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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Carmakers to show off electric strategies | detnews.com | The Detroit News WASHINGTON -- Automakers will showcase at the Washington Auto Show this week their commitment to quickly bringing electric hybrid and all-electric vehicles to market as early as next year, and they're working with communities and energy companies to help foster that adoption. Ford Motor Co. will announce today it has named Johnson Controls-Saft as its battery supplier for its 2012 plug-in electric hybrid vehicle. It will also announce an expanded partnership with utilities to include seven additional... Full article... Article added: 2009-02-03 07:09:23 Article Views Rating: 174 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Eleven Finalists for World Car of the Year Are Announced The results of the fifth annual World Car of the Year WCOTY competition will be announced at the2009 New-York Auto Show in April, but the journalists have already made the list of the 11 finalists. It is interesting that only European and Japanese autos are participating this year leaving American, Asian Chinese, Korean and Indian and Australian manufacturers behind. The majority of candidates for WCOTY Award come from Europe. They are German Audi A4, Volkswagen Golf VI and BMW 7 Series, French Citroën... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-30 07:07:54 Article Views Rating: 193 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Automakers lobby for fuel efficiency rules | detnews.com | The Detroit News WASHINGTON -- Detroit's Big Three and eight other automakers urged the Obama administration Thursday to implement fuel efficiency increases drafted by the Bush administration but abandoned earlier this month. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, the trade group representing General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Chrysler LLC, Toyota Motor Corp., Daimler AG and others, urged the new administration to rethink its approach and follow the Bush proposal to increase fuel efficiency to a fleetwide average... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-30 07:07:53 Article Views Rating: 170 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Detroit Auto Show to reduce media preview days | detnews.com | The Detroit News Media previews at the North American International Auto Show will begin a day later beginning next year, organizers said Thursday, moving to Monday from the traditional Sunday start. The new schedule shortens media previews by automakers to about 30 events and eliminates the extra half day of press conferences, said Doug Fox, senior co-chairman of the show. "There are two primary days. But the move was made for a very good reason: The customers we serve asked for the changes." Exhibitors had complained... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-30 07:07:51 Article Views Rating: 134 Main > Car Makers News > Kia > Despite fine performance, Kia's Borrego does little to stand out | detnews.com | The Detroit News With 6 inches of snow on the ground and the white stuff still coming down last December, it seemed like the perfect time to put the 2009 Kia Borrego to the test. The South Korean carmaker may know compacts and sedans, but how well does it know Michigan winters? Turns out, winters, bad roads and good barbeques are just a few of the things Americans and South Koreans have in common. The big SUV tracked right through Detroit's icy roads. There was plenty of power at my disposal. The V-8, the same engine as... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-30 07:07:45 Article Views Rating: 194 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Auto briefs | detnews.com | The Detroit News TOKYO -- Honda Motor Co. said today it is cutting production in Japan and North America by an additional 50,000 vehicles amid a severe slump in global sales. Japan's No. 2 automaker said output in North America will fall by 29,000 units, affecting Honda's three plants in the region -- Ontario, Canada; Marysville/East Liberty, Ohio; and Lincoln, Ala. Due to the production cuts, Honda's overall output in North America will drop 12 percent to 1.26 million units in the fiscal year ending March 31. The... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-27 13:56:03 Article Views Rating: 161 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Fuel rule struggle looms for Big Three | detnews.com | The Detroit News WASHINGTON -- Automakers face an uphill climb in convincing the Obama administration not to grant California and 13 other states the right to impose their own tailpipe emissions standards, but those tougher regulations could come with more federal loans. President Barack Obama ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to review the request from California and the other states to impose a 30 percent reduction in tailpipe emissions by 2016. He vowed during the campaign to grant California permission... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-27 13:56:00 Article Views Rating: 194 Main > Car Makers News > Kia > 2009 Kia Cerato First Steer Kia has a bit of a penchant for spelling words with a ‘K’ , for possibly obvious reasons, so I’m going to make a suggestion to it here, consider adding ‘Konservative’ to the lexicon – at least where it relates to the estimate that it will sell just 3000 of the all-new Cerato small sedan in Australia this year.While on the one hand the company has been talking up the new Cerato as a contender against the major players in the small car segment here, that’s Toyota... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-26 08:08:53 Article Views Rating: 744 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Car dealers try to survive as economy, sales drop | detnews.com | The Detroit News NEW ORLEANS -- At this year's version of the National Automobile Dealers Association convention, survival has passed maximizing profits as the focus of the event. Thousands of dealers from across the U.S. who gathered Saturday in New Orleans were greeted by workshops entitled "Selling up in a down economy: Taking the bull by the horns" and "Tough times, tougher dealers: Saving your dealership's assets." By almost all accounts, 2009 will be among the toughest years ever faced by the roughly 20,000... Full article... Article added: 2009-01-26 06:38:16 Article Views Rating: 156 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 |
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