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Jan 01 2010

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VW Combats BMW in a Luxury Car Challenge – The Fight to Number One | ArticlesBase.com

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Volkswagens Audi brand (aka VLKAY) aims to add a whopping eight new models by 2015 directly challenging their major competitor BMW (or BAMXY) as the worlds largest luxury car manufacturer. From VW Parts to top of the line tires, engines, and transmissions, Volkswagen will spend about 10.5 billion trying to roll out these eight new models.

This major investment is actually part of Wolfsburg, Germany-based Volkswagen plans to spend 25.8 billion euros between the years of 2010 and 2012. Their plan is to become the worlds dominating automaker. Due to these challenges, Audi, which is number three behind BMW and Daimlers (DAI) Mercedes-Benz brand, will increase their line up of new cars and sport-utility vehicles. It was raised from 34 to a new 42 models in hopes of competing successfully. Due to Audis hard work and ties with Volkswagen, VW is doing anything they can to beat out Mercedes and take the number two, and eventually number two spot worldwide.

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May 28 2008

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Luxury Car Hybrid SUV For Reduced Fuel Costs

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Calculating gas mileage and car options to consider when looking for improved fuel consumption

Every car manufacturer is looking for new technologies that will allow it to make fuel-efficient cars. Vehicles that will offer significant better mileage and lower polluting emissions. This is how hybrid cars were born. Fuel costs have risen significantly and cars consume a lot of fuel especially when driving around town. Large engines eat up significant amounts of gasoline or diesel fuel and using hybrid technologies is intended to improve the cars mileage and reduce its emissions. There are several small and medium sized hybrid cars (Honda and Toyota are offering their Prius and Civic sedan hybrid) on the market today. However, although you can buy a small hybrid car, until recently you were unable to buy a car hybrid SUV. Large 4×4 SUVs are heavier, need larger and more powerful engines to accelerate them to highway cruising speeds and people buying them were not particularly interested in fuel economy. However, the market has changed and while the demand for large SUVs is on the rise, so is the demand for more economical 4x4s.

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