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Slowdown, inflationary pressures impact vehicle sales in Aug (Roundup)

New Delhi/Chennai, Sep 1 — Production waste during Maruti Suzuki, high seductiveness rates and rising fuel prices resulted in reduce sales for a automobile attention in August.

Crippled by a lockout during a production trickery in Manesar in Haryana, Indian newcomer automobile marketplace personality Maruti reported a vital tumble in Aug sales.

Maruti Suzuki logged 40 percent reduce sales in Aug during 54,415 units final month as opposite 91,442 units sole in Aug 2011.

The association pronounced sales were mislaid overdue to a close out during a Manesar plant and a supply of Swift, Dzire, SX4 and A-star models were impacted.

However, Chennai-based automobile vital Hyundai Motor reported an boost of 5.9 percent in a domestic sales for a month underneath examination during 28,257 units over 26,677 units for a like duration of 2011. The altogether sales including exports fell by 8 percent during 46,886 units from 51,012 units sole in a like duration final year.

“The altogether marketplace direct is suppressed due to ubiquitous inflationary trends, high fuel prices and seductiveness rates. Unless any vital triggers get activated, marketplace view is not approaching to urge really much,” pronounced Rakesh Srivastava, clamp boss sales, HMIL.

While domestic sales grew by 5.9 percent, a association saw a decrease in a exports by 23.4 percent during 18,629 units from 24,335 units shipped out in a analogous month of final year

Meanwhile, Tata Motors’s sales, including exports for October, increasing by 13 percent during 67,453 units, compared to a 59,874 units in a like duration final year.

“Company’s domestic sales of Tata blurb and newcomer vehicles for August, 2012 were 67,453 nos., aloft by 13 percent, over 59,874 nos., sole in Aug final year,” Tata Motors pronounced in a statement.

Despite a good opening in altogether sales, a company’s exports in a duration underneath examination grew usually by 4 percent during 4,373 units from 4,204 units sole in August, 2011.

Sales of a entry-level compress automobile Nano shot adult by 441 percent final month during 6,507 over 1,202 sole final August.

Another Indian automobile vital Mahindra amp; Mahindra sealed Aug with a 22 percent boost in sales that stood during 45,836 units from 37,684 units sole in Aug 2011.

Mamp;M’s newcomer automobile portfolio including application vehicles and Verito automobile purebred 39 percent expansion offered 21,831 units final month as opposite 15,664 units sole in Aug 2011.

Japanese-Indian corner try Toyota Kirloskar too sealed August, 2012 with healthy sales total that increasing by 20 percent over a total of a analogous month final year.

In a statement, Toyota Kirloskar pronounced it sole 13,995 units final month, adult form 11,679 units sole in Aug 2011.

Meanwhile, a two-wheeler shred vital Hero MotoCorp had a decrease of 11.88 percent in a sales for Aug that stood during 4,43,801 units from 5,03,654 units sole in a analogous month final year.

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Chevy unveils pink Camaro pace car to fight breast cancer

Chevrolet Racing Revs Up Breast Cancer Fight
Brand to donate $200 per caution lap during AdvoCare 500 paced by pink Camaro SS

2012-08-29

DETROIT – Chevrolet Racing will renew the brand’s fight against breast cancer this weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway where every lap run under the caution flag will lead to a $200 contribution by Chevrolet to the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer initiative.

“For our 100th birthday in 2011, Chevrolet began its support of the American Cancer Society, and the generous response from our dealers, employees and customers told us we needed to help the Society fight for more birthdays,” said Don Johnson, vice president of Chevrolet Sales and Service. “At Chevy, we believe everyday heroes can accomplish extraordinary things, and it is in this spirit that we work to achieve a world without breast cancer.”

On Friday, 30 breast cancer survivors and their guests will spend the day at Atlanta Motor Speedway and participate in Chevrolet Camaro SS pace car rides around the historic track with Team Chevy NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Jamie McMurray and four-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion Ron Hornaday Jr. NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Danica Patrick also will visit with survivors for photos and autographs.

