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13 December 2007 posted in Auto 8 views
Energie Bill scheitert erneut im Senat durch eine Stimme, neue Abstimmung für heute später Frühere heute, die US-Senat habe über das neue Energy-Bill war, dass vor kurzem durch das Repräsentantenhaus, bevor nicht genug Stimmen im Senat Stock ihrer ersten Mal um. Heute ist die Rechnung erneu ...
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9 April 2007 posted in Time Warp 6 views
El Camino on the horizon again? Mike Levine over at PickupTruck.com has made an argument for the return of the El Camino, the car-based pickup sold back in the day that has risen to cult status in the modern era. Considering the cos ...
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4 April 2007 posted in Government/Legal 4 views
Lutz says Bush fuel standards will raise car prices by $5k GM Vice Chairman and blogger extraordinaire Bob Lutz used the spotlight of the New York Auto show to talk about the Bush Administration's plan to raise fuel economy standards four-percent per year thr ...
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12 March 2007 posted in Concept Cars 1 views
$100k+ Caddy a go, again? During an interview with David Sedgwick of Automotive News, Bob Lutz, GM's vice chairman, revealed that plans to offer a Cadillac in the $150,000 to $180,000 realm are still on the table. Although pro ...
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12 March 2007 posted in Green 2 views
AutoblogGreen for 03.12.07 Most of our American readers needed to set the clocks ahead this weekend, ostensibly to save energy, right? That's how daylight saving time is always explained. But is that really what happens when we ...
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9 February 2007 posted in Government/Legal 2 views
White House drafts fuel economy bill The Bush administration has submitted a draft legislation that would allow regulators to raise fuel economy standards. The move follows a promise from President Bush to reduce fuel consumption by 20-p ...
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23 January 2007 posted in Auto 2 views
SOTU: Revised Energie-Strategie umfasst Alt-Kraftstoff erhöht und überarbeitet CAFE Präsident Bush wird auf seiner ersten Staat der Union in einer demokratisch-kontrollierten Kongress in etwa eine halbe Stunde. Zu dieser Zeit, viele Menschen in dem Land, werden in eine schlechte Stim ...
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25 December 2006 posted in Car Buying 1 views
Lutz on CAFE; oh and Seasons Greetings too! On what was to be his holiday greeting to the world, Mr. Lutz has decided that he had a little more than a kiss under the mistletoe on his mind to close out 2006. In his blog, GM FastLane, Lutz clarif ...
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18 December 2006 posted in Green 3 views
AutoblogGreen for 12.18.06 With two more bloggers writing for AutoblogGreen, we can cover a lot more ground now. This week was our first with five writers, and I'm proud of our increased coverage. For Autoblog readers, this ext ...
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15 November 2006 posted in Green 5 views
AutoblogGreen for 11.15.06 We don't have a picture of any of the "EV zealots" that Honda manager Stephen Ellis railed about to AutoblogGreen writer Sam Abuelsamid, so we're sticking with images of the Fiat 500 and the new Corsa ...
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8 November 2006 posted in Japan 14 views
O Kei! Suzuki Cervo bows in Japan Suzuki has brought a new kei car to the Japanese domestic market. Dubbed the Cervo, the little five-door gets a bold front end treatment dominated by oversized, teardrop-shaped headlamps that flank a ...
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15 August 2006 posted in Green 6 views
AutoblogGreen for 08.15.06 New Zealand and Australia checked in with one story each yesterday on AutoblogGreen. Alaska and Massachusetts also tallied one a piece. Mitsubishi's plant expansion in Japan made an appearance, as did ...
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8 August 2006 posted in Green 7 views
AutoblogGreen for 08.08.06 AutoblogGreen's hands-on review of the 2006 Mercury Mariner Hybrid continues and goes more in-depth as to what's inside the SUV (our first installment focused more on the exterior and the third part, ...
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11 May 2006 posted in Government/Legal 4 views
Automakers spared tougher CAFE rules - for now The U.S. congress gave automakers a break Thursday, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted down a proposal to require 33 mpg fuel economy standards (averaged over cars and trucks) by 2015.Th ...
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9 May 2006 posted in Earnings/Financials 7 views
Ford changes forecast, expects 2006 global market share to drop Ford Motor Co. isn't as optimistic as it was a few months ago. In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company announced on Tuesday that it was lowering its worldwide mar ...
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2 May 2006 posted in Government/Legal 6 views
Ten states to file suit for tougher CAFE rules The New York Times reports that California, New York and eight other states plan to file a suit to force the Bush administration to impose tougher CAFE rules on SUVs, trucks and minivans. The suit cla ...
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24 October 2005 posted in Hybrids/Alternative 6 views
Toyota's environmental image takes a beating Environmental group Bluewater Network is launching an ad campaign today accusing Toyota of misleading the public about its environmental record. An article in Monday's Detroit Free Press cites Bluewat ...
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16 September 2005 posted in Trends 4 views
Poll: 80% of US drivers want to see switch away from SUVs A recent Pew poll found that 8 out of 10 US drivers think that drivers should move away from SUVs towards smaller, more economical vehicles, and 6 out of 10 think that President Bush is not taking the ...
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26 August 2005 posted in Trends 5 views
CAFE changes in detail We didn't have hard numbers a few days ago when we broke the news about the government's proposed changes to Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. Now we do. Road&Track has a breakdown of the ...
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22 August 2005 posted in Trends 5 views
Additional states to adopt California's greenhouse gas limits Oregon and Washington, along with six unnamed Northeastern states, will likely decide to implement California's new 2016 tailpipe emission standards that call for a limit on greenhouse gas emissions. ...
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