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Toyota in new £1bn investment in China and Mexico!

The Japanese carmaker Toyota is planning to invest Y150bn ( £1bn) to build new plants in Mexico to target better sales in US and China. The two plants are expected to increase Toyota’s annual production capacity by 300,000 vehicles. The group last year sold 10.23m cars and trucks Whizzing past their rival Germany’s VW 10.14m.…

Jeep explosion, Walden family awared £100m exposed design weakness

A US jury of 11 women and 2 man, has awarded £100M ($150m) to the Walden family of a four-year old boy that died in a crash involving a Jeep Grand Cherokee in 2012, after a nine-day trail that Chrysler acted with reckless disregard for human life in selling the family of Remington, a 1999…

British Government is Investing £19m for the driverless car Transport Minister Claire Perry is set to announce next week about the trials and use of Self-driving cars on British roads, following a 6 month study into the practical, legal and safety issues of driverless cars. Driverless cars are safer and neither get drunk, nor have accidents (the only exception was…

Three mechanical engineering students from Government Engineering college at Barton Hill in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, designed and developed a prototype vehicle which runs upto 125miles per litre of petrol. This will be one of the 12o entrants competing for fuel efficiency contest ” Shell Eco Marathon” to be held at Phillippines between 26th February and 1st March.…

Most cars with adaptive cruise control monitor what’s up ahead to automatically manage distance and braking. Now, Honda is taking the idea one step further by actively tracking and analysing vehicles in neighbouring lanes. Its new system is called Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control and should, in theory, make assisted driving a little safer and smoother.…

First bus that runs on water in Mumbai

Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai will get the first bus that can run on water surface, a move that will push more tourism activities in ports. Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Mumbai will get the first bus that can run on water surface, a move that will make Mumbai ports a major tourist attraction according to…