Archive for April, 2008
Sales of smaller vehicles surge in March
Author: admin
Sales of subcompact cars, compact cars and compact SUVs surged in March, according to industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers.
“A month where high gas prices dominated the headlines and these high prices were totally reflected in the vehicles consumers in Canada purchased,” DesRosiers said. “Subcompact cars were up 27.1 per cent, compact cars up 9.7 per cent, compact SUVs up 6.9 per cent all reflect the response to high gas prices. Meanwhile, large SUVs were down 27.6 per cent, luxury SUVs down 10.2 per cent, large vans down 25.2 per cent.
“Indeed, if you add together all the large and luxury and sporty models for the month, they were collectively down 16.3 per cent in a market that was essentially flat. All entry-level vehicles together were up 9.7 per cent for the month and are now up 16.4 per cent on the year. During March, if it wasn’t small, it didn’t sell well.”
The top ten best-selling passenger cars in Canada in March were, in order, the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, Mazda3, Toyota Yaris, Chevrolet Cobalt, Toyota Camry, Nissan Versa, Hyundai Accent, Pontiac G5 and Toyota Matrix.
The top ten year-to-date, in order, were in the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, Mazda3, Chevrolet Cobalt, Toyota Yaris, Pontiac G5, Toyota Camry, Hyundai Accent, Nissan Versa and Ford Focus.
The top ten best-selling light trucks in Canada in March were, in order, the Ford F-Series, Dodge Ram, Dodge Caravan, GMC Sierra, Chevrolet Silverado, Ford Escape, Ford Ranger, Honda CR-V, Chevrolet Uplander and Toyota RAV4.
The top ten year-to-date, in order, were the Ford F-Series, Dodge Caravan, Dodge Ram, GMC Sierra, Chevrolet Silverado, Ford Escape, Ford Ranger, Honda CR-V, Chevrolet Uplander and Toyota RAV4.
read comments (0)Indian luxury car makers
Author: admin
India’s luxury car market, till recently was dominated by just one player, Mercedes Benz and a few individual imports, registered a 50% growth last year, with the sale of 4,500 cars. That was the first effect of the entry of more players.
This year, they expect to sell between 6,000-7,000, with more players and more models. Of this number, the oldest player in the segment, Mercedes Benz, has revised its sales target for 08 to 3,000 cars. BMW’s target is 2,000 cars, leaving the balance for the others.
One reason for the higher sales is the aggressive dealer network that the car makers are rolling out. In Pune, for instance, from a situation a few months ago of just Mercedes Benz having a showroom, BMW and Audi have set up dealerships. And Volvo Cars, part of Ford’s Premier Automotive Group (PAG) has declared its intention of setting up dealerships in the country’s top 10 cities, including Pune.
Auto industry analysts claim Pune had a population of about 50 Audis, prior to the opening of the showroom, imported by individuals. Now that there is a dealer in the city, this number has risen dramatically, with at least another 25-30 cars with the four inter-linked circles to be seen on city roads.
Ditto for BMW, which opened a showroom in the city in December 07. While a BMW spokesperson said they do not give city-specific details, the visible effect is everywhere: open a dealership and see sales grow dramatically.
Auto analysts estimate that the western Maharashtra region, excluding Mumbai, which is served by the Pune dealer, could account for the sale of more than 250 Audis annually. And these are cars in the Rs. 42-73 lakh price bracket.
Audi, a Volkswagen group company expects to sell, in the first year, 500 units of just one product, its all-new A4 launched recently in Europe and set to debut in India by July, its managing director, Benoit Tiers, had said at the time of the dealership inauguration a month ago.
The BMW population in the city has also swelled: from just a few head turners, the number of cars with the white and blue twin propellers are becoming a fairly common sight. BMW, which has set a target of selling 2,000 cars this year, with an entry level price of Rs. 30 lakh, has increased assembly capacities at its Chennai plant, anticipating this growth across the country.
