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Main > Car Makers News > BMW > BMW Z4 roadster offers enlightening ride | detnews.com | The Detroit News Here are a few automotive rules to live by: Downshift the turn. Don't text message or e-mail friends, colleagues or any prince from Nigeria behind the wheel. Own a roadster before you die. Perhaps, it's because I'm in my midlife years -- at 41, I'm certainly hacking through the back nine -- that I've developed such an affinity for drop-top two seaters. Or, maybe, it was just that I was sitting behind the steering wheel of the 2009 BMW Z4 roadster. Every time I fired up the 3-liter direct injection... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-11 05:04:30 Article Views Rating: 39 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Rapper Ludacris gives away cars to contest winners | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- Talk about a one-man stimulus package: Grammy-winning rapper Ludacris has given away 20 cars to people who wrote about their struggles to keep their jobs for a lack of wheels of their own. Ludacris said he was taken aback after reading thousands of essays by people struggling or unable to buy cars needed to get to and from work or find jobs. The 31-year-old rapper felt he could step in and move them ahead, partnering with a suburban Atlanta dealership for Sunday's giveaway. "People are getting laid... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-08 05:29:19 Article Views Rating: 52 Main > Car Makers News > Hummer > Missouri Hummer dealer freshens product line with guns | detnews.com | The Detroit News Jim Lynch owns $7.5 million worth of car dealership devoted to a brand that's no longer in production and might or might not continue to exist, depending on the whim of the Chinese government. This is not a good business model. For seven years, back when the Hummer H1 roamed the Earth, Lynch Hummer of Chesterfield, Mo., was the leading Hummer dealer in America. It could barely see the second-place dealer in its enormous side-view mirrors. That ended in 2003, when the pencil-necked sissies at GM... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:09 Article Views Rating: 40 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Building a classic cruiser from the frame up | detnews.com | The Detroit News So you want to drive your own classic car in next year's Woodward Dream Cruise, but you can't find a mid-'50s Chevy or early-'30s hot-rod ready to be restored. Don't worry, you can buy all of the components and build your own brand-new classic. Since the late 1950s, Experi-Metal Inc. of Sterling Heights has been supplying automakers with stamped metal components -- body panels and trim -- used in the construction of prototype vehicles. Because automakers have yet to produce the tools needed to stamp out... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:07 Article Views Rating: 29 Main > Car Makers News > Mini > Mini turns on German charm | detnews.com | The Detroit News The original British Mini might not have become the second most influential car of the 20th Century if not for an energy crisis. Facing a fuel shortage brought on by the Suez Crisis of 1956, British Motor Corporation designed the minuscule motorcar to compete with an adorable array of wheels from Germany known as "bubble cars." It's not hard to figure out how they got their nicknames. The bubble cars, particularly the Peel Trident, generally resembled soap bubbles affixed to go-kart chassis. According... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:05 Article Views Rating: 46 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford's 2010 Transit Connect means business | detnews.com | The Detroit News The recession is over, and I've got proof. While many "experts" will point to the GDP, unemployment figures and the trade deficit, I'm more of a believer of those tangible products that predict our nation's financial plight. Sales of cardboard boxes, diamonds and lipstick have been monitored in the past and could work today. Future economic soothsayers will gaze into their Magic 8 Balls and use the Ford Transit Connect sales numbers as a barometer of the nation's small business health. To paraphrase a... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:02 Article Views Rating: 38 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Mercedes Is Going to Assemble F-CELL Vehicles Mercedes-Benz has announced that it plans to launch the production of B-Class F-CELL vehicles in the end of this year. The German manufacturer is joining efforts with Honda in the work on this new project. The production will be limited: Mercedes wants to make only 200 cars as a first try and ship them to American and European customers in the beginning of 2010. Previously there was a plan to sell compact B-Class to the U.S., but it had to be postponed. F-CELL or hydrogen-powered electric autos have... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:04:00 Article Views Rating: 89 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Ford to cops: Crown Vic is out | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- In June, Ford Motor Co. invited the heads of some of the nation's largest police fleets to Dearborn to talk about the future of police cars. For nearly two decades, that market has belonged to Ford's Crown Victoria -- a vehicle that departments from coast to coast have come to respect for its toughness and reliability. Now the Crown Vic is running out of road. "They told us that 2011 would be the last year they build the Crown Vic," said Larry Tagawa, commander of the Los Angeles Police Department's... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:58 Article Views Rating: 93 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Mercedes pleases diesel lovers | detnews.com | The Detroit News The argument for more diesels coming to America continues to fall on deaf ears. People have told me: They don't like the fuel's smell. They worry about breathing particulates. Diesel costs more than gasoline sometimes. There are a host of other excuses why America shouldn't have diesel cars and trucks. There are some diesel trucks available. American auto executives will offer another set of excuses, such as exhaust treatment kits, diesel powertrain markups and lack of consumer interest. I'm a consumer... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:57 Article Views Rating: 84 Main > Car Makers News > Aston Martin > Aston Martin DBS Volante: A beautiful idea | detnews.com | The Detroit News I understand the Aston Martin DBS Volante is not for everybody. Not everyone will care for a $300,000, 12-cylinder, open-top super car that looks like love feels and sounds like whiskey tastes. But if you are one of these people -- these nugatory finger-waggers, these buzz-killing harpies of righteous socialism -- please, sit next to someone else at dinner. I will stick a fork in your eye. Yes, of course it's a car for rich jackasses, preening showoffs and enviro-criminals. Really, what part of Aston... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:57 Article Views Rating: 90 |
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