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15 May 2007 posted in Earnings/Financials 8 views
Jeep employees pissed about Chrysler sale After months of speculation, the Chrysler sale happened without too much fanfare on Monday morning, as Cerberus came out as the top bidder, and several potential investors came away empty-handed. One ...
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9 May 2007 posted in Wagons/Estates 5 views
Away we go: Official photos of Saab 9-3 SportCombi posted Click image for gallery including one additional angleIt's starting to look like GM's going to have a hard time keeping a lid on all the new Saab stuff. Late last night, Trollhattan Saab posted what a ...
Tags: gm, hard time, photos, saab, awd system, climate, new saab, renderings, internet game, information news
6 May 2007 posted in Etc. 4 views
Autoblog Week in Photos: Week of April 30, 2007 This week on Autoblog, we saw plenty of new products, but most of them were aftermarket variants of what we already know. Of course, there were three or four Mustangs, a new Ferrari, Lamborghini, Pors ...
Tags: porsche, mercedes benz, lamborghini, mustangs, bmw 5 series, autoblog, hard time, jeep, scoop, mercedes benz mclaren slr, seven days, variants, jeep compass, general lee, lincoln mkx, 2007 lincoln mkx, time machine, slr roadster, johnny kaplan, what happened last week
16 March 2007 posted in Aftermarket 1 views
Slacker brings internet radio into your car It's like Pandora for your car! Slacker, a new web-based radio website has just launched this week. The channel selection is very similar to what's available on XM or Sirius, and we liken it to Pandor ...
Tags: sirius, hard time, xm, junkies, broadcast television, free advertising, traffic jam, exciting news, diversion, internet radio, pandora, compression artifacts, song playlists, mp3 realm, satellite signals, radio website, digital compression, channel selection, flippers, free music
28 February 2007 posted in Hirings/Firings 4 views
Thousands leave Ford's white collar world today A lot of salaried employees at Ford will probably move into new assignments or take on additional responsibilities this week, as several thousand of their colleagues end their tenures with the Dearbor ...
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22 February 2007 posted in Auto News 1 views
Geneva Sneak Peek: Hyundai i30 click above image to view a high-resolution gallery of the Hyundai i30Apparently Hyundai has had a hard time keeping its new European C-segment "Focus killer" under wraps, as official shots of the car ...
Tags: kia, cars, segment, hyundai, small car, hard time, wraps, geneva, elantra, diesel engine, sneak peek, resemblence, gas engines, cee, high resolution gallery, hyundai i30, interweb, hipness, suprising
13 February 2007 posted in RR of the Day 7 views
RR of the Day: Holden Commodore VU S Ute While we may not be as obsessed with all-things-Caminage as some other sites, we have a hard time denying the useful versatility of a rear-wheel drive sedan, with everything aft of the B-pillar remove ...
Tags: wheel, gm, hard time, versatility, v6 engine, beast, rear wheel drive, pillar, home depot, g8, chemicals, holden commodore, colonies, vat, whip, autobloggreen, rhino, compact spaces, concrete repair, muldoon
9 February 2007 posted in Plants/Manufacturing 2 views
RIP: Buick Rainier As General Motors refines the future of their brands, they're trimming out redundancy and we have a hard time coming up with a more redundant vehicle than the multitude of GMT 360 based 'utes across a ...
Tags: gm, lexus, platforms, hard time, buick, luxury brands, detroit free press, general motors, execution, inception, buick rainier, niceties, lexus rx, second quarter, redundancy, utes, cuvs, multitude, shrewd move, enclave
11 January 2007 posted in Spy Photos 3 views
Spy Shots: BMW Z9 UDPATE: Like you, we're having a hard time wading through the conjecture on what this car is exactly. We mistakenly told you below that the Z9 would be a CL-Class fighter, which is wrong – it wi ...
Tags: mercedes benz, test mule, automaker, hard time, msrp, spy shots, side profile, conjecture, nomenclature, slk, photographers, premium price, body shape, class source, munich, winding road, mercedes benz cl, cl class, bmw z9, speculators
1 December 2006 posted in Trends 7 views
SassyGrass! - NeoRetro color for the Charger Well this is just Plum Crazy! Actually, no, it's Sublime. Our friends over at ChargerForums.com have obtained some information about the latest special edition of the LX cars; the Dodge Charger Dayton ...
