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Il V8 diesel BMW e' uno flop...non vendono piu' di 2.000/2.200 motori l'anno...dunque non so che futuro avra' tale motorizzazione...

Forse non hai capito bene, le vendite dei SUV,ATV,Crossover,Minivan come quelle dei pickup sono incluse nelle statistiche nei light trucks...e sono pure quelle chiamate dalla gente trucks punto e fine della discussione!

Ma scherziamo le vendite di SUV,ATV,Crossover e Minivan insieme ai pickup compongono i cosidetti light truck che sono il 40-45% piu' o meno del mercato americano, dunque e' come dico!

Fiat di sicuro vuole entrare come Abarth con Abarth 500 nel segmento di Mini Cooper...mentre avrebbe interesse anche una entrata con il Fiat 500 con il bicilindrico Multiair Turbo..come avrebbe interesse la Fiat Topolino come rivale di Smart Fortwo...il mercato americano cambia e quelli sono prodotti adatti per quello...come lo sarebbe una sportiva Abarth...o una roadster Fiat pure...

sono molti piu' di 10.000.000......e il 40% sara' truck...ma forse non sai cosa intendono loro come truck.....truck non sono solo i pickup e vetture passeggeri derivate dai LCV ma anche gli SUV gli ATV i Crossover i Minivan come chiamano loro i monovolumi...

Audi lures Ford buyers with A4 Avant James Franey Automotive News Europe March 5, 2008 13:59 CET GENEVA -- Audi expects to win customers from volume manufacturers for its new A4 Avant station wagon. The A4 Avant will attract buyers of similarly sized cars from Ford, Opel and Peugeot, said Michael Renz, Audi's head of central marketing. Renz said that he expects the A4 Avant to win customers who normally buy Ford Focus or Opel Astra station wagons " who want to upgrade to a premium brand for the first time." Renz said that the sporty styling of the new A4 Avant would attract buyers. " We will gain a lot of customers from volume brands," Renz told Automotive News Europe. The fourth-generation of the car is sleeker and sportier than its predecessor. It has a lower roofline and more aggressively styled headlights and taillights. Audi debuted the A4 Avant at the Geneva auto show. It goes on sale starting in the spring. Non e che Renz ha le idee confuse riguardo le SW generaliste di simili dimensioni?....sono Mondeo SW,Vectra SW etc.....non certamente Focus SW o Astra SW...

alfa romeo 450cv@7000giri 480nm@4750giri maserati 440cv@7000giri 490nm@4750giri

in sintesi, Alfa Romeo potrebbe usare le 8C nelle sue pubblicita' per aumentare l'immagine del marchio. Luca De Meo considera di creare una campagna pubblicitaria che dovrebbe legare le due supersportive ai modelli di serie, De Meo ha detto "8C Competizione e 8C Spider rappesentano la vera essenza del marchio Alfa, sarebbe un peccato lasciarle nei garages dei collezionisti.... "

costera' tra i 125.000 e i 130.000 euro la GranTurismo S

Edit by J-Gian: Alfa wants ad boost from 8C supercar Luca Ciferri Automotive News Europe March 5, 2008 15:36 CET GENEVA -- Alfa Romeo could use its 8C supercars in advertising to give the brand an image boost. Alfa Romeo CEO Luca De Meo is considering creating an advertising campaign to link the limited-edition supercars to its volume models. " The 8C Competizione and 8C Spider represent the true essence of the Alfa brand and it is a pity just to leave them in the garages of collectors," De Meo said. Alfa unveiled the 8C Spider at the auto show here. The 8C is a convertible version of its flagship 8C Competizione coupe that went on sale in Europe last October. The 8C Spider will go on sale in Europe early next year. It will start at 210,000 euros in Italy, 45,000 euros more than the coupe. Alfa will build just 500 units of the 8C Spider and the same number for the 8C Competizione. Alfa's main plant in Pomigliano d'Arco, Italy, resumed production on Monday after a two-month stoppage to refurbish its assembly line and retrain workers. The plant has been hit by quality problems. De Meo said Alfa lost nearly 25,000 units because of the stoppage. " We are trying our best to recover most of this lost volume in the coming months, planning to close the year with about 144,000 sales, the same level of 2007," he said.

Mexico e la cosidetta america centrale fanno parte sia geologicamente che geograficamente del subcontinente nordamericano....

"The "Big Three" (General Motors, Ford and Chrysler) have been operating in Mexico since the 1930s, while Volkswagen and Nissan built their plants in the 1960s.[37] Now, Honda, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz joined in. Given the high requirements of North-American components in the industry, many European and Asian parts suppliers have also moved to Mexico: in Puebla alone, 70 industrial part-makers cluster around Volkswagen." Honda per esempio produce l'ibrido in mexico.... MB e BMW producono componenti o gruppi che poi vengono montate nei loro stabilimenti americani.... C'e' in generale una grande migrazione di industrie di componentistica in Mexico...

fantastica!

