Heavily modified Nissan Patrol seized in Dubai.

Dubai local police authorities have arrested the driver of a heavily modified Nissan Patrol. They saw a that car racing through the city with high speed more than 200mph. That car was heavily customized. The driver altered his car to capable to run on jet fuel. 

He was arrested after Hollywood-style chase and several of police car ware engaged to  catch the car. The driver ran very fast and only slowed down on speed breaker. Police caught the car in Al-Mazher area. The driver was trying to hide but caught by police.

To modify this car, the driver spent around $68,000 (U.S dollars). The altered the car to allow the jet fuel. The driver told to police that he modified the car in local garage.

The driver was charged with with rash driving, illegal car modifications & expired registration.

BMW unveiling five vehicles for police work.

Next month, BMW will unveil five vehicles for police work at the General Police Equipment Exhibition & Conference (GPEC) in Leipzig.

They said five cars will display in the BMW stand. The five models to be presented at GPEC are: the 3 Series Touring, X3, 7 Series High Security, X5 Security & i3 Concept,

In a statement BMW said "BMW's premise for special emergency vehicles has always been to carry out the conception and integration of specific equipment features in close cooperation with specialists from each public authority and institution,"

The 3 Series Touring and the X3 production models have BMW's iDrive computer interface system, LED identification lights and additional warning devices that are specially made for police work.

Volt Executive Tony Posawatz Is New CEO Of Fisker Automotive.

Fisker Automotive has changed CEO Tom LaSorda with former Volt Executive Tony Posawatz. He replaces Tom LaSorda. He appointed CEO only in late February. LaSorda will remain available as an advisor.

Posawatz, 52, retired from General Motors last month. He had been vehicle line director for the Volt since 2006. People don’t expect him to jump right back into the car business.

LaSorda said in a statement, "Tony is the perfect CEO for Fisker. He has been at the forefront of the industry's technological revolution and one of the few people in the world to bring an EV to mass production."

The company's executive chairman and co-founder Henrik Fisker said “Posawatz, will ensure that Fisker is well positioned to maximize the potential of not only the Karma sedan, but also bring the Fisker Atlantic smoothly to market."

In other news the company has added Joseph Chao as executive vice president and CEO of China and Asia and Alberto Gonzalez as vice president of manufacturing.

Green cars are slowly eye-catching to Americans,

According to a recent Harris Poll survey “automakers are starting to win over customer confidence in hybrid cars, especially with younger drivers.”

Harris discovered in this poll one-third of car owners (32%) review they have an interest in purchasing a hybrid vehicle and 23% say that their absorption in hybrids has added from a year ago. That does not mean though that we can anticipate compounds to be wide on the streets all around the nation all of the rapid, as traditional  vehicles still get the nod by more than half (59%) of customers as a vehicle choice.

55 % indicated a new because they simply desired to spend less on the cost of petrol purchases. Less sized number, 26 %, indicated attention because of ecological factors.

Playing a huge aspect into who is purchasing green vehicles is age, according to Harris. While nearly one-third (32%) of those under 35 years are more interested than they were a year ago, the same can be said for only 15% of those over the age of 67. Actually, it was mentioned, 11% of those 67 and older review they are less fascinated in comparison to one season ago.

In conditions of the choice being hybrid or other green car alternatives like power, hybrid car remains the far and away choice. More than a one fourth said something like the toyota Prius would be their first choice in the alternative fuel vehicles section, while just one in ten say they would consider diesel fuel (11%) or all power (9%) vehicles for their next purchase. Almost two-thirds (63%) report that they are not likely to consider diesel or all electric options at all for their next car purchase.

According to Harris, more than one-third (35%) of car owners say they find the vehicle quality of American brands to be lower than imports. Just under a one fourth of car owners (24%) said American-brand automobile quality to be better than imports, by evaluation.

Nissan wants to grab 8% of global market by 2016.

Nissan is trying to grab eight percent of international business by 2016, and is making an investment intensely in its Northern United states features to reach that goal.

After a $5.2 billion dollars cash infusion, Nissan will develop by 9,000 jobs, increase potential by 425,000 automobiles and 200,000 lithium-ion batteries.

With its current NA plants, it already produces all its primary models here. But by 2015, the company programs to develop at its Northern United states plants 85% of all Car and Infiniti models available in the United states. Nissan's Smyrna, Tenn. plant will soon add the leaf and rogue to its production line and the Canton, Miss. plant will add the Sentra to its automobile growth. To take off that extended collection, Canton will get 1,000 new jobs enhancing its payroll to 4,500 employees.

Nissan also has a factory in Decherd, Tenn., which will add 90 jobs this season and up to 400 new jobs gradually, to help develop electric engines for the Foliage as well as Daimler.

Nissan plans to spend $2 billion dollars to add a third factory with 3,000 employees making 175,000 subcompacts in Mexico.

Jaguar F-Type ready for 2012 Paris Motor Show.

The jaguar has confirmed that its new F-Type sports car will debut in production form at the 2012 Paris Motor Show at the end of September. It will be a "significant day" in the brand's history.

Jaguar first declared its new aluminum roadster in April at the New York auto show, and the car should go on sale by summer 2013.

In recent years, the company has mostly made luxury cars, but the new F-Type is supposed to be a pure sports car. Its really hot cars and amazing for every sports car fan.

Jaguar has confirmed The F-Type will be launched as a convertible with a choice of three gasoline engines, including 340 and 380 horsepower versions of Jaguar's 3.0-liter supercharged V6 and a new derivative of the current supercharged 5.0-liter V8.

Jaguar’s Vehicle Line Director, Ian Hoban said “When you are working on a Jaguar sports car the expectations of the world are huge. We’re really pleased with how the attributes have translated from the virtual into the physical world.”

He also said “New we’re refining and adding those last few percentage points – that true element of honing which the Jaguar test team are delivering – which will turn a great sports car into an exceptional one.”

Audi Introduces LED Rearview Mirror

Audi introduces digital rearview mirror with 7.7 inch LED screen. This is an interesting technology, but it is necessary. The Audi R8 e-tron has no rear-view mirror that can see through a solid piece of carbon fiber.

The screen inside the car is a 7.7-inch AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) with Samsung technology.

The screen will automatically reduce the glare from the headlights of cars behind. It can be switched off if the driver just isn't with it.

Now the screen will just display the camera image, but Audi says it's working on adding more helpful information to the display in the future.

Hyundai workers union resume strike.

Unionised workers at Hyundai Motor Company have resumed a walkout after failing to hammer out a wage deal with management.

It's 45,000-strong union puts down tools for two hours on Wednesday, demanding higher wages.

Hyundai Motors labor union said will halt work for several hours on six days between Aug. 8 and Aug. 17 and will refuse overtime work on those days. Workers at factories in Ulsan, Asan and Jeonju have also joined the strike.

The strike comes amid growing frictions between workers and management in Hyundai Motors.

Kia Motors Corp., Hyundai's smaller affiliate, plans to join the strike later this week.

Separately, workers at GM Korea, the unit of General Motors Co., also plan to strike Wednesday and Thursday.

Hyundai Motor denounced the strike in a statement. They said "it is regrettable that a labor union has decided to go on strike and interrupt negotiations at this critical point. The union walkout is counterproductive and will harm the workers and Hyundai customers, as well as the company."

The company said "We must work together to ride out the economic crisis instead of wasting time on wrangling,"