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16 May 2007 posted in Government/Legal 7 views
California AG says feds may have to bail out US automakers Of all people and of all places. Normally, California is the state that launches all sorts of initiatives that drive carmakers into a frenzy. Now, The Golden State is the one asserting that the nation ...
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16 May 2007 posted in Green 7 views
AutoblogGreen for 05.16.07 AutoblogGreen podcast #5, with guest expert Gary Smyth of GM, went live yesterday. We also found out the Chevy Volt might not have the engine we've been led to believe. And how about that U.S. auto in ...
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22 November 2006 posted in Plants/Manufacturing 2 views
Toyota Tundra production begins Last Friday the first two Tundra pickups rolled off the line at Toyota's new production facility in San Antonio, Texas. The facility, called Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas, took three years to buil ...
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21 July 2006 posted in Chrysler 6 views
Forbes digs on domestics with Worst American Cars of 2006 For all of the effort General Motors, Ford and the Chrysler Group are putting forth to improve their product lines, there are still a few models that lag far behind what's behind what's being sold by ...
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9 June 2006 posted in Etc. 3 views
Iacocca to pen new book, address auto industry Retired Chrysler chairman (and Snoop Dogg homey) Lee Iacocca will be releasing a book in approximately one year, tentatively titled "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?". It's said to cover several topic ...
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22 May 2006 posted in Marketing/Advertising 7 views
SMART ass advert rips on American autos - UPDATE Apparently the American auto industry's reputation is particularly worthless in South Africa as this billboard ad for the SMART forfour shot on the side of the road near Johannesburg portends. It glib ...
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6 April 2006 posted in Earnings/Financials 9 views
Read Bill Ford's lips: No bankruptcy for Blue Oval Ford Motor Company’s Chairman and CEO Bill Ford is ruling out bankruptcy for the Blue Oval. The Henry Ford scion believes that the company’s ‘strong liquidity’ ($31 billion in ...
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22 January 2006 posted in Car Buying 14 views
GM Futurliner rewrites Barrett-Jackson record books, hammers to $4.1 million The 1954 Oldsmobile F-88 concept that fetched $3 million dollars last year (to become the highest-hammered auction price paid at Barrett-Jackson) has had its reign ended by a 56-year-old bus. More spe ...
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