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Automotive RSS FeedsUNI-CUB: Honda looks beyond bikes, cars, robots & jets - Honda thinks it might have found itself another new revenue stream: personal mobility devices. The UNI-CUB, which the company has just unveiled in Japan as a working prototype, could soon be the right product at the right time. Vehicle sales might be booming just now but that's due to government incentives designed to reverse last year's collapse, so the market is expected to resume its long term decline later this year. In short, Japan has minimal immigration and is greying at a far quicker rate than equivalent rich countries, while people have been having fewer children for decades. The interesting thing about the video which demonstrates the UNI-CUB is the absence of what seems the obvious target audience: the less mobile and by implication, a large percentage of older people....Feed Source: www.just-auto.com Autonomous cars - Autonomous vehicles that have the ability to drive themselves are a big talking point right now. The potential implications are huge. We had some insight from GM in this interview published last week.
And here's a video from Google that is well worth a look and an indicator of just how advanced things have now got. Mind-boggling.
... Opel-Vauxhall's Project Junior gets a model name at last - The wait is over and there was truth in the rumour: both Opel and Vauxhall versions of the Junior small car project are to be called 'Adam'.
The Adam won't be seen in the metal until the Paris show in late September, with LHD cars reaching showroooms across Europe just in time for Christmas. The Vauxhall Adam plus Ireland's Opel model will follow in early 2013.
The announcement of this new model's name also sees us publishing our first list of cars making a global debut at Paris. You can find it here.... Labour costs in car manufacturing - just how important are they? - How do costs compare between a car manufacturing plant in the UK and a plant in Turkey? Earlier this week I got the opportunity to put that question to Tony Walker, Deputy Managing Director, Toyota Motor Manufacturing UK. His answer surprised me. He said that much of the cost of manufacturing is down to parts and logistics. Okay and labour at the assembly plant? He put that at just 6-8%. I must say I thought it would be a larger proportion than that. Making the C-segment sedan in Turkey for shipment to markets in southern/southeastern Europe therefore makes sense. And Burnaston serves as the manufacturing plant for the higher spec C-segment hatch that mainly sells in northern Europe; no big incentive to go for lower labour costs there on the basis of that kind of percentage.
There's an interesting difference between Toyota and Nissan in their respective UK plant strategies. Nissan uses Sunderland for nichey models like Qashqai and Juke (Leaf from next year). It now bri... Suzuki sidelined - I guess the corporate amalgamation that was DaimlerChrysler is a good example of an auto industry coming together that ultimately failed. On paper there was a rationale that made some sense. In practice, it just didn't work out. The two partners didn't share much in the end. The less they shared, the less they felt they needed to share. The synergies never materialised in the ways they should have and shareholder value gradually evaporated. One partner (Chrysler) felt aggrieved that it wasn't on an equal footing with the other and the other (Mercedes-Benz) arguably developed something of a superiority complex.
The Renault Nissan Alliance however, has worked well. The key there, perhaps, is that the relationship is an alliance, not a takeover or merger. Areas of cooperation – notably parts procurement and platform sharing – are well defined, corporate independence protected under limited cross shareholdings and politically comfortable board make-ups.
Volkswa... China Infographic - Infographic? As the name suggests, it's the graphic visual representation of information, data or knowledge. Cave paintings and maps are early examples of attempts to visualise info. 'Pictograms' in the signs we understand every day are another example. Anyway, 'infographics' today are also seen as a means to convey a story via the use of statistics and charts. We've been dipping our toes in the water. This infographic looks at China's booming auto industry and its constituents. I'd be interested to know what people think
China Infographic - Click to enlarge
... Opel Junior's model name revealed - Germany's Autobild says it has learned the name of Opel's forthcoming Mini rival: Adam.
Using the founder's first name to mark the company's 150th anniversary makes sense for Opel, but surely there will be a different model name for the Vauxhall variant? Dave Leggett, who's just read this blog, suggests 'Eve'.
