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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 > Ford > Ford's 2010 Transit Connect means business | detnews.com | The Detroit News The recession is over, and I've got proof. While many "experts" will point to the GDP, unemployment figures and the trade deficit, I'm more of a believer of those tangible products that predict our nation's financial plight. Sales of cardboard boxes, diamonds and lipstick have been monitored in the past and could work today. Future economic soothsayers will gaze into their Magic 8 Balls and use the Ford Transit Connect sales numbers as a barometer of the nation's small business health. To paraphrase a... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:02 Article Views Rating: 38 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 > 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 > Chrysler > United Way to get $525,000 from Chrysler PAC | detnews.com | The Detroit News Money in Chrysler's dormant political action committee fund totaling $525,000 will be donated to the United Way, The Detroit News has learned. And any voluntary contributions made by the more than 1,300 employee participants since June 10 when a new company, Chrysler Group LLC, was formed in alliance with Fiat SpA, will be refunded, employees learned this week in a letter from John Bozzella, senior vice president responsible for external affairs and public policy. These additional contributions beyond... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:56 Article Views Rating: 92 Main > Car Makers News > Chevrolet > Chevrolet Equinox designed for comeback | detnews.com | The Detroit News As a taxpayer, I want General Motors Co. to do well. I own a piece of it, too. As a consumer, I want GM to build competitive vehicles: It raises everyone's game. As an employee in Detroit, I want GM to stay around: No one wants to eat at Lafayette Coney Island alone. Thank goodness Chevrolet introduced the 2010 Equinox. This compact crossover has "comeback" written all over it. Well priced, fuel efficient and nicely appointed, the Equinox sets a new benchmark for every automaker. It's high tech and... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:17 Article Views Rating: 80 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford relies on European clunker cash | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- Ford Motor Co. is lobbying European governments to extend consumer sales incentives to avoid a new market collapse when their versions of "cash for clunkers" programs end, according to the automakers top executive in the region. Ford and the European Automobile Manufacturers Association trade group are asking governments if they would be prepared to maintain scrappage or, at the minimum, phase them out slowly, said John Fleming, Ford of Europe's chief executive officer. European car sales rose in... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:15 Article Views Rating: 94 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Companies eye Wixom plant for energy park | detnews.com | The Detroit News Plans by two out-of-state companies to redevelop Ford Motor Co.'s abandoned Wixom plant into an energy park could help further solidify Michigan's effort to become an alternative energy hub, some industry observers say. But the $725 million project hinges on Xtreme Power of Austin, Texas, and Clairvoyant Energy of Santa Barbara, Calif., winning federal loans and state tax breaks to refurbish the 318-acre property. The project could create about 4,300 jobs. It also could establish a North American... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-27 07:30:14 Article Views Rating: 70 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 |
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