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The Goodyear Indonesia is certainly preparing their serious plan to expansion and development. They’ve made plans concerning opening another branded outlet for the tires. In fact, they’re not only planning to open a new store, but several stores as well.

For the time being, they’re going to focus on a store that is located in Jakarta. They’ve said that they’re planning their development target in Java with the possibilities of opening new stores at different islands for the future management. They have several categories in order to choose and prepare their expansion project. First of all, all the stores must be located in strategic places that are easily reached and found. Second, the building should be exclusive and somehow luxurious without actually burdening the customers with the high price. Third, the equipments should be complete. They ask specifically for strategic spots as they think it would be useless to have great buildings with high ends technologies but the spots aren’t easily found or reached.

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Double cab truck is always looking tough, manly, and strong. Not to mention aggressive and menacing when cruising down the street. And it seems that Texas is one of the state in America that ha been the biggest consumers of the pickup trucks. That’s why Chrysler is making special edition for Texas.

This double cab design will the next Ram 1500 Lone Star 10^th Anniversary edition. This model is obviously dedicated to the Texas, as the Lone Star state. The ride will be built with aluminum 20-inch long cow horn wheels, embossed Texas logo, and also perforated Katzkin leather. It’s running on Hemi V8 engine with 5.7 liter capacity that will produce 390 hp, with 20 miles per gallon usage. The tag price is set around $36,500 and the ride will start selling by the second quarter – well, the end of it, anyway.

This model is considered special as it’s designed and built by Texans and it’s aimed for Texans too. All Texans are always proud to come from this particular state. And since this truck has given them all the authentic feel and originality top connect Texas and Ram, this time is considered the appropriate moment to have the special edition.

Previously appeared an officially faced and unnamed, General Motors has now unveiled the upcoming Colorado global pickup-based SUV to be known as the Trailblazer – and it will run under Chevrolet flagship. The reveal is interesting because it was done by Holden, a General Motors division dedicated to Australian market. The brand will make the debut of the Colorado 7 wearing Chevy badge ahead of the planned presentation at the upcoming Bangkok International Motor Show.

There are two images in the internet show us that the Trailblazer or Colorado7 is based heavily on the global pickup from which it gets the majority of the platform underpinning it and its name. The technical name for the platform is Colorado Light Commercial Vehicle. The platform is expected to underpin a few trucks and SUVs from GM with different names across the worldwide market.

John Elsworth, executive director of sales, marketing and after sales of Holden, said that Australians are purchasing more SUVs than ever before, and his company has seen the demand reflected in the growing popularity of their sales of Series II Captiva. The Colorado 7 or Trailblazer is developed to bring everything needed by Australians from a tough and powerful 4-wheel drive vehicle, with a competitive 3-tonne towing capacity and coil-sprung 5-link rear suspension the Trailblazer will be an impressive addition model to Chevrolet and Holden line-up.

Although the Trailblazer or Colorado7 maybe brings similar size to Chevrolet Equinox, which is currently offered in theU.S. market, theColorado 7 rides on a body-on-frame platform, like most trucks and SUVs currently on the market. As the result, the new SUV will be more be better for off-road duties, although it will arrive at the cost of the favorable on-road driving dynamics and added weight.

According to plan, General Motors will release more details next week in Bangkok Auto Show 2012 that will be opened in March 28^th.

In the middle of financial problem, American electric carmaker, Fisker, reveals new sketch and details of their second model, which has been set up to make debut near in the future. After grabbing success with Karma, Fisker seems to be optimistic that their decision to continue production among their lack of funds will still able to given them success.

However, the Fisker’s second model not yet given a production name. But Fisker told media that the model planned by the company is being referred to as “Project NINA”. The American company also mentions that the car will bring the same size as German luxury sedan, the BMW 5-Series. They also said that the second model will be supported by the German automaker – there will be BMW unit that will help the NINA gets some sort of range-extending.

The Fisker’s second-car will be built at the former General Motors plant in Delaware, which has been closed. When the plant was closed, Joe Biden told media that it will be used for developing green vehicles. It seems that the lucky one is NINA because it would the first car that is built there after it did not use by General Motors anymore.

Some people outside Fisker, including Joe Biden, said that they have seen the full image of the Fisker NINA. Biden called the car as a four-door Ferrari. From Biden’s statement, we can try to imagine that the car will try to offer Ferrari’s appeal in the form of four-door sedan. However, do not imagine that the car would be as powerful as Ferrari because the electric drivetrain under its hood would be unable to match the capability of the Italian supercar.

Some analysts believed that the Fisker NINA will be given BMW engine that becomes a headlines in some media, which is 2.0-liter Twin-Power 4-cylinder. The German automaker itself, will use the engine for their 2012 328i.