Automark

The United Motors has launched its first 800cc United Bravo passenger car in Pakistan. The launching ceremony was held on yesterday in a local hotel of Lahore where automobile dealers, motorcycle dealers of United Bikes, Government officials from EDB, president LCCI, different vehicles associations representatives of media and many other guest were present, while Chief Guest was Hafiz Mumtaz, Provisional Minister of Excise and Taxation.

The hatchback automobile comes with a 3-cylinder water-cooled engine producing 40 BHP and 60 NM torque and a 4-speed manual transmission. The body type is 5 – door Hatchback. The seating capacity is 5 persons and fuel tank capacity is 30 L. For your comfort, the car is also equipped with an air conditioned.

United Bravo features a powered steering, powered windows, touch screen infotainment system, wooden exterior and interior, RPM, USB ports, defogger, alloy wheels and speedometer dials etc.

Other features include rear parking camera, alongside seat-belt warning indicator and a remote keyless system. For safety, there is a seatbelt, back foor lock and steering lock. United Bravo comes with a price tag of 850,000. The car is available in three colours; White, Silver and Grey.

While on sideline of the event MD of the United Motors Sana Ullah Chodhary told Automark that Car will be available at our 3S dealers across country within next few days while more dealers are almost ready to receive Bravo cars too. Plant capacity of the car is 35,000 per year in single shift for only Bravo cars.

There was a lot of hype and speculation has been created about this car, mainly because it was believed that United Bravo will break the monopoly of other companies by introducing a price affordable car in the country.

United Auto Industries (Pvt) Limited is the 1st local brand and 2nd Largest selling brand of United Motorcycles in Pakistan. The Company received Green Field Investment status under new auto policy 2016-2021 from Ministry of Industry and Production in June-2017.

TOKYO — Toyota is stopping most of its auto production in Japan as a result of a deadly earthquake in northern Japan.
Due to the interruption in its supply chain there, the automaker will idle factories beginning Saturday, the company said.
Toyota will halt planned production at its Kyushu, Tahara and Toyota Auto Body plants. Those factories make Lexus vehicles and the Toyota Land Cruiser, among others, some of which are bound for the U.S. markets.
Spokeswoman Akiko Kita said, starting on Monday, the shutdown will affect all Toyota and Lexus lines in Japan, except for two Daihatsu plants that also manufacture Toyota-brand vehicles. Toyota has 18 plants that produce vehicles in Japan.
The company could not immediately comment on the supply chain impact on overseas operations. The earthquake struck the northernmost island of Hokkaido before dawn on Sept. 6, killing more than a dozen people and leaving the entire island without power.
Authorities were slowly restoring utilities on Friday but swaths of the region remain offline. Toyota has a plant in Tomakomai, Hokkaido, that makes automatic transmissions, continuously variable transmissions and transfer cases. It was still without power on Friday night, Toyota said.
A spokesman for Toyota’s North American business said the initial production halt is not likely to have much impact on North American operations. The automaker could not say when production will resume.
Meanwhile, Nissan Motor Co. spokesman Koji Okuda said the company did not expect any production interruptions from the quake because it has no manufacturing facilities in Hokkaido. Nissan does have a proving ground there, however, and operations there were temporarily suspended due to the power outage.

Toyota and Geely are in talks over possible cooperation in the area of hybrid technology, the automakers confirmed on Friday to Reuters. But nothing has been decided on the matter.

Partnering with Toyota, a leader in hybrid technology due to decades of experience with the Prius line, could enable Geely to get a jump start in the area of electrification.

The Chinese automaker already has access to hybrid technology through its ownership of Volvo, which currently offers models with plug-in hybrid powertrains. It also has a 9.7-percent stake in Daimler, parent company of Smart and Mercedes-Benz, which it could also tap.

Electric cars may be all the rage right now but hybrid vehicles are expected to play a more important role in the coming decade as automakers look to reduce their emissions. This is especially the case now that many major automakers are in the process of transitioning to fully electrified lineups.

Electrified cars include mild hybrids, regular hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric cars and hydrogen fuel cell cars.

For example, Toyota, which is the world’s biggest automaker by volume, has an annual sales target of 5.5 million electrified cars, or roughly half of its total sales, by 2030. Of these, only about 1.0 million will be electric or hydrogen, with the rest to be hybrids.

It is worth to mention here that Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely Holding) and Proton Holdings Berhad (Proton) have both agreed terms to allow Proton cars to utilize core technology platforms by Geely, as both companies have signed a new agreement recently to further extend their partnership.

Geely to acquire a 49.9% stake in the former from DRB-Hicom back in June 2017, with the aim of improving Proton’s domestic market share and exploring international expansion opportunities both locally and overseas.

Recently AlHaj Group, Pakistan has sign an agreement with Proton Malaysia to introduce range of vehicles in Pakistani market and later will assembler these cars in locally.