Company Geely spoke about a new non-contact method of selling cars that has been operating in China since February 10. Buyers order and pay for cars on a special online platform. Applications are sent to local dealers, they thoroughly disinfect the vehicles (including using ionization) and bring them to the specified address. And the keys to the cars are delivered separately with the help of drones that fly directly to the door or balcony of customers. Under the new scheme, more than ten thousand Geely cars have already been sold.
A slide of a closed presentation of the company leaked to the Network Toyota, which shows the order of release of new models for the US market. Already this fall, a new generation Sienna minivan and a certain crossover will be presented, both models being hybrids. In the summer of 2021, the Toyota 86 coupe of the next generation is scheduled to debut, a compact SUV will appear in the third quarter, and a new Tundra pickup in the fourth. Finally, in 2022, the successors of the already elderly Sequoia and 4Runner SUVs are expected.
Announced an updated crossover Honda Avancier for the Chinese market. He will acquire modified bumpers and a radiator grill, but the equipment will remain the same – this is a basic 1.5 turbo engine (193 hp) with a CVT and a two-liter turbocharged engine (272 hp) and a nine-speed automatic. The premiere of the model will take place in a few days.
Companies Volkswagen and Audi at the same time, they published creative social advertising urging people to “keep their distance” in order to overcome the impending crisis. A distinctive feature was the changed company logos that beat this topic. Four Audi branded rings stretched out in a line of separate circles, and a void formed between the letters V and W separated in different directions on the emblem of the “parent” company.
Firm G power introduced a package of improvements for the BMW M8. The return of the biturbo eight is 4.4, which produces 600 hp. standard and 625 hp in the Competition version, it was increased to 820 hp, and the torque was raised from 750 to 1000 Nm. However, for those who do not want to change the factory characteristics so much, the creators also offer two intermediate options for forcing. In the first case, the engine output is increased to 720 hp. and 850 Nm, and in the second – up to 770 hp and 930 Nm. Externally, such modified “emki” can be identified by the G-Power logos on the body and special forged wheels with a diameter of 21 inches.
Company Lamborghini published a teaser of the future track supercar built on the basis of the Aventador model. Now the car is undergoing fine-tuning on the race track. So far, the company has only confirmed that the new supercar will have a modified atmospheric V12 engine from Aventador, and its output will be 830 hp.
According to the National Bureau of Credit Histories (NBCH), for the first two months of 2020, Russians bought on credit 128.3 thousand new and used cars. This is 15.9% more than for the same period of 2019. At the same time, the number of applications for registration of car loans has grown much more, but if last year banks for the specified period approved 47% of client applications for car loans, at the beginning of 2020 – only 34%. Recall that sales of new cars in January-February fell by 0.5%.
Also today we talked about reducing the warranty for Hyundai Solaris and Creta cars, assembling Lada models at ZAZ, modernizing AvtoVAZ, the future Hyundai H-1 minivan and Russian prices for Mitsubishi ASX crossovers.
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