On Sunday, Chevy will donate $200 for every caution lap run during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AdvoCare 500, paced by the pink Camaro SS featuring the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer logo. In 2011, 64 caution laps at Atlanta generated $12,800 for the American Cancer Society.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In September, Chevrolet will announce additional brand, dealer, employee and consumer activities in support of the American Cancer Society and Making Strikes Against Breast Cancer.

“Last year, contributions of more than $900,000 supported the American Cancer Society’s mission to save lives by helping people stay well and get well, by finding cures and by fighting back against this disease,” said Roshini George, national vice president of health promotions for the American Cancer Society. “As we approach National Breast Cancer Awareness month in October, we want thank the Chevrolet family for its support and remind everyone to take the steps that make a difference in our fight against breast cancer.”

Founded in 1911 in Detroit, Chevrolet is now one of the world’s largest car brands, doing business in more than 140 countries and selling more than four million cars and trucks a year. Chevrolet provides customers with fuel-efficient vehicles that feature spirited performance, expressive design, and high quality. More information on Chevrolet models can be found at www.chevrolet.com.

Slowdown, inflationary pressures impact vehicle sales in Aug (Roundup)

New Delhi/Chennai, Sep 1 (IANS) Production waste during Maruti Suzuki, high seductiveness rates and rising fuel prices resulted in reduce sales for a automobile attention in August.

Crippled by a lockout during a production trickery in Manesar in Haryana, Indian newcomer automobile marketplace personality Maruti reported a vital tumble in Aug sales.

Maruti Suzuki logged 40 percent reduce sales in Aug during 54,415 units final month as opposite 91,442 units sole in Aug 2011.

The association pronounced sales were mislaid overdue to a close out during a Manesar plant and a supply of Swift, Dzire, SX4 and A-star models were impacted.

However, Chennai-based automobile vital Hyundai Motor reported an boost of 5.9 percent in a domestic sales for a month underneath examination during 28,257 units over 26,677 units for a like duration of 2011. The altogether sales including exports fell by 8 percent during 46,886 units from 51,012 units sole in a like duration final year.

“The altogether marketplace direct is suppressed due to ubiquitous inflationary trends, high fuel prices and seductiveness rates. Unless any vital triggers get activated, marketplace view is not approaching to urge really much,” pronounced Rakesh Srivastava, clamp boss sales, HMIL.

While domestic sales grew by 5.9 percent, a association saw a decrease in a exports by 23.4 percent during 18,629 units from 24,335 units shipped out in a analogous month of final year

Meanwhile, Tata Motors’s sales, including exports for October, increasing by 13 percent during 67,453 units, compared to a 59,874 units in a like duration final year.

“Company’s domestic sales of Tata blurb and newcomer vehicles for August, 2012 were 67,453 nos., aloft by 13 percent, over 59,874 nos., sole in Aug final year,” Tata Motors pronounced in a statement.

Despite a good opening in altogether sales, a company’s exports in a duration underneath examination grew usually by 4 percent during 4,373 units from 4,204 units sole in August, 2011.

Sales of a entry-level compress automobile Nano shot adult by 441 percent final month during 6,507 over 1,202 sole final August.

Another Indian automobile vital Mahindra Mahindra sealed Aug with a 22 percent boost in sales that stood during 45,836 units from 37,684 units sole in Aug 2011.

MM’s newcomer automobile portfolio including application vehicles and Verito automobile purebred 39 percent expansion offered 21,831 units final month as opposite 15,664 units sole in Aug 2011.

Japanese-Indian corner try Toyota Kirloskar too sealed August, 2012 with healthy sales total that increasing by 20 percent over a total of a analogous month final year.

In a statement, Toyota Kirloskar pronounced it sole 13,995 units final month, adult form 11,679 units sole in Aug 2011.

Meanwhile, a two-wheeler shred vital Hero MotoCorp had a decrease of 11.88 percent in a sales for Aug that stood during 4,43,801 units from 5,03,654 units sole in a analogous month final year.

