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After eleven consecutive years of presence in advertising the Oscars, the ceremony of 2009 will be the first to disappear for GM. The reduction of funds for marketing and advertising has already resulted in the abandonment of the sponsorship of televised Super Bowl, and now the portfolio of events advertised by GM disappear and Oscar and Emmy Awards.

No fear for ABC television, which has already found a worthy replacement to the Americans in Detroit in Hyundai. The house Korean inject several million dollars in the coffers of (something like advertising slots from 1.7 million each), after appropriate right in those areas that up to a year ago were the colossus of Michigan.

The 500 is certainly a success for Fiat car in Italy and abroad sales carry a swollen sails and enthusiasm around the project does not seem to decline. And if you appreciate “the Cinquina” are also French, eternal rivals also in the car, it means that the small Italian car is really good and well built. France has many admirers of the old and the new 500 and, after about a year from commercial, two major French auto magazine for the first stretch a budget of the Italian model.

The ‘Automobile Magazine “appreciates the sheet metal assembly and quality of painting, but the opinion on internal, while positive, is less flattering: the fault of some detail not up to a set of well-conceived. Also promoted engines brilliant but, above all, reliable.

Halfway between experiments “genetic mechanics and pure identity crisis, some of the latest creations from car manufacturers are expected to be an attempt to synthesis between the concepts of functionality often the antithesis. And here comes that the saloon-coupe , the Sav, the cross-over sports …

Experiments that can sometimes good and enshrine the emergence of real segments car (Mercedes-Benz CLS), but sometimes leaving in doubt (BMW X6) or are entirely market-bistrattati (MB class R).

Here’s a new car gallery dedicated to the restyling of the Maserati Quattroporte, which has led to new lights front and rear, improvements in domestic and especially proposes the S version with the new 4.7-liter 430Cv as an alternative to V8 4.2 from 400Cv common to previous series.

The number of debuts announced it is now very high, the hall of Paris will herald rich than ever new car. According Carscoop Volkswagen Car also not rinunciera the limelight French and then, along with the Golf 6 and its first special version, the Collectors Edition of the photos, will present to preview the GTI.

Following the theory “evolution” of this sixth generation, the GTI should resume the speech concluded with the Golf V GTI just out of production, confirming the 2.0 TFSI in its latest version evolved with manual or DSG.

Now the race to small car, possibly electric or hybrid, has become a must for all manufacturers to grips with the increasingly stringent European and U.S. CO2 emissions at the range. Even if they are months, almost years, that well-informed people know that in the basement of Monaco there are already prepared several prototypes of this little BMW to test the combination electric or internal combustion more efficient, at official level had never been admitted nothing about it and as regards the summits of the House the only study concrete piccolina propelled electricity remained the concept E1 of 1991.

But the time entries corridor is finally finished with a recent and unequivocal statement by Norbert Reithofer to German weekly Die Zeit: “It will be a machine with a completely new look, with two engines available. One of the two engines will be internal combustion, but very efficient and another will be purely electric.

And we are two: that of photographers NextAutos is the second sighting of a prototype Jaguar XK “too silent” for a traditional propeller. The theatre of the scoop this time was the Nürburgring and the clues are more or less the same as of the time: bumper masked, but other than the next restyling (both front and back) and bonnet of the XK-R.

This second sighting gives more credibility in the idea-hybrid and the same away-that perhaps the most-feared he wanted a new car diesel V6 under the bonnet of coupe Coventry. The new unit propulsive should then be mounted on the XJ of 2010 and some Land Rover models.

It will not be the only Chevrolet Cruze to hold high the name of General Motors on the Paris Mondial: Even if fails to get the newest Volt, the U.S. group will go forward with a concept car of its Swedish subsidiary Saab: this is the earliest photos of 9-X car.

The novelty other Scandinavian actually is not that the discovery of 9-X BioHybrid presented in Geneva. Its characteristic element will be the coverage, that since this is a prototype rather advanced, will not be a trivial solution in canvas. For the rest, when we know very little. We just have to wait for some news from General Motors Italy.