Volkswagen presents new cab car

It looks like Volkswagen is focusing on a new target group. By introducing a new version of the UP, Volkswagen wants to focus more on the taxi drivers. With this new target group Volkswagen wants to increase there sales. When you have more target groups, you will have to develop different kind of cars for each group what takes a lot of effort. But when Volkswagen is able to develop the right car for the right target group there position on the market will be a lot stronger.

In London there is a struggle going on between certain car companies who want to develop the new cabs for London. Volkswagen is one of the companies who wants to provide the new cabs. Nowadays Car manufacturers are more focusing on cars that are fuel efficient. That is why Volkswagen introduced a fuel efficient taxi for the taxi drivers of London. Volkswagen does that because it is of course better for the environment and they hope that there car will be selected for the taxi drivers in London.

The new Volkswagen will have 115 horsepower and a top speed of 120 km/h. The car will be charged for 80 per cent of the 300 km after one hour. Because there is less and less space in the cities, the new UP taxi will not be that big. The UP taxi will be smaller than the Volkswagen Fox, but Volkswagen said that the car will be big and comfortable enough for two adult people and there baggage. The car is not that big but when you look at it or when you are sitting it may look big because of the glass roof and the large windows.

The innovations of the new Volkswagen passat CC

These days car manufacturers have to do a lot of innovations to compete against other manufacturers. If they don't do that they will lag behind compared to other car manufacturers and there market share will decrease because nowadays consumers not only want to have a car but they also want to have an advanced car with the newest equipments. So that is why a lot of manufacturers develop new cars with the latest technology to meet the wants of there consumers.

Volkswagen is also a company that keeps on developing new cars with the newest technology. With these new technology Volkswagen hopes that consumers will prefer there cars instead of a competitor. If Volkswagen is able to establish that, they will have a powerful position on the car market. 

When you look at the new Volkswagen CC you will see that Volkswagen had payed a lot of attention to innovations. The innovations of the Volkswagen CC are  Lane assist, Active cruise control, Self sealing tires and Park assist. Lane assist is a system that will automatically steer the Passat CC back to its own traffic lane when the car went off its own lane without using the turn signal light. This is a great innovation because almost 40 per cent of the car accidents is caused by drivers who unexpectedly move to an other driving lane. So by inventing the line assist, Volkswagen wants to prevent accidents and they want people to feel a lot more saver in the car.

The active cruise control is a system in the car that will keep a minimum distance to the car in front of you. When the car is at its minimum distance, it will automatically slow down and it will automatically speed up when there is enough distance. The new Passat CC will also have self sealing tires. With the self sealing tires you can keep on driving while you have something drilled in your tires. Inside the tire there is a protective layer that will automatically fill up the cap so that the air can not escape. The last new technology of the Volkswagen Passat CC is the park assist. The park assist is a handy help for people that are not good at parking. With one press on the button the car will park by itself without the help of the driver.

With all these innovations, Volkswagen hopes that there sales will increase. The prices of the new Volkswagen Passat CC will start from 39.990 euro.  

BMW: Connected driving

BMW is known as a company that does a lot of innovations. The designers at BMW try to develop a car that is perfect suited to there customers. BMW wants to personalize the car more then ever. They want to make there customers more connected to the car. BMW has created several new services that are called Connected driving. There are two main innovations and these are: BMW assist and BMW online.

BMW assist is an informations service based on a call center. In the car there will be a button witch will connect you with the call center. The call center is able to help you with several things as finding a good restaurant or finding an other location where you are going to. The call center will also assist you when there is an problem somewhere. When there is an accident the call center will help you, they will locate the incident and they can see how bad the problem is so that they can ask for the right help that is needed for the accident.

With the BMW online BMW wants to personalize the car more and more. One of these features is the personalized radio. The personalized radio will make you able to select your own music by downloading it to your car. This is not the only thing that you can download to your car. BMW also made it possible that you can download personal information as news items, weather reports and emails. Of course Google can not be missed. BMW and Google maps are working together to create a system that will be able to send every location that you find on the web to your navigation system in your car.

The new services that BMW has created is available in every new BMW modal. BMW is already thinking of new services as downloading services like I-tunes for in the car and movies. As I said BMW does this because they want there customers to be more connected with the car. They want to let the people know that the car is there second home. With these new innovations BMW will have a better position in the automotive industries because they are the first one who created these new features.

Lotus makes a city car

Nowadays a lot of manufacturers of sport cars make smaller city cars. Aston Martin is almost ready to introduce there new Cygnet. They are doing that because they want to reach an other target group so that they have a bigger consuming market. Aston martin is not the only one who is creating a city car, Lotus is also developing a concept car. 

Lotus will begin the production of this city car in 2013. That is what the chief executive(Dany Bahar) of Lotus said in an interview with a English car magazine. In the interview he also said that they will build the car with Proton and an other company and that the car will be introduced in October 2013. Proton is the Malaysian parent company of Lotus. In Malaysia Proton has a market share of thirty per cent. Dany Bahar thinks that they can get a bigger market share in the automotive industry by making this city car. 

The show model of the new car was equipped with a 1.2-liter range extender motor and that was designed by Lotus itself. The Range extender is a generator for the electro motor of a serie-hybrid. The new Lotus car will not be produced in Great-Brittan. Lotus says that they will build three versions of the car. One for Asia, one for Europe and a version that is a lot faster. They will produce different cars in Asia and in Europe because the people who live in these continents are different from each other. So Lotus will produce a car that will suit the people in each continent. The faster version of the car will be for people who love the Lotus as a real sport car. 

The production of the city car isn't at his peak because Lotus is also developing a new Esprit. When Lotus is done with the Esprit they will focus more on the city car. With the production of the new city car, Lotus wants to compete with other car brands that manufacture city cars and they want to have a bigger market share in the automotive industry.

The new Ford C-max goes to North-Amerika!

Ford has made two new cars. They created the Ford C-max and the Ford Grand C-max. The two cars are a perfect cobination of innovation, style and flexibility. Advanced technology, excellent performance and sustainability of the cars makes you feel better when you are driving. Because of the new technology and the looks of the cars, the Ford C-max and the Grand C-max looks like cars for the future generation.

The two cars are just on the European market. The biggest of the two cars, the one with seven seats, wil be introduced on the North-Amarikan market. Ford does that because the Amerikan people like big cars and they think that the biggest version will make there new strategie succeed.  Because there is no C-max  in North-Amerika, the Grand C-max will be called the C-max. This version of the car with sliding doors has seats for seven people. Ford has designed 5+2 mounting for the seats and that means that the 2 rear seats will not be very big.

As I just mentioned, Ford will introduce there new model in North-Amerika because of there new strategy. Ford wants to go global with there modals so that they can greate a bigger consuming market and they want to have a bigger market share so that there position on the car market will improve. On the new C-segment platform of the new Focus, Ford will introduce ten new models (including the two c-max variants) around the world. So it is possible that Ford will introduce more new cars in the near future.