Mercedes Benz, which has been locally assembling cars in India for 13 years now, has also upped its annual sales target for 08: it is now 3,000 cars. Not including completely built units (CBUs), Dr Wilfried Aulbur, CEO and managing director, Mercedes Benz India, has stated recently.
There are two specific segments in the high priced car marekt which are growing: sports utility vehicles and the all-new coupe. Take Mitsubishi’s Pajero SFX, the new version of the all-time favourite SUV: it now has a waiting period of two-three weeks. And prospective buyers are depositing the full amount!
YVS Vijay Kumar, vice president and SBU head, Chennai Car plant, Hindustan Motors, said, “We may have to add a second shift at our Chennai plant since there is a waiting list for our premium SUVs. Last month, we had orders for 260 Pajeros and we could only deliver 200. Already, in the first week of April, we had an order book of 150 cars. No additional investment will be required since we already have the capacities installed: the plant is capable of making 24,000 cars annually while we are doing 6,000 now.”
For the moment, Hindustan Motors Mitsubishi Motors is betting on the premium SUV segment, where it has an 18% market share. “We are looking at growing this with the Outlander, which is coming in September,” Mr Vijay Kumar said.
The Audi Q 7, an SUV, is running neck to neck in popularoty with its sedan siblings, industry analysts claimed, with roughly half the bookings being for the SUV. While SUVs have been popularised by politicians, there is another segment which dealers expect will grow significantly: that of the coupe. Mercedes Benz, BMW, Audi and Volvo Cars all have offerings in this segment and each of them is eyeing growth.
The Audi TT, which has an existing population of about six in Pune, could double soon, is the belief of industry watchers, who believe the car maker could, on average, sell one coupe per month in the western Maharashtra region.
The BMW M3 coupe was a head turner at the Auto Expo in Delhi in January, with company officials saying that this set of wheels, priced just under Rs. 75 lakh, had already received a few orders.
Mercedes showed its four-door convertible, the CLK 350, and Volvo Cars’ C70 convertible coupe at the same event.
In 06, 3300 luxury cars were sold in India. This jumped to 4,500 in 07 and the expectation is that in the current year, the number could well touch 7,000. And officials working for the luxury car brands claim that the current economic slow down has not yet hit them: just look out for the March sales figures!
National Lottery and Euro Millions
Author: admin
We’ve always loved the National Lottery website, especially because you can buy tickets online, and now it’s even better. You can also buy tickets for euro millionsThe BIG Friday night National Lottery game with huge prizes!
The look of the site has been refreshed, and is now friendlier and more lively. Plus, as the National Lottery offers a range of different games such as Thunderball, euro millionsand Instant Win Games, the site now makes it easier to differentiate between each one. Click on Buy Draw Tickets from the homepage and it is now more obvious how much each game costs and how much you can win. The new-look Instant Win Games page also features clear images for each of the games and now has the prize levels and prices more clearly marked. The Gallery of past winners is interesting for a quick browse, as is the list of projects that have been funded by the National Lottery and euro millions money. Of course, you’ll need to register if you want to play online.
Going online for the first time to play Lotto proved a positive move for an electrical engineer who landed the £2,855,067 Lotto jackpot on Wednesday 12th March. Peter Heal is now one of the most eligible bachelors in Devon and is already planning for the future with a second home in France at top of his list. The cable laying supervisor has been playing Lotto for some years, but it was the first time he had gone online with his lucky numbers. Peter said: "My parents have retired to France, in the
Poitou-Charentes region south of the Loire, so it would be nice to have a property over there, perhaps one with a vineyard. I’ll keep my house in
Newton Abbot though and I’m looking to get a new car."
National Lottery and Euro Millions
Author: admin
We’ve always loved the National Lottery website, especially because you can buy tickets online, and now it’s even better. You can also buy tickets for euro millionsThe BIG Friday night National Lottery game with huge prizes!
The look of the site has been refreshed, and is now friendlier and more lively. Plus, as the National Lottery offers a range of different games such as Thunderball, euro millionsand Instant Win Games, the site now makes it easier to differentiate between each one. Click on Buy Draw Tickets from the homepage and it is now more obvious how much each game costs and how much you can win. The new-look Instant Win Games page also features clear images for each of the games and now has the prize levels and prices more clearly marked. The Gallery of past winners is interesting for a quick browse, as is the list of projects that have been funded by the National Lottery and euro millions money. Of course, you’ll need to register if you want to play online.
