Volkswagen Polo Blue Motion launches in argentina
Volkswagen presented the most advanced BlueMotion Technologies to the visitors with a variety of real components and multimedia tools. Based on Volkswagen’s mature, world-leading and widely-applied powertrain technologies, BlueMotion Technologies is an expanded package of advanced energy-saving and environmental-friendly technologies that significantly reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emission. These technologies are now gradually being applied in Volkswagen locally produced models. The two BlueMotion models displayed at the Volkswagen booth, Golf BlueMotion and Lavida BlueMotion concept, took the spotlight at the show.
The new B-segment cars comes in three- and five-door tailgate flavors with a scope of gas and diesel engines, but the chief of the cram is the BlueMotion mode with 96 g/km of CO2 emissions. VW showed a thought for the next-gen BlueMotion mode that will launch in 2010 and expected to come to the US market in the next couple of years.
The BlueMotion notion uses an efficient 1.2L three cylinder TDI diesel, with 74 hp. Combining with 15-crawl low rolling resistance tires, a blanked off trellis, extensive rocker panels for worse drag, automated vault sojourn, and brake energy regeneration. The base lined is 71.3 mpg (US) and 87 g/km of CO2 emissions. That makes the new BlueMotion the most effective five passenger home combustion car on the street.
The Volkswagen Automobile Company, also known as Volkswagen Passenger Cars or just VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany, and is the original brand within the Volkswagen Group, as well as the largest brand by sales volume.
Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, in which it is pronounced . Its current tagline or slogan is Das Auto (in English The Car). Its previous German tagline was Aus Liebe zum Automobil, which translates to: Out of Love for the Car, or, For Love of the Automobile.
Struggle Escalates
A dispute between German automakers Volkswagen and Porsche is casting doubt on their merger plans and fuelling concern about Porsche's financial soundness. Their shares fell on Monday, with Porsche down as much as 6 percent.
Shares in Volkswagen and Porsche fell sharply on Monday following a row between the two companies that has thrown their merger plans into doubt.
Porsche has abandoned plans to take over its much larger rival VW and the two firms are now embroiled in a dispute over merger terms.
VW shares dropped two percent and Porsche as much as six percent after VW cancelled a round of merger talks scheduled for Monday, May 18. "The bottom line is that the weekend news reinforces misgivings about the financial situation of Porsche," wrote DZ Bank analyst Michael Punzet in a research note.Bild newspaper reported that Porsche has only two weeks left to prolong credit lines totalling more than €1 billion. The financial crisis thwarted Porsche's attempt to buy the far larger VW.Porsche called off its takeover bid after it ran up €9 billion ($12.2 billion) of debt acquiring VW stock. It currently owns 51 percent of VW, not enough for control of Europe's largest automaker.
The two companies had planned to meet on Monday to develop plans for a tie-up. But VW supervisory board chief Ferdinand Piech, who also owns stock in Porsche, pulled out of the talks.
"We recognized at the end of the week that Porsche is lacking several fundamental conditions for the discussions," a spokesman for VW said on Sunday, according to the Reuters news agency.
The spokesman added that Porsche did not have a strategy for a merger of the two companies and needed to sort its plans out internally.
Porsche, by contrast, said negotiations were continuing as normal and that only the Monday round of talks had been cancelled. "Subsequent dates have been agreed," a spokesman said.
Media reports said Porsche's management was incensed by comments from Piech who last week appeared to talk down a possible purchase price for Porsche and also cast doubt on Porsche financial soundness.
Piech had said VW couldn't take on the financial risks Porsche had built up in its bid to buy VW. "I can't imagine that VW would take on these risks," said Piech, a member of the Porsche/Piech clan that owns Porsche.
On Saturday, German news agency DPA cited unnamed VW company sources as saying Porsche's management had completely misinterpreted the situation and that the financial situation of Porsche was "extremely dicey."
Porsche's supervisory board is due to meet in Stuttgart on Monday to discuss the situation. Thousands of Porsche workers demonstrated against a merger with VW.
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