|
||||||||||||||
Home > Search for "Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Revealed"
Main > Car Makers News > GM > Management shakeup at GM continues | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- General Motors Co. announced a management shakeup Thursday with the retirement of four senior executives, while the U.S. Treasury Department and Canadian government named the five final members of GM's new board of directors. GM said today that Gary Cowger, group vice president, global manufacturing and labor relations, will retire at the end of the year. Until Dec. 31, Cowger will assume responsibility for the integration of Delphi Corp.'s four factories and global steering business being acquired... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:56 Article Views Rating: 57 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Peel out with a set of orange-oil tires | detnews.com | The Detroit News Automakers and their suppliers love to talk about technology transfers, especially those that move from the highly competitive and exciting environment of racetracks to the mundane but much more important public roadways. The Yokohama Tire Corp. has a new tech transfer ready to roll -- tires made by using the oil from orange peels to replace much of the petroleum-based oil that goes into tire production. Officially, Yokohama's new tire is the dB Super E-spec, which the Japanese rubber company calls "the... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:53 Article Views Rating: 61 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Mercedes system helps keep drowsy drivers awake | detnews.com | The Detroit News Mercedes-Benz has become the latest automaker to offer high-tech help to fight drowsiness while driving. Standard on the redesigned 2010 E-class models will be Mercedes' new Attention Assist system, designed to detect drowsiness on the part of the driver in the early stages, before it becomes a real danger, the German automaker said. It uses various sensors to monitor the driver's behavior, including slight weaving of the vehicle that results in "patterns of minor steering corrections," Mercedes said... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:51 Article Views Rating: 56 Main > Car Makers News > Cadillac > Sneak Peek: 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe | detnews.com | The Detroit News Newly un-retired GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz confirmed this month that the 2011 Cadillac CTS-V Coupe was still a go. Compared to the prototypes we saw last year, these new prototypes look almost production-ready down to the two massive, center-mounted exhaust outlets; larger, sportier wheels; and V-series badging. We can also see that this new prototype is NOT sporting cross-drilled rotors as the first prototypes were. Additionally, pieces of black tape cover the V-series badges just behind the front... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:48 Article Views Rating: 46 Main > Week in Photos > Other > Cenex and E.ON Official Partners of FS09 Cenex has jumped on board to become the official partner of this year’s ‘green fuels’ Class 1 A category in Formula Student FS 09.The UK's first Centre of Excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies is backing Class 1 A A referring to alternative in FS09, Europe’s biggest student motorsport event. FS09 will take place between 16-19 July at the world-famous Silverstone Circuit in Northamptonshire and will challenge university students from Delhi to Dublin to design, build... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-06 16:03:51 Article Views Rating: 106 Main > Car Manufactures > Volvo > Volvo Car UK challenges the Mayor of London to Emissions Equality Volvo Car UK has today challenged the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, to review the basis of charging for the London Congestion Charging zone. Volvo Car UK believes that the principle of hybrid cars being exempt from the Congestion Charge is now outdated and unfair. Drivers of hybrid cars enter the zone free of charge on a daily basis while drivers of low emission cars powered by conventional internal combustion engines with the same, or even lower, levels of emissions are charged £8.00... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-01 13:39:10 Article Views Rating: 100 Main > Week in Photos > Other > Cenex welcomes Department for Transport announcement of winning van suppliers in Low Carbon Vehicle Procurement Programme Ashwoods, Allied Vehicles, Modec and Smith Electric Vehicles to supply innovative hybrid and all-electric vans to public sector partners with green fleetsLord Andrew Adonis, Secretary of State for Transport, today announced that four automotive manufacturers have been approved as suppliers of low and zero carbon vehicle technology for the first phase of the Department for Transport’s Low Carbon Vehicle Procurement Programme LCVPP. The programme is being delivered on behalf of the Department... Full article... Article added: 2009-06-24 15:23:27 Article Views Rating: 160 Main > Car Makers News > Lincoln > 2010 Lincoln MKT has luxury, power to spare | detnews.com | The Detroit News At 115 mph, the Michigan countryside blurs into horizontal lines of greens and browns; that is, if you look directly out the driver's window. My advice: Look straight ahead. Going that fast means you can see the forest, but not any of the trees, as they past in a flurry of sound and color. Now, I wasn't driving on just any Michigan road. I was testing the 2010 Lincoln MKT's new powertrain at Ford's Michigan Proving Grounds in Romeo. Part of the facility includes a super smooth, 5-mile oval track with... Full article... Article added: 2009-05-25 05:23:16 Article Views Rating: 169 Main > Car Makers News > Cadillac > 2010 Cadillac SRX has luxury and unexpected performance | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- In a quick drive of the 2010 Cadillac SRX, General Motors Corp.'s luxury brand gave me a lot to think about. Cadillac provided the chance for me to drive the redesigned luxury crossover around Milford and then test a few of the vehicle's abilities on the closed course of GM's proving grounds a few weeks ago. On the road, the SRX was exceptionally well-mannered. The vehicle's performance was smooth and insanely quiet, and the cabin was full of all of the luxury features you'd expect in a... Full article... Article added: 2009-05-25 05:23:14 Article Views Rating: 112 Main > Car Makers News > Lincoln > 2010 Lincoln MKT has luxury, power to spare | detnews.com | The Detroit News At 115 mph, the Michigan countryside blurs into horizontal lines of greens and browns; that is, if you look directly out the driver's window. My advice: Look straight ahead. Going that fast means you can see the forest, but not any of the trees, as they past in a flurry of sound and color. Now, I wasn't driving on just any Michigan road. I was testing the 2010 Lincoln MKT's new powertrain at Ford's Michigan Proving Grounds in Romeo. Part of the facility includes a super smooth, 5-mile oval track with... Full article... Article added: 2009-05-25 05:23:11 Article Views Rating: 97 |
||||||||||||||
©2008 carwad.net |