5 cars that saved their companies

By Rob Sass

Published September 01, 2012

FoxNews.com, Hagerty

Canadian Cousins With Fleur-de-Lis and Mixed Genes

TO Americans, they demeanour familiar, nonetheless strange. Their code names don’t ring a bell: Mayfair, Frontenac, Acadian, Meteor, Monarch, Fargo, Laurentian, Beaumont.

These are among a cars once combined privately for Canada, and customarily built in Canada, by a Detroit-based automakers. In their heyday, from a finish of World War II until a late 1960s — a duration of loyal automatic distinctions between, say, Chevrolets and Pontiacs — a Canadianized cars shamelessly borrowed tools and styling from their sister divisions.

Once common on Canadian roads, such cars have become, even here, mostly lost chronological footnotes.

When Denise Côté, a late supervision secretary in Ottawa, went to register her 1957 Monarch Lucerne, a Ontario Ministry of Transportation would have no partial of it. Until Ms. Côté consecrated an automobile historian to yield a supervision a story of Ford Canada’s Monarch brand, a permit business would register her automobile usually as a Mercury Monarch, a indication that wasn’t constructed until a late 1970s and was sole on both sides of a border.

“It is a Monarch Lucerne; it is not a Mercury,” pronounced Ms. Côté, a longtime automobile fancier. Referring to a bureaucrats, she said, “They wouldn’t change it for a world, and they eventually had to call Toronto to do it.”

A accumulation of factors desirous a Canadian subsidiaries of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler to emanate Canada-only models. But a infrequently oddity formula came into being, and afterwards faded away, mostly since of import tariffs.

Until a United States and Canada sealed an agreement in 1965 formulating cross-border giveaway trade in cars and automobile parts, vehicles alien to Canada from a United States were theme to duties of as many as 35 percent. To equivocate a duties, automakers struggled to find careful ways to fist a far-reaching operation of models onto singular public lines in their Canadian factories.

The models were not blending to Canadian roads, that aside from a sleet and ice, were generally poorer, during a time, than American roads.

“Was there any pattern or engineering done?” pronounced Sharon Babaian, curator of ride during a Canada Science and Technology Museum. “No, not really. It was very, really cosmetic. we consider they substantially put some-more income into a selling than they did into a tangible changing of a character of a vehicle.”

Canadians’ disposable income has generally lagged that of Americans, though a opening was quite far-reaching in a 1950s and ’60s. So automakers combined reduction dear reward models for Canada even as they sole some-more or reduction a same bottom models in both countries.

General Motors of Canada and Ford Canada mostly took a same approach: they would dump a softly redesigned physique of a some-more dear Pontiac or Mercury onto a framework of a identical Chevrolet or Ford. The reduction costly car’s engine and drivetrain would be kept, along with many of a interior.

Chrysler Canada mostly went with a hybrid approach, grafting a front finish of a Dodge, afterwards deliberate a some-more reward model, onto a Plymouth.

American Motors and Studebaker mostly dealt with a conditions by charity fewer models, nonetheless Studebakers continued to be done and sole in Canada after a association finished American prolongation in 1963.

The mix-and-match proceed had some disadvantages. Starting with 1959 models, a wheels of American-market Pontiacs were set serve detached in what was heavily promoted as “wide track” design. As a result, Todd St. Clair of Ingersoll, Ontario, who runs Canadian Poncho, a site for Canadian Pontiac enthusiasts and collectors, pronounced that when Pontiac physique shells were placed on Chevrolet framework in Canada, a cars’ wheels were noticeably, and awkwardly, inset.

Mr. St. Clair added, however, that nonetheless Chevy powertrains were seen as some-more prosaic, Canadian Pontiacs offering a wider operation of engines, including high-performance versions. And Canadianized Pontiacs mostly outsold Chevrolets in Canada.

“We had improved choices than buyers of American Pontiacs,” pronounced Mr. St. Clair, who grew adult in a Pontiac domicile though is now a use consultant during a Chrysler dealership.

Pontiac dealers also carried a apart Acadian brand, comprising compress Chevys that had been somewhat reworked. Joe Lizon, a gourmet in Ortonville, Mich., owns dual Acadians and bought dual others for his adult children. He pronounced a deficiency of a Pontiac badge meant that “I can go to Pontiac shows and a Chevrolet shows” to vaunt them.