Opel and Vauxhall were set to announce the car's name(s?) on 8th May - so far there has been no official confirmation or denial of Autobild's claim.... Codenames and platforms of future models for the Chinese market - The second press day of the Beijing motor show is under way and our round-up of new vehicle premieres now stretches to over 100. But what are their codenames, which ones will be built, and when, not to mention on what platforms, and in which plants?
I devote a large part of most working days to tracking down, checking and cross-checking information for future vehicle programmes. Then I update PLDB, just-auto's global database of current and future vehicles. There's currently over 1,500 models listed there, so if you're interested in what's ahead (out to 2025) for China-built cars and light trucks, you can take a free demo tour.
As well as spending lots of time updating all the future models coming for the Chinese market, I've also been adding ... The Beijing blog - Wednesday 25 April
13.30 (CST)
That's me sorted. Done all I need to do at the conference and heading back to the hotel to put my feet up. Ant should be in the air now, winging his way homewards. I have it all to do tomorrow. After yesterday's appalling weather it really is quite nice outside and you can actually see blue sky above. Maybe a walk then.
08.30 (CST)
Here I am back at the Automotive News China conference, feeling a lot better than I ought to after a few beers out with Ant last night. He arranged for us to meet at his favourite Italian restaurant - well, he's been there once before - and I set out into the night. First stop was the concierge to translate the address into Mandarin. I've done this before you know.
That done, a mile long queue for a cab and when it did arrive the driver hadn't got a clue re the address. The doorman had a go before disappearin... The Chinese arrive - Two minor firsts for me yesterday. A visit to the Motor Industry Research Association (MIRA) proving ground in north Warwickshire where a small off-road workout had been laid out for the new Great Wall Steed pickup - the first Chinese vehicle on sale here in the UK.
MIRA's been around a lot longer than Millbrook and is the less flashy version. No posh entertainment centre, just business. The drive to the offroad bit almost dislodged fillings - pickups being prone to a lousy ride unless a decent load of builders' mix is in the back - and I could have sworn we'd crossed at least two more counties before we got there.
The Steed looks and feels more late 90s than mid-2000s but it is a far better first-out-of-the-gate than some of the products Japan foisted on the west in its early export days. Sure, the motors were reliable but the bodies rusted, some models didn't like f... Opel-Vauxhall to reveal Mini rival's name - Its launch at the Paris motor show might be over five months away, but Opel and Vauxhall are set to announce the model name for Project GM4403.
A source at Vauxhall has told me that Tuesday 8th May is the date when all will be revealed. Will it be 'Junior'? Will it be 'Allegra'? Or might it even be 'TRIXX'?
I recently spoke to Rita Forst, Opel-Vauxhall's head of Engineering, and pressed her for details about the Junior project. If you missed the interview, you'll find it here.... Europe: Nissan overtakes Fiat - The combination of the ongoing economic downturn and a crippling truckers' strike in its home market saw Fiat outsold across Europe last month by Nissan.
The numbers, which were issued by ACEA earlier on 17th April, list combined sales for 25 EU and three EFTA markets. In a market down 6.6% year on year, Volkswagen Group saw its share rise by 1.7%, meaning that it finished the month with 23.7% of all passenger vehicle sales in Europe. That's more than double what the traditional number two, PSA, managed (11.9%, down 19.2%).
Volkswagen was of course greatly helped by the ongoing expansion of the German market. The BMW (73,899) and Mercedes-Benz (65,814) brands also saw their sales up last month at a regional level, to such an extent that they also surpassed the total for Fiat-badged vehicles (58,480). In March 2011, Fiat's total was 80,174, putting it 10,000 and 20,000 units ahead of BMW and Benz respectively. This time last year, Fiat was also some 20,000 units ahead o... The 'lost decade' is reality - I was talking to Jonathan Poskitt, analyst at LMC Automotive, earlier this week about the latest West European car sales numbers.
