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Land Rover’s New Year resolution is all about making auto navigation easier. So, it is offering navigation system map updates online. Jag owners can take advantage of the direct-selling offer to avail of several disks which are offered at less than half of the original price.

Update CDs and DVDs are traditionally sold through Rover’s dealers. However, to increase accessibility, said updates can now be had online. “As a company we embrace the use of technology to develop the ownership experience and this is clearly demonstrated with this new facility. The ability to obtain the latest map information on-line gives our customers a simple, cost effective method of keeping their navigation systems updated,” said Phil Popham, Land Rover MD.

The new Rover web page for ordering is now available in different languages. Currently, it offers 6 languages for customers in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the United States. Pan–European and North American DVDs are priced at £129 while CDs cost £99.

Aside from easier navigation, Land Rover is also aimed at tracking a futuristic design direction. It uses increasingly bold approach and cutting-edge technology in manufacturing new vehicles. This futuristic design is imbibed in Range Stormer. “The supercharged V8 Range Stormer gives a taste of our forthcoming new entrant in the booming high-performance SUV segment,” says the managing director of Land Rover, Matthew Taylor. “The production vehicle that follows will share many of its styling and technical innovations. Range Stormer is a modern, striking, high-technology vehicle. It is very much conceived to be an on-road, high-performance machine, as well as class-leading off-road like all Land Rovers. Breadth of capability is one of its many strengths.”

Range Stormer is equipped with sophisticated Land Rover suspension, traction control, powertrain, throttle response, Terrain Response and other exciting features. “You’ll be seeing an increasing amount of innovative technology in our future vehicles,” added Taylor. “But technology that makes the driver’s task simpler, not more complicated, such as Terrain Response. You select the terrain. The car then helps you conquer it.”

Range Stormer is also equipped with the supercharged V8. Renowned Jag vehicles that use said engine include the high-performance XJR and XKR models. The engine mechanical Land Rover parts used in the vehicles boost their performance and drive feel.

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Detroit’s ‘Big 3′ automakers probably don’t want to hear the fact that Tundra plant in Texas is producing one pickup truck every minute. This information was unleashed by Toyota before its first assembly of Tundra.

As the Detroit’s Big 3, which is composed of General Motors Corp., DaimlerChrysler AG and, Ford Motor Co., struggles to maintain its standing in the pickup truck segment, Toyota plans to manufacture a total of 200,000 pickups every year. Said production is attributed to the highly automated and sophisticated facility of its new Tundra plant in Texas.

Mike Goss, Toyota spokesperson said, “If consumer demand pushes the plant on San Antonio’s south side to operate at full capacity, which could happen by next spring, a truck will roll off the line an average of every 73 seconds.” He added, “From beginning to end a truck will take 20 to 24 hours to complete.”

Aside from the Texas plant, Toyota Tundra high performance parts are also assembled at Toyota’s Princeton, Ind., plant. However, the production is boosted by active participation of the new plant in Texas. Toyota’s Tundra plant in Texas in conjunction with its 21 onsite suppliers is expected to employ 4,100 people. Said information was earlier announced by Toyota.

Don Jackson, vice president of quality and production for Toyota’s Texas arm said, “The suppliers will provide about 70 percent of the parts used in the Tundras and 50 percent of the value of parts in each truck.”

Tundra replaced the T100. The second generation version of Tundra, which was introduced at the 2007 Chicago Auto Show, is made larger to serve as a mighty rival for Ford F-Series, Chevrolet Silverado, Dodge Ram, and Nissan Titan. Accessories Toyota Tundra truck parts are also upgraded to enhance quality and functionality.

Auto analysts are saying that Toyota is poised to overtake General Motors Corp. as the largest automaker around the world. Moreover, Toyota is initiating strategies to win the reign. So far, said strategies are making good impressions in the automotive world.

Nowadays, Toyota and Ford are spending millions to dethrone Ford in the pickup truck segment. However, no other automakers have succeeded in trying to topple the throne of Ford. It has dominated the segment for several decades now. In fact, its F-150 remains as the top-selling car in America.

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