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Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler get makeover | detnews.com | The Detroit News Chrysler Group LLC wants to hit the restart button on its entire lineup, refreshing, redesigning or replacing every car and truck, swapping out engines and creating vehicles people want. By 2012, Chrysler will have overhauled or replaced its entire lineup. Good luck. Right now, Chrysler is dangling off a cliff. The automaker is growing smaller every month and sits at the bottom of most quality ratings. There may be reasons behind the poor quality of its vehicles, but consumers see them as excuses, and... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-05 10:37:19 Article Views Rating: 37 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Aftermarket auto ware there for the long haul | detnews.com | The Detroit News Next week, Las Vegas turns into aftermarket heaven. Roll out the rally cars, billion-horsepower engines and every conceivable electronic device -- and some you couldn't imagine -- replica rattlesnake seat covers, bamboo floor mats and more rims than a junkyard and you'll begin to picture SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association trade show. Anything and everything that can be affixed, attached, screwed on or bolted down to a car or truck is on display at the private show, which begins Tuesday and... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-05 10:37:18 Article Views Rating: 32 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Michelin cables aim for safer jump-starts | detnews.com | The Detroit News Winter's coming. That means stocking up on de-icer fluid for the windshield washer reservoir and digging out the old snow scraper and jumper cables. Or you might want to buy a new set of jumper cables because the technology has just taken a big leap forward. It used to be you had to be very careful to connect the positive and negative terminals of your vehicle's battery to those of the car that you're jumping or that was jumping you. But with Michelin's new Smart Jumper Cables, there's no such... Full article... Article added: 2009-11-05 10:37:13 Article Views Rating: 18 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Reliability pays off in long run | detnews.com | The Detroit News Without Uncle Sam's largesse, you're not likely to get a decent price on a trade-in today. That car that grandma only drove to church on Sunday with low miles and all the extras that you got and now want to use to get something a bit more hip? Chances are you'll be offered far below the book value from a dealer. Sell it on your own instead. Especially if you've got a Toyota, Honda or Ford, the top brands for reliability, according to the 2009 Annual Car Reliability Survey from Consumer Reports magazine... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-30 06:56:25 Article Views Rating: 65 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Senate committee calls Delphi's salaried pensions 'devastating' | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- A Senate committee criticized the disparate treatment of the pensions of Delphi Automotive LLP's hourly and salaried retirees and demanded more information on how the decisions were made by the Obama administration. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, noted at a hearing Thursday that the Troy-based auto supplier had terminated its pension plans covering 70,000 workers -- the fourth-largest ever takeover in terms of people covered. In July... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-30 06:56:23 Article Views Rating: 62 Main > Car Makers News > Other > White House, Edmunds in war of words over 'clunkers' | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- The White House said the influential automotive news Web site Edmunds.com's harsh analysis of the impact of "cash for clunkers" was "faulty" and "implausible." Edmunds CEO Jeremy Anwyl shot back that the White House was "shooting the messenger." Edmunds said cash for clunkers cost taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle sold. Nearly 690,000 vehicles were sold during the $3 billion cash for clunkers program that offered up to $4,500 rebates, officially known as the Car Allowance Rebate System, but Edmunds.com... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-30 06:56:22 Article Views Rating: 61 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Reilly's world is growing larger | detnews.com | The Detroit News Nick Reilly, executive vice president of General Motors Co., works out of a skyscraper in Shanghai, a Chinese port city halfway across the globe from the company's Detroit headquarters. Most of his senior-level GM colleagues are asleep when he's working, and they arrive at their offices as he's preparing to go home. Even though Reilly is far away, he is emerging as GM's second most important executive after CEO Fritz Henderson. As the new head of GM's international operations, the British executive runs... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-30 06:56:20 Article Views Rating: 61 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Fesler-Moss revives vintage Camaro package | detnews.com | The Detroit News Sometimes you have to turn back the clock to go fast forward. First, we turn back four decades, to the birth of the Chevrolet Camaro and that very special souped-up version known as the COPO, that string of letters representing the abbreviation for how to work the order form to get what amounted to a factory-built hot rod. Next, we turn back just a few years, to when automotive engineer Jon Moss was head of what amounted to General Motors' toy shop, the specialty vehicles group that did things such as... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-30 06:56:18 Article Views Rating: 58 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Recovery will stem from fresh designs | detnews.com | The Detroit News Some of the auto industry's biggest hits have roots in a company's darkest days, demographic shifts or a defining moment in history. The strongest and most creative regroups -- even going as far as betting the ranch -- have delivered a triple or a home run in the form of the bubbly Taurus or the minivan. It's unclear when and how bright the light at the end of the current dark tunnel will shine, but the seeds of a sustained recovery will have their roots in the styling studio. Development begins... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-30 06:56:13 Article Views Rating: 22 Main > 2009 Releases > Audi > Audi Academy gets connected with Intrexx Enterprise Portal London, 29 October 2009 - United Planet www.unitedplanet.com, one of the leading developers of Enterprise Portal software in Europe, is pleased to announce that Audi Academy, one of the leading training and consulting institutes in Germany, has invested in an Intrexx Enterprise Portal to provide employees, managers and trainers with the information they need to run and attend the huge number of courses offered by the Academy. As a subsidiary of AUDI AG, the Audi Academy plays a central role in... Full article... Article added: 2009-10-29 14:01:13 Article Views Rating: 29 |
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