The Bienville Legacy looks like somebody had dismantled a chronograph forged by a Swiss master, then enlarged the parts and painstakingly pieced them back together to create an enhanced motorcycle that showcases flawless engineering and design.
The Rolls-Royce Wraith is back again! The last time, it had drawn inspiration from film, but this latest design is “inspired by fashion”. The designers from Rolls-Royce had used materials, colours and textures from the world of Haute Couture for this iteration of the Wraith.
As car-sharing services become more popular, perhaps even ubiquitous in communities across the world one day, one thing is certain – conventional automakers want in.
After Datsun’s lacklustre performance.
Automakers have been seeking to strengthen their foothold on the emerging automobile market in India. Last year, Nissan revived the Datsun brand with that aspiration, but so far has experienced moderate success and an immoderate number of issues with the Datsun GO. The GO, which raison d’être is to help Nissan capture market share in emerging markets like India and Indonesia, has only managed sales of about 16,000 units; that’s about the sales figure achieved by the nation’s best selling car and the GO’s intended rival, Maruti Suzuki’s Alto, in just a month.
In a case of real life mimicking art, two Fast and Furious wannabes have made the headlines just as the seventh edition of the film hits the silver screen in China. The latest offering from the Fast and Furious franchise, not so imaginatively entitled Fast and Furious Seven, smashed box office records in China after grossing US$59 million in ticket sales in one day. However, headlines in Beijing were more interested in the spectacular car crash that seemed to happen during a real life sports car drag race that totalled a Lamborghini and Ferrari, and left two other luxury cars needing a bit of time in the repair shop.
Perodua president and CEO, Datuk Aminar Rashid, revealed during a media briefing last Thursday that the Malaysian automaker has a sedan approved and in the prototype stage, in which the upcoming model’s engine, platform and transmission is being evaluated. According to Aminar, the sedan will be launched sometime next year or the year after, but not as late as 2019 or 2020. This will be the first sedan model ever for the automaker, which current product range only has A- and B-segment cars and a compact MPV.