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Main > Car Parts > Other > Saab Fashionista Eco Factor: Concept car powered by a gasoline/electric hybrid engine. French car designer Mayeul Walser has made sure that green cars can keep your style intact with a concept car he calls the Saab Fashionista. Certifying its name, the car has been designed for an up-market customer, for whom style always holds more relevance than environmental conservation. The car is designed to be built on GM’s hybrid platform as used in the Chevrolet Volt. The hybrid engine, which runs on either... Full article... Article added: 2009-04-02 05:53:58 Article Views Rating: 487 Main > Car Makers News > Alfa Romeo > Alfa Romeo MiTo Review and Prices Consumer Guide’s Impressions of the 2011 Alfa Romeo MiToIf all goes well, the headline-grabbing Fiat-Chrysler alliance will deliver a stylish premium small car to lead the U.S. return of a storied Italian brand. MiTo is Alfa Romeo’s answer to the BMW Mini Cooper--and will need to be as popular to give the new partnership a chance.What We Know About the 2011 Alfa Romeo MiToAlfa Romeo is known for sports cars like Dustin Hoffman’s iconic ride in “The Graduate,” but it... Full article... Article added: 2009-03-05 06:45:25 Article Views Rating: 366 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Only one U.S. vehicle makes Top 10 picks | detnews.com | The Detroit News WASHINGTON -- Japanese automakers dominated Consumer Reports influential annual survey of the most reliable vehicles, with Toyota Motor Corp. nabbing five of the 2009 Top 10 Picks released Thursday. Japanese automakers held the top four overall spots in the magazine's survey, which is based on more than 50 tests of 80 different vehicles. The winners ranked high in road tests, reliability and safety requirements. American vehicles were pummeled in the magazine's April survey, which goes on sale Tuesday... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-27 15:55:36 Article Views Rating: 218 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Judge grants Delphi request to end benefits for 15,000 retirees | detnews.com | The Detroit News NEW YORK -- A federal bankruptcy judge granted Delphi Corp. permission to cancel its salaried retiree health care and life insurance -- a move that will end benefits for 15,000 people as early as April 1 and save the Troy-based auto supplier more than $70 million annually. "Every dollar counts," said U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Drain in his ruling, noting that Delphi will save $1.5 million a week by eliminating the health and insurance payments and represents "good business judgment" by the struggling... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-25 06:22:51 Article Views Rating: 265 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM tweaks Volt engine plan | detnews.com | The Detroit News General Motors Corp. has scrapped plans to build a new plant to produce engines for its Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric vehicle and instead will build the engines in an existing Flint factory. The move will save money and use available floor space within the Flint South engine plant on Bristol Road, the automaker announced Tuesday. GM had said in September it would invest $370 million in a new 552,000-square-foot manufacturing plant that would produce four-cylinder engines for the Volt and the... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-25 06:22:50 Article Views Rating: 203 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto briefs | detnews.com | The Detroit News Nissan Motor Co. , Japan's third-largest automaker, had its credit rating cut by Standard & Poor's as the global recession saps demand for new vehicles and a strong yen erodes earnings. The carmaker was downgraded one level to BBB, the second lowest investment grade, and given a stable outlook, S&P said in a statement Monday. The move ends a review started Feb. 10. The ratings change may raise borrowing costs for Nissan, which has to repay 757 billion yen $8.1 billion in bonds and loans maturing this... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-24 09:58:41 Article Views Rating: 237 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Obama sets GM, Chrysler talks | detnews.com | The Detroit News WASHIINGTON -- The Obama administration's auto team will hold face-to-face talks with top executives from both General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC this week, even as the automakers face down a March 31 deadline to win key concessions from the UAW and bondholders. GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner, Chief Operating Officer Fritz Henderson and Chief Financial Officer Ray Young are to have a lengthy meeting Thursday with key members of the administration's auto restructuring team, people familiar with the... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-24 09:58:37 Article Views Rating: 224 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > A new social compact: Honda Civic best all-around choice in '09 lineup | detnews.com | The Detroit News There's no doubting the variety that comes with compact cars. Some, such as the Volvo C30 and Audi A3, are more luxurious, while others, like the Mini Cooper, have cult-like followings. All of them, however, share a few common attributes. In auto parlance, they are known as C-Segment vehicles, something that falls between the B and D segments. The EPA defines them as vehicles with interior volumes measuring between 100 and 109.9 cubic feet, but most people wouldn't know a cubic foot from a... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-23 15:09:05 Article Views Rating: 248 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Wealthy put car buys on the shelf or trade down | detnews.com | The Detroit News NAPLES, Fla. -- If you win $10 million in the lottery, the local joke goes, you still won't qualify to be among the wealthiest 10,000 households here. But even the rolling elite of Naples' exclusive Port Royal, Grey Oaks and Pelican Marsh enclaves are feeling a little thriftier in these uncertain times. The real estate crash, followed by a glut of multimillion-dollar homes and condos for sale, and now Madoff jitters and Wall Street's meltdown have cast a rare chill over the pockets and purses of the... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-23 15:09:05 Article Views Rating: 177 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 |
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