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Some Good -- and Fun -- Automotive News for the Holidaze

Steve Parker | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Cell Phones, Tarp, Automotive News, Good Sam Club, Chevy Volt, Troubled Assets Relief Program, Tata Motors, Honda Accord, Rose Parade Committee, Chrysler, Rick Wagoner, Honda, Federal Reserve, Cars, F1, The Oscars, Ford, FCX Clarity, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, Gmac, Representative Sandy Levin, Senator Carl Levin, Jean Shepherd, General Motors, Japanese Cars, Suburban, Hyundai, Christmas, Pasadena Rose Parade, Nobuhiko Kawamoto, GMAC Bailout, Jaguar, Hyundai Excel, Toyota, Chevrolet, Washington DC, American Honda, Land Rover, Red Ryder Bb Gun, Floorplanning, Formula One, Chevrolet Cruze, Asimo, Daisy Red Ryder Bb Gun, Landline Phones, Rolls-Royce Phantom, Honda Super Cub, Pasadena, Santa Claus, Subaru, Hawaii, Business News

Really wish there were better news to post about, but the auto industry is reeling worldwide, and there's no better example than Toyota.

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Three Doomed American SUV Plants

New York Times | NICK BUNKLEY and BILL VLASIC | Posted 12.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chevrolet, Gm, Economy, SUV Plant Closings, Cars, Suvs, SUV Sales, Business News

Reeling from its financial problems and a collapsing S.U.V. market, General Motors on Tuesday closed its factories in this city and in Moraine, Ohio, ...

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Motor Racing Reacts to Worldwide Recession

Steve Parker | Posted 12.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Porsche, White House, 24 Hours of LeMans, Daytona International Speedway, 12 Hours of Sebring, NASCAR Drivers, Bobby Labonte, Cars, Daytona Prototype, Xtrac, Soap Box Derby, Chip Ganassi, Petty Enterprises, Irs, Formula 1, Felix Sabates, Soap Box Derbies, Richard Petty, Indy Racing League, New Hampshire Speedway, Detroit Three, Nascar, Chevrolet, Gm, Washington DC, Tony Stewart, Kyle Petty, Alms, Dodge, Monaco Grand Prix, NASCAR Money, Turbodiesel, Alfa Romeo, Tarp Bailout Bill, Gran-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, Joe Gibbs Racing, Chrysler, Honda, Ford, Audi Clean Diesel, Volkswagen, Mazda, General Motors, Indycar Racing, Detroit, Detroit Bailout, Indycar, Adam Petty, Uaw, Toyota, American Lemans Series, Ricardo, NASCAR Support, Cosworth, Porsche Rs Spyder, Sprint Cup, Ferrari, Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, Formula One, TARP and Auto Bailout, Daytona 500, Audi, Roger Penske, Bmw, New York Times, Super Bowl Commercials, Business News

With car sales suffering worldwide, the marketing and advertising budgets, where many companies keep their racing dollars, are often the first budgets to be trimmed.

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Car Sales Tank; Detroit Visits DC, Pt. II

Steve Parker | Posted 12.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Cars, George Bush, Roger and Me, Automotive News, Spring Hill, Wall Street Bailout, Congress, Australian, Saturn, Chrysler, Buick, Rick Wagoner, United Auto Workers, Russian Carmaker, Opel GT, $25 Billion Bailout, Honda, Ford, Volkswagen, Malibu Hybrid, Ev1, Bob Lutz, Indian Carmaker, Michael Moore, Saturn Vue, Washington, Tiger Woods, Detroit, Greenmail, Opel Kappa Platform, European Carmakers, Chrysler CEO, Pontiac Solstice Coupe, Bob Nardelli, Uaw, Toyota, Gm, Alan Mulally, AM General, Saturn Sky, Detroit Three, Chevrolet, American Honda, Deal or No Deal, Roger Smith, Gmc, Asian Carmakers, Escape Hybrid, Chinese Carmaker, Pontiac, Corvette, Saab, Wall Street, Detroit Three Loans, Bmw, Subaru, Republican, Hummer Sale, Henry Paulson, Europe, China, Cadillac, Holden, Auto Bailout, Business News

Now that they have our attention, the Detroit Three, in plans submitted to Congress Tuesday, increased their appeals for federal loans from $25 billion to $34 billion.

