthy 23.8 percent boost in June sales. The June sales increase was enough to vault Ford past archrival General Motors to become Canada’s best-selling automaker. Including sales of its Volvo Swedish brand, Ford of Canada sold 28,274 vehicles in June, netting a sales increase of [...]
Auto Channel (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009
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