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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Flame thrower, smoke screen make for blazing ride | detnews.com | The Detroit News If the idea of flames shooting our your vehicle's tailpipes is appealing, or if you like the idea of making your car generate billows of smoke without wearing out your tires, AutoLoc's Flame Thrower and Smoke Screen kits will make sure your car stands apart from the crowd. Note, however, that such kits are designed for use away from traffic. You're not going to activate them during the Woodward Dream Cruise, but if you're at a car show and there's plenty of room -- and no kindling around -- you can put... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-03 06:14:55 Article Views Rating: 68 Main > Car Makers News > Mercedes-Benz > Mercedes-Benz SLS eDrive Mercedes-Benz is planning to launch the production of electric supercar in 2015. At this time the project is being developed by AMG engineers. The green car is based on the new SLS supercar, so it will hold the same name: SLS eDrive. The presentation of Mercedes-Benz SLS is going to be in September at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show. Its plug-in sibling is not coming because the project is in its primary stage of development. However, it is already announced that the electric SLS is going to have the same... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:59 Article Views Rating: 123 Main > Car Makers News > GM > Management shakeup at GM continues | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- General Motors Co. announced a management shakeup Thursday with the retirement of four senior executives, while the U.S. Treasury Department and Canadian government named the five final members of GM's new board of directors. GM said today that Gary Cowger, group vice president, global manufacturing and labor relations, will retire at the end of the year. Until Dec. 31, Cowger will assume responsibility for the integration of Delphi Corp.'s four factories and global steering business being acquired... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:56 Article Views Rating: 84 Main > Car Makers News > GM > Report: Toyota to end venture with GM in Calif. | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- Toyota Motor Corp. has decided to liquidate its stake in a California manufacturing plant that it jointly operated with General Motors, a Japanese news agency reported Thursday. The Japanese carmaker will begin negotiating with the "Old GM" starting next week, Kyodo News reported, citing unnamed company officials. Toyota spokesman Mike Goss would not confirm that the Japanese automaker had made a final decision on the fate of Fremont, Calif.-based New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., also known as... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:56 Article Views Rating: 89 Main > Car Makers News > Porsche > Porsche CEO steps down, making way for VW merger | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- Porsche chief executive Wendelin Wiedeking is leaving the luxury sports car maker after 16 years at the helm, a move widely expected to clear the way for a merger with Volkswagen AG. The board for Porsche Automobil Holding SE said Thursday that Wiedeking, 56, and chief financial officer Holger Haerter, 53, were leaving with immediate effect from the heavily indebted company that makes the 911, among other models. The move -- along with the announcement that Porsche will seek to raise funds, possibly... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:56 Article Views Rating: 145 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Toyota confident sales will pick up in the future | detnews.com | The Detroit News Toyota Motor Corp.'s highest-ranking executive in the United States said Thursday that he hoped the automaker would start earning money here again next year after its unexpectedly deep slide into the red. Yoshimi Inaba, a former U.S. sales chief recently rehired by Toyota, said he was seeing signs that demand in the U.S. auto market was picking up and was confident about its long-term prospects. "I'm a very firm believer that this market will bounce back sooner or later," said Inaba, the New York-based... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:55 Article Views Rating: 143 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Peel out with a set of orange-oil tires | detnews.com | The Detroit News Automakers and their suppliers love to talk about technology transfers, especially those that move from the highly competitive and exciting environment of racetracks to the mundane but much more important public roadways. The Yokohama Tire Corp. has a new tech transfer ready to roll -- tires made by using the oil from orange peels to replace much of the petroleum-based oil that goes into tire production. Officially, Yokohama's new tire is the dB Super E-spec, which the Japanese rubber company calls "the... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:53 Article Views Rating: 74 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford Taurus grows up strong | detnews.com | The Detroit News Nothing lasts forever. Whether by bad luck, bad design or the stars just stop aligning; every good and bad thing passes. But that doesn't mean it can't come back: Cinderella may have cleaned a lot of fireplaces, but even she got hitched. The Ford Taurus arrived three decades ago with a youthful vigor that would propel it to become the No. 1 sedan in America. It was a winner, a juggernaut, the San Francisco 49ers of the '80s with Joe Montana in the driver's seat. But Montana split for the Kansas City... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:50 Article Views Rating: 103 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > Critics attack BMW's electric Mini E | detnews.com | The Detroit News In his Santa Monica, Calif., gallery, Samuel Freeman displays a nifty bit of automotive art, a full-size replica of a Chevy V-8 engine made out of stained glass. But Freeman himself worships at the church of the electric car. In November 2008, Freeman was one of nearly 2,000 people who signed up to lease a Mini E -- an experimental electric-vehicle conversion of BMW's charming, capering retro-runabout. In early June, he was one of the lucky 450 Americans to get a car, and since then he's been ripping up... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-24 10:35:47 Article Views Rating: 95 Main > Car Manufactures > Volkswagen > VW Crafter Wins RAC Award for Best Large Van 2009 VW Crafter range of vans has won the award for Best Large Van in the 2009 Van Fleet World Honours. The trophy was presented at a special ceremony held at the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall on Wednesday 20th May. The Fleet World Honours are presented annually to those motor manufacturers, service companies and individuals who have, in the opinion of the judges, achieved the highest possible level of excellence in their sector. The judging panel is chaired by industry professional, George Emmerson... Full article... Article added: 2009-07-13 15:34:02 Article Views Rating: 127 |
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