2024-02-15 20:21:53
Company Audi announced a change in chief designer: instead of Mark Lichte, who has held this position for ten years, 52-year-old Massimo Fraschella (pictured) will become chief designer. He previously worked for Bertone, Ford and Kia, and for the last thirteen years has been an employee of Jaguar Land Rover. He will take up his new position on June 1. Marc Lichte will remain at Audi, but will move to another, as yet unnamed, position.
And the chief designer BMW Domagoj Dukech first announced the arrival of the M5 station wagon in the US – and quickly denied own words. However, this does not negate the fact that the five-door BMW M5 will still see the light of day. The last time such a version was in the E60/E61 generation, but then only 1,025 five-door Emoks were produced. Civil station wagons of the fifth series with the index G61 were presented quite recently.
Thousands of concern cars Volkswagen detained in US ports. According to the publication Financial Times, the reason for the arrest was the origin of the electronic components used in them. It turned out that they were produced in western China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), and therefore are prohibited from import into the United States based on the local law on the prevention of forced labor of Uyghurs, adopted in 2021. This is not the first and, most likely, not the last “Uyghur incident” of the German concern, because the SAIC-Volkswagen joint venture operates right in the center of the XUAR – the city of Urumqi. It is curious that mostly expensive models were arrested: regarding a thousand Porsches, hundreds of Bentleys and several thousand Audis.
A joint project between Sony and Honda to produce electric vehicles He died It hasn’t really started working yet, but expansion has already been announced. The already presented unnamed liftback will be accompanied by a crossover and a more compact affordable model. But this will not happen soon: even serial production of the liftback is promised only in 2025, a more advanced crossover will be released in 2027, and the third model will arrive a year later.
An updated version was spotted during winter tests Porsche 911, and photo spies came across a rare Targa variant. The 911 has had this elegant format for almost fifty years, since 1965. The debut of the modernized 992.2 family is expected only next year, that is, in time for the 50th anniversary of the Targa version. Unfortunately, there are no details regarding the update itself yet.
Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov officially announced that car production will be organized at the former Toyota plant in St. Petersburg Aurus. But these will not be the already existing executive models Senat and Komendant, but simpler cars. In total, four new models should be put on the conveyor belt of the plant in Shushary, and this project will be implemented “together with industrial foreign partners.”
Also today we talked regarding the Lancia Ypsilon hatchback, the Geely Okavango crossover and the Rezvani Beast hypercar.
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