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Deepak Chopra on Mumbai: Too Controversial for CNN?

Michelle Haimoff | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics

Deepak Chopra went on CNN Wednesday night to give his take on the Mumbai attacks and how to prevent similar attacks in the future, but producers cut Chopra off when he started to get too controversial.

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Los Angeles Auto Show -- Clean Diesels Clean Up

Steve Parker | Posted 11.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Saturn, Chrysler, Scion xB, Stick Shift, Cars, Ford, Clean Diesel, Nissan, Brad Pitt, Blue Drive Hybrid System, Los Angeles Auto Show, General Motors, Touareg TDI, Hyundai, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Los Angeles Auto Show Green, Climate Change, Computers, Hydrogen-Powered Cars, Volkswagen CC, Nissan 370z, Energy, Corvette ZR1, Infiniti G37, Toyota Camry Hybrid, Gm, Afghanistan, Nissan Cube, Carlos Ghosn, Chevrolet, 2010 Camaro, Porsche, Jetta TDI Cup, Daewoo, Green Car of the Year, Smart ForTwo, Manual Transmission, Continuously Variable Transmission, Ferrari, Chevrolet Cruze, Chevrolet Volt, Q7, Smart Car, Dodge, Datsun, Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid, Fuel Cells, Audi, Chevrolet Corvette, Bmw, Christianity, Jeep, Hyundai Genesis, Volkswagen Jetta Diesel, Brabus, q5, a3, Cvt, a4, Business News

At this year's Los Angeles Auto Show, the 205-mile per hour, $100,000, 2009 Corvette ZR1 is relegated to the very rear of the Chevrolet exhibit, like the "adults only" section in video stores.

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Europe's, China's carmakers ask for help; Waxman wins key Congressional post

Steve Parker | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business

Read More: House of Representatives, Congress, Chrysler, America, Ford Mustang, Rick Wagoner, Cars, Gas/Electric Hybrid, John Dingell, Ford, Clean Diesel, Chevy Silverado, Dodge Durango Hybrid, Los Angeles Auto Show, Chevy Malibu Hybrid, General Motors, Robert Nardelli, Japanese Cars, Washington, Detroit, Mercury Milan Hybrid, Michigan, Chrysler Aspen Hybrid, California, Ford Fusion Hybrid, Alan Mulally, Detroit Three, Chevrolet, Henry Waxman, Democrats, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Senate, ABC News, Angela Merkel, Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis, Asian, Opel, European, Business News

In a major win for all consumers, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted Thursday to put Rep. Henry Waxman of California in charge of a key p...

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GM Pinning Its Hopes On Plug-In Hybrid

New York Times | MICHELINE MAYNARD | Posted 11.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Chevrolet, Chevrolet Volt, Hybrids, Plug-in Cars, Gm, General Motors, Hybrid Cars, Business News

The Chevrolet Volt, a plug-in hybrid, will not arrive in showrooms until late 2010. But it is already straining under the weight of an entire company....

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Auto Industry Drops 32%; GM Plummets Over 45%

Steve Parker | Posted 11.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Automotive News, Suzuki, Chrysler, Epa, Thanksgiving, Honda, Cars, Atlanta, Ford, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Tennessee Valley Authority, General Motors, Ford Ecoboost Engine, Mini, Detroit Bailout, John McCain, Toyota, Gm, Opec, Detroit Three, Lexus, Chevrolet, GM Red Tag Sale, Porsche, Barack Obama, Mercury, Bush White House, Manhattan Project, Lincoln, Wpa, Sarah Palin, Bmw, Audi, Lincoln MKS, Isuzu, Business News

Obama has consistently shown his support for an American car-making industry, a modern and green industry able to build the kinds of cars and trucks people will want to buy.

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EPA's 2009 Top Ten; Dodge's Hemi Hybrids Tout mpg; New Corvette "on Indefinite Hold"

Steve Parker | Posted 10.19.2008 | Green

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How serious are the problems facing the Detroit Three? This serious: General Motors' Chevrolet Division has put the next-generation Corvette, the C7, on indefinite hold.

