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Main > Car Makers News > Honda > Honda taps research expert as CEO | detnews.com | The Detroit News TOKYO -- Honda Motor Co. named Takanobu Ito, head of core automaking operations, as its new chief executive Monday, in an effort to provide fresh leadership to battle a global crisis in the auto industry. Ito, a 55-year-old research and development expert with U.S. experience, replaces Takeo Fukui, 64, as chief executive officer and president. Fukui will remain on the board as adviser, Japan's No. 2 automaker said in a statement Both Fukui and Ito said the change at the helm is a message of its... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-24 09:58:41 Article Views Rating: 258 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Chery Presents an Electric Vehicle Besides the upcoming purchase of a European automaker, Chinese manufacturer, Chery, works on electric vehicles that will be built in the home country for the local customers. First S18 that runs on lithium-ion batteries has already been presented to the public.The EV is going on sale this year and will cost around $14,600. Those who are interested in the purchase should know the top speed of S18 is 75 mph and one full charge of batteries lasts for 93 miles. A standard household outlet can be used... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-24 09:58:41 Article Views Rating: 388 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Commentary: UAW deal with Ford pressures rivals | detnews.com | The Detroit News The boys running the Blue Oval would never admit to using their strong ties with top union leaders to pressure the cross-town competition -- and score political points in the process. But they're doing both. Monday, the United Auto Workers and Ford Motor Co. announced a tentative deal that would allow the automaker to use company shares to satisfy as much as 50 percent of its roughly $10 billion obligation to a union-run trust fund for retiree health care, established in 2007. Beleaguered General Motors... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-24 09:58:38 Article Views Rating: 199 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto team drives imports | detnews.com | The Detroit News WASHINGTON -- The vehicles owned by the Obama administration's auto team could reflect one reason why Detroit's Big Three automakers are in trouble: The list includes few new American cars. Among the eight members named Friday to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and the 10 senior policy aides who will assist them in their work, two own American models. Add the Treasury Department's special adviser to the task force and the total jumps to three. The Detroit News reviewed public records to... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-23 15:09:05 Article Views Rating: 144 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > Honda names new president amid slowdown | detnews.com | The Detroit News TOKYO -- Honda Motor Co. named Takanobu Ito, head of core automaking operations, as its new chief executive Monday, in an effort to provide fresh leadership to battle a global crisis in the auto industry. Ito, a 55-year-old research and development expert with U.S. experience, replaces Takeo Fukui, 64, who will remain on the board as adviser, Japan's No. 2 automaker said in a statement. Both Fukui and Ito said the change at the helm is a message of its determination to turn a new leaf and press ahead... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-23 15:09:05 Article Views Rating: 230 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid Honda has given us a sneak peak at its latest offering in the fuel efficiency contest, the Honda Insight, which was unveiled to invited media in Melbourne this morning. Launched onto the Japanese market less than two weeks ago, the Insight Concept will be on show at the Melbourne Motor Show from next Friday, but we were able to get up close and personal with it today. The car has already proved a huge hit in Japan and since its launch onto the market 10 days ago Honda has sold 10,000 units, and... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-20 07:09:35 Article Views Rating: 1326 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: 362 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: 239 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 |
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