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New Mitsubishi Global Small model Sketches

Posted: 21 Dec 2010 03:38 AM PST

Japanese car manufacturer – Mitsubishi has released two sketches of a future vehicle of theirs, This new small model is currently referred to as Global Small and is slightly smaller than the popular Colt model.

The new Mitsubishi Global Small car will be a five-door hatchback, it is due to be launched in 2011 and will be produced at the new Mitsubishi factory in Thailand.

The 2011 Mitsubishi Global Small will be in the compact car class and comes with a choice of two engines: a 1.0-liter and a 1.2-liter.

Initially, the company are planning to produce 150,000 units per year, with the production going increasing up to 200,000 units per year later in the future.

The 2011 Mitsubishi global Small is built on a completely new platform, which promises to be compact, affordable and fuel efficient.

We will bring you more information about this new compact car when Mitsubishi release the details next year.

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Europe Developing Self Driving Cars

Posted: 20 Dec 2010 08:45 AM PST

A new project has kicked off in Europe called SARTRE, which aims to develop the first self driving cars. The SARTRE project has received funding from the European Commission under the Framework 7 program.

According to the group responsible for the project, platoons of vehicles will drive on normal highways by them selves in the near future. The developers of the self driving cars believe they will reduce the impact on the environment while increasing road safety and comfort.

The project of developing the self driving cars is led by Ricardo UK Ltd in collaboration with Idiada and Robotiker-Tecnalia of Spain, Institut for Kraftfahrwesen Aachen (IKA) of Germany, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Volvo Car Corporation and Volvo Technology of Sweden.

These self driving cars will have to be able to interact with regular vehicles, and will have to be able to operate on the current European highways.

In fact the cars will not be completely autonomous, they be set up like a train, the first car in the road train will be driven by an actual person (professional driver) and the following cars will be autonomous allowing the drivers to do things that are otherwise prohibited (like texting or talking on the mobile phone, for example).

At this point they haven’t announced a date when the new self driving cars will hit the streets of Europe.

We will bring more information on this project as soon as it is available.

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