NEWS: One-77- Aston Martin’s hot new ride

Aston Martin has been the talk of the town lately with the teaser release of its new vehicle the One-77. 

After visiting the website, one could decipher that One-77 probably means that the car is going to be in limited production. The new supercar will be propelled by a 7.0 Litre V12 engine churning 650bph, set on a featherlight Carbon Fibre Chassis and protected by a painstakingly hand beaten all-alluminium body.

Sure it’s not much, but it’s enough to know that this car will be capable of mindblowing performance and also that all 77 would be spoken for even before the first vehicle rolls off the production line in England. Expect to start seeing more pictures of this baby later this year when a proper running model will be developed. Damage is suggested at over a million pounds (more expensive than the Veyron) with sales starting sometime next year.

 

Check it out at: http://www.one-77.com/

NEWS: BMW tightens its pockets

 

Sure it drives great, but will it sell?

The slump in America’s automotive industry has been the cause for much worrying within the big car companies in recent times. Global powerhouses like Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Nissan are resorting to shortening their product range and cutting their labour force to soften the inevitable financial impact of tumbling sales of SUV’s and trucks. 

Now BMW have found themselves tangled in the mess and are even expecting revenues to dip by 40% compared to the same period 2 year ago. Revenue is expected tumble even further unless the Fat cat’s at the Bavarian company act fast and cut some of their costs, quick.

First to go is the new X7. Hardly in its development phase, the Range-Rover rivalling luxury SUV has been indefinately shelved and till demand for these extremely expensive SUV’s pick-up again, you won’t be hearing much of it anytime soon. Second is CEO Norbert Reithofer’s intention of slashing production costs in the Mini department. So unless BMW reaches an agreement to share platforms with Fiat, alternate plans would be for the Mini to hop onto the 1 Series platform. By the way sales of the Mini around the world is SOARING and switching to the longer 1 Series wheelbase would wreck the dynamics of the Mini big time.

So your probably wondering why a photo of the X6 is up. Well I don’t have any idea why its even on the market. It’s no where near being a Coupe(as regarded by Beemer). It’s ugly. Same engine as from the 335i CC. A monstrosity, and it only sits 4. The only saving grace of this would be that it is afterall a BMW, which naturally means it inherits the dynamic driving experience you get from many of their other cars. So with the active Green movement in the automotive industry and also the rocketing prices of fuel, who would actually buy this car? And why would they ever?