In essence, the car sales numbers are coming in as expected. Germany (and to a lesser extent the UK) is holding up, but France, Italy and Spain are either declining rapidly or in the doldrums (Spain). And there's not much joy in the smaller markets (Greece was down 43% last month).
If the economic picture is as it is, austerity budgets coming into play and national economies generally struggling, car sales will inevitably take a hit. The forecasters have got this one right.
The conversation turned to the longer-term outlook. There wasn't too much cheer there. A long adjustment is in prospect, the eurozone currency structural issues firmly on a long-term horizon. Household incomes will be under pressure for a while yet.
This brought me to a recent conversation with Honda Europe's Ken Keir. Several things stuck. One, he said that... Mixed recovery in the auto biz - The auto business, and indeed business generally, hasn't looked too bad lately. Sure, there are ongoing worries over the oil price and price inflation. That has the potential to nudge global interest rates up and cause nervous investors to worry, with all the usual adverse consequences for fragile confidence and the global economy. And the sizeable financial problems in Europe have not gone away – though the lid appears to be on that one for now.
However, stock markets around the world have been rallying so far this year, investors apparently optimistic on prospects for corporate earnings. Interest rates remain very low. Many firms are making money. Emerging markets are still peppy.
In the world of autos, the US market continues to surprise and show better than expected recovery. This recovery may be off a low base compared with where the market used to be, but this 'new normal' appears to be one that many firms can turn a profit on. And some are raising their fo... Ducati and Piech's 75th - I see Daimler has denied interest in purchasing Italian motorcycle firm Ducati.
There does seem to be some OEM interest in the respected premium Italian two-wheeler brand. The house of brands that is Volkswagen Group is also rumoured to be interested. I can imagine the mighty Piech getting a little excited about the prospect of Ducati being brought in under the wing of, say, Audi.
Somebody I was speaking to the other day had an interesting observation. April 17 is Ferdinand Piech's 75th birthday. That falls a few days before the VW Group AGM. The timing could be very good for an announcement.
'Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me ' GERMANY: Daimler denies Ducati reports... Not cut out to be an assembler -
I will not be called upon to assemble Nissans any time soon.
Having just spent the day at the company's Sunderland factory in north east England, I found that I couldn't pass the basic skills test, the first towards getting a job on the line. It involved screwing three plates onto a frame and, although I completed the task, it was not within the 'qualifying' time. This will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with my DIY efforts.
Time means everything on the Sunderland line where the tac time is 59 seconds as the plant churns out more than 420,000 cars a year - Qashqais, Jukes and Notes. And there's more to come with Leaf starting production there next year.
That is the next challenge along with bringing a new battery plant on stream which will supply both Nissan and Renault vehicles. We were visiting the factory for a progress report and all is going to plan.
Plant director Kevin Fitzpatrick said: "My ambition is to keep Sunderland as the nu... Star carriers - I arrived back from Brussels yesterday evening after attending this year's CLEPA Reception and seeing union bodies such as the European Metalworkers Federation.
The flight was booked through UK carrier BMI, but was branded as Brussels Airlines. However, Brussels Airlines sub-contracts the route to Tyrolean Airways, an Austrian Airlines Group subsidiary. But, the safety card on board says Austrian Arrows, part of that Austrian Airlines grouping. And the whole edifice is owned by German carrier, Lufthansa. And, you can't check-in online despite having an email from BMI the day before as it's a Brussels Airlines service. And BMI is itself the subject of a takeover.
I suppose its shows the interdependency of airlines these days and the power of alliances, but five different strands to one booking was interesting.... At home with the new GS 350 F Sport - A friend's new Lexus GS has proved to be a great car for Sydney's infamously awful roads. But the smooth ride isn't the thing that matters most about this vehicle.
