Monday, August 10th, 2009
TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN - General Motors, Chrysler and the auto industry -- not the banking industry -- continue to be the whipping boys for members of the far right who paint the Obama administration not as post-supply side Keynesians, but as unmitigated socialists. Ron Bloom, the new chairman of the ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
DETROIT - Our European correspondent, Paul Horrell calls the 2010 Opel Astra "one of the best compact hatches the world has to offer." His story asks; will it come here? The answer is "yes," in a way. Buick's 2012 Cruze-based compact (on the Delta platform), designed to anchor the lower ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
As we profiled on Friday, Nissan Motor Company chose August 2, 2009 to debut its groundbreaking, game changing zero emission electric vehicle at its new corporate headquarters in Yokohama, Japan, and we were here to check it out. Nissan calls it the Leaf (Leading, Environmentally Friendly, Affordable, Family Car), and ...
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Since April, we’ve been continually updating you on the progress of Nissan’s electric vehicle (EV) program with up to the minute news bulletins like this one.And this one.This one over here.And, yup, this one. Well today, Nissan essentially stuffed all of this information into one giant EV gyoza and reheated it ...
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
How long can General Motors hold off on choosing a partner for its European Opel/Vauxhall operations? The New GM, just born out of July's bankruptcy, took a second round of bids from Canada's Magna International, Belgium's RHJ and China's Beijing Automotive Industry Holding last week. GM rejected BAIC's offer and ...
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