Toyota has set out its vision for the future of motoring. It envisages accident-proof eco-cars, powered by a non-polluting engine that can clean the air around it, running on open roads free of congestion. The Japanese group is on course to become the world’s biggest carmaker this year, and says its vision could become reality in 10-20 years.
A painting by United States artist Norman Rockwell that was stolen more than 30 years ago was sold in 1988, and federal officials now are trying to find out who bought it. FBI officials said on Thursday that the agency’s Art Crime Team, created in 2004, has several leads in the theft of Rockwell’s Russian Schoolroom.
Hail the arrival of an all-new car, and hail the arrival, to go with it, of an all-new acronym. You’re thinking: it’s a smallish car with a lot of seats in it, so that would make it a small MPV, or multi-purpose vehicle, right? But you’re wrong. No such tired and misleading labels for the Mazda5.
Cesc Fabregas, lured away from Barcelona where he was youth team captain at 15, finally came of age during the comprehensive 2-0 Champions League quarterfinal win over Juventus on Tuesday. Captain Thierry Henry, who made the first goal for Fabregas and scored the second himself off a pass from the young Spaniard, says: ”He is only 18 but he is old in the head.”
After extending its phenomenal run earlier on Friday, the JSE was in the red just before noon after hitting profit-taking. The weakness was in line with European markets and softer precious metals prices. At 11.57am, the all share index was down 0,86% and 20 499,61.
A seven-year old boy shot in the chest during a third day of sustained rioting by Kurds in eastern Turkey died overnight. The child was fatally wounded on Thursday when about 10 000 angry protesters took to the streets of Diyarbakir, Turkey’s largest Kurdish-majority city, for the funerals of three people killed during the earlier clashes with police.
The United States military plans to detonate a 700-tonne explosive charge in a test called ”Divine Strake” that could send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas. ”I don’t want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you’ll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons,” said James Tegnelia, head of the Defence Threat Reduction Agency.
Three strong earthquakes followed by several aftershocks have jolted western Iran, killing at least 66 people and injuring at least 988, state media reported on Friday. The epicentre was in the mountainous villages south of Boroujerd and north of Doroud in western Iran.
In the highly competitive world of fast cars, sometimes the hottest picture is a snapshot showing little but the wheels. But auto enthusiasts are so anxious to see what a new model will look like that websites and magazines will pay thousands of dollars for pictures of prototypes camouflaged with patches of fabric.
The first Jetta, even Volkswagen employees admit, was nothing more than a "Golf with a rucksack". After that mistake many years ago, VW has gone to great lengths to make the Jetta more than just a sedan version of the hatchback Golf and, for the most part, it has succeeded.