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BMW Launches Website Detailing Entire Production History Through 2008

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BMW has launched a new website that catalogs every model it manufactured between 1928 and 2008. However, its comprehensive and includes every model built by the automaker through 2008 and any relevant details about a particular model. 3 Series), albeit with all information ending in the 2008 model year.

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How Are We Feeling About The Automotive Market These Days?

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Baby Boomers) are also starting to age out of driving, with many already having purchased their final automobile. Does that mean the industry is doomed and were about to see a crisis surpassing the bailouts witnessed in 2008 ? Wages havent even kept pace with inflation, let alone automotive pricing. Not necessarily.

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Hyundai exec receives medal from Czech Republic for fostering bilateral relations

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Hyundai’s Nosovice plant has been operating since 2008 and is the automaker’s production hub in Europe. Its Izmit plant in Trkiye will boost Hyundai’s production capacity to meet the demand for greener automobiles in the European market. Hyundai isn’t only focusing on the European market.

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The Starting Line for Self-Driving Cars

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He loaned it to the museum in 2006, and since 2008 it has resided permanently in the museums collections, alongside other remarkable specimens in robotics and automobiles. Recalling his experience testing Minerva at the National Museum of American History, Thrun thought the museum would make a nice home.

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IIHS Investigates How Vehicle Sizing Differences Impacts Crash Safety

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Modern automobiles are quite massive when compared to their predecessors, undoubtedly contributing to the rise of serious accidents and fatalities witnessed since roughly 2015. Drivers are still much better off now than they were at any point before 2008. Weve been discussing the relevance of vehicle sizing disparities for years.

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Gas War: Congress Considers Revoking California Emission Waivers

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The issue came to a head in 2008, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revoked the waiver on the grounds that greenhouse gas emissions were not limited to the region and should thereby be a federal issue. emission policy for decades. Many Democrats are insisting California retain the waivers as the U.S.

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Study finds 2008 recession contributed to increase in age of US LDV fleet, slowing of emission reductions

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The global economic recession of 2008—which severely depressed light-duty vehicle sales—resulted in an increase in the age of the light-duty vehicle fleet in the US that likely slowed the rate of decrease of fleet average emissions, according to a study by Gary Bishop and Donald Stedman at the University of Denver. Technol. ,

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