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Main > Car Makers News > Other > Behemoths to the fore in Frankfurt as sales window threatens to shut | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- It will be like going to one of Frank Sinatra's final performances for visitors to the Frankfurt Car Show. They will come away saying we might never see the likes of that again. Children and grandchildren will one day hear barely believable tales of long extinct, gas guzzling 150 mph beasts like Rolls-Royces, Bentleys, Ferraris, Aston Martins, Jaguars and Porsches which were on show at the 2009 Frankfurt Car Show. Anybody could buy them, as long as they had the money. The global car industry is on... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-14 04:08:50 Article Views Rating: 52 Main > Car Makers News > GM > GM offers 60-day, cash-back guarantee | detnews.com | The Detroit News General Motors Co., trying to woo consumers after a trip through bankruptcy, will launch a new advertising campaign Monday touting a 60-day money-back guarantee featuring GM Chairman Ed Whitacre. The move is a bid to boost slumping sales and market share at a crucial time for the automaker, and for GM executives under government pressure to improve the company's fortunes. GM, which received $50 billion in federal aid, is pouring millions into the "May the Best Car Win" campaign. The promotion will urge... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-11 05:04:55 Article Views Rating: 58 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Ad blitz targets diesel fuel's noisy, smelly image | detnews.com | The Detroit News Imagine trying to market a product that most Americans regard as old and obsolete, that is remembered -- if at all -- as low-class and low-tech, noisy and noisome, and whose most notable advocates are truck drivers with prominent trouser cleavage. CB radio? An excellent guess, but no. Diesel, the oilier cousin of gasoline, dominates the European auto market, where fuel prices hover around $7 per gallon. Diesel is about 25 percent to 40 percent more fuel-efficient than gasoline, with commensurate... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-11 05:04:43 Article Views Rating: 33 Main > Car Makers News > Hummer > Missouri Hummer dealer freshens product line with guns | detnews.com | The Detroit News Jim Lynch owns $7.5 million worth of car dealership devoted to a brand that's no longer in production and might or might not continue to exist, depending on the whim of the Chinese government. This is not a good business model. For seven years, back when the Hummer H1 roamed the Earth, Lynch Hummer of Chesterfield, Mo., was the leading Hummer dealer in America. It could barely see the second-place dealer in its enormous side-view mirrors. That ended in 2003, when the pencil-necked sissies at GM... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:09 Article Views Rating: 40 Main > Car Makers News > Mini > Mini turns on German charm | detnews.com | The Detroit News The original British Mini might not have become the second most influential car of the 20th Century if not for an energy crisis. Facing a fuel shortage brought on by the Suez Crisis of 1956, British Motor Corporation designed the minuscule motorcar to compete with an adorable array of wheels from Germany known as "bubble cars." It's not hard to figure out how they got their nicknames. The bubble cars, particularly the Peel Trident, generally resembled soap bubbles affixed to go-kart chassis. According... Full article... Article added: 2009-09-07 18:08:05 Article Views Rating: 46 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Automaker Think emerges from bankruptcy | detnews.com | The Detroit News Plans to sell the Think electric car in the U.S., and possibly build them in Michigan, are being revived with the Norwegian company's imminent emergence from bankruptcy protection. Production of a two-seat, all-electric car in Norway was halted when Think sought bankruptcy protection in December. On Thursday, courts there approved the debt settlement plan of the carmaker, enabling it to exit court protection. "Effectively, this puts Think back in business and in a position to resume normal operations in... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:59 Article Views Rating: 84 Main > Car Makers News > Toyota > California plant closure will be first for Toyota | detnews.com | The Detroit News Toyota Motor Corp., a once-unstoppable but now money-losing automaker with idle production capacity, will stop making vehicles next year at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont, Calif. The decision, first announced by Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is momentous for Toyota, a Japanese automaker proud of never having closed an auto plant since its founding in 1937. But Toyota signaled it might quit the venture after its partner at NUMMI for 25 years, General Motors Co., said in... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:58 Article Views Rating: 94 Main > Car Makers News > Chrysler > United Way to get $525,000 from Chrysler PAC | detnews.com | The Detroit News Money in Chrysler's dormant political action committee fund totaling $525,000 will be donated to the United Way, The Detroit News has learned. And any voluntary contributions made by the more than 1,300 employee participants since June 10 when a new company, Chrysler Group LLC, was formed in alliance with Fiat SpA, will be refunded, employees learned this week in a letter from John Bozzella, senior vice president responsible for external affairs and public policy. These additional contributions beyond... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:56 Article Views Rating: 92 Main > Car Makers News > GM > Remaining GM dealers face tough standards, sales goals | detnews.com | The Detroit News -- General Motors Co. dealers who survived the automaker's bankruptcy were told Friday they will have to average higher sales and spend more updating their facilities. Some will also have to get used to selling smaller, more fuel-efficient and better-equipped vehicles than during the industry's SUV-crazy heyday. GM executives met with 430 dealers from around the Midwest at the Rock Financial Showplace as part of a nine-city tour to discuss the future of the automaker's four core brands: Chevrolet... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:56 Article Views Rating: 89 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Closing auto dealerships leave void | detnews.com | The Detroit News In recent years, Plymouth Road in Livonia had become something of an automotive hub in the city: new car lots line the busy thoroughfare, along with mechanic shops, an engine plant and fueling stations. It could soon be hit with a "quadruple threat," Mayor Jack Kirksey said. That is, the closure of the Livonia Chrysler-Jeep this summer. Follow that next year with the possible closure of two more dealerships -- Tennyson Chevrolet and John Rogin Buick -- and then the planned shutdown of GM's powertrain... Full article... Article added: 2009-08-31 06:03:53 Article Views Rating: 82 |
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