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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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Oct 30 2009

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Frbiz.com reports Mercedes-Benz designers to get design inspiration from the Chinese | ArticlesBase.com

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According to the U.S. “Wall Street Journal,” October 28 reported that 10 years ago, ranked the world's top three well-known automotive design master's Oliver mined in order to obtain a new ultra-luxury brand, Mercedes – Benz inspiration specializes in Japanese The car culture. Now, mine has chosen to 367 U.S. dollars riding on an electric bike with a myriad of Beijing residents through the local streets together, imagine the future of cars.

Bray is a 52-year-old Mercedes – Mercedes-Benz brand in China's chief designer. This year, he moved from Tokyo to Beijing, set up a design studio. Bray said: “China is thinking about the future of the perfect place car. My job is to encourage my staff to challenge the limits, from Beijing to think the future of the global automotive industry.”

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Sep 10 2009

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Germany – Leading the Way in International Freight | ArticlesBase.com

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Germany is actually the largest exporter of merchandise in the world, with a string of famous brands in the luxury automobile sector such as Porsche, Mercedes- Benz and BMW, as well as Audi and Volkswagen also delivering well engineered car exports right across the globe.

The fame of these luxury brands is legendary and they have become symbols of engineering excellence, an industry in which Germany is truly world class. Little wonder then that in order to serve this buoyant and high value export trade, the freight services market has developed in tandem and is able to provide a very high level of service, with a number of specialist facilities offered from a wide range of freight forwarders.

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Jul 19 2009

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Get Paid to Scrap Your Old Van for a New One

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If your smokey old heap rattles rather than roars and takes a while to get going in the mornings it may be time for a trade in. But at a time when every penny counts, is a new van really affordable?

Help is now at hand – thanks to the government's scrappage scheme. So what is it and what does it mean for your old van? Confused.com finds out.

What is the scrappage scheme?

Anyone who wants to trade in a vehicle that's 10 or more years old gets 2,000 off the price of a new one. The 300 million scheme applies to cars and vans and began on May 18, 2009. It will continue until early 2010.

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