Taipei, Nov. 14, 2012 (CENS)--To boost sales volume, Mercedes-Benz Taiwan recently introduced the entry-level A-Class, priced about NT$1.45 million (US$48,333) or the lowest among all Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Mercedes-Benz Taiwan has taken ...
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IDG News Service-Honda will begin tests next year of a small electric vehicle that uses a driver's tablet for displaying dashboard readings,audio,navigation and images from its rearview camera,it said Tuesday. The company's new"Micro ...
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Paying more for a new car doesn't guarantee that it will be reliable. Fuel-efficient hatchbacks, wagons, compact sports sedans, compact pickups, and small SUVs are the most reliable vehicles according to our 2012 Annual Auto Survey, which ...
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There are some tempting car lease ads right now, but are they truly good deals? Perhaps they are useful in the short-term, but our analysis of recent newspaper ads reveal that traditional buying leads to long-term savings. We looked at ...
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Fall has arrived, and with it comes the official annual change over in new car models. This can be a great time for car shoppers, with deep, closeout discounts available on many models. Before you choose to buy a 2012, do the math and ...
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Buying used cars has long been a common strategy to save money. But now shoppers are being squeezed between higher-than-usual used car prices and a growing selection of increasingly fuel-efficient new cars. That's the conclusion of a new ...
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Lately, we've seen a proliferation of cars in our test program that require extra-thin 0W-20-weight synthetic oil. And while this was pretty exotic engine lubricant just a couple of years ago, the cars requiring this expensive synthetic oil ...
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Look up "pressure" in the dictionary and somewhere, a few entries down, you'll see this: "Redesigning the Honda Accord." Not only is the Accord Honda's best-seller here, it also competes against an avalanche of rather competent family ...
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Quick reaction to market fluctuations and flexible manufacturing capabilities have helped many Taiwanese manufacturers of machining centers to escape the impact of economic recession in major markets.Those markets include mainland ...
Automotive ICs have remained a bright spot for the industry and should be almost a$20bn market this year,says IC Insights. One of the silver linings to the automotive downturn in 2008 was that it initiated a massive and perhaps long ...
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Insurance broker Brightside has formed a partnership with the high street retailer Debenhams to introduce a new car insurance product. The product will be available through the retailer's website and its UK-based call centres. ...
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The lighting manufacturer Osram has taken a major step toward organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) that are suitable for automotive applications. For the first time the company has developed an OLED that proved capable of withstanding ...
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By 2015, the European Parliament wants all new cars to automatically alert emergency services in case of a crash, a service known as eCall. The Parliament adopted a resolution to this effect in a show of hands on Tuesday, and urged the ...
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Taiwan’s hand tool industry is pursuing sustainable development for the next decade after surging between the 1970s and 1990s and maturing in the 2000s. Matt Yang, project manager of the Office to Revitalize Traditional Industries at ...
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A diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition engine) is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber. This is in contrast to ...
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