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Main > Car Makers News > Saturn > Tesla too rich for your budget? How about an electric Saturn Sky? var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Tesla_too_rich_for_your_budget_The_Electric_Saturn_Sky'; Building a car is an enormously complex and expensive process. With all the safety regulations that have to be met in order to sell a new car, startup companies that want to build electric vehicles have mostly taken one of two paths to the road. The first is one taken by companies like Zap and Aptera. Those companies are building three-wheeled vehicles which are classed as motorcycles and thus exempt from... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-26 14:49:14 Article Views Rating: 321 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto briefs Ford Motor Co . is cutting production at its Volvo unit as a way to trim costs and losses at the upscale Swedish brand. The production cut, which could affect one-third of workers at one of its two Volvo plants in Europe, comes amid speculation that Ford is priming Volvo for a sale. Ford has said publicly that it doesn't plan a sale, but CEO Alan Mulally has told top executives he wants to eventually seek a buyer, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter. "Our... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-20 06:36:24 Article Views Rating: 159 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Camaros, turbos, mpgs and the underappreciated V8 The GMnext blog has a post up that talks about the potential viability of a low-displacement turbocharged motor -- the direct-injected 2.0L Ecotec turbo, specifically -- in upcoming GM cars, including the Camaro. Let's talk about this a little. The breathed-upon Ecotec delivers 260 horses and 260 lb-ft of torque, and if you've driven, say, the Sky or Solstice equipped with it, you know just how ballsy it really is. It's more powerful but less torquey than either V8 offered in the '87 IROC-Z that I... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-19 11:19:46 Article Views Rating: 89 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM Delta workers get $2,000 Workers who launched a monthlong strike against a General Motors Corp. factory near Lansing will get bonuses up to $2,500 as part of a new local labor deal ratified on Friday. The new United Auto Workers union contract at the Delta Township factory gives production workers $2,000 and skilled trades employees $2,500, according to a copy of the agreement on the union's Web site. The cash rewards workers for helping GM open the factory, completed in 2006, the contract says. Cash bonuses, which have been... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-19 11:19:44 Article Views Rating: 154 Main > Car Makers News > Saturn > Saturn Astra: Punch the accelerator and call it Euro brash I come from a long line of Europeans -- illiterate, mud-eating Europeans from the Outer Hebrides, to be exact, whose idea of a good time was to go down to the firth and watch the plague victims wash out to sea. Even so, I've always had an affinity for the Continent. Between New Orleans and Amsterdam, I prefer Amsterdam. I'll take Rousseau over Jefferson, Beck's over Budweiser, Formula One over NASCAR, and Heidi Klum over my knee. And, I seem to prefer European cars. I suppose that's fair. Everybody has... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-19 11:19:43 Article Views Rating: 281 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM to present Delta family of cars at Paris Motor Show GM’s Delta compact FWD platform, currently used in cars Opel Saturn Astra, Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5, is due for an update this year and the first new-generation model is set to appear at October’s Paris Motor Show. Some of the cars expected to be based on the revised platform include the next-generation Opel Astra, the Saab 9-1 and a four-door Chevrolet sedan to replace the Daewoo-sourced Lacetti and Cobalt. The new Chevrolet sedan will be roughly the same size the Volkswagen Jetta and will... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-19 11:19:42 Article Views Rating: 148 Main > Car Makers News > GM > Production to resume at GM crossover plant Production will finally resume at General Motors’ Delta Township assembly plant near Lansing in Michigan after workers first went on strike on April 17. The plant is responsible for the Buick Enclave pictured, GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook crossovers and employs about 3,300 union workers from UAW Local 602. Members yesterday ratified a contract agreement that was reached between the local union and GM on Thursday, reports Automotive News. According to UAW Local 602 President Doug Rademacher, 74% of... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-19 11:19:04 Article Views Rating: 135 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM, UAW reach deal in Delta site strike General Motors Corp. has reached a tentative labor agreement with the United Auto Workers union local near Lansing that had been on strike nearly a month, the company said. The agreement, reached in Thursday's pre-dawn hours, covers 2,300 workers at the Delta Township factory that builds GM's trio of popular crossover SUVs, the Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia and Saturn Outlook. A ratification vote by members is scheduled for today. The company and union had been haggling over a plant-level contract for the... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-16 07:20:06 Article Views Rating: 140 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM has tentative deal with Lansing plant GM has reached a tentative labor deal with the United Auto Workers local that has been on strike in Delta Township near Lansing, the automaker said today The plant, which makes GM's popular crossover SUVs, has been on strike since April 17 as the company and union haggled over a plant-level contract for the factory. Members of UAW Local 602 still must vote on the deal. General Motors Corp. had canceled the medical and life insurance benefits of workers on strike at the Lansing-area factory, which added... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-16 07:20:06 Article Views Rating: 139 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Cards fill auto market: Toyota latest to add credit card offering WASHINGTON -- Toyota Motor Corp. will launch a Toyota-branded credit card in the United States in October, the latest entry into the crowded automotive affinity card market. Toyota will join more than a dozen auto brands offering U.S. credit cards -- including its Lexus unit, which launched a Lexus Pursuits card in June 2005 and now has about 50,000 cardholders. Toyota Financial spokeswoman Kelly Rivera said since its Toyota customer base is 10 times larger than Lexus', "we're expecting significant... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-16 07:20:06 Article Views Rating: 204 |
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