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Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Dispute cited in top Chrysler engineer's departure DETROIT -- One of Chrysler LLC's top engineers left the company Tuesday because of a dispute with senior managers, a person with knowledge of the situation said Tuesday. Mike Donoughe was leading the company's effort to develop a new generation of global midsize cars. The person said Donoughe clashed with Peter Arnell, a marketing consultant hired by Chrysler Chairman and Chief Executive Bob Nardelli. The person asked not to be named because Chrysler wasn't publicizing the reason for Donoughe's... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-26 08:09:15 Article Views Rating: 213 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Calif. board expected to lower requirement for green autos WASHINGTON -- The California Air Resources Board is expected to vote Thursday to cut the number of zero-emission vehicles the top six automakers are required to build annually, beginning in 2012, but it is not clear how big the reduction will be. CARB Chairwoman Mary Nichols told reporters in a conference call Tuesday that the board is likely to revise a proposal its staff recommended last month that called for cutting the vehicle count 90 percent, from 25,000 to 2,500. She said the final proposal... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-26 08:09:15 Article Views Rating: 457 Main > Car Makers News > Suzuki > In the Autoblog Garage: 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara Xsport Click above to view high-res gallery of the 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara XsportWhen driving a vehicle for review, we always keep a list of pros and cons. At just a glance we can see which list is longer and instantly know if it's a vehicle that we'd personally drive. At the end of the evaluation we throw in a few verbs, several random adjectives and some technical jargon to make us all sound knowledgeable and it's a review! Just kidding. A little, at least.The 2008 Suzuki Grand Vitara Xsport that just left... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-25 07:31:11 Article Views Rating: 208 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Jenson Button takes the Civic Type R around the ‘ring Honda F1 star Jenson Button takes a Civic Type R around the famed German widow-maker, the Nurburgring, and just to make things a bit more interesting he does it while its raining and answering questions from an interviewer. Even for a man used to the fast pace of F1, the ride around the ‘ring is, in Button’s own words, “a rush”. Follow the jump to watch a video of the event in full. [source] Full article... Article added: 2008-03-25 07:31:05 Article Views Rating: 201 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Chrysler asks public to help design future cars Chrysler announced today that it’s recruiting members of the public for its new ‘Customer Advisory Board’, an online forum where individuals can voice their ideas about what they want to see in a new car. Anyone can join the forum, including consumers who have never previously owned a Chrysler product. The idea of a forum, rather than using expensive and time-consuming focus groups, has been a long time coming considering the amount of free ideas and feedback Chrysler could gain with... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-25 07:30:59 Article Views Rating: 222 Main > Car Makers News > Other > New York 2008: NYC oddities and side splitters We were extremely busy while trying to cover the snot out of the New York Auto Show this past week at the Jacob Javits Center. Even when we were running across the show floor to make a press conference and get a good seat, we still had our fingers on the trigger of our many DSLR cameras. At times we caught some interesting and downright funny things that just didn't fit into any other gallery except one devote to the odd and slightly hilarious. Check them out in the gallery below, complete with captions... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:38 Article Views Rating: 204 Main > Car Makers News > Other > "Twist the Throttle" motorcycle documentary series launches online Over the weekend, Dylan Weiss from Cry Havoc Productions, Inc. let us know that his latest motorcycle-specific documentary went live at Discovery's Turbo online site. We've spent some time watching the footage, and we think it's awesome. Focusing in on Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, BMW, Ducati, MV Agusta and Bimota, the crew took plenty of footage home with them and managed to ride some of the greatest modern sportbikes ever created along the way. Best of all, over four hours of video is available... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:38 Article Views Rating: 246 Main > Car Makers News > Honda > New Honda Plant in Japan The Honda company announced they wanted to work more on mini-vehicles and decided to build a new plant in central Japan. They think the vehicles with the engine size 660 cubic centimeters are going to stay popular for the next years. For a long time little fuel-efficient cars have been popular in Japan. After the gas-prices went high, the demand on these vehicles grew worldwide. Since Honda already has a plant producing mini-vehicles, they plan to share the production with the new one. The old plant is... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:36 Article Views Rating: 237 Main > Car Makers News > Other > 2008 New-York Auto Show Starts Today Everybody was waiting for the grand opening of the New-York Auto Show. For two days press was full of the articles about the vehicles presented there. Finally today is the first day when the show starts and will take place for 10 days till March 30. This year New-York started earlier. Geneva Auto Show has been finished two weeks ago and the New-York Show starts right after it. Earlier the time difference between them was bigger for a comparison, there was the whole month between the shows last year. The... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:34 Article Views Rating: 233 Main > Car Makers News > Mini > Mini to the max: Clubman is bigger, and even better It's my considered opinion that the BMW Mini Cooper is the most successful car design of the last 20 years. What can touch it? Here's a car that puts a spearmint thrill through you every time you turn the key, a larking, capering, glass-and-steel nymph that nicks past other traffic like it's mired in molasses. On top of the giddy charge of merely wheeling the thing, you've got this utterly charismatic styling, a po-mo masterpiece, a rolling tribute to the iconic Mini 1959 to 2000 designed by Alec... Full article... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:33 Article Views Rating: 237 |
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