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After years of managing GM in Europe, Carl-Peter Forster will now turn his interest to Jaguar Land Rover. Almost three months after resigning as the General Motors Europe president, he is now the respective group chief executive of Tata Motors.
This new position puts Mr Forster in charge of the Indian auto giant’s global operations, as well as Jaguar and Land Rover.

Last November when Mr Forster files his resignation from GM after the agreement to sell Opel and Vauxhall, as he was in favour of the Magna deal and criticised GM for overturning its assessment to sell its European operations is now below the control of GM’s former international operations president Nick Reilly.

“Tata Motors expects that Mr Forster’s induction will greatly facilitate its ambition towards being a truly international company.” Tata chairman Ratan Tata said

However there’s have been speculations that comes around that Mr Forster would become part of the Tata stable since Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) after the announcement made that David Smith chief executive left the company. Indeed Mr Forster still manage the whole group without the announcement, report said  that Mr Smith’s successor has been named as former Land Rover vice-president (when under BMW control) Ralph Speth. With Ravi Kant as a non-executive vice-chairman of Tata Motors, succeeded the agreement of renovating  the JLR business, which Tata bought from the Ford Motor Co in 2008 for $US2.3 billion ($A2.6b).

Source: http://goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/1D9D6CFFCEA0BCE9CA2576CD0082268B

Japan recently agreed to send the Lexus IS 350 sedan model for the Australian market, it has been years of asking by Lexus Australia and finally the management from Japan allowed the new model to show their new car on the market in Australia. The arrival of the IS 350 in late 2010 has quite given a positive outcome in regards with between Lexus IS 250 and the Lexus IS-F marketing.

The lack of some mechanical from the 2.5-litre V6 Lexus IS 250 and the 5.0-litre V8 Lexus IS-F, the arrival of the IS 350 powered by a quad-cam 3.5-litre V6 petrol engine, coupled to a six-speed sequential transmission has been the answered to those problems. The Lexus IS 350 will hurtle from 0 to 100km/h in just 5.6 seconds, is the double power of 228kW and 375Nm of torque.

Since quite few countries have given a chance to sell this latest car; United States, Canada and Japan. Australia car marketplaces are happy to know that they have given a chance to get an access with Lexus IS 350.

“Lexus Australia has always stated that IS 350 would be a welcome addition to the local vehicle line-up and we are very excited about its arrival, the IS 350 will slot nicely between IS 250 and IS F, further was strengthening Lexus’ performance credentials. IS 350, along with future product from Lexus, will go a long way to solidifying Lexus’ popularity in Australia,” Lexus chief executive Tony Cramb said.

Source: http://www.caradvice.com.au/57791/lexus-is-350-coming-to-australia/