Tags: dodge, cars, chrysler, hard time, chrysler group, debut, dodge charger, christmas, charger daytona, plum, spree candy, sour apple, strip mines, shade of green, pea soup, green hue
5 November 2006 posted in Etc. 10 views
SEMA Gallery: Booth Babe Bonanza The team is back from Las Vegas, having finished our marathon coverage of SEMA. To say that place is huge would be an understatement. The amount of hours it takes to walk that show is unbelievable. Wi ...
Tags: hard time, understatement, booths, las vegas, wallpaper, sema, booth babes, sin city, square feet, bonanza, paris motor, booth babe, easy on the eyes, exhibit space, marathon coverage, outrageous cars, spokesmodels, lovely lady, product ideas, violins
7 September 2006 posted in Earnings/Financials 2 views
Alan Mulally will make at least $10 million/year at Ford New Ford Motor Company CEO Alan Mulally will make some mad cash according to the Detroit News -- at least $10 million clams in compensation, in fact. The high sticker comes as no surprise given the fa ...
Tags: new ford, hard time, ford motor, detroit news, ford motor company, bill ford, 10 million, dieter, carlos ghosn, clams, boeing, alan mulally, company ceo, personal use, finding somebody, company jet, company cars, club memberships, compensation package, business purposes
21 August 2006 posted in Car Buying 4 views
California trends spell disaster for 'Big 2.5' California is said to be a trendsetter in many aspects of American life. Some of these developments have been for the betterment of the automotive world (we'll let you decide that in the comments) and ...
Tags: gm, automakers, hard time, minivan, californians, new vehicles, automotive news, market share, wares, pickup trucks, swill, sticking point, share source, vehicle registrations, golden state, trendsetter, r l polk and company, shocking statistics, california roads, betterment
28 July 2006 posted in Car Buying 11 views
GM spoils Pontiac dealers: Canadian Pursuit arrives as G5 Pontiac dealers have been complaining to General Motors about the void created when the Sunfire small car was cancelled. With no small car to offer, these dealers have had a hard time attracting fuel- ...
Tags: liter, gm, showrooms, small car, hard time, chevy cobalt, pontiac, base model, general motors, disc brakes, streets of america, beak, pontiac pursuit, pontiac dealers, inch aluminum wheels, wheel disc brakes, nomenclature, spoils, conscious buyers, nostrils
25 February 2006 posted in Car Buying 8 views
Jerry Flint: Fret not, domestics... Toyota's Tundra won't hurry armageddon Forbes columnist of all things automotive Jerry Flint has checked out the 2007 Toyota Tundra. His pronouncement? It's a good pickup, but it won't become America's best-selling big truck.According to F ...
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25 January 2006 posted in Car Buying 8 views
Ford: The world's first 'Brokeback' car company? When Ford Motor Company unwittingly embroiled itself in the American Family Association controversy late last year, all the pickets in the world weren't wide enough to straddle that fence. In the end, ...
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19 November 2005 posted in Car Buying 6 views
European car sales slump in October As it turns out North America doesn't have a monopoly on crappy October vehicles sales numbers. It seems things are tough all over. European car sales suffered their worst October since 1996 according ...
Tags: cars, hard time, economy, north america, interest rates, automobile manufacturers, car sales, monopoly, sales numbers, crappy, european automobile, slump, spain, transport strike, biggest losers, manufacturers association, ipo, dreams
9 September 2005 posted in Trends 7 views
California may temporarily relax gasoline standards The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is looking to waive the seasonal minimum vapor pressure requirement for "summer" gasoline sold in the state until Oct. 31st. This move would follow those made ...
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23 August 2005 posted in Garage 7 views
2005 Mustang Convertible GT: In the Autoblog Garage Day 2 After the first day, you realize this car is an attention getter. Every were you stop, drive, park, the car gets attention. It's certainly cooler than I am. Anyway, Mustang's exterior certainly has a ...
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23 June 2005 posted in Motorsports 5 views
Dumb and dumberer: BAR could be banned from F1 season Sure, the US Grand Prix was a farce and a blunder of monumental proportions for Formula One, but now, after providing no other recourse than withdrawal from the race by the Michelin-shod teams, F1 is ...
Tags: cars, michelin, hard time, honda, formula one, reputation, f1 rules, fuel tank, fia, bar honda, monumental proportions, us grand prix, dumb and dumberer, safety reasons, blunder, farce, recourse, formula 1, probation