26th June 2007
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said on June 18 that the union must find a way to give Chrysler health care allowances that are similar to those it gave to Ford Motor Co. as well as to General Motors Corp. in 2005.
In an interview on “The Paul W. Sm...
26th June 2007
Maker of Cadillac oxygen sensor, General Motors (GM) recently appointed Hossein Hassani as the new regional divisional marketing manager for Chevrolet and GMC in the Middle East.
As the new manager, Hassani is expected to bring new approaches as well...
26th June 2007
Audi is not making an apology at BMW’s claim that the brand is not a luxury car opponent because Volkswagen’s premium vehicle division does not manufacture rear-wheel drive cars and that discounting has been the biggest factor of inflated Australian...
26th June 2007
Bentley, maker of Bentley oxygen sensor, announced last Wednesday that the first year's production has already been sold out on its Arnage-based Brooklands super coupe. The British manufacturer of luxury automobiles and Grand Tourers said that deliverie...
26th June 2007
The Chrysler Group recently announced its plans to preserve one of the three most distinguished smokestacks on the former Jeep Parkway facility in Toledo. The smokestacks have been a well known part of the horizon of Toledo since 1915.
The oldest man...
15th June 2007
AutoPacific, a California-based automotive marketing and product-consulting firm has just released the result of their Vehicle Satisfaction survey and after asking thousands of new car owners of their choice for the most satisfying sports car in the Uni...
15th June 2007
Saturn of U.S. Route 422 in Niles bested among county dealers in new-vehicle sales in May with 115 title registrations. This and other related data were released in Monday by the Automobile Dealers Association of Eastern Ohio.
The dealership also bag...
15th June 2007
The BMW national teams have no time to party and have some fun as the FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC) resumes next weekend. The team aims further winning in the championship move into its ninth and tenth rounds in Brno in the Czech Republic.
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15th June 2007
For the second time, the Manthey Racing team succeeded again as it won the 24 hour endurance race on the Nürburgring. Porsche drivers Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb along with Marcel Tiemann bested more than 200 racers with a one-lap advanta...
15th June 2007
Volkswagen of America, Inc announced today that the 2007 Volkswagen Rabbit has been chosen as Automotive Lease Guide’s (ALG) highest projected resale value in the compact car segment. The annual award acknowledges automakers for producing vehicles pre...
15th June 2007
Toyota Motor Corp. has unseated General Motors Corp. as the world's biggest carmaker last year instead of in 2007, as industry observers have earlier predicted.
Detroit-based weekly Automotive News, whose data centre publishes a widely quoted ranking...
15th June 2007
Subaru’s new Impreza WRX goes on sale in Japan this week as a late 2007 model, and with it come greater anticipation for the high-performance STI version, which won't be officially revealed until the Tokyo auto show in October later this year.
The ...
15th June 2007
The Chrysler Group announced that its Five Star(R) dealers achieved a new May record of 11,243 Certified Pre-owned Vehicles (CPOV) making an increase of 10.6 percent as compared to the May 2006 sales of 10,164 vehicles.
As compared with April 2007 s...
15th June 2007
At the General Motors Corporation’s annual meeting, GM chairman Richard Wagoner emphasized to the shareholders that the Detroit car company is serious about accelerating the development of the new technology that is required to power the electrified C...
15th June 2007
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will make one step forward to achieve its goal of launching the first passenger jet built in Japan when it exposes a carbon copy of the cabin at the upcoming Paris Air Show.
According to a company official, the full-size ...