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Main > Car Makers News > Lexus > Is The Lexus LF-A Betraying The Brand? The fastest way to kill an automotive brand: sell a POS. The bloodletting caused by a brand new clunker can be spectacular. Anyone remember the 1981 Cadillac Fleetwood V-8-6-4? How about the Cimarron? It has taken Caddy more than 20 years to climb back from that double debacle if, indeed, they have. But there’s another, slower and more insidious way to ruin a storied car brand: distraction. When a car maker builds a vehicle that muddies the marque’s core message, it mortgages its future. To... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-28 08:53:46 Article Views Rating: 207 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > Toyota builds third hybrid battery plant TOKYO -- Toyota is preparing to rev up production of hybrids, announcing Tuesday its third plant in Japan for producing batteries that are key components for the "green" cars. Just last week, it announced that it was building a second such battery plant. Toyota Motor Corp. has emerged the world leader in hybrids with its hit Prius, which has sold more than a cumulative 1 million vehicles over the last decade. Sometime after 2010, it hopes to sell 1 million hybrids a year. For that, it needs to boost... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-28 08:53:33 Article Views Rating: 190 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Axon enters Automotive X Prize with new hatchback Axon Automotive, creators of last year’s Eco-M super lightweight speedster, has entered the $10 million Automotive X Prize with a new hatchback aimed at city dwellers. The new vehicle features a full carbon-fiber chassis and will likely be powered by a compact turbodiesel engine. Keeping weight down will be a big consideration for the Axon hatchback as it strives to achieve the Automotive X Prize’s requirement for competitors to produce a 100mpg car. The UK based company has pioneered a special... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-28 08:53:23 Article Views Rating: 135 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 > Jay Leno tells Detroit to make better cars "It ain't that hard folks -- make better cars." That's the word aimed at Detroit from Jay Leno, the late-night television host and avid hands-on car nut. According to Leno, nobody builds trucks as well as Americans, as he cites the Ford F-150 and Chevy Silverado as examples. Same goes with performance cars. "The Corvette Z06 has 505 horsepower, comes with a big warranty, and can hit 200 miles per hour. It weighs almost exactly the same as a half-million-dollar Porsche Carrera GT and gets higher mileage... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-26 14:49:14 Article Views Rating: 110 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > Nissan Builds Trucks at the Chrysler Plant Nissan plans to build full-sized Titan trucks for North America and has already agreed with Chrysler about the beginning of the production at their plant in Saltillo, Mexico. The new 2009 Dodge Ram is made at the same plant and since the both trucks will be put together at that place, some people rise a question if both of them are going to have the same kind of engines. The manufacturers deny these gossips, saying that companies have separate plans about the engines. Chrysler worked really hard to have... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-26 14:49:13 Article Views Rating: 169 Main > Car Makers News > GM > Price of strikes for GM: $2.8B The American Axle strike and separate walkouts this month at two General Motor Corp. plants will take $2.8 billion off the automaker's bottom line, and cost the U.S. economy $8.2 billion -- shaving nearly a percentage point off the gross domestic product, an economist said Friday. The 87-day walkout against American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc, which ended Thursday, cost GM 330,000 units of production, including 230,000 units in April and May, the automaker reported in a Security and Exchange... Full article... Article added: 2008-05-26 14:49:11 Article Views Rating: 143 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 > 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 > 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 |
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