The first new-shape GS I'd seen in Europe was a GS 450h making its global debut at the Geneva show earlier this month, but down here, the GS 350 is already on sale. Australia, incidentally, was no exception for the old car - it sold poorly here too. I think the local importer has a fair chance of success with the new model, though - the ride is first class and the handling is also pretty good. OK, it's no 5 Series, but unlike the former GS, this one isn't a long way behind.
The new GS might not be a true sports sedan but for me, what's far more important is a particular safety feature on this car. A tiny camera is mounted just below the instruments and it watches the driver's eyes. Should you shut them for a second or two, the result is a short and sharp automatic stab on the brakes - enough to jolt you awak... Getting into a Twizy - Some interesting conversations at just-auto Towers today on car companies' EV product strategies.
Cars like the Nissan Leaf are one way to go. With this product development strategy, the starting point is to create a conventional car but one that is electric battery powered. A laudable objective in principle. But it's quite a challenge for the engineers and ends up, inevitably, being a fairly expensive bit of kit that comes with a degree of range anxiety. In a sense, such EVs are hampered by fighting for customer attention on the same ground as very capable (and increasingly so) conventional IC engine B- and C-segment cars. Even customers who voice interest in EVs may have second thoughts due to price when it comes to actually signing up.
Another approach is to go ground up with something much more radical as a transportation concept – the Opel RAKe or the Renault Twizy for example. A 'glorified golf buggy' like the Twizy may be much cheaper to do and may also co... "Like 'snow globe of cash' " - Why does this never happen when I'm driving behind an armoured cash carrier?
And I wonder how much money was handed in by honest peeps in these hard times?
Gives new meaning to the word 'windfall'.... Loophole allows MO drivers to buy cars out-of-state without sales tax - Columbia, IL (KSDK) - If you live in Missouri, listen up! You can save hundreds of dollars on your next car, but you have to act quickly. A temporary tax loophole may send you to buy your next car ... Lexus ready to fight new German hybrid rivals - as revealed by CarAdvice last December , will become the first of the German luxury car makers to launch a hybrid in Australia when it releases the BMW ActiveHybrid 5 later this year. The BMW ... Seat releases Spanish racers - The Ibiza SC Trophy then receives its racing tweaks: race suspension, race brakes and a limited-slip front differential for improved performance. Other motorsport-inspired changes include a ... Third-generation hatch not so mini - hatch has been spied undergoing testing on public roads in Europe. Due to hit showrooms before the end of 2013, the third-generation Mini Cooper hatch - codenamed F56 - will be longer and wider ... Accused in auto fraud case returns to Canada - One of the men charged in a massive used-car fraud probe, who was allowed by a Windsor judge to travel to his native Tunisia to visit his father, has returned to Canada on time. Sabhi (Alex) Bakir ... Dish Network’s Auto Hop Cuts Ads and Causes Tremors at TV Upfronts - Auto Hop skips all the ads recorded on most prime-time network shows. Some reviewers have called the feature a dream come true for ... Lola headed for administration again - is set to enter administration after struggling to stay afloat through Europe’s latest economic downturn. The Lola Group, which comprises the engineering division Lola Cars International Ltd ... Travel & Tourism larger than automotive manufacturing. - The global Travel & Tourism industry is double the size of automotive manufacturing and roughly one-third larger than chemicals manufacturing.This is according to new research from the World ... Warren Buffett's investment firm buys 10 million shares of GM - Legendary investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed Tuesday that it had acquired 10 million shares of General Motors common stock -- a show of confidence in the automaker that went ... Mercedes-Benz B-Class achieves highest ever ANCAP safety score - crash tested by European affiliate Euro NCAP last year , earned a total score of 36.78 out of 37 when assessed according to ANCAP's criteria in the latest round of testing, easily earning it ... GM Ditches Facebook Ads Ahead of IPO, Rest of Auto Industry Stands By - NYSE : GM) that it will no longer spend some $10 million a year buying ads on Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB), an announcement that came shortly before the Facebook IPO, shows little evidence of sparking ... 