Category: Auto

The total of 419,200 cars sold, however, meant only a meager plus of 0.1 percent compared to the same month the year before (418,600). As the company reported in wolfsburg on tuesday, growth in registrations in western europe and china cooled off. In other markets such as the USA and russia, however, sales continued to rise.

Europe’s industry leader had already hinted in recent months at a possible downturn in the auto market and warned of caution in view of future developments. VW board member for sales christian klingler nevertheless spoke of a stable start to 2012: "despite the volatile development, especially in europe, we were able to maintain the previous year’s high level of deliveries."

Shortly after 14.3 p.M. A 72-year-old man from the district of kulmbach wanted to turn onto the bundesstrabe in his BMW coming from schwarzach. He overlooked the audi A8 of a 77 and 74 year old couple from burgkunstadt approaching from the direction of kulmbach. The driver of the aud was unable to prevent a collision and crashed with full force into the driver’s side of the BMW.

The driver of this car suffered fatal injuries as a result of the collision. He died despite all efforts of an emergency medical team still at the accident place. His 71-year-old female passenger from kulmbach and the couple in the audi had to be taken to nearby hospitals by the emergency medical services with serious injuries.

Shortage of semiconductors makes ready-to-sell new cars a scarce commodity on the german market. For this reason, there are few reasons for dealers and manufacturers to provide additional incentives to buy.

This is the finding of auto expert ferdinand dudenhoffer in the latest discount study by his duisburg car institute. "The german car market is suffering from the semiconductor crisis and new car buyers have to live with long delivery times and higher net prices."

"We should switch to electromobility", county councilman wolfgang fees (SPD) was convinced at the end of the environment committee meeting. The district administration’s fleet of company cars is to be successively expanded to include more electric vehicles. The board decided to give preference to e-vehicles when leasing or purchasing new vehicles in the future.

The suggestion came from the climate protection manager of the district office, dominik bigge. Background is the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the county. In contrast to diesel and gasoline vehicles, electric vehicles do not produce any CO2 on site.

Robot car company waymo is bracing itself for the fact that software for self-driving cars won’t take humans off the wheel completely.

"We will continue to see an incredible number of interesting cars for human drivers, perhaps even more than in the past," the head of the google sister company, john krafcik, told "auto motor und sport" magazine. Autonomous driving, on the other hand, could help with commuting and make roads safer.

Cars as far as the eye can see. Especially the tuned vehicles attract astonished looks. It's the "VW&" again audi days" in geiselwind. Stephan fleischmann is the owner of one such eye-catcher.
He had traveled 180 kilometers with his polo 6N1, year of construction 94, to the fan meeting at the autohof strohofer, in order to be there for the first time at the "VW& audi days to be there. Its "from the ground up completely tuned polo has given him the name "poloholix" in the scene brought in. "The polo took around four years to build. And every winter we continue to work on it", explains stephan fleischmann.
He has painted the ornament in brown tones and attached many details, such as dollar bills, to the car. "I'm into chic and wanted to give the whole thing a bit of an oldschool look," explains, says the tuner. The brauntone recently gave his car the nickname "toffifee" brought to. That's why he has also put a pack of the subigkeiten in a clearly visible place behind his windshield.

Screws as a search

According to this 16 disappeared.613 cars permanently registered, a drop of almost 13 percent compared to the previous year. The drop in the number of trucks is even more pronounced – by 22.6 percent to 921 vehicles.

According to the BKA, the german manufacturers VW, BMW, audi and mercedes continue to be particularly popular with car thieves. More than 56 percent of the cars put on the wanted list that disappeared permanently had these marks. Vehicles from the four manufacturers account for around 45 percent of total registrations.

The good news: the land of the former brockardt concrete factory and the former dairy farm on kanonenweg, which has lain fallow since 2000, will be built on. The edeka group of companies in northern bavaria-saxony-thuringia wants to build a supermarket as well as a student residence and a senior citizens’ residence on the site. Residential development is planned in the core area – a small new district is being created there.

Traffic chaos feared

This will have an impact on residents, especially in kalenderweg and scharnhorststrabe. There, the construction plans elicited skepticism and, in some cases, rejection. This became clear at an information event on tuesday evening in the rosengarten congress center. The owners of the neighboring properties fear traffic chaos in kalenderweg. From there, an access road will lead into the residential area. In addition, they are concerned that the red creek, which is to be relocated, comes too close to their homes.
But first, edeka regional manager stephan kohler explained what is actually planned for the 3.8-hectare site. A preliminary investigation has shown that there are still contaminated sites in the soil that need to be removed. "We will have to remove several thousand cubic meters of soil", he said. In addition, the rottenbach, which runs across the land and is currently still encased in concrete, is to be renaturalized and relocated to the eastern boundary of the site. And here the first criticism of the directly affected residents began. They fear that especially during heavy rainfall the water will press on their properties. Matthias kohler, who was responsible for the hydraulic expertise, countered that the water management office had found the plan to be sound and had not raised any concerns. In addition, the renaturation, together with the existing retention basin, will reduce the flow of water and alleviate the situation.
Another point of discussion was the development and its consequences for traffic. On the one hand, there is the edeka market with around 2600 square meters of sales area, a bakery with open seating area and the associated parking spaces. In addition, a parking garage is planned on the land of the former milk yard with 300 parking spaces. The development will take place via kanonenweg. There will be fub and bike paths throughout the gelande area.

Because he hit two parked cars while under the influence of alcohol and tried to escape unnoticed, a 37-year-old man from kulmbach now faces criminal charges.

At around 12 o’clock on tuesday, the man drove his smart through the danndorf district of mainleus. In the process, he touched two parked cars. He must have noticed the impact because an attentive witness was able to observe how he stopped his vehicle within sight of the scene of the accident and examined the damage caused. But instead of worrying about immediate regulation, he first sought his salvation in – unpromising – flight.