Restored 1933 Pierce-Arrow brings behind lustful memories

NORMAN — Automobile deputy consultant Ron Blissit is a kind of male who isn’t confident until a pursuit is finished perfectly. It’s a personal and veteran expostulate that combines philosophy, work ethic and around 70 years of engineering and involuntary knowledge. Although Blissit has easy many autos and motorcycles over a years both for clients and himself, presumably no finer instance exists than his 1933 Pierce-Arrow indication 836. He acquired a car from a lady here in Norman several years ago with a vigilant of customarily regulating it adult and re-selling it as shortly as it was finished. Like many aged cars it had been disassembled, partially put behind together and left for a prolonged time in storage. Blissit’s strange vigilant was foiled by envisioning what a full deputy of a grand aged car would demeanour like. “I had a lot of photos of my father with these cars from when he was a Pierce-Arrow play in Tulsa in a 1930’s,” Blissit said. He showed me a black and white design of a male who looked remarkably like Clark Gable. Wearing a white shirt, tie and white trousers and bucks, a elder Blissit acted with his left feet on a fender of a Pierce-Arrow.

He’d worked as a bureau troubleshooter for a tiny car association in Buffalo, NY, from 1917 to 1920. Returning to Tulsa a immature male non-stop a garage with a partner and afterwards operated an approved Pierce-Arrow dealership from 1933 until when a association went bust in 1938. “Those cars were America’s Rolls Royce,” Blissit said. “They were a terribly costly automobile.

In 1933 we could have bought 3 or 4 Fords for what that Pierce-Arrow cost.” Tulsa had a customarily dealership in a state with a subsequent closest being in Dallas. E.W. Marland of Ponca City whose petroleum association after became Conoco was an fan of a cars.

“Dad’s business enclosed Bartlesville oil group and many among a Osage nation,” Blissit said.

As a propagandize child immature Ron would rush to finish his task afterwards conduct for his dad’s shop.

“I’d provoke a mechanics and ask how things worked, because are we doing that and how parsimonious should this or that be,” he said. “I’m certain they wished I’d go away. They taught me skills behind afterwards that are no longer used currently unless you’re a bulb like me restoring aged automobiles.”

This family bequest is partial of what speaks to him about a cars.

Blissit likes to expostulate a car in parades with his friend Cleveland County Sheriff Joe Lester. We hopped in a car and gathering to a Oklahoma University campus for this article’s photos. It’s a many superb jalopy I’ve ever ridden in.

Except for carpeting a whole interior, including superstar is soothing dove-colored leather with walnut trim.

The float was gentle and Blissit rubbed a three-speed primer delivery with used ease. “Pierce-Arrow was a initial car to have hydraulic valves lifters, involuntary throttle and full-flow oil filter,” he said. The car has an surprising complement called Startix. It’s for that annoying impulse when a motorist is changeable a primer delivery and stalls a engine. Startix would automatically activate a starter causing a engine to holder again.

Most difficult owners customarily invalidate a difficult member that’s customarily inoperative. Blissit remade his and demonstrated a operation for me.

“My cars we wish perfect,” he said. “Exactly a approach they were when they rolled off a public line.”

The Model 836 bar sedan physique was designed by coachbuilder LeBaron. The condensed car was marketed to younger professionals who wanted to expostulate themselves rather than rest on a chauffeur. It’s low to a belligerent and neat in appearance.

During a deputy routine Blissit frequently used his settlement creation and phony skills to emanate tools that were simply taken anywhere during any price.

He bought certain components when they could be found, citing headlamp lenses that were customarily done in 1933-34.

The right lenses on his car was damaged and a deputy was located for $1250.00.

“I was blissful to get it,” Blisset said. “You can’t get anyone to make a mold for something like that and a left headlamp lenses is different.”

The lenses seller wouldn’t boat a part. He was entrance by Oklahoma anyway, so Blissit met him during a Yukon motel and exchanged money for glass.