Going online for the first time to play Lotto proved a positive move for an electrical engineer who landed the £2,855,067 Lotto jackpot on Wednesday 12th March. Peter Heal is now one of the most eligible bachelors in Devon and is already planning for the future with a second home in France at top of his list. The cable laying supervisor has been playing Lotto for some years, but it was the first time he had gone online with his lucky numbers. Peter said: “My parents have retired to France, in the Poitou-Charentes region south of the Loire, so it would be nice to have a property over there, perhaps one with a vineyard. I’ll keep my house in Newton Abbot though and I’m looking to get a new car.”
www.wmhaven.com - Full SEO Services
Author: admin
Directory submission is one of the most important steps of web site promotion. This method helps to obtain a great number of incoming links leading to the promoted web site from related pages. However directory submission is rather hard and routine work. And this is one of the reasons why many webmasters avoid this method of increasing Google Page rank and improving SERPs. However the method under consideration has proved itself as an effective one. That is why we offer website directory submission at quite democratic prices on the global net. All you need is just to order directory submission and we will take of the other.
Why you should choose our services? This is quite simple. When you use manual
directory submission you do not know whether this or that directory will submit your web site. As for us, we are able to ensure a 100% website submission in at least 1000 directories. This means at least 1000 incoming links to your web site and it is quite considerable reason why you should contact us in order to promote your web site. Moreover, we offer you another variant – your web site submission to over 1450 directories that are SEO friendly ones. This is also a considerable advantage of our service.
We are looking forward to hearing from you soon.
www.wmhaven.com - Full SEO Services
Have you ever played the World of Warcraft? If yes, then I suppose you are still keeping playing it. However I think you noticed that some players joined this game after you grow much faster than you do. How can this happen. Well it is quite obvious that the matter is the way of playing the game. There are many guides for this game in the World Wide Web however we offer you the best one. Wow leveling guide will help you to move you character fast forward and grow much effectively then your friends characters do. The instruction we offer includes alliance leveling guide as well as horde leveling guide
in one.
But it is also possible to order any of them separately. In any case we can assure you, that you will not be disappointed with the effect of following this guide.
We offer you to order the wow leveling guide and pay for it secure payment system. Then you will receive the 300 pages leveling guide that will help you playing the WOW game. In case you will not experience the effect of the guide we will return you the money you paid for it. Do not waste your time and let your competitors leave you behind and complete 1-70 levels with better figures. Visit zygorguide.com to order the leveling guide right now.
www.wmhaven.com - Full SEO Services
Author: admin
Directory submission is one of the most important steps
of web site promotion. This method helps to obtain a great number of
incoming links leading to the promoted web site from related pages. However
directory submission is rather hard and
routine work. And this is one of the reasons why many webmasters avoid this
method of increasing Google Page rank and improving SERPs. However the
method under consideration has proved itself as an effective one. That is
why we offer website directory submission at quite
democratic prices on the global net. All you need is just to order
submission and we will take of the other.
Why you should choose our services? This is quite simple. When you use
directory submission you do not know whether this or that
directory will submit your web site. As for us, we are able to ensure a
100% website submission in at least 1000 directories. This means at least
1000 incoming links to your web site and it is quite considerable reason
why you should contact us in order to promote your web site. Moreover, we
offer you another variant – your web site submission to over 1450
directories that are SEO friendly ones. This is also a considerable
advantage of our service.
We are looking forward to hearing from you soon.
www.wmhaven.com - Full SEO Services
www.wmhaven.com - Full SEO Services
Author: admin
Directory submission is one of the most important steps of web site promotion. This method helps to obtain a great number of incoming links leading to the promoted web site from related pages. However directory submission is rather hard and routine work. And this is one of the reasons why many webmasters avoid this method of increasing Google Page rank and improving SERPs. However the method under consideration has proved itself as an effective one. That is why we offer website directory submission at quite democratic prices on the global net. All you need is just to order directory submission and we will take of the other.
