tokyo cars: August 2011

Sunday, August 14, 2011

fast cars-top cars 2011

fast cars

volvo-commercial vehicles, including trucks

AB Volvo is a Swedish builder of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and construction equipment. Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems, aerospace components and financial services. Although Volvo was incorporated in 1915 as a subsidiary of AB SKF, a Swedish ball bearing manufacturer, the auto manufacturer considers itself officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV 4 series, affectionately known as "Jakob", rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, .
Volvo means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere", in relation to ball bearing. The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use "SKF" as the trademark for all its bearing products.
In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, a SKF Sales Manager, and Engineer Gustav Larson, the two founders, decided to start construction of a Swedish car. Their vision was to build cars that could withstand the rigors of Sweden's rough roads and cold temperatures. This has become a feature of Volvo products ever since.
The company AB Volvo had no activities until 10 August 1926, after one year of preparations involving the production of ten prototypes, was set up to carry out the car-manufacturing business within the SKF group. AB Volvo was introduced at the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935 and SKF then decided to sell its shares in the company. Volvo was delisted from NASDAQ in June 2007, but remains listed on the Stockholm exchange.
In 1999, Volvo sold its car division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for $6.45 billion. The Volvo trademark was shared between Volvo AB, where it is used on heavy vehicles, and the unit of Ford, where it was used on cars. Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $1.8 billion.
Contents
* 1 History
* 2 Business areas
* 3 Trademark
* 4 The Volvo brand
* 5 References
* 6 External links

volvo

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

seat state-owned industrial holding company

SEAT, S.A. (English pronunciation: /ˈseɪ.æt/ say-at, Spanish: [ˈse.at]) is a Spanish automobile manufacturer founded on May 9, 1950 by the Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI), a state-owned industrial holding company.
It is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of the German Volkswagen Group,as a member of the now-defunct Audi Brand Group, together with Audi and Lamborghini, and marketed as a car maker with a youthful sporty profile.Within the Volkswagen Group and under the Audi Brand Group, the SEAT brand itself has been developed as a group with subsidiary companies (SEAT Group) and 'SEAT, S.A.' as the parent company.
The headquarters of SEAT, S.A. are located at SEAT's industrial complex in Martorell near Barcelona, Spain. By 2000 annual production peaked at over 500,000 units; in total up to 2006, over 16 million cars have been produced including more than 6 million from the Martorell plant, with three-quarters of the annual production being exported to over seventy countries worldwide.
The name SEAT, previously standing for the acronym Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo (Spanish Touring Car Company, in English), in 1990 was changed to SEAT, S.A..
Contents
* 1 Facilities
* 2 Presence in different markets
* 3 History
o 3.1 Establishment of SEAT
o 3.2 Partnership with Fiat
o 3.3 Dispute with Fiat
o 3.4 Volkswagen Group subsidiary
* 4 SEAT in motorsport
o 4.1 Rallying
o 4.2 Touring cars
o 4.3 Grand tourer cars
o 4.4 Formula
* 5 Model range
o 5.1 Nomenclature
o 5.2 Sub-ranges
o 5.3 Current models
o 5.4 Sales and production figures
o 5.5 Rebadges
o 5.6 Tuning companies
o 5.7 Earlier models
o 5.8 Concept models
o 5.9 Future models
* 6 Company profile
o 6.1 Leadership
o 6.2 Economic figures
o 6.3 Environmental policy
o 6.4 Sponsorship
* 7 Awards
* 8 References
* 9 External links

seat

toyota yaris car produced by Toyota since 1999

The Toyota Yaris is a subcompact car produced by Toyota since 1999. Between 1999 and 2005, some markets received the same vehicles under the Toyota Echo name. Toyota has used the "Yaris" and "Echo" names on the export version of several different Japanese-market models.
First generation (1999–2005)
Main articles: Toyota Vitz and Toyota Platz

First generation models were marketed between 1999 and 2005 under the "Yaris" and "Echo" names depending on the market. Hatchback, coupe, and sedan body variants were offered.

* Hatchback: versions derive from the Japanese-market Toyota Vitz.

* Coupe and sedan: versions derive from the Japanese-market Toyota Platz.

toyota yaris

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Volvo Swedish builder of commercial

AB Volvo is a Swedish builder of commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses and construction equipment. Volvo also supplies marine and industrial drive systems, aerospace components and financial services. Although Volvo was incorporated in 1915 as a subsidiary of AB SKF, a Swedish ball bearing manufacturer, the auto manufacturer considers itself officially founded on 14 April 1927, when the first car, the Volvo ÖV 4 series, affectionately known as "Jakob", rolled out of the factory in Hisingen, Gothenburg.
Volvo means "I roll" in Latin, conjugated from "volvere", in relation to ball bearing. The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use "SKF" as the trademark for all its bearing products.
In 1924, Assar Gabrielsson, a SKF Sales Manager, and Engineer Gustav Larson, the two founders, decided to start construction of a Swedish car. Their vision was to build cars that could withstand the rigors of Sweden's rough roads and cold temperatures. This has become a feature of Volvo products ever since.
The company AB Volvo had no activities until 10 August 1926, after one year of preparations involving the production of ten prototypes, was set up to carry out the car-manufacturing business within the SKF group. AB Volvo was introduced at the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935 and SKF then decided to sell its shares in the company. Volvo was delisted from NASDAQ in June 2007, but remains listed on the Stockholm exchange.
In 1999, Volvo sold its car division Volvo Cars to Ford Motor Company for $6.45 billion. The Volvo trademark was shared between Volvo AB, where it is used on heavy vehicles, and the unit of Ford, where it was used on cars. Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $1.8 billion.
Contents
* 1 History
* 2 Business areas
* 3 Trademark
* 4 The Volvo brand
* 5 References
* 6 External links

Volvo

Thursday, August 4, 2011

suzuki gsxr sport bikes made by Japanese

The Suzuki GSX-R series, or Maruti GSX-R for India, is the top-of-the-line series of sport bikes made by Japanese manufacturer Suzuki. The series currently offers the following motorcycles
* GSX-R600 1992–1993, since 1997
* GSX-R750 since 1985
* GSX-R1000 since 2001
Discontinued models:
* GSX-R50 1987
* GSX-R250 1987–1990
* GSX-R400 1984–1999
* GSX-R1100 1986–1998

suzuki gsxr