| Vehicle thieves targeted Toyota vans |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
A crime ring suspected of stealing more than 30 Toyota vans has been arrested by police. All six members of the group were arrested at five addresses in the Counties Manukau district last Thursday as part of "Operation Jafa", police said. They were all members of an "organised" crime group that stole 38 Toyota Hiace vans between October 2012 and February this year, none of which ...
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| Cars septic tanks surface on Southamptons storm-battered Flying Point Beach |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
Photo credit: Fred Havemeyer | A recent storm accompanied by high tides revealed several cars buried in the 1960s in the sand along Water Mill Beach to help combat erosion. Empty septic tanks at the base of a private bulkhead were also ...
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| Charges sought over $4m luxury cars pile-up |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
This file picture taken on December 4, 2011 shows crashed Ferrari sports cars on the Chugoku highway in Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi prefecture, western ...
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| Toyota to recall 4400 units of FJ Cruiser cars in China over seat belt flaws |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
The Japanese automaker Toyota will recall some 4,400 units of FJ Cruiser cars in China over seat belt flaws, China's consumer quality watchdog said Saturday. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said on its website that Toyota China will recall these imported cars produced between December 2007 and March 2013. Toyota is busy working on ...
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| Rey Resources Mitsubishi buy into Buru permits |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
Buru Energy has sold off interests in two petroleum exploration permits in the Canning Basin to Rey Resources and Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation for cash considerations of around $21 million. Buru announced today that Rey Resources had acquired a 15 per cent stake in two of the permits, EP457 and EP458, known as the Fitzroy Blocks, for just over $6 million. Rey said the acquisition would ...
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| Examining the Ferrari LaFerrari at the Geneva Auto Show |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
the Accord is so good . In marked contrast to this ceaseless Darwinian progress are vehicles like the Ferrari hypercar pictured above. Cars of this type are more like the radioactive platypuses of the automotive world, existing as outrageous outliers in their own genus, with little linking them to any other forms of transportational life. Rather than progressing steadily in a continuous thread, ...
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| Guangdong to boost new energy auto industry |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
/enpproperty--> Guangdong provincial government hopes to boost its total production capacity for new energy automobiles to more than 200,000 units, and its annual output to 50,000 units by 2015. The province's Development and Reform Commission said that more than 57.34 billion yuan ($9.22 billion) will be invested into 66 key new energy projects in the industry between 2015 and 2020. ...
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| Haslam signs bill for guns in cars |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
Gov. Haslam has signed the guns-in-trunks bill into law. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill Thursday to allow handgun permit holders to carry guns in their vehicles while at work, according to the Nashville Business Journal. The bill, which removes criminal penalties against permit holders for keeping a gun locked in their cars while at work, was opposed by business groups, though not as ...
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| Subsidies retained for green cars minister |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
/enpproperty--> BEIJING -- The central goverment will increase its subsidies for energy-saving cars and vehicles that run on alternate fuel sources in 2013, a ministry official has said. Miao Wei, minister of industry and information technology, said the country will fine-tune the subsidy policy by introducing a ranking system that measures the amount of energy that a given car is capable of ...
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| Toyota Ranz concept to debut Shanghai auto show 2013 |
Mar 18th, 2013 |
electric vehicle s called Ranz. The first concept model, carrying FAW-Toyota's self-developed brand, is based on the platform of the Toyota Corolla Ex and will make its debut at ...
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