Blissit spent 3 years restoring his 1933 model. Since afterwards it has been awarded ideal 100 indicate scores during prestigious Concours d’ Elegance shows including Amelia Island (Florida), Meadow Brook (Michigan) and Pebble Beach (California).

“It has been approved a ‘Premier Automobile’ by a Classic Car Club of America,” he said.

This car is Blissit’s third Pierce Arrow restoration. A 1928 indication was donated to a Antique Automobile Club and is on permanent arrangement during their museum in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

His 1923 indication was donated to a museum in St. Louis. “I wish these cars could speak and tell we about a families they carried and where all they’ve been,” Blissit said.

Have we seen a cold car around Norman? Writer Doug Hill’s always on a surveillance for destiny Dig My Ride columns. E-mail him during Hillreviews@hotmail.com.

Cars stranded as water rises

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LITTLE ROCK — The remnants of Hurricane Isaac flung more rain across parts of Arkansas on Friday, leaving cars stranded in high water before the storm wandered north into Missouri.

Heavy rainfall and flash flooding forced schools to send students home early in Pine Bluff, where the National Weather Service said 8.5 inches of rain fell by Friday afternoon.

“Streets are flooded. Bus routes are under water,” reported deputy superintendent Rudolph Howard, although he said he didn’t know of any problems with students getting home.

A number of cars got stuck on roads, however, as the water rose to 3 or 4 feet in some places, police spokeswoman Lt. JoAnn Bates said.

There were no reports of injuries from the storm Friday, though standing water posed a problem in some homes, Arkansas Department of Emergency Management spokesman Chad Stover said.

The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings and a tornado watch, but no tornadoes had been reported by Friday afternoon, as what was left of Isaac drifted into the northeast corner of the state. Meanwhile, crews worked to restore electricity to thousands left without power.

Some farmers who struggled with drought all summer found themselves with too much rain, though most ranchers were grateful for the water and the prospect of green grass for the animals to eat.

“For the cattle people, this is a windfall,” said Robby Bevis, whose family has about 100 cows.

He grows rice, beans and corn and after more than 3 inches of rain fell near his farm, he said that was enough.

“I think we’re at the breaking point to where if it doesn’t slow down and get out of here, it’s going to start affecting crops in the wrong way,” Bevis said.

Fortunately, forecasters said the weather looked better for the Labor Day weekend.

“The forecast gets a little bit better each and every day, and by next week, we should be drying out and temperatures going back up again,” meteorologist Joe Goudsward said.

That news made for a happy tourism department.

“The Labor Day weekend, we had assumed it would be wet and rainy, but Isaac has moved on through the state,” said Kat Robinson, spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism. “The skies are clear. The burn bans in many counties have been canceled and it looks like a great holiday weekend coming up.”

AAA – AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION : AAA Monthly Gas Price … – 4

(WASHINGTON, Aug 31, 2012)

Largest Gas Price Increase for a Month of Aug in Seven
Years

  • National normal gas prices increasing 30.8 cents or 8.75
    percent a gallon in August. This was a largest monthly
    cost boost given Apr 2011 and a second highest
    boost for a month of Aug in AAA’s records, which
    date to 2000.
  • “It has been a unequivocally tough summer for drivers nationwide
    with high gas prices violation daily records,” pronounced Avery
    Ash, AAA spokesperson. “Every week there seems to be
    something new pushing adult gas prices, either it is a
    vital refinery fire, a tube closure or a Gulf Coast
    hurricane.” 
  • Gas prices in Aug increasing usually from a low of
    $3.51 a gallon on Aug 1 to a high of $3.829 a gallon
    on Aug 31. This was largest Aug cost increase
    given 2005, when prices increasing 33.5 cents a gallon.
    The largest spike in gas prices this Aug comes
    immediately following a largest cost boost for the
    month of Jul in AAA’s annals (
    AAA’s Jul Gas Month Report
    ).
  • The normal cost of gas in Aug was $3.69 a gallon,
    that was a second-highest normal on record for the
    month. The top monthly normal on record for August
    was $3.77 a gallon in 2008.
  • Prices have increasing 53 out of 60 days after reaching a
    summer low of $3.33 a gallon on Jul 2.
  • The inhabitant normal cost of gasoline has increased
    about 11 cents a gallon given Aug 22, when forecasters
    began presaging that Isaac could pierce towards a Gulf
    Coast.
  • The normal cost of gas in 2012 is $3.62 a gallon, which
    is somewhat some-more than a normal of $3.56 by August
    31 in 2011. The normal cost of gasoline in 2012
    now is on lane to be a top annual average
    ever. The normal cost of gas over a prior five
    years is $3.06 a gallon.
  • The 3 categorical factors pushing gasoline prices in August
    enclosed increasing wanton oil costs; informal supply
    problems in a Midwest and West Coast caused by refinery
    and tube disruptions; and Gulf Coast refinery
    closures in allege of Hurricane Isaac.

