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Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Chrysler to cut prices on 2010 pickups | detnews.com | The Detroit News The redesigned 2010 Ram 2500 and 3500 Heavy Duty pickups will offer more content at a lower price, Chrysler Group LLC announced today. The big rig pickups will start at $28,165 for a regular cab models, $31,415 for Crew Cab models and $36,865 for Mega Cab models. For this model year, Ram will discontinue the Quad cab heavy duty trucks, replacing that with the larger Crew Cab model. All prices include $950 for shipping. The new Ram adopts the looks introduced in the Dodge Ram 1500 pickup last year... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-26 12:46:47 Article Views Rating: 49 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Green-off: Hybrid models put to the test | detnews.com | The Detroit News "I want a hybrid." I've heard that from more than one reader, and I have come to realize that most people don't really know a thing about hybrids. Not all hybrids are created equal and not every hybrid will fit into every garage the same. First, let's define "hybrid." These are cars that run on gas and electric drivetrains. Some carmakers don't like the idea of hybrids because they have to create two powertrains for a single vehicle. Consumers, however, don't seem to mind. These cars are not the final... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-26 12:46:34 Article Views Rating: 18 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM Works on Fix-Itself Cars GM has posted interesting information at the official company’s blog about the new vehicle they are planning to make. The GM research and development manager, Alan Taub, has made a statement that the cars they are making “won’t crash and eventually will drive themselves”. The new vehicle will be ready for the 2015. It is going to combine “lane-keeping and stop-and-go adaptive control”. The body of the car will be built of shape-changing material, Nitinol: it is a new alloy of nickel and... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:19 Article Views Rating: 81 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Magna Is Building Parts for Mercedes SLS Magna Steyr is a big company, known for building parts for such vehicles as BMW X3, Saab 9-3 convertible, Chrysler 300C and Jeep Grand Cherokee. It also gained popularity in headlines after having teamed up with Russian VAZ and purchased Opel from General Motors. Now the company is growing more and plans to start partnership with other auto manufacturers. The Canadian-Austrian auto parts giant has settled an agreement with Mercedes-Benz which gives it permission to build aluminum bodies for... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:17 Article Views Rating: 79 Main > Car Makers News > Aston Martin > Driving trio of Aston Martins is a royal treat | detnews.com | The Detroit News They are royalty: Elegant, refined and just a touch snobby. They think they are better than us. And really, they are. Even their name has an acceptable amount of arrogance in it. Aston Martin. You can hear the lilt, the long draw on the A and crisp T. Aston Martin. For one day, I got a chance to try out three of the 2010 models -- the DBS, the DB9 and the V-8 Vantage -- totaling $625,350 worth of cars. If somebody is going to drive nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in cars, I figured I should... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:16 Article Views Rating: 25 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > CAW optimistic on Chrysler | detnews.com | The Detroit News Leaders of the Canadian Auto Workers union left a six-hour meeting with Chrysler Group LLC executives with substantially more optimism about the future of the automaker than they had going in. "I left feeling pretty good, and, frankly, I went there pretty down," said CAW President Ken Lewenza, describing Thursday's meeting with Chrysler Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne, which stretched from a scheduled three hours into six and included an impromptu dinner. Lewenza said the five union leaders... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:14 Article Views Rating: 24 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Small cars need work to outdo '90s model | detnews.com | The Detroit News I have this hot car fantasy that just won't go away. Oddly, it doesn't involve a Porsche 911 and an autobahn. Nor an Audi TT on the Pacific Coast Highway. Not even -- in what will come as a shock to many who know my "Mad Men" fixation -- Don Draper and a 1963 Cadillac Eldorado. No, I daydream about downshifting off Ford Road and wheeling my own 1997 Escort to the apex of the crescent-shaped drive at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn headquarters, eagerly awaited by a huddle of senior managers and designers. In... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:02:02 Article Views Rating: 14 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: 22 Main > Car Makers News > Aston Martin > Driving trio of Aston Martins is a royal treat | detnews.com | The Detroit News They are royalty: Elegant, refined and just a touch snobby. They think they are better than us. And really, they are. Even their name has an acceptable amount of arrogance in it. Aston Martin. You can hear the lilt, the long draw on the A and crisp T. Aston Martin. For one day, I got a chance to try out three of the 2010 models -- the DBS, the DB9 and the V-8 Vantage -- totaling $625,350 worth of cars. If somebody is going to drive nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in cars, I figured I should... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-19 06:01:47 Article Views Rating: 19 Main > Car Parts > Other > Barloworld Logistics to challenge cost of transport across the supply chain With more pain at the pumps this month1, one company is set to challenge the cost of transport across the supply chain. In a bid to help businesses manage their transportation more cost effectively Barloworld Logistics is today launching ‘Transport as a Managed Service’ to the UK and European markets. Based on the knowledge acquired from managing over 500 000 loads per annum in this manner the Barloworld Logistics offering will enable businesses to save up to 20 per cent of their overall... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-28 15:44:43 Article Views Rating: 211 |
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