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Main > Car Makers News > Subaru > Subaru join Suzuki in pulling out of WRC Subaru joins fellow Japanese automaker Suzuki Motor Corp, which announced its exit a day earlier.Their exit leaves just world champions Citroen, owned by PSA Peugeot Citroen, and cash-strapped Ford Motor Co chasing the manufacturers' title next year.Honda Motor Co, Japan's No.2 automaker, this month quit Formula One racing for similar reasons, saying it needed the cash for its core auto-making business.Rallying does not have anything like the budgets of Formula One, where a team like Honda can burn... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-17 13:21:38 Article Views Rating: 228 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Toyota Kills Diesel Contract And Dashes Plans For Small Diesel Vehicles Citing growing uncertainty over market demand for the vehicles, Toyota Motor Corp. has called off an18-month-old joint venture to develop a 1.6-liter diesel engine for passenger cars with diesel specialist Isuzu Motors.The Toyota-Isuzu diesel project, announced in June, 2007, was a direct response to Honda Motor Co.'s earlier announcement that it was developing a diesel for its passenger cars and would introduce it in the U.S. and Japan in 2009.Honda earlier this year put its U.S. diesel plans on hold... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-17 13:21:33 Article Views Rating: 236 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Commentary: Plug the hole; America can't risk another blow to its fragile economy | detnews.com | The Detroit News The arguments against an auto bailout are good ones. Now ignore them. For the first time in human history, I agree with Dick Cheney. According to the Los Angeles Times, the vice president warned Republican senators that if they refused to bail out the auto companies, "we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever." The senators from the Herbert Hoover Party promptly fumbled, but President Bush seems poised to rescue the car companies anyway. Thank heaven! There's a practical argument that... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-17 13:21:29 Article Views Rating: 86 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Autos briefs | detnews.com | The Detroit News General Motors Corp. didn't renew its sponsorship with the New York Yankees and is negotiating a new contract with the New York Mets. "We still want a presence in New York and we can't do both," GM Northeast region spokeswoman Andrea Canabal said. Ending the sponsorship is a way to cut costs and follows moves last week to end sponsorships with the Daytona 500 and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Daimler AGs Mercedes-Benz pulled out of its deal with the Milwaukee Brewers. GM will continue to honor deals with the... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-17 13:21:29 Article Views Rating: 111 Main > Car Makers News > Mazda > Stars of the road: Mazda6, F-150 rise to the top in value, performance | detnews.com | The Detroit News Need trumps want in 2008 for The Detroit News Car and Truck of the Year. There are lots of vehicles I want: the $100,000 Corvette ZR1 super-duper car; the Nissan GT-R, with its fancy carbon-fiber everything; or even the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid, a silky smooth big ute that glides along the road in semi-environmental friendliness. But few need those vehicles, much as it pains me even to write those words. This year, many people have lost the value of a ZR1 in their 401k since August. And all 18 people... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-17 13:21:28 Article Views Rating: 249 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > Honda slashes profit forecast amid global downturn | detnews.com | The Detroit News TOKYO -- Japanese automaker Honda slashed its profit forecast for the fiscal year and said managers will take a 10 percent pay cut amid a global downturn in the auto industry. President Takeo Fukui blamed the lower earnings forecast on declining demand set off by the U.S. financial crisis and the nose-diving dollar, which recently fell to a 13-year low against the yen. Japan's second-biggest automaker now expects 185 billion yen $2.06 billion in group net profit for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2009... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-17 13:21:28 Article Views Rating: 184 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > Honda FCX Clarity It's time to face the truth - fuel price is becoming too high for most of us these days. So are thee any alternatives to currently the most popular fuel types - petrol and diesel? Fortunately, there are - it's hydrogen and the new Honda FCX Clarity hydrogen powered electric car. Will it be the car of the future? We will see, but now let's take a closer look into what Honda has to offer with Honda FCX Clarity alternative fuel car. Although Honda FCX Clarity was first introduced in November 2008 at the... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-15 13:16:04 Article Views Rating: 433 Main > Car Makers News > Renault > 2008 Renault Koleos takes the “4×4 of the Year” award Demonstrating that its initial compact 4×4 does not only have style by also substance, the recently inaugurated Renault Koleos has garnered a number of titles at Planet 4×4 publication’s 2008 awards, as well as the ‘4×4 of the Year’ award.Driving off tough rivals from 47 hardy contenders, as well as long-time favorites like the Land Rover Discovery and Range Rover, the French brand’s initial incursion into the 4×4 arena succeeded at the onset over the Honda CR-V, recently-inaugurated Ford... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-15 07:23:44 Article Views Rating: 327 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Formula 1 receiving a series of cost-reducing procedures A series of cost-reducing procedures will be inaugurated by the Formula One in the following couple seasons, but its regulating body, the FIA, went back on its far-reaching suggestion to compel teams to utilize typical engines.The plans, brain-stromed with the Formula One Teams Association and publicized at the FIA World Council Meeting today, are a reply to the current resolution by Honda to vend or totally end its F1 operation. For the following year, teams will lengthen the useful life of their... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-15 07:23:43 Article Views Rating: 93 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Commentary: Toyota isn't the villain of industry fiasco | detnews.com | The Detroit News A drawling Ford dealer who's really named O.C. Welch in a place that's really called Hardeeville, S.C., bought a bunch of radio spots last week so he could rant about Japanese cars. From elsewhere in the South, a cabal of spiteful senators joined forces to keep Chrysler and GM from getting industry-saving loans. Welch went after Toyotas, growling among other things that they're "rice ready. They're not road ready." The senators, most visibly Republican Richard Shelby of Alabama, tried to put a... Full article... Article added: 2008-12-15 07:23:42 Article Views Rating: 219 |
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