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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Detroit auto show's electric promises belie internal combustion reality | detnews.com | The Detroit News Listening, watching and reading the international media's reporting on the Detroit car show, you could be forgiven for thinking that we will soon all be zipping around noiselessly in environmentally neutral electric cars. Ford said it will have battery-powered vans in 2010 and an electric Ford Focus-size sedan in 2011. Mercedes Smart already has a battery-powered little city runabout. BMW's electric Mini, being evaluated on the road by prospective customers mainly in California, is said to achieve 150... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-26 06:38:15 Article Views Rating: 152 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > GM: Saturn could survive; Chrysler: We'll be viable by spring | detnews.com | The Detroit News NEW ORLEANS -- General Motors Corp. said today the Saturn brand could survive a broad restructuring plan being developed that involves selling, shrinking or killing half of its eight brands. All possibilities are being considered but the options will be narrowed next month when the cash-strapped automaker submits a restructuring plan to Congress, said Mark LaNeve, GM's vice president for North America sales, service and marketing, while talking to reporters during the National Automobile Dealers... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-26 06:38:15 Article Views Rating: 255 Main > Car Makers News > Other > CarTatts give auto custom look | detnews.com | The Detroit News Unlike your arm, neck, back or leg, your car can get a tattoo that can be painlessly removed. East Coast-based CarTatts, LLC produces a line of easy-to-apply or remove tattoos for cars and other vehicles. "The company is a year and a half old, but the idea had been cooking for a few years," said Rosemarie Monaco, co-founder and chief executive. Monaco runs a marketing agency. One of her clients does commercial vehicle wraps, like those that turn city buses into rolling billboards. When Monaco discovered... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-26 06:38:12 Article Views Rating: 224 Main > Week in Photos > Other > When The Going Gets Tough Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Gets Growing! Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles www.volkswagen-vans.co.uk has sold a record number of 503,025 vehicles globally over the last year +2.9 per cent growth maintaining its position as the number one van importer. Furthermore, despite challenging market conditions VWCV increased its share of the UK commercial vehicle market by nearly one per cent in 2008. In the face of falling registrations across the new commercial vehicle market of 13.7 per cent, total registrations of Volkswagen’s... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-21 15:30:05 Article Views Rating: 159 Main > Car Makers News > Volkswagen > Volkswagen Ego Car Concept for 2028 With the new concepts being designed by the car manufacturers, they want us to believe that the future is here. Similarly, Ego designed by Volkswagen is a part of concept vehicles offering a glimpse of what to expect from Volkswagen in future. This two seater sports car design is targeted for the year 2028, a good two decades from now! The body shape is simple, and is an all electric power source, and uses high performance batteries which are charged by fuel cell and the car shall be emitting water. The... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-20 07:58:16 Article Views Rating: 3679 Main > Car Makers News > Volkswagen > New VW Passat CC Trying to compete with luxury automakers a few years ago VW introduced its PHAETON. This year the company has the same aim and is going to represent new Passat CC. this is going to be a four-door coupe with a roofline like that of the Mercedes CLS. The new car will be 1.5 inches longer and a bit wider.It is not clear now to what class the newcomer will belong. The company says that its driving dynamics makes the car applicable foe sporting ride. However still we know almost nothing about those qualities... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-20 07:41:34 Article Views Rating: 8228 Main > Car Makers News > Porsche > Porsche makes required bid for Sweden's Scania | detnews.com | The Detroit News BERLIN -- Porsche SE has made a mandatory takeover offer for Sweden's Scania. Monday's move is required by law after Porsche took indirect control of the truckmaker earlier this month. But it is making clear it is only going through the motions and has no "strategic interest." Porsche said earlier this month that Swedish law required it to make an offer for Scania after it upped its holding in Volkswagen AG to more than 50 percent. That gave it indirect control of the truckmaker. Volkswagen controls... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-19 14:46:59 Article Views Rating: 230 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Mazda, Ford alliance complex | detnews.com | The Detroit News Ever since Ford Motor Co. said it would sell its controlling stake in Japan's Mazda Motor Corp. in November, the two automakers have insisted that their close, collaborative relationship will not change. The reality is more complex. Behind the scenes, walls are going up in Hiroshima and Dearborn. Ford employees have been instructed to stop sharing confidential information with their Mazda colleagues, while Mazda has barred Ford staff from attending some meetings. Many of these moves are driven by... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-19 14:46:59 Article Views Rating: 221 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Quadriplegic sues VW, heads to trial | detnews.com | The Detroit News BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A Vermont man paralyzed in a 2002 accident is suing Volkswagen AG, saying the Jetta he was riding in wasn't "crash worthy." Twenty-nine-year-old Owen Milne's product liability suit goes to trial Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Burlington. It says the Jetta had faulty roofs and seat-belt systems that made it unsafe. Milne, of South Burlington, was left a quadriplegic in the crash, which occurred when his fiancee's 1999 Jetta flipped after another vehicle swerved in front of it... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-19 14:46:59 Article Views Rating: 137 Main > Car Makers News > Volkswagen > Volkswagen up! concept Every 2012 preview article is packed with news on what automakers have in store for later in the decade. News, prices, pictures, preliminary specifications and more! Here's a preview of the articles on tap: Article key : Volkswagen, Volkswagen concept, 2009, 2012, New Car Full article... Article added: 2009-01-12 12:51:50 Article Views Rating: 278 |
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