Why you should choose our services? This is quite simple. When you use manual directory submission you do not know whether this or that directory will submit your web site. As for us, we are able to ensure a 100% website submission in at least 1000 directories. This means at least 1000 incoming links to your web site and it is quite considerable reason why you should contact us in order to promote your web site. Moreover, we offer you another variant – your web site submission to over 1450 directories that are SEO friendly ones. This is also a considerable advantage of our service.
We are looking forward to hearing from you soon.
www.wmhaven.com - Full SEO Services
Have you ever played the World of Warcraft? If yes, then I suppose you
are still keeping playing it. However I think you noticed that some players
joined this game after you grow much faster than you do. How can this
happen. Well it is quite obvious that the matter is the way of playing the
game. There are many guides for this game in the World Wide Web however we
offer you the best one. Wow
leveling guide will help you to move you character fast forward
and grow much effectively then your friends characters do. The instruction
we offer includes alliance
leveling guide as well as
in one. But it is also possible to order any of them separately. In any case
we can assure you, that you will not be disappointed with the effect of
following this guide.
We offer you to order the wow leveling guide and pay
for it secure payment system. Then you will receive the 300 pages leveling
guide that will help you playing the WOW game. In case you will not
experience the effect of the guide we will return you the money you paid
for it. Do not waste your time and let your competitors leave you behind
and complete 1-70 levels with better figures. Visit zygorguide.com to order
the leveling guide right now.
Savings on Used Equipments and Machinery
Author: admin
Sometimes it’s better to think twice before spending a lot of money on new heavy equipment or construction machinery . You can save an large amount of your investment funds by buying used machinery. But before you get to make such a decision you might want to think it through.
Used heavy equipment might be a solution for your business as long as you make sure the used machinery works as it should. Of course, it is used, but used machinery is typically refurbished and has technical reviews. But perhaps your personal experience is better than all that criteria. Even if the used machinery looks just fine, is a famous brand or the seller convinced you about the quality of his or her used machinery, you should get try to test it before you buy it. Always try to test the used machinery before you buy it or have someone to test the used machinery for you. Scrape, dig, lift, dump, push, whatever the vehicle has function for. Go through all the used machinery functions and they all work.
Visual inspection is another way of checking the used heavy equipment. Even if you have already made up your mind about buying used heavy machinery, you should be entitled to a good bargain. And a good bargain means you get good quality used heavy equipment for less. Take your time inspecting the used heavy equipment, and try to cover all the important areas. Used heavy equipment paint quality is not critical. However rust is an issue, so try to see if there are any rust patches or holes covered just for “cosmetic” reason. Grab a tool and try pushing or even hitting on suspected areas of the used heavy machinery to see if there is any rust falling on the ground. Slide under the used machinery and search for leaks. Test the possible leaking problem of the used machinery after you’ve been through the test drive. Also check valves and hoses before the test drive, and see after it if there are any leaks present in these places.
The testing shouldn’t stop here. Listen to the engine running for more than a minute or two. Also listen to the hydraulics when the used heavy equipment is performing its special duties. Try to detect any kind weird smells like burning oil or electrical short circuits. When you get behind the wheel or the levers, try to feel if the controls work as they should. However, you should keep in mind one thing: even the new heavy equipment may be faulty at times, which is why you should be prepared to face all problems that may arise with your used machinery, and not just assume the problem was caused by the fact that the machinery was old.
As a final advice on your shopping adventure for used heavy equipment, try to avoid buying from individuals that have no knowledge of construction equipment. Construction equipment dealers can often provide maintenance service and warranty with your used heavy equipment that can stretch from 30 to 60 days, making sure that unexpected problems will be dealt with professionally.
And, of course, don’t forget to negotiate the price of used heavy equipment. You can find a dealer that is flexible with pricing and negotiation and give you a better deal that a private owner. Good luck shopping for used machinery.