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Main > Car Makers News > GM > U.S.-German working group to seek help for GM's Opel | detnews.com | The Detroit News BERLIN -- Germany's new economic minister says he has arranged an informal working group with the U.S. treasury secretary aimed at finding a way to save General Motors Corp.'s German-based Opel unit. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said in comments published in the Bild am Sonntag weekly Sunday that he had contacted Timothy Geithner in Washington about setting up a working group in hopes of finding a way to secure the future of Adam Opel GmbH. "I will use my first visit to the U.S.A. in March to hold further... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-23 15:09:05 Article Views Rating: 251 Main > Car Makers News > Other > At least Mercedes' nerdy little ute is a gem mechanically | detnews.com | The Detroit News If ever you needed a reason to shoot out the light in your garage, may I present the 2010 Mercedes-Benz GLK 350, a vivacious and elegant little ute disguised as a vandalized Subaru Forester. What's the deal here? The exterior is a veritable food fight of odd angles and curious proportions, fender swells and dissonant accent lines, and all of it buttoned by a hilariously oversized, nay, desperate grille. The GLK suggests nothing less than a Dadaist collage of the company's styling portfolio pasted onto a... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-23 15:09:03 Article Views Rating: 169 Main > Car Makers News > Daimler > Daimler has fourth-quarter loss | detnews.com | The Detroit News BERLIN -- German automaker Daimler AG on Tuesday reported a 1.53 billion euros $1.93 billion fourth-quarter loss and warned that sales of its marquee Mercedes-Benz cars would decline through 2009 because of the economic meltdown's pinch on the automotive industry. The loss for the Stuttgart-based maker of Mercedes-Benz, Smart and Maybach compares to a profit of 1.7 billion euros a year earlier. Sales slid 12 percent, to euro23.2 billion compared with euro26.5 billion a year earlier as the number of... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-17 14:55:40 Article Views Rating: 209 Main > Car Makers News > BMW > BMW, Daimler look to share expenses | detnews.com | The Detroit News For more than a year, German luxury carmakers BMW AG and Daimler AG have explored ways to cooperate and share some production and development costs. The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported Sunday that the longtime rivals may be close to signing cost-sharing agreements on such items as power window motors. Both companies declined to comment on Monday, and some analysts said the timing of the report suggested it might have been intended as a distraction from what are likely to be very... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-17 14:55:40 Article Views Rating: 238 Main > Car Makers News > Daimler > Daimler has quarterly loss of $1.95 billion | detnews.com | The Detroit News BERLIN -- German automaker Daimler AG on Tuesday reported a euro1.53 billion $1.95 billion fourth-quarter loss -- its first in two years -- and warned that sales of its marquee Mercedes-Benz cars would decline through 2009 because of the economic meltdown's pinch on the automotive industry. The loss for the Stuttgart-based maker of Mercedes-Benz, Smart and Maybach compared to a profit of euro1.7 billion a year earlier. The final figure was dragged down by losses and charges at Chrysler LLC, of which... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-17 14:55:39 Article Views Rating: 196 Main > Car Makers News > Mercedes-Benz > Mercedes Benz F700 After a bit of a song and dance routine, sans the song, Mercedes-Benz finally drove out its new F700 Concept at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. Looking something like an S-Class cross-bred with a Mazda RX-8, it still managed to wow the assembled horde. The debut itself was a wild enviro-mechanical fusion of dancers emulating trees and geckos that formed a vehicle out of their prop tree branches and then fit themselves inside. It was a clever way to show green and machine can coexist beautifully. Sitting... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-17 09:19:49 Article Views Rating: 454 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Zonda R Is Ready for a Track Italian automaker, Pagani has unveiled the final images of Zonda R the prototype of which has been presented at the 2008 Geneva Auto Show almost a year ago. The track racer looks like some high-tech dream-auto that is ready to fly through the race within seconds. Zonda R is powered by Mercedes AMG 6.0-liter V12 engine that outputs 739 horsepower and 524 pound-feet of torque. The manufacturer gave it the maximum speed of 217 mph. The lightweight carbon-fiber body is stuffed with racing features: world... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-12 06:29:16 Article Views Rating: 144 Main > Car Makers News > Mercedes-Benz > Auto Armor: Mercedes-Benz E-Guard For those who are worries about safety Mercedes created armored 2010 E-Class model package. The driver and passengers do not need to worry about any attacks with the E-Guard because the steel body of the auto withstands gunfire and explosions. Additionally to the price of the car an owner would have to pay $58,500 for the package if he/she wants to be protected from outside world. E-Guard will be available for German customers in April 2009. The designers of the package say the car becomes invulnerable... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-12 06:29:15 Article Views Rating: 245 Main > Car Makers News > Lexus > SUV without apologies: Sophisticated performance, luxurious interior excites in new Lexus LX 570 | detnews.com | The Detroit News For 2009, Lexus made its vastly improved top-of-the-line SUV more luxurious. Lipstick on a dinosaur? Far from it -- no matter what some groups may shout in an overly shrill voice. SUVs still serve a purpose. They still have unmatched capabilities and still can do things crossovers and cars can only dream about. During January's heavy snowfall, I hopped into the new Lexus LX 570 and burrowed my way down the road without a problem. The full-time four-wheel drive ate up snow and ice like "Survivor Man" in... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-12 06:29:03 Article Views Rating: 195 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Luxury car crossovers expected to revive sales | detnews.com | The Detroit News The new car market may be severely depressed but automakers are counting on one segment to buck the downward trend. The industry expects consumer interest in small premium crossovers to grow and consequently the number of entries in the sector is expanding dramatically. The upscale small sport utility vehicle format was successfully established several years ago by Lexus with the RX300, and since then a few primary rivals have emerged, such as the Acura MDX, Infiniti EX35 and BMW X3. But this year a... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-05 07:31:56 Article Views Rating: 158 |
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