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Main > Car Makers News > Hyundai > Hyundai's strategy paying off | detnews.com | The Detroit News Detroit's automakers have lost their mojo and not even some of the stellar products they have today are doing much to bring it home. Hyundai, it appears, has found it. The South Korean automaker once known for "cheap and cheerful" economy cars has kicked its game up a few notches and even those who chuckled at the thought of owning one now are paying attention. It's been hard not to with the massive ad campaign the company is waging. Ad campaign resonatesThink Sunday. As in Super Bowl Sunday, the day... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-25 06:22:50 Article Views Rating: 256 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Polls: Most oppose auto aid | detnews.com | The Detroit News WASHINGTON -- The nation has spoken, Michigan, and we are all alone on this business of auto bailouts. A series of recent national opinion polls shows a large majority of Americans opposed to the idea of more federal aid to General Motors and Chrysler, putting the Obama administration in the tricky position of balancing economic necessity with political reality. "The president is a very smart guy. I think he knows a bailout of the auto industry is unpopular with the country at large," said Pennsylvania... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-25 06:22:50 Article Views Rating: 184 Main > Car Makers News > Rolls-Royce > Rolls Royce 200EX concept revealed before Geneva Embargoes are funny things. Everyone stays tight lipped, until someone spills the beans. Then the heavens open, and the whole internet becomes awash with images and specifications.Well, someone has done just that with the new ‘baby’ Rolls Royce, codenamed 200EX, which we saw the other day as the RR4 spy shots.Due to be fully unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, Car magazine has given us the clearest shots we could hope for, showing the styling of the new Roller. Obviously it misses out on the... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-20 07:00:56 Article Views Rating: 359 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > BMW, Daimler look to share expenses | detnews.com | The Detroit News For more than a year, German luxury carmakers BMW AG and Daimler AG have explored ways to cooperate and share some production and development costs. The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Sunday that the longtime rivals may be close to signing cost-sharing agreements on such items as power window motors. Both companies declined to comment on Monday, and some analysts said the timing of the report suggested it might have been intended as a distraction from what are likely to be very... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-17 14:55:40 Article Views Rating: 238 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto briefs | detnews.com | The Detroit News AUTOS 775 Delphi jobs to be slashed near SaginawBUENA VISTA TOWNSHIP -- Nearly 800 jobs are being eliminated at the steering division of Delphi Corp . near Saginaw. The cuts announced Monday are hitting 425 hourly workers and 350 employees who are on salary. They will kick in March 1. "We've anticipated this for some time," said Mike Hanley, president of United Auto Workers Local 699. Workers with low seniority can leave and get a severance package or put their name on a recall list. The white-collar... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-17 14:55:40 Article Views Rating: 145 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > BMW Art Cars Start Their World Tour in LA Los Angeles Museum of Art is having an interesting exhibition this month: four of the famous BMW Art Cars are ready for the presentation in the BP Grand Entrance today. The display is free of charge to the public. BMW Art Cars project started in 1975 when French racer Hervé Poulain asked the artist Alexander Calder to use his racing BMW as a canvas for his next work. During the next years the idea was picked up and 16 BMWs both production and racing models were painted by artists.The visitors of... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-15 18:02:48 Article Views Rating: 342 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > 2009 Geneva Auto Show: Honda S2000 Ultimate Edition Honda plans to bring its latest sport car S2000 Ultimate Edition to the upcoming 2009 Geneva Auto Show. The manufacturer wants to start sales in Europe in March, but the North American customers won’t see it at their dealerships.Honda S2000 Ultimate Edition looks really impressive with the Grand Pix While body and graphite-color alloy wheels. The automaker says the choice for the color is based on the 1964 F1 model. The interior is trimmed in red leather and decorated with numbered plaques... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-12 06:29:17 Article Views Rating: 370 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford, GM execs see market stabilizing | detnews.com | The Detroit News CHICAGO -- Auto industry executives are seeing signs that the U.S. auto industry is beginning to stabilize, after months of free-falling sales that have threatened some of the sector's biggest players. Jim Farley, Ford Motor Co.'s global marketing chief, said Wednesday that seasonally adjusted retail sales demand has held steady for four months. Meanwhile, the country's used car market has come "roaring back" since January. "That shows me that credit's available," Farley said after a Ford presentation... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-12 06:29:14 Article Views Rating: 172 Main > Car Makers News > Peugeot > Peugeot-Citroen to delay plug-in hybrids PSA Peugeot-Citroen could delay the introduction of plug-in diesel-electric hybrid cars, including the stunning Prologue pictured below, as it seeks to cut costs during the economic downturn.Ladimir Prince, manager of PSA’s hybrid innovations unit, said though the carmaker’s plug-in hybrid project could be delayed by a year or two, the economic crisis will not slow the firm’s plans to launch diesel-electric hybrid models. Prince said PSA is still working toward launching a... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-06 05:56:48 Article Views Rating: 259 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Foreigners seek access to untapped lithium | detnews.com | The Detroit News UYUNI, Bolivia -- In the rush to build the next generation of hybrid or electric cars, a sobering fact confronts automakers and governments seeking to lower their reliance on foreign oil: Almost half of the world's lithium, the mineral needed to power the vehicles, is found in Bolivia -- a country that may not be willing to surrender it easily. Japanese and European companies are busily trying to strike deals to tap the resource, but a nationalist sentiment about the lithium is building quickly in the... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-05 07:31:57 Article Views Rating: 165 |
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