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AUTO & TRUCKMAKERS NEWS * WORLDWIDE
* Sweden - Volvo V40 Comes With An Airbag For Pedestrians
(Video from Youtube, by mashable -8 March 2012: Volvo has invented a new type of airbag that is not meant for the driver. Instead, it rests under the hood and deploys when the car comes in contact with a pedestrian)
Gothenburg,Sweden -The Car Connection, by Richard Read -Mar 12, 2012: -- The Volvo V40 that just debuted at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show won't be coming to America, but one of its technology components might make the trip... The snazzy five-door hatch will arrive in Europe with a special airbag just for pedestrians. Perhaps more than any other automaker, Volvo has worked to reduce the number of fatalities and injuries... When the V40's bumper detects that a pedestrian has been hit, the pedestrian airbag deploys from beneath the hood of the car, covering a substantial portion of the windshield. The device is constructed in a U-shape so the driver can maintain sight of the road and bring the vehicle to a complete stop...
* Briefing News
* VW Chairman Piech nominated for new term
- Ferdinand Piëch, the supervisory board chairman of Volkswagen AG, has been nominated for a third five-year term, and his wife Ursula also has been proposed as a candidate for a board seat, the company said Monday. Read more* Audi in Talks to Buy Ducati
- Audi AG, Volkswagen AG's luxury unit, is in talks to buy Ducati Motor Holding SpA, the storied Italian motorbike company from its private equity owner, Investindustrial Holdings Ltd., London. Ingoldstadt, Germany-based Audi and Wolfsburg, Germany-based Volkswagen hope to challenge against arch competitor BMW in the superbike category, and one strategy would be to purchase Ducati... Read more* Volkswagen and DRB-HICOM officially start vehicle production in Malaysia
- The Volkswagen Group officially started production of the Volkswagen Passat on a SKD basis in Pekan. Volkswagen and DRB-HICOM also laid the foundation stone for a new production hall on the plant in Pekan. In the second stage, two additional models, the Volkswagen Jetta and Polo, are to be produced here on a CKD basis for the Malaysian market... Read more* JLR add 1,000 jobs at Evoque plant (UK)
- Final checks on an export LHD Evoque; the new entry-level Range Rover's success is behind the workforce expansion. Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is adding 1,000 jobs at its Freelander and Evoque factory at Halewood, near Liverpool in England... Read more
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