It seems that Toyota will in fact be working together with Subaru to produce a sports car – Word comes to us from Toyota’s president himself Mr. Akio Toyoda who confirmed the fact. The company has yet to say anything of the car in terms of specs but speculation points to a 2.0-liter Subaru engine with 160hp and fuel saving technology.

We’ll keep you posted as more information on this collaboration becomes known.

via WCF

Tags: collaboration, partnership, Sports Car, Subaru, Toyota

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Buick announced today that it will be ending its PGA Tour sponsorship. The automaker was with the golf scene for fifty-one years. However, this doesn’t mean it’s the ending of all PGA-Buick partnerships, as revealed by a statement by the company:

“While this is disappointing news, both the PGA Tour and Buick remain in discussions regarding future sponsorship possibilities,” the statement said. However, with GM still recovering from its Chapter 11 filing, don’t expect to see the Buick name at any PGA Tour events anytime soon.”

Tags: Golf, partnership, pga tour

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The Nissan Cube plays a key appearance and part at the 40th Annual Comic-Con Convention together with NBC’s Heroes, hosting a series of events as well like sweepstakes and providing giveaways to onlookers at the NBC Heroes booth.

The partnership allows most comic book and automotive fans to catch a glimpse of the Nissan Cube. This includes the asymmetrical design as well as standard features that include the Bluetooth Hands-free Phone System and the interior accent-lighting system that comes in 20 different shades.

Clips from Heroes featuring the Nissan cube will be broadcast on a massive plasma screen – demonstrating that boxes don’t always have to be square. Now that is something that Nissan may easily attach to the Nissan Cube or can be perhaps a marketing cliché in the coming months.

(Source) Press

Tags: accent lighting, appearance, asymmetrical design, boxes, comic book, giveaways, glimpse, hands free phone, heroes, lighting system, marketing, NBC, Nissan, nissan cube, onlookers, partnership, plasma screen, shades, sweepstakes

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Impressed in its recent trip from Japan, European car maker Volkswagen is reportedly mulling a possible 10% stake in Suzuki. Apparently, the market penetration of the Japanese car manufacturer into India is what caught Volkswagen’s eye, something that they have not been successful at to date.

This should be good news for Suzuki considering that they needs all the help they can get financially although some terms of that area may possibly need further elaboration. But whatever happens, you can bet that this potential investment or partnership can be a good one for both of them.

In late May 2009, VW said that it was mulling cooperation with the Chinese company BYD to build hybrid or electric cars.

(Source) Steel Guru

Tags: car maker, chinese company, cooperation, electric cars, guru, India, Japan, japanese car manufacturer, market penetration, partnership, stake, Suzuki, volkswagen, VW

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Don’t look know but it seems two familiar fixtures in the car industry are banding together to deliver an affordable sports coupe priced somewhere between $20,000 to $25,000. Coded as “086A” this new brainchild is a potential product from the reported talks being done at the moment by Toyota and Subaru.

If you are wondering what the assignments of the two cars would be, you can sum it up basically as Toyota will be in charge of the car’s styling while Subaru focuses on the car engineering.

Powering the future coupe will be Subaru’s 2.0-liter flat-4 equipped with a new direct-injection system, tuned to produce an impressive 200 bhp and 145 lb.-ft. of torque. The suspension will consist of MacPherson struts up front and a multilink setup at the rear, with the chassis based on that of the Subaru Impreza and Legacy.

Now this partnership and vehicle for that matter looks like it will be something to watch. Regardless, expect a great car to come out for 2012 thanks to the joint minds of Toyota and Subaru.

(Source) Auto Spies

Tags: brainchild, car industry, great car, macpherson struts, partnership, sports coupe, Subaru, subaru impreza, torque, Toyota, two cars

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After the guessing on who would succeed the Opel brand, Magna of Canada is the likely successor of the General Motors line. General Motors is on the brink of filing bankruptcy but as far as their brands are concerned, successors are being wooed to take over.

But while that may sound like a big sigh of relief, it is no easy picking. The partnership is expected to encounter rough sailing similar to that of a new company being brought up and make its way into the automotive industry niche.

While Opel is a popular brand, one cannot deny that that tarnish of a bankrupt GM company looms over its head. It may take some time for the new ownership to sink in and hopefully Magna comes up with great strategies to overcome these boundaries.

A more conciliatory Merkel on Saturday said a telephone call to President Barack Obama had helped seal the deal. But she lashed out at what she called the “huge mismanagement” by GM executives.

(Source) AFP

Tags: automotive industry, Barack Obama, boundaries, filing bankruptcy, General Motors, GM, gm executives, magna, merkel, Opel, partnership, seal the deal, telephone call

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To help address the growing number of stolen vehicles, a GPS made to help in the recovery of potentially stolen vehicles has been launched in the market that will be disseminated through new car dealerships. This unique partnership leverages MOC’s extensive automotive dealer channel relationships and CalAmp’s proven GPS-based asset tracking technologies to provide consumers with SVR solutions superior to those currently available through new-car dealers.

The products will be marketed by MOC under its Ecotrac brand name and feature highly-sensitive GPS technology in compact and durable designs customized to the unique needs of different vehicle types. In addition to SVR application, users of Ecotrac will have the option to track and monitor vehicle activity from a full-featured website or mobile phone. Ecotrac gives consumers real-time control and remote location information needed to make quick, informed vehicle management decisions.

MOC has developed strong relationships in the new-car dealership industry over the past 50 years and will market Ecotrac products to thousands of its accounts through distribution channels in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. CalAmp plans to leverage its manufacturing and development expertise to provide the Ecotrac bundled hardware, hosted web-based applications and wireless data service plans.

(Source) Press

Tags: application users, calamp, Canada, channel relationships, consumers, development expertise, distribution channels, gps technology, management decisions, Mexico, mobile phone, new car dealers, new car dealership, new car dealerships, partnership, real time control, recovery solution, vehicle management

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In a move to perhaps entice safety, KIA in partnership with ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club e.V.) will be installing ADAC trainers to ensure safety for drivers in training. Under the terms of the agreement, Kia will provide the automobile club with 200 cars which will be used by motoring safety training course participants and ADAC trainers as practice cars. This agreement will initially run for one year, but both parties have expressed an interest in a long-term cooperative relationship.

ADAC’s Vice President of Motoring, Ulrich Klaus Becker, said, “I am delighted that the ADAC has found a dependable partner in Kia, which in the future will be helping us with our motoring safety training work. The new fleet will ensure that ADAC training courses are both fun and safe.”

(Source) Infibeam

Tags: adac, allgemeiner deutscher automobil, automobile club, Cars, deutscher automobil club, KIA, klaus becker, partnership, safety training, training courses

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