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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 > Obama fuel rules may tilt field | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- The Obama administration's long-awaited proposed regulation setting fuel efficiency standards at 35.5 miles per gallon by the 2016 model year will be rolled out as early as this week. But the rules may give some automakers a competitive advantage. The regulation is expected to mirror a California provision that gives less-stringent tailpipe emissions requirements to automakers with annual U.S. sales of no more than 400,000 vehicles, mainly German and Asian manufacturers. Reducing emissions is best... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-08 05:29:16 Article Views Rating: 55 Main > Car Makers News > Mitsubishi > Peugeot, Mitsubishi joint work projects hint strongly at alliance | detnews.com | The Detroit News Could another French-Japanese automotive alliance be in the offing? In the shadow of the successful Renault-Nissan Alliance, France's other major carmaker, PSA Peugeot Citron, and Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp. have become well-acquainted after working together on small ventures. Paris-based Peugeot and Mitsubishi have developed SUVs jointly for the European market, they are planning to build vehicles together in Russia, and they are teaming up on electric cars. On Friday, the chief executives of the... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:11 Article Views Rating: 48 Main > Car Makers News > Mini > Mini turns on German charm | detnews.com | The Detroit News The original British Mini might not have become the second most influential car of the 20th Century if not for an energy crisis. Facing a fuel shortage brought on by the Suez Crisis of 1956, British Motor Corporation designed the minuscule motorcar to compete with an adorable array of wheels from Germany known as "bubble cars." It's not hard to figure out how they got their nicknames. The bubble cars, particularly the Peel Trident, generally resembled soap bubbles affixed to go-kart chassis. According... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:05 Article Views Rating: 46 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 > GM > Remaining GM dealers face tough standards, sales goals | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- General Motors Co. dealers who survived the automaker's bankruptcy were told Friday they will have to average higher sales and spend more updating their facilities. Some will also have to get used to selling smaller, more fuel-efficient and better-equipped vehicles than during the industry's SUV-crazy heyday. GM executives met with 430 dealers from around the Midwest at the Rock Financial Showplace as part of a nine-city tour to discuss the future of the automaker's four core brands: Chevrolet... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:56 Article Views Rating: 89 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 Main > Car Makers News > Audi > SUV luxury with downsized guilt: the Audi Q5 | detnews.com | The Detroit News The most astonishing thing about my time in the 2009 Audi Q5 was that I actually took it off road, with dirt and everything. Granted, I was in West Los Angeles, where the creeks burble with Bollinger and raccoons wear rhinestone collars. Nonetheless, for most buyers in the compact luxury sport-utility segment, my little excursion on a home construction site might as well have been crossing the Gobi. You know these vehicles. Indeed, you cannot swing a rhinestone-wearing raccoon on the Westside without... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:08 Article Views Rating: 54 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Battery grants might recharge state's talent base | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- As a business professor and former auto executive in Michigan, Gerald Meyers has seen his share of former colleagues and students leave the state. The state's economy has been shrinking along with its struggling auto industry. And the brain drain is well-documented as the state struggles to keep its own college graduates, much less attract degreed newcomers. "I can speak for my students, who are predominantly leaving the state," said Meyers, a University of Michigan business professor and former... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-18 10:50:19 Article Views Rating: 111 |
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