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Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford hot rod gets amped up | detnews.com | The Detroit News At first glance, it looks like your typical 1933 Ford coupe-based hot rod. But then you notice that what is shaped much like your typical V-8 engine block has small blinking lights inside plastic boxes. The "engine" also lacks any sort of intake or exhaust manifolds. Obviously, there's something very different about this hot rod. The car is the Amp=D's electric '33 hot rod. It was built in a mere six weeks by a team of four full-time and three part-time workers using tools borrowed from some of their... Full article... Article added: 2009-12-09 06:12:05 Article Views Rating: 117 Main > Car Makers News > Fiat > Former Fiat Executive Revives De Tomaso They say, “There is nothing new except what is forgotten”. This principle is applied well to automotive industry since many manufacturers try to revise their old models and start their production all over. We have already heard that German designers are planning to bring back the old European star Trabant. And now it has been reported that former Fiat executive Gianmario Rossignolo has acquired the rights to De Tomaso and wants to revive the brand in three models. The Italian marque De Tomaso was... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-30 08:57:55 Article Views Rating: 192 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > When the dust clears, BMW may struggle to compete | detnews.com | The Detroit News Germany's premium car manufacturers have weathered the recession without taking on too much water, but the long-term prospects for Mercedes, Audi, Porsche, and particularly BMW are starting to sound alarm bells. European mass car manufacturers like Renault and Peugeot-Citroen of France have piled up huge losses and relied on cheap government loans and subsidized car scrapping schemes to keep their heads above water. GM Europe's Opel-Vauxhall's problems have been well aired. Ford Europe has performed... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-30 08:57:51 Article Views Rating: 122 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Experts point to throttles, not floor mats, in Toyota incidents | detnews.com | The Detroit News Eric Weiss was stopped at a busy Long Beach, Calif., intersection last month when he said his 2008 Toyota Tacoma pickup unexpectedly started accelerating, forcing him to stand on the brakes to keep the bucking truck from plowing into oncoming cars. Toyota Motor Corp. says the gas pedal design in Weiss' truck and more than 4 million other Toyota and Lexus vehicles makes them vulnerable to being trapped open by floor mats, and recently announced a costly recall to fix the problem. But Weiss is convinced... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-30 08:57:49 Article Views Rating: 146 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Sensible cars for old coots | detnews.com | The Detroit News Automobile manufacturers are always trying to tie car models to demographic groups: Pickup trucks for blue-collar types. Minivans for moms. Hybrids for the green crowd. Flashy convertibles for middle-age men who are losing their hair. What is missing is a vehicle specifically designed to accommodate baby boomers and their ever evolving driving needs. The car I have in mind for this huge block, the Coupe de Coot, would include the following characteristics: • Size: The older people get, the larger... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-30 08:57:41 Article Views Rating: 60 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Brazil pushes sugar ethanol at U.S. pumps | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- Who could resent the attention being showered on electric cars? Stylish and clean, they're the darling of the renewable-energy crowd, which is hailing the scheduled roll-out of several e-powered models next year as a major blow against global warming. Well, Eduardo Leao, for one. He's executive director of Brazil's largest sugar-industry association, called UNICA, and he insists that cane-based ethanol produced in massive quantities by his members is a better alternative fuel for the environment than... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-16 07:55:22 Article Views Rating: 151 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > McCain says Chrysler unlikely to survive | detnews.com | The Detroit News Arizona Sen. John McCain said Sunday that Chrysler Group LLC is unlikely to survive, despite receiving nearly $15 billion in government loans. McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential candidate, reiterated his opposition to the $80 billion auto industry bailout begun by President George W. Bush last December. "No, I don't think we ever should have bailed out Chrysler and General Motors," McCain said in Arizona, where he was serving as grand marshal of at the NASCAR Sprint Cup series race at the Phoenix... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-16 07:55:20 Article Views Rating: 162 Main > Car Makers News > Skoda > Škoda Signs Guy Wilks for Rally of Scotland Škoda UK will enter a Fabia Super 2000 in Rally of Scotland 2009 Skoda UK has today announced that Guy Wilks, the double British Rally champion, will compete at this year's Rally of Scotland - the final event of the 2009 Intercontinental Rally Challenge IRC series. Wilks 28 from Darlington will drive a Škoda UK-sponsored Skoda Fabia Super 2000, run by Rene George Rally Sport, and is set to go head-to-head with fellow British rally driver Kris Meeke, this year's winner of the IRC, in what... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-09 12:07:39 Article Views Rating: 98 Main > Car Makers News > Cadillac > Sneak peek: 2011 Cadillac CTSv Coupe | detnews.com | The Detroit News When the summer of 2010 rolls around, Cadillac will have seriously fast two-door sports cars roaming the streets: the CTSv Coupe. Testing is under way, and we've spied this very production-looking prototype cruising the rural roads of Michigan. Compared to the prototypes we saw last year, the new one has a very finished look, right down to the two massive center-mount exhaust outlets; larger, sportier wheels; and V-series badging. We can also see that this new prototype is not sporting cross-drilled... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:04 Article Views Rating: 73 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Pest control pickup takes a bow | detnews.com | The Detroit News Bryan Baker was watching "Verminators," a Discovery Channel television reality show about a pest control company, ISOTECH Pest Management Inc. What caught Baker's attention wasn't just the bugs, rodents and other crawly creatures that were being exterminated, but the fact that ISOTECH's pickups were equipped with truck caps produced by A.R.E., the Massillon, Ohio-based company where Baker works as director of marketing. Baker did some checking and learned that 90 percent of ISOTECH's fleet of more than... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:01 Article Views Rating: 47 |
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