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Precipitous fifteen-year drop in US car sales; Need one? You probably can't get one

Steve Parker | Posted 10.02.2008 | Business

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They say "start out bad news with a joke," so: In Peter Gent's "North Dallas Forty," a football coach is talking with the team owner's son about his f...

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Major car-maker haps: Detroit gets their bailout, Daimler selling their last 20% of Chrysler, world's largest Chevrolet dealer group closes

Steve Parker | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business

Three major events involving the world of cars, politics and finance, both in the US and abroad. First, Automotive News reports, "Automakers and supp...

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New Rule: Like a Crock

Bill Maher | Posted 09.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Chevrolet, Electric Chevy, Electric Car Market, Bill Maher New Rule, 236.Com, Electric Cars, Business News

Nobody wants an electric Chevy.

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THE LATEST: $25 BILLION FOR DETROIT; PRODUCTION CHEVY VOLT PLUG-IN HYBRID UNVEILED

Steve Parker | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Turbochargers, Boeing, Gas-Electric Hybrid Technology, Automotive News, General Electric, Hemi Hybrids, Saturn, Chrysler, Rick Wagoner, Honda, Detroit News, FCX Clarity, Ford, Home Depot, Goldman Sachs, Equinox, Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles, General Motors, Robert Nardelli, Hydrogen Fuel Cell, Charlie Rose, Flex, Gm, Alan Mulally, Detroit Three, Chevrolet, Volvo, Washington DC, Cars, Chevrolet Volt, JPMorgan Chase, Chrysler Jeep, Ford Escape, Wall Street, Opel, Focus, Green News

Today's Detroit News newspaper reports that, because big investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase own huge amounts of GM and Ford cor...

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BIG TRUCKS GAINING SALES TRACTION ... AGAIN!

Steve Parker | Posted 09.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Chevrolet, GMC Sierra, Ford Excursion, Chrysler, Gm, Detroit Three, Gas-Guzzler, Cars, Ford, F-Series Truck, Dodge Ram, Rolls-Royce, Titan, General Motors, Chrysler Hemi, Nissan, Subaru, Avalanche, Hummer, Yukon, Sierra, Mini, Business News

The auto industry's US sales numbers for August are in, and Americans are again buying full-size pickups and SUVs. They are actually a "bright spot" i...

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$50 Billion for the Detroit Three: Yea or Nay?

Steve Parker | Posted 08.28.2008 | Business

Read More: White House, American Motors, Jaguar, Tesla Motors, Tata Motors, Chrysler, Buick, Andrew Card, Dodge Viper, Cars, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Humvees, General Motors, Nascar, Nissan, Carl Levin, Hummer, Saabs, Kurt Busch, Range Rover, Bob Nardelli, Toyota, Gm, Carlos Ghosn, Santa Monica Airport, Detroit Three, Ford, Chevrolet, AM General, Volvo, Barack Obama, Cerberus, Pontiac, Cadillac, h3, H1, H2, Avanti, Cancun, Mishawaka, Studebaker, Gmc, Shreveport, Business News

Should Chrysler, or two of the car-makers or even all three go bust, then, this time, the American people will pay the price, both literally and figuratively.

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Car Industry Group to Public: It's Not All Our Fault, It's Yours Too

Steve Parker | Posted 08.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas-Electric Hybrid Technology, Gas Prices, Chevrolet, Chevy Volt, Andrew Card, Gm, American Automobile Industry, Mazda, Captive Imports, Detroit Three, Ford, Ecodriving, Cars, American Automobile Manufacturers Association, Mercedes Benz, Chrysler, Rube Goldberg, Bmw, Chevy, General Motors, Malibu, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Mitsubishi, Plug-in Hybrids, Corvette, Aama, Ecodriver, Aam, Business News

It's the same story we've been hearing from car-makers, especially those in Detroit, for the past 30 years: "Just wait a little longer and we'll have those new cars and trucks you've been hoping for."

