Motor homes or trailers are still an unusual thing in Russia. However, they may become more popular in Russia than in the USA and Europe. A trailer seems a simple way to find a roof over my head.
Vacations in Russia are overshadowed by the problem of searching a good hotel for a fair price. “Because of their small number Russian hotels are very expensive, which naturally does not conform to their service,” concluded spokeswoman for the Russian Union of Travel Industry Irina Turina in an interview with Bigness.ru.

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The German government has scrapped plans to build a prestigious high-speed rail link between the Bavarian capital of Munich and its airport because of a massive overrun in costs.

Transportation Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee announced the decision after a crisis meeting in Berlin on Thursday, March 27, at which industry representatives reportedly revealed that costs had risen from 1.85 billion euros ($2.9 billion) to well over 3 billion euros.
Industry observers say that without a showcase project in Germany for one of the world's fastest trains, the technology devised by engineers at Siemens and ThyssenKrupp is unlikely to have much success abroad.

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Saab, General Motors' (GM) iconoclastic Swedish auto brand, is getting a makeover. At this month's New York International Auto Show, the company unveiled two new models that executives hope will engineer a turnaround for the long-neglected premium carmaker.
Saab, founded in the 1940s as a subsidiary of a Swedish airplane manufacturer, has a rich tradition of designing quirky but innovative vehicles. Over the years, it garnered a loyal constituency of passionate, well-to-do nonconformists

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TATA MOTORS has made its name in India by producing rugged cars with simple engineering, for the masses. It recently unveiled the Nano, a simple runabout that will go on sale for £1,250.

There is no obvious link between this part of the Tata empire and Jaguar, an upmarket saloon brand. But there is a clear fit with Land Rover, a maker of rugged - and at the top of the range, glamorous and with sophisticated engineering - four-wheel-drive vehicles. Tata was making this kind of vehicle long before it branched out into conventional cars.

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A totally India-designed and made car , right from scratch, will roll out of Maruti Suzuki India's plants in the next 3-4 years.

This will be the first time that a car is being conceived, designed, engineered and rolled out exclusively by Indian engineers, according to I.V. Rao, managing executive officer, Maruti Suzuki.

To ramp up the company's design and engineering team, the company is scouting Detroit to lure NRI engineers back home.

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Some 208 flights in and out of Heathrow Airport were cancelled during the first three days as teething and engineering problems at the new Terminal 5 caused chaos. But what went wrong on that fateful first day?
The problems appear to be due to a combination of factors.

Some were technical, involving glitches with the sophisticated new baggage set-up, which is designed to handle 12,000 bags an hour.

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An interesting article from the first ever UK "Classic Bike" magazine takes a trip back in time and motor bike engineering history

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What started out as a nuisance strike at engineering parts supplier American Axle & Manufacturing is becoming a problem for the automaker
For weeks, a strike by a United Auto Workers union at Detroit-based American Axle & Manufacturing was little trouble for the axle maker's biggest customer, General Motors (GM). It accomplished something GM needed anyway—thinning the company's bloated stock of gas-guzzling trucks. But as the work stoppage drags on, with a host of major issues still to be resolved, it is taking a deeper bite out of GM's finances.

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AS researchers who test the accuracy of odometers know, your mileage may vary, and when it comes to a car’s warranty, that could cost an owner money. An odometer that piles up mileage faster than it should will push a car out of warranty quicker than an odometer that is calibrated correctly.

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There is engineering, string and a spelling mistake, but most of it's metal. I quickly realise that the string is holding the race number on, so make that all metal and a spelling mistake.rindlay Peerless: a real blast from the past
Quelle surprise, a motorcycle made of metal, what did you expect, Andrew? Yes, but the Grindlay Peerless (that spelling mistake - Grindley - is on the fuel tank) is all metal, not one ounce of paint or plastic, just acres of cadmium and nickel plate gleaming like velvet under the loving stroke of an oily rag.

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