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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: 46 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto czar to take manufacturing helm | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- President Barack Obama will announce today that he's tapping his chief auto adviser to try to revitalize the struggling U.S. manufacturing sector. Ron Bloom will assume the title of senior counselor for manufacturing policy, in addition to his role as senior adviser on the President's Task Force on the Automotive Industry. Obama said in a statement Sunday that the manufacturing sector expanded in August for the first time in 18 months and had the highest monthly output in two years. "It's a sign that... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:08 Article Views Rating: 32 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Keeping up sales after 'clunkers' | detnews.com | The Detroit News Now that the "cash for clunkers" program is over, the big question is whether American consumers will slump back into unconsciousness as the adrenaline jolt of the government incentive wears off. Last month the annualized U.S. sales rate topped 13 million units, as buyers flocked to showrooms to take advantage of up to $4,500 in discounts under the program. That sales rate looks pretty impressive considering it had dipped to below 10 million earlier this year. The problem is that the auto industry had... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:06 Article Views Rating: 35 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 > Other > Mercedes Is Going to Assemble F-CELL Vehicles Mercedes-Benz has announced that it plans to launch the production of B-Class F-CELL vehicles in the end of this year. The German manufacturer is joining efforts with Honda in the work on this new project. The production will be limited: Mercedes wants to make only 200 cars as a first try and ship them to American and European customers in the beginning of 2010. Previously there was a plan to sell compact B-Class to the U.S., but it had to be postponed. F-CELL or hydrogen-powered electric autos have... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:04:00 Article Views Rating: 89 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Automaker Think emerges from bankruptcy | detnews.com | The Detroit News Plans to sell the Think electric car in the U.S., and possibly build them in Michigan, are being revived with the Norwegian company's imminent emergence from bankruptcy protection. Production of a two-seat, all-electric car in Norway was halted when Think sought bankruptcy protection in December. On Thursday, courts there approved the debt settlement plan of the carmaker, enabling it to exit court protection. "Effectively, this puts Think back in business and in a position to resume normal operations in... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:59 Article Views Rating: 83 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford to cops: Crown Vic is out | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- In June, Ford Motor Co. invited the heads of some of the nation's largest police fleets to Dearborn to talk about the future of police cars. For nearly two decades, that market has belonged to Ford's Crown Victoria -- a vehicle that departments from coast to coast have come to respect for its toughness and reliability. Now the Crown Vic is running out of road. "They told us that 2011 would be the last year they build the Crown Vic," said Larry Tagawa, commander of the Los Angeles Police Department's... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:58 Article Views Rating: 93 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 > Closing auto dealerships leave void | detnews.com | The Detroit News In recent years, Plymouth Road in Livonia had become something of an automotive hub in the city: new car lots line the busy thoroughfare, along with mechanic shops, an engine plant and fueling stations. It could soon be hit with a "quadruple threat," Mayor Jack Kirksey said. That is, the closure of the Livonia Chrysler-Jeep this summer. Follow that next year with the possible closure of two more dealerships -- Tennyson Chevrolet and John Rogin Buick -- and then the planned shutdown of GM's powertrain... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:53 Article Views Rating: 82 Main > Car Makers News > Trabant > 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show: the Return of Trabant A German team of car specialists has decided to revive the classic Trabant in a new electric-car look. At the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show the small car firm Herpa made a survey on whether auto fans would like to see a redesigned Trabant. Almost 10,000 people responded agreeing that the car should exist in the future. Trabant was built in East Germany in 1957-1991. It could not remain in the present world without changes because the car has a two-stroke engine which was absolutely environmentally... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:19 Article Views Rating: 95 |
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