Automobile Blog October Archive

Letter Q... Nissan vs Audi

By Wilbur Corncob at 10/30/07 11:41

Although the world automotive may technically mean various sorts of self powered machines ranging from cars, buses, tractors and so forth, but it goes without saying that most of us mean a car whenever the word automotive is mentioned.

Now cars come in various shapes, sizes and price ranges and there are various companies which manufacture cars for various purposes such as luxury cars, economy cars, sports cars etc.

We will discuss one such car which is one of the products from Audi which is a leading manufacturer of cars globally. Infact this model is named as Q7 and is one of the leading luxury SUV brands of the company. The letter Q is one used for the new model range of Audi and the number 7 was used to make it fit into the two models named as Q6 and Q8.

Infact this letter Q also became popular when Nissan sued Audi for the use of this letter about couple of years back. It has 6 speed automatic transmission and has a front engine with a powerful four wheel drive plus it has got five doors to let you in before you step in the experience the power and sheer luxury.

Automotive Industry history

Whereas General Motors is the American multinational giant producing automobiles, Toyota Motor Corporation or Toyota for short is the Japanese multinational giant involved in the production of automotives since the year 1937.

This might remind you of another important period of the automotive history nearly five years prior to this when 4 companies amalgamated to form another popular name in the automotive segment namely Audi AG.

Apart from manufacturing excellent quality cars and having occupied the second position in the list of companies producing the most automobiles last year, the company also is involved in the manufacture of robots as well as fully computerized electric looms and sewing machines.

During the Second World War the focus of the company shifted on producing simple trucks for the army which used these vehicles for warfare purposes. Luckily for the company the war ended prior to a planned bombing by the allied forces in Japan on the Toyota manufacturing units in the country.

After the end of the war, the company again concentrated on passenger cars only in order to make a turnaround in its fortunes. Today the efforts have borne fruit and the company is racing ahead to occupy first position in the car manufacturing arena, tending to leave behind General Motors, the American giant.