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Main > Car Makers News > Other > American Axle's stock is on the rise | detnews.com | The Detroit News American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., a supplier of axles for General Motors Co. light trucks, rose to its highest mark since September 2008 after a Barclays Capital analyst raised his rating on the shares. Financial results will beat analysts' estimates as early as this quarter as full-size pickup sales recover after the government's "cash for clunkers" incentive program, Barclays Brian Johnson in Chicago said in a report Friday. He boosted his rating to overweight/neutral from equal... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-14 04:08:49 Article Views Rating: 48 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Obama fuel rules may tilt field | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- The Obama administration's long-awaited proposed regulation setting fuel efficiency standards at 35.5 miles per gallon by the 2016 model year will be rolled out as early as this week. But the rules may give some automakers a competitive advantage. The regulation is expected to mirror a California provision that gives less-stringent tailpipe emissions requirements to automakers with annual U.S. sales of no more than 400,000 vehicles, mainly German and Asian manufacturers. Reducing emissions is best... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-08 05:29:16 Article Views Rating: 55 Main > Car Makers News > Buick > Buick Is Popular in China Although General Motors does not have much success with Buick in Europe, the American luxury car is doing great in China. The Asian customers are so ready to buy Buick autos that the number of sold vehicles in China in August is four times as much as in the U.S. GM was expecting good deals in China and delivered 152,365 cars to the Chinese customers; this is 113% from last year. However even in its boldest dreams the American automaker did not expect to sell a record breaking 1,111,401 units in the full... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:14 Article Views Rating: 69 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM: Fleet airbags required | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- General Motors Co. will not allow fleet purchasers to skip buying side airbags on 2010 models, the company said Friday. The automaker previously allowed fleet buyers to save $145 per vehicle by opting out of buying side airbags on tens of thousands of 2006-09 models that were typically billed as having "standard side airbags," a policy safety advocates questioned. Many of those used vehicles have ended up for sale and have been erroneously marketed as having standard air bags. GM has vowed to take... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:10 Article Views Rating: 35 Main > Car Makers News > Other > NHTSA: Automatic reversing windows unnecessary | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has tentatively decided not to require automatic reversing windows, the agency said Friday. In 2008, Congress required NHTSA to study whether to require power windows to reverse direction when they detect an obstruction, to prevent children from being trapped, injured, or killed. But NHTSA says another regulation in place since last fall makes automatic reversing windows unnecessary. "The agency has tentatively determined that the scope of the power... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:04:00 Article Views Rating: 88 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Nissan, Chrysler cancel deal | detnews.com | The Detroit News Nissan Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC have dropped their plans to produce vehicles for each other. The two automakers agreed early last year to pool their volumes in the full-size pickup and subcompact segments, but doubts about the projects arose after Chrysler teamed up with Italy's Fiat SpA. "For the past several months, teams from both companies have been studying the viability of the projects in light of significant changes in business conditions since the projects were announced," the two... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:12 Article Views Rating: 47 Main > Car Makers News > Audi > SUV luxury with downsized guilt: the Audi Q5 | detnews.com | The Detroit News The most astonishing thing about my time in the 2009 Audi Q5 was that I actually took it off road, with dirt and everything. Granted, I was in West Los Angeles, where the creeks burble with Bollinger and raccoons wear rhinestone collars. Nonetheless, for most buyers in the compact luxury sport-utility segment, my little excursion on a home construction site might as well have been crossing the Gobi. You know these vehicles. Indeed, you cannot swing a rhinestone-wearing raccoon on the Westside without... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:08 Article Views Rating: 54 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Chrysler Town and Country is made for vacations | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- The best way to go up north is in a minivan. Sure, there may be cooler cars, faster SUVs and much more stylish vehicles, but a minivan gets the job done like no other. And the king of Michigan minivans is the 2009 Chrysler Town and Country -- it's an anointment by default since Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. dumped their minivan business. A Town and Country makes any trip into Michigan's hinterlands easier because it basically becomes a giant cargo hauler. It's the Pods of vehicles. The Stow... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:06 Article Views Rating: 42 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford Cuts back on Nameplates Ford has given an update to the future plans at the Mangement Briefing Seminars in Traverse city, Michigan. The manufacturer plans to reduce the amount of nameplates in the upcoming years, so, many of the existing lineups are going to be refreshed or replaced by new ones. According to Ford representatives from 70 to 90 percent of all models in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa will go through changes by 2012; the whole face of the company will be renewed. And this is just the beginning... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-17 04:20:00 Article Views Rating: 131 Main > Car Makers News > Fiat > Fiat Takes over One More Company The Italian automobile company, Gruppo Bertone or Carozzeria Bertone specializes on car styling, coach building and manufacturing. Since 1912 it has been improving the images of various Italian cars among which are Lamborghini Miura, the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint and the Fiat X1/9. It has also done some designing work for foreign manufacturers like Volvo, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Skoda and Citroen.Since early 2008 Bertone has been under court protection from bankruptcy. Several representatives... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-17 04:19:59 Article Views Rating: 141 |
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