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Main > Car Makers News > GM > Bob Kruse Is Leaving GM While Chevrolet was excited to have an unusually quick development of Volt and announced that the electric car will be ready several months earlier than they expected, the team did not notice that its leader decided to go different direction. Bob Kruse, General Motors executive director of global vehicle engineering for hybrids, electric vehicles and batteries, does not want to work for the big auto company and prefers to run his own business. Mr. Kruse has resigned and started E.V. Consulting LLC, his... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:18 Article Views Rating: 74 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > 2009 Tokyo Auto Show: Honda Skydeck Honda has designed the future version of a six-passenger hybrid minivan for the 2009 Tokyo Auto Show. It is a sibling of Insight hybrid with the flying name Skydeck. So far the manufacturer says the hybrid minivan is a pure auto show concept without any further plans for development. As a standard minivan Skydeck has three rows of seats which are unusually slim, lightweight and sport looking for this type of vehicle. The front doors are attached in a supercar style: they hinge up and forward. The rear... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:18 Article Views Rating: 80 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Magna Is Building Parts for Mercedes SLS Magna Steyr is a big company, known for building parts for such vehicles as BMW X3, Saab 9-3 convertible, Chrysler 300C and Jeep Grand Cherokee. It also gained popularity in headlines after having teamed up with Russian VAZ and purchased Opel from General Motors. Now the company is growing more and plans to start partnership with other auto manufacturers. The Canadian-Austrian auto parts giant has settled an agreement with Mercedes-Benz which gives it permission to build aluminum bodies for... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:17 Article Views Rating: 78 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Detroit conference to focus on plug-in electric vehicles | detnews.com | The Detroit News Entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders looking for ways to plug into the emerging electric vehicle market will find an outlet this week. Starting Monday, more than 600 people will descend on the MotorCity Casino in Detroit for a three-day conference dedicated to the making, marketing and deployment of plug-in electric vehicles. The inaugural event, called "The Business of Plugging In," brings together leaders from the automotive and utility industries, as well as researchers, policymakers... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:12 Article Views Rating: 39 Main > Car Makers News > Other > A 'cheaper' Corvette that doesn't compromise | detnews.com | The Detroit News There's always been a Corvette void. It's that dead space between models that other carmakers have filled -- making their offerings look less expensive and, thus, more attractive. The rocket ship $100,000 ZR1 sits atop the mountain, while the fiery $75,000 Z06 remains parked nearby, looking slightly agitated. Then there's the $49,000 base model Corvette -- the Cooper Manning of the Corvette family. It's the oldest, but no one brings it up in conversations about performance. Even the $26,000 price... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:01:55 Article Views Rating: 15 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Cosmetic repair firms join forces | detnews.com | The Detroit News Sometimes you see a new product or business and think, "Wow, that's a really good idea. Why haven't I seen that before?" This was exactly the case when I heard about what Larry Smith was launching. Smith is the affable owner of Autometric Collision, on the board of the Meadow Brook Concours, and one of Detroit's pre-eminent car nuts. His collection includes all manner of vehicles ranging from the advanced 1938 Stout Scarab engineered by William B. Stout, the man behind the legendary Ford Tri-Motor... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-17 13:17:59 Article Views Rating: 288 Main > Car Makers News > Other > 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show: Citroën Revolte The 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show had a lot of great vehicles which might become stars of the new generation. One of them is Citroën Revolte, the plug-in hybrid which became a “graphic quotation” of the famous 2CV, one of the most popular cars in France. Citroën design chief, Carlo Bonzanigo says that Revolte was created specifically for the show because they had to come up with something that could compete the other powerful presentations. The hybrid was named Revolte because it represents “a... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-17 13:17:59 Article Views Rating: 282 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Toyota's nickel bet | detnews.com | The Detroit News Toyota Motor Corp., the biggest seller of hybrid autos, is sticking with nickel as the preferred battery material for most of the vehicles after three years of secretly testing Prius hatchbacks with lithium-ion packs. Toyota last month ended road tests of 126 Priuses in the U.S., Japan and Europe that began in 2006, Jana Hartline, a company spokeswoman said. Details of the program, in which the cars' nickel metal hydride batteries were replaced with more expensive lithium models, weren't released... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-17 13:17:58 Article Views Rating: 274 Main > Car Makers News > Cadillac > Cadillac's CTS Sport Wagon weds fun and function | detnews.com | The Detroit News Buying a car is much like getting married. The courtship allows you to look over any flaws, the honeymoon makes you forget about them, and only on the commute to work do you undergo a David Byrne epiphany: This is not my beautiful car. No wonder the divorce rate in America hovers around 6,000 percent. But such a regret would never enter your mind behind the wheel of the 2010 Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon, the logical European-inspired version of the stellar CTS sedan. It's so much fun you almost forget the... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-17 13:17:58 Article Views Rating: 277 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Cosmetic repair firms join forces | detnews.com | The Detroit News Sometimes you see a new product or business and think, "Wow, that's a really good idea. Why haven't I seen that before?" This was exactly the case when I heard about what Larry Smith was launching. Smith is the affable owner of Autometric Collision, on the board of the Meadow Brook Concours, and one of Detroit's pre-eminent car nuts. His collection includes all manner of vehicles ranging from the advanced 1938 Stout Scarab engineered by William B. Stout, the man behind the legendary Ford Tri-Motor... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-17 13:17:55 Article Views Rating: 137 |
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