Archive for February, 2012
Chrysler to bringing natural gas trucks to US
This has been tried before by a lot of different automakers but they haven’t managed to do it. Now, Chrysler will trying a hand of their own by getting trucks powered by natural gas to US.
It will be starting some time by 2012 and Chrysler will be selling trucks running on natural gas at the fleet sector. There isn’t any detail out about this and we don’t know where these trucks are targeted at either. However, Chrysler is betting on knowledge which Fiat has already with the vehicle segment powered by natural gas has expanded in Europe. Big question that I am asking is where all these will fill their tanks up. There aren’t a lot of gas stations having natural fuel out there. Maybe Chrysler has some kinda alternative to jump start their project to get natural gas trucks [...]
February 27th, 2012 | News
2012 Honda Ridgeline Sport first test
Ridgeline from Honda always has been in-between automobile. It is hybrid mix of the utility/sport & truck, basically SUT that is quite similar to Chevrolet Avalanche, Hummer H2 SUT, Cadillac Escalade EXT, & Ford Explorer Sport Trac. Ever since Honda joined this particular group in the year 2006, there have been plenty of changes. All but Escalade/Avalanche are now gone, & those might disappear in a couple of years. However, there aren’t a lot of changes with Ridgeline. This has led to rumors that uni body half-ton too was going the same way as rest of category of SUT.
Honda refers to this as SUT (Honda is calling it pickup), but it also says that there are not intentions of discontinuing this model. As manager of Honda Truck Planning of Product – Sage Marie said in one statement [...]
February 20th, 2012 | Honda
2012 Ram Laramie Limited is a really fancy truck
Chicago Auto Show was previously as truck show for a lot of years, with the automakers using McCormick Place for showing off their sports-utility automobiles & pick ups. The trends have shifted in world of automotive (the word ‘SUV’ is quite dirty these days), some of companies are still taking time for debuting one or two special truck in Windy City. Pick up truck arm of Chrysler – Ram recently has brought the new 2012 Laramie Limited in Chicago and are offering full-sized buyers of truck a lot of standard upscale amenities in really classy package.
Exterior of Ram Laramie Limited is attended to along with addition of the big wheels of alloy and accents of chrome. On the inside there is leather upholstery smattering along with contrast stitching, heated seats, berber [...]
February 13th, 2012 | News