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Chevy Volt: Batteries Charge Fine, It's Carrying, Cooling And Using Them Them That's Not Ready

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 08.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Chevy Volt, Chevrolet Volt, GM Volt, Gm, Chevrolet, Electric Car, Alternative Energy, Green Car, Sustainable Car, Phevs, Business News

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Early versions of the Chevrolet Volt's battery packs are powerful enough to run the high-stakes rechargeable car, but doz...

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Chevrolet To Bring Subcompact Concept Car To Market Stateside

Automobile Mag | Evan McCausland | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Chevy Groove, Gas Prices, Chevrolet, Bob Lutz, Subcompact Car, Chevy, Chevy Beat, Reducing Emissions, Cars, Chevy Trax, Business News

It won't, however, be the angular green Beat hatchback. Although a production version of that car will be built and sold in other countries, GM's 'ca...

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Can GM Survive?

Steve Parker | Posted 07.21.2008 | Business

Read More: Buick, Rick Wagoner, Detroit Auto Show, Home Depot, Bob Lutz, General Motors, Robert Nardelli, Toyota Prius, Pontiac GTO, Plug-in Hybrids, Paris Auto Show, Energy, John McCain, Gm, Alan Mulally, Chevrolet, Beat, Volt, Duke University, Harvard Business School, Detroit Automakers, Corvette, Chrysler, Chevrolet Volt, Bmw, Ford of Europe, Holden Commodore, Cadillac, Cruze, Pontiac, Camaro, Daewoo, Oldsmobile, Cobalt, Business News

John McCain visited a GM factory and said if cars like the Volt, a plug-in gas/electric hybrid GM is developing, really do make it to market (still a question mark), "hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created." He's wrong.

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GM's Chevy Volt Will Take Bravery, Government Help And Luck

HybridCars.com | Posted 07.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Oil Crisis, Chevrolet, Chevy Volt, Bob Lutz, General Motors, Gm, Electric Car, Green Technology, Green News

General Motors can't catch a break with its green car plans. As hybrids steadily gained market share in the first half of this decade, the company sta...

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The Detroit Three --- Making Any Relevant Cars or Trucks?

Steve Parker | Posted 07.15.2008 | Business

Read More: Saturn, Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Malibu, Gas/Electric Hybrid, Honda, CAFE Standards, Dodge Ram, Plymouth, General Motors, Dodge Challenger, Ev1, Mercury Mariner, Crossfire, Bob Nardelli, Jeep Wrangler, Plug-in Hybrids, President Bush, Detroit, Energy, Dodge Sprinter, Dodge, Gasoline, Gm, Alan Mulally, Ford, Detroit Three, Burbank, Chevrolet, Honda Hybrid, Hybrid Hemi, Cerberus, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Corvette, Chrysler, Chevrolet Volt, Bmw, Bill Ford, Ford Escape, Hemi, Viper, Nhtsa, Volt, Jeep, Business News

That the Detroit Three have to build cars and trucks which make sense now and in the future, and which Americans want to buy.

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Chevy Volt: "The Barack Obama Of Automobiles"

The Atlantic | Jonathan Rauch | Posted 06.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Chevrolet, Chevy Volt, Electric Car, Battery-Powered Car, Chevy Volt Battery, Ev1, Cars, Green News

Last year, while he was working in Germany as an engineer for General Motors, Andrew Farah got a call from a senior engineer in Detroit asking him to ...

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Automakers Suffer February Double Whammy

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 03.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Automakers, Chevrolet, Gm, Toyota Motors, General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Suvs, Ford Motors, SUV Sales, Business News

DETROIT — Automakers got hit where it hurts in February, with U.S. sales of their most profitable vehicles _ trucks, sport utilities and large s...

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Hybrid Cars On Parade At L.A. Auto Show

Wall Street Journal | Mike Spector | Posted 11.14.2007 | Business

Read More: Gas-Electric Hybrid Technology, Lincoln, Chevrolet, Phyllis Cuttino, Hybrid Cars, Fuel Efficiency, Business News

Touting a hydrogen-powered Chevrolet, a Lincoln with a super-efficient gasoline engine and a hybrid Dodge, car makers plan to use the Los Angeles auto...

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