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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 > FJ Cruiser: Only for serious off-roaders | detnews.com | The Detroit News The M1A2 Abrams tank has better visibility than the 2009 FJ Cruiser. It's not really a fair comparison -- the tank includes high-tech optics to operate its 120 mm smooth bore gun and the FJ Cruiser has a windshield slightly larger than a basement window. Having had the opportunity to ride in the tank recently, I can tell you that it can spin its turret in a few seconds, providing 360 degrees of vision, and that it would never be parallel parked. The FJ Cruiser, meanwhile, now comes with a backup camera... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:07:59 Article Views Rating: 26 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford Increases Truck Production It seems that Cash for Clunkers really pulled automakers out of economic troubles and low sales. The manufacturers do not worry any more about sales and are counting the great profits after the program. Ford is so excited about big auto sales that it decided to increase the production by adding shifts to the truck plants in Missouri and Michigan. The changes will start this fall. At first the company plans to restore the three-shift operation at the truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan to increase the... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:04:00 Article Views Rating: 97 Main > Car Makers News > Saab > 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show: 2010 Saab 9-5 These are the last weeks when Saab functions as a GM branch: the Swedish company is going to belong to Koenigsegg Group pretty soon. However, a few recent projects which have been developed together with GM designers will be produced by Saab as part of American auto company. One of them is the renewed 2010 Saab 9-5. The car goes to the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show for the official debut. The first pictures of Saab 9-5 were printed at the Swedish edition of the German magazine Auto Motor und Sport. At the... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:21 Article Views Rating: 98 Main > Car Makers News > Porsche > 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show: 2010 Porsche 911 Porsche is going to Germany with two editions of the 911 model: 911 Turbo and renewed GT3 RS. Both of the vehicles are claimed to have great fuel-efficiency, however, the actual numbers are kept in secret till the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show. The 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo has a 3.8-liter flat-6 boxer engine which outputs 494 horsepower and delivers 516 pound-feet of torque. The manufacturer is proud to point out that the CO2 emissions in the new car are reduced by almost 18 percent. A lot of option features... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:21 Article Views Rating: 88 Main > Car Makers News > Trabant > 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show: the Return of Trabant A German team of car specialists has decided to revive the classic Trabant in a new electric-car look. At the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show the small car firm Herpa made a survey on whether auto fans would like to see a redesigned Trabant. Almost 10,000 people responded agreeing that the car should exist in the future. Trabant was built in East Germany in 1957-1991. It could not remain in the present world without changes because the car has a two-stroke engine which was absolutely environmentally... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:19 Article Views Rating: 95 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Toyota Recalls Cars in China Sometimes having great sales and producing autos too quickly might turn against the car manufacturer. This is what happened to Toyota which has to recall nearly 700,000 cars in China because of such minor problem as a faulty window switch. It was simpler when the passengers of cars rolled down their windows by hand, but in order to make things easier the automotive industry has connected the window switches to electricity and now the windows go down by a push of a button. The Chinese officials say the... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:18 Article Views Rating: 88 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford relies on European clunker cash | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- Ford Motor Co. is lobbying European governments to extend consumer sales incentives to avoid a new market collapse when their versions of "cash for clunkers" programs end, according to the automakers top executive in the region. Ford and the European Automobile Manufacturers Association trade group are asking governments if they would be prepared to maintain scrappage or, at the minimum, phase them out slowly, said John Fleming, Ford of Europe's chief executive officer. European car sales rose in... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:15 Article Views Rating: 94 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Germany invests millions in race for battery-powered car | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- Forget that they're cramped, have a limited driving range and outstrip the average consumer's pocketbook. The race is on to create a viable electric car. Germany -- home to brands including Volkswagen, Porsche and BMW -- became the latest country to fast track development of electric cars, the government approving a plan Wednesday that aims to put 1 million of them on the road by 2020. The goal is ambitious. Of the 41 million cars in the country, only 1,452 are electric, and Germany is entering an... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:15 Article Views Rating: 69 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Big 3 sales fade as 'clunkers' wraps up | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- The Detroit Three automakers' share of "cash for clunkers" sales fell sharply, compared to foreign nameplates, in the final week of the $3 billion incentive program. General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC sold 38.6 percent, or about 266,000 of the nearly 700,000 clunker replacements. That's far below their combined 45.3 percent share of 2009 auto sales. The U.S.-based companies said they were hampered by a comparative shortage of small, fuel-efficient vehicles that buyers were... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:13 Article Views Rating: 36 |
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