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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Ad blitz targets diesel fuel's noisy, smelly image | detnews.com | The Detroit News Imagine trying to market a product that most Americans regard as old and obsolete, that is remembered -- if at all -- as low-class and low-tech, noisy and noisome, and whose most notable advocates are truck drivers with prominent trouser cleavage. CB radio? An excellent guess, but no. Diesel, the oilier cousin of gasoline, dominates the European auto market, where fuel prices hover around $7 per gallon. Diesel is about 25 percent to 40 percent more fuel-efficient than gasoline, with commensurate... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-11 05:04:43 Article Views Rating: 33 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > BMW Z4 roadster offers enlightening ride | detnews.com | The Detroit News Here are a few automotive rules to live by: Downshift the turn. Don't text message or e-mail friends, colleagues or any prince from Nigeria behind the wheel. Own a roadster before you die. Perhaps, it's because I'm in my midlife years -- at 41, I'm certainly hacking through the back nine -- that I've developed such an affinity for drop-top two seaters. Or, maybe, it was just that I was sitting behind the steering wheel of the 2009 BMW Z4 roadster. Every time I fired up the 3-liter direct injection... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-11 05:04:30 Article Views Rating: 39 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Mustang Is the Best Sport Car Again The 2010 Ford Mustang won the new test of sporty cars and coupes held by Consumer Reports. It showed to be better than Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger. The Mustang was qualified as “an even more balanced and satisfying driver's car than ever before.” The pony car was rated “very good” by scoring 78 points at the overall road test. It was praised for “strong suspension, communicative steering and the most agile handling”, according to the senior director of Consumer Reports’ Auto Test... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:14 Article Views Rating: 53 Main > Car Makers News > Porsche > Volkswagen Changes Porsche Politics Volkswagen is really working on the restructuring plan for Porsche. After all the details of the merge will be settled, the German automaker wants to make a “massive U-turn in Porsche’s product plan”. The fans of latest Cayenne SUV and Panamera sport sedan should hurry up and purchase the last vehicles before their production stops completely. Volkswagen agrees with some critics saying that the small sport-carmaker has damaged its reputation staring building heavyweight off-roaders and sedans... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:14 Article Views Rating: 61 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford offers max appeal | detnews.com | The Detroit News Ford Motor Co. will unveil the first of many models that will be built on its new, compact-car underpinnings this month at the Frankfurt Motor Show Based on the Ford iosis Max concept displayed earlier this year at the Geneva car show, the all-new C-Max is roomier and more stylish than the vehicle it replaces. It will debut in Frankfurt Sept. 15, and is scheduled to roll into Ford of Europe showrooms in the second half of 2010. Ford is likely to bring a variant of the model, called a multipurpose... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:13 Article Views Rating: 63 Main > Car Makers News > GM > Germany: Politics won't rule GM's sale of Opel | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- General Motors Corp. isn't under any major political influence to pick a buyer for its European car business, Adam Opel GmbH, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck said Saturday. Steinbrueck said he told U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner once again that the German government favors a bid by Canadian car parts maker Magna International Inc. and Russia's state-owned Sberbank over Belgian investor RHJ International. The U.S. won't get involved in GM's decision, which could come at a board... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:10 Article Views Rating: 37 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Automaker Think emerges from bankruptcy | detnews.com | The Detroit News Plans to sell the Think electric car in the U.S., and possibly build them in Michigan, are being revived with the Norwegian company's imminent emergence from bankruptcy protection. Production of a two-seat, all-electric car in Norway was halted when Think sought bankruptcy protection in December. On Thursday, courts there approved the debt settlement plan of the carmaker, enabling it to exit court protection. "Effectively, this puts Think back in business and in a position to resume normal operations in... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:59 Article Views Rating: 83 Main > Car Makers News > Aston Martin > Aston Martin DBS Volante: A beautiful idea | detnews.com | The Detroit News I understand the Aston Martin DBS Volante is not for everybody. Not everyone will care for a $300,000, 12-cylinder, open-top super car that looks like love feels and sounds like whiskey tastes. But if you are one of these people -- these nugatory finger-waggers, these buzz-killing harpies of righteous socialism -- please, sit next to someone else at dinner. I will stick a fork in your eye. Yes, of course it's a car for rich jackasses, preening showoffs and enviro-criminals. Really, what part of Aston... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:57 Article Views Rating: 90 Main > Car Makers News > Aston Martin > Aston Martin DBS Volante: A beautiful idea | detnews.com | The Detroit News I understand the Aston Martin DBS Volante is not for everybody. Not everyone will care for a $300,000, 12-cylinder, open-top super car that looks like love feels and sounds like whiskey tastes. But if you are one of these people -- these nugatory finger-waggers, these buzz-killing harpies of righteous socialism -- please, sit next to someone else at dinner. I will stick a fork in your eye. Yes, of course it's a car for rich jackasses, preening showoffs and enviro-criminals. Really, what part of Aston... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:50 Article Views Rating: 93 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Calif. car auction nets $14M from collectors | detnews.com | The Detroit News More than 800 car collectors spent $14 million at an auction in California, snapping up Duesenberg and Mercedes-Benz models and passing on a 1939 Auto Union racer that was estimated to fetch as much as $10 million. Jay Leno, the comedian and talk-show host, was among the selective crowd at the Bonhams & Butterfields sale in Carmel that had been forecast by the organizers to make as much as $35 million. Last year's event totaled $21 million. The Auto Union racing car had been expected to make the most... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:18 Article Views Rating: 70 |
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