CHICAGO, this Februari - Korean carmaker, Kia Motors Corp., took the opportunity over the withdrawal of Toyota hybrid vehicles in the U.S.. KIA planed to enter its first hybrid car in the U.S. by the end of this year.
"Hybrid cars will arrive in the U.S. before the end of the year and it will be available to consumers," said Alex Fedorak, Kia's director of communications, on the sidelines of the auto show in Chicago, USA, on Wednesday (10 / 2).
Fedorak not specify exactly when the hybrid car arrived and whether the car would be similar to a concept called Ray's car and the car was on display at the exhibition.
"I can not give details," said Fedorak. Market-efficient cars and environmentally friendly energy continues to grow in the U.S.. During this time, the market was dominated by Toyota and Honda as well as domestic manufacturers General Motors, Ford and Chrysler were.
KIA officials said that they were developing hybrid cars that sharing with the other Korean car manufacturer, Hyundai.
"Environmentally friendly concept was not just limited to the statement. KIA Ray combined a modern car to be environmentally conscious consumers, "said Peter Schreyer, Kia's head designer for the U.S..
Ray electric motor drive was designed to reach speeds up to more than 80 miles on a single charge. The sedan spent 1.16 liters of gasoline to travel as far as 100 kilometers.
New Demands
Meanwhile, a group of law firm consisting of 22 law firm offices in 16 states would bring a national class action against Toyota Motor Corp. Toyota has been hurt by allegations of millions of dollars due to a massive withdrawal of his car to the garage for repair.
P Tim Howard, a law professor from Northeastern University to lead consortium Action Lawyers Toyota, said, 8 million units of Toyota vehicles were being repaired because the gas pedal with problems had caused collective losses of the owners of more than 2 billion U.S. dollars.
The group said the hearings have been scheduled in the District Court of San Diego on 25 March.
Honda
Japan's No. 2 carmaker, Honda also planned to fix his car because of airbags 400 000 (airbags) with problems. Honda Management, said that air bags can explode and spray iron of which it can be life threatening.
Improvement was related to damage to the Honda cars since late 2008, in which it included the popular Accord and Civic models. Type of the cars were sold in Japan, Mexico, Taiwan, and Australia.
Withdrawal of the car covered 437,763 cars from some models made in 2001 and 2002, particularly in North America including to the famous family car models like the Odyssey and CR-V.
Honda saidthere were already 12 accidents to cause injuries and one death. However, since last year, there was no report about the accident.
Car repaired to solve consumer doubt to the security of Japanese production cars. In fact, the automotive industry was a key supporter of Japan's economic growth. (AP / AFP / joe)
