2010 Chevrolet Camaro
Good news for muscle car enthusiasts living on the “Old Continent”: New Camaro is officially coming to Europe next year!
No precise date is known yet. Neither the pricing. We know that in the US it’s sold for a while now with 3 engine versions to choose from. Weakest one (3.6l V6) produces 304 BHP. There is also V8 available (400 BHP automatic and 426 BHP manual).
The pricing starts from 23k USD and goes up to 36k USD. Ehhh… the US prices – must love them. Probably in Europe the prices will reach 40-50k euro (that’s about twice as much as in US!!!) – so it will be pretty expensive. Especially knowing the US price difference, it seems outrageous.
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Renault banned in China
I just read the news, that China refuses to import Renault cars due to: “safety problems” found by China’s General Administration of Quality Supervision. It have never been more obvious that we are talking about politics here, not the real quality problem.
Renault is famous of their cars safety. All currently sold passenger cars got the highest notes in Euro NCAP safety tests. On the other hand we have China, that produces cars, that are… how to say… “safe the other way” (meaning rubbish). In all NCAP tests, they all got very low safety ratings. And they still allow to drive them there.
Yet they refuse to accept the Renault cars. They blacklisted Laguna, Scenic and Megane models. And nobody knows (besides the Chinese agency) what are the safety problems in particular.
AFAIK there is no special car series produced for Chinese market – Renault is producing the cars for all regions in few of their factories. So it’s pretty safe to assume that Renault didn’t try to sell them “worse quality” versions, as they all come from the same factories.
I think that this ban has something to do with giving he exiled Tibetan spiritual leader – the Dalai Lama, honorary citizenship of Paris three days ago. The award was condemned by Chinese government.
Based on news from: onet.pl