4691cm3 440cv@7000giri 490nm@4750giri lunghezza 4881mm larghezza 1915mm altezza 1353mm passo a secco 1780kg peso in ordine di marcia(senza conducente) 1880kg consumo ciclo combinato 16,6lt/100km 0-100km/h 4"9 0-400m 13"0 0-1000m 23"0

quando ci saranno Lancia con guida a destra....e la priorita' per le rhd va a UK Japan e AUS/NZL...quando sara' completata la reintroduzione del marchio nei mercati elencati...allora si parlera' anche della sua introduzione in India...

550.000...costa 1.550.000 tasse escluse sta Veyron FauBourG Hermes...

per il momento non e' prevista la commercializzazione Lancia in India...e comunque come in Cina sara' la seg.D ad essere assemblata li...

E' stato gia' annunciato all'ultimo salone indiano...che dopo l'entrata nel mercato quest'anno per Alfa e piu' tardi nel 2008 per Ferrari e Maserati...stimano che entro 2009/10 dovrebbero assemblare Alfa Romeo in India per il mercato locale...Mercedes lo fa gia' e senza avere un partner locale come Tata...comunque assemblare auto e' la via unica coi dazi sulle vetture di importazione

off topic: dal 2009/10 Alfa Romeo dovrebbe assemblare auto anche in India per il mercato locale.

No ci sono problemi di immagine.

Le opzioni sono due o Mexico, o uno stato canadese, comunque entro la fine dell'anno dovrebbero decidere dove fare la nuova fabbrica.

Alfa Romeo could build cars in Mexico for U.S. Reuters March 4, 2008 - 3:25 pm ET GENEVA (Reuters) -- Italy's Fiat SpA is considering Mexico as a base to build its Alfa Romeo sports cars for export to the United States, a huge market where it plans to return sometime after 2008. Fiat has been thinking about building the cars somewhere in North America to avoid the cost of exporting them from Italy, given the euro's strength against the dollar. "It could be Mexico," CEO Sergio Marchionne told Reuters Tuesday at the Geneva auto show when asked whether that country could be a likely location for a plant. Fiat should decide later this year what to do, he added. The head of Alfa Romeo, Luca De Meo, told Reuters in an interview that he and his team have yet to decide on what models to sell in the United States. Details including the kind of distribution network to use should be disclosed in the coming months, he said. Although Marchionne had previously set 2009 as the year to enter the United States, De Meo declined to confirm it. But he said he had already started thinking about other markets where Alfa Romeo is present by reputation only. "The United States is fine but there are also other regions where Alfa Romeo can use its image (to its advantage)," he said, citing China, Russia and South America as possibilities. De Meo spoke to Reuters after showing off a convertible version of the Alfa 8C, a special edition car. Like the hardtop 8C, only 500 units of the convertible version will be sold. De Meo took charge of Alfa Romeo in December after succeeding in turning around the Fiat brand. Alfa Romeo is seen by analysts as a bigger challenge for him, however. Although it could generate the biggest profit margins among Fiat's three brands, it needs a lot of work. Its sales are mediocre and it loses trunkloads of money. Years of poor parts and service have given it a bad name, denying it the premium status enjoyed by rivals like Volkswagen AG's Audi and BMW AG. De Meo's predecessor, Antonio Baravalle, had focused on improving customer service and expanding the dealer network in Germany and United Kingdom, two key markets in which to expand. The revival of the brand has included a refurbishment of its main plant at Pomigliano d'Arco in Italy; but the plant's closure for the last two months has led to a loss of sales. De Meo said one of his priorities this year is to try to recover those sales. Another priority is the launch of a compact car with the working name of the Junior. The car would mark Alfa Romeo's entry into a new segment with a younger clientele. As he works towards the 2010 sales targets set by Marchionne for every division within the Fiat industrial group, De Meo said he hopes to restore Alfa Romeo's place among premium brands by the time of its 100th anniversary on June 25, 2010. "We need to restore the values of Alfa Romeo," he said, adding that the brand's birthday could be marked by the launch of a new model apart from the 149 and 169 scheduled to come to market in the coming years. Due i punti fondamentali, che potrebbe produrre auto in Mexico per il Nord America e dovrebbe prendere una decisione entro la fine dell'anno, da quello che so Canada e' l'altra opzione...e infine dicendo che dobbiamo restaurare i valori alfa romeo conferma che al 100imo compleanno di Alfa Romeo potrebbe essere lanciato un nuovo modello che non e' 940 oppure 941...

Non sono d'accordo, se alla fine verra' propposta perche per il momento e' una ipotesi e speriamo che rimane come tale, dovrebbe essere offerta come un pack depotenziato della 1.4 aspirata destinato esclusivamente ai neopatentati italiani, non come versione normale come nel caso di 1.6 TS 105.

tra l'altro hai messo la A3 con il navigatore e volante sportivo( sportline? S3? )...e Delta senza nav....