Showing posts with label Isuzu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isuzu. Show all posts

Friday, February 25, 2011

Planters cracks open a new ride for Mr. Nut


Mr. Peanut is not just any car will be banned. After all, how the face of Nabisco's Planters division and one of the most popular (but just a little creepy, if we are honest) mascot in American history, has Sir mother a ride suited his stature. And since it seems high for 12 yards and carries a two-meter-long pipe, we are talking some significant stature.

Fittingly, then Planters has seen fit to replace Mr. Peanut old set of tires with a brand new Nutmobile. And this is no ordinary Nutmobile ... if such a thing actually existed. Based on a 2011 Isuzu NPR truck with a diesel engine runs five percent mixture of biodiesel (not really strange mother-based), the latest Nutmobile will make appearances throughout the country, "the peanut lifestyle and provides support for the Corps Network.

According to The New York Times, this latest Nutmobile is very green machine. In addition to the biodiesel blend, it features "a wind turbine, solar panels, LED interior lighting, recycled parts and wood flooring reclaimed from a 19th century Pennsylvania barn." Think it's not very nutty after all, is it? Top tip, Jeff!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Marchionne: Chrysler planning hybrid minivan for 2013



Chrysler, the automaker to the top of the minivan movement in the 1980s, is seriously thinking about his family tractor business. As we reported earlier, the Chrysler is scrapping one of the two twins minivan by 2013, making room for a small micro-van within the next few years to start - a vehicle that compete with the likes of the Ford C-Max and Mazda5 . Now, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne, reports confirmed that a hybrid version of the company's next-generation minivan on the way, should be up to 2013 debut.

Which is for use in hybrid minivans use the same drive technology, we shall see in the gasoline-electric version of the Chrysler 300 sedan, will also be set to start in 2013 planned the drive train. The factory, where both the Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan are built today - The new van will be built at the automobile manufacturer Windsor Assembly Plant in Canada.