Labor Day Gas Prices to Break Record Highs before Dropping
in September

Today’s Gas Price is Highest on Record for Aug 31

  • Today’s inhabitant normal cost of gasoline is $3.829 a
    gallon, that is a top normal on record for August
    31. The second top cost on this date was in 2008,
    when a inhabitant normal was $3.687 a gallon. The
    inhabitant normal cost of gasoline has damaged calendar
    highs for 12 uninterrupted days commencement on Aug 20.
  • Today’s inhabitant normal cost of gas is 0.3 cents more
    than yesterday, 9.9 cents some-more than a week ago, 21.2
    cents some-more than a year ago, though 10.7 cents reduction than the
    2012 rise on Apr 5 and 6.
  • Seven states have averages above $4 a gallon including:
    Hawaii ($4.321), Calif. ($4.157), Ill. ($4.134), Mich.
    ($4.066), Wash. (4.035), Conn. ($4.035) and Ore.
    ($4.018). This compares to Jul 31 when usually Hawaii had
    an normal above $4. The 7 states with a lowest
    prices include: Colo. ($3.549), N.M. ($3.601), S.C.
    ($3.607), Miss. ($3.609), Ala. ($3.631) Wyo. ($3.635) and
    Ariz. ($3.642).

AAA’s Daily Fuel Gauge Report is updated each day during FuelGaugeReport.AAA.com
with normal national, state and internal sell prices for
gasoline, diesel and E-85. Every day adult to 120,000 stations
are surveyed formed on credit label swipes and approach feeds
in team-work with a Oil Price Information Service
(OPIS) and Wright Express for unmatched statistical
reliability. All normal sell prices in this news are
for a gallon of regular, unleaded gasoline.

Cleaner Cars, a Safer Planet

The standards build on a 2009 agreement that established a unified set of rules governing fuel economy and carbon dioxide pollution from automobiles and light trucks. Those rules covered model years 2012-16; the new rules cover 2017 to 2025. Taken together, the two sets of rules would increase fuel efficiency from today’s average of about 29 miles per gallon to 54.5 miles per gallon when they are fully effective in 2025. This is expected to result in a cut of 40 percent to 50 percent in fuel consumption and roughly equivalent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

The White House says the rules would reduce oil consumption by two million barrels a day by 2025; the nation now consumes 19 million barrels a day and imports just less than half that amount. And while fuel-efficient cars will cost more initially, lower fuel use is expected to save consumers up to $8,000 over the life of their vehicles.

The battle for greater fuel economy goes back years and involved many players: California, which in 2002 passed its own law regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles sold there; environmentalists, who pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to impose similar rules nationwide; the Supreme Court, which in 2007 authorized the agency to move forward; and Congress, which ordered the Department of Transportation to update fuel economy standards that had been largely untouched since 1975. President Obama’s contribution was to bring about a consensus among the agencies, the states, the automakers and the interest groups on federal and state standards that reduced fuel use and gave industry the regulatory certainty it needed to move forward.

It is a model of public-private cooperation. Even so, the Romney campaign has called the rules “extreme” and House Republicans have threatened to roll them back. That would be a grave disservice to consumers, the auto companies, the economy and the planet.

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