12 Best in Class Car Values, 2012 - @hwat Your not a stickler, your a moron! The very idea that Ford would let that car leave the factory with such a noticeable flaw is ridiculous. Did it ever occur to you that it could have been a ... Honda Unveils New Uni-Cub Personal Transport Device - Although the Japanese tech industry continues to roll out the future of personal mobility year after year, none ever seem to get past the consumer showcase phase. With that in mind, Honda has ... Freight trucks ready to roll on the e-highway - A hybrid diesel-electric truck rolls down a highway. Overhead electric wires commonly used to power commuter trains, street cars and city buses may soon give a jolt to trucks that ferry freight ... Why Facebook Isn't Screwed When It Comes to Auto Marketing - Yesterday, the U.S. news media sent a powerful message to the world -- General Motors is pulling its entire Facebook ad spend and going to tune out more than 900 million users of the network to ... Food trucks again allowed at Fulton Brewing tap room - R.T. Rybak , said Wednesday that city regulations have been changed to allow food trucks to park outside of Fulton's tap room in the North Loop. Earlier Wednesday, this was tweeted from ... Move over Segway, Honda introduces the Uni-Cub - The people mover has gotten an upgrade: On Tuesday, Honda announced its new Uni-Cub, a personal mobility device that lets you glide around the office or the aquarium perched comfortably on what ... Fisker Defends Karma in Garage Fire - , but they are unable to pinpoint the exact source. Last week, an ex-GM engineer agreed; Jon Bereisa told Automotive News that a design flaw with the car's tight engine and exhaust packaging ... Nissan expands U.S. Altima capacity to challenge Toyota Camry - Nissan Motor Co. said it plans to run three daily assembly shifts at U.S. plants building a revamped Altima, as the company tries to challenge Toyota Motor Corp.'s Camry, the top-selling U.S. ... China Auto Sales Pick Up - Analyst Blog - China's auto sector was rejuvenated in April by posting 5% growth in sales to 1.62 million vehicles after recording a slack first quarter of the year. However, sales in the first four months ... Low Cost Auto Insurance Decrease Up To 9% Across California - California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced that beginning May 15 the cost of an annual premium for the California Low Cost Automobile Insurance Program has decreased up to 9 percent ... Only Ford, GM, Toyota To Gain Share Through 2015, Study Says - General Motors recovers a 0.5-percent share gain and Toyota picks up 0.3 percent of the market in the same time frame, according to the latest version of an exhaustive annual prognosis by a veteran ... Japan's Tepco, Mitsubishi To Buy 10% Stake In Chevron Natural Gas Field - Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tokyo: 9501) had previously planned to invest alone in the project, but backed out of the deal following financial difficulties arising from its Fukushima nuclear power ... Hyundai Adds New Features to Blue Link Mobile App - Hyundai has upgraded the mobile app for its Blue Link system and gave it a completely new interface that uses a carousel design to allow users to access core features quickly. Like in the previous ... Ex-government officials refuse to cooperate with Delphi pension probe - Washington -A government investigation into the Treasury Department's role in the decision of General Motors Co. to "top up" the pensions of hourly retirees at Delphi Corp. has been ... Safety agency aims to stop bus, truck rollovers - Washington- Federal regulators are proposing to require that manufacturers equip large trucks and buses with safety systems that help prevent rollover accidents.The National Highway Traffic Safety ... Car inspection industry squelches bill to end required checks for new cars - RALEIGH -- Remember that proposal from House Republicans to stop making new-car owners get safety and emissions inspections until the cars were more than three years old?Forget it.As has happened in ... Tweet what you eat at downtown St. Paul food trucks - The St. Paul convention and visitors bureau just launched Food Truck Fridays. The social media promotion is to get people to eat at the food-truck courts in downtown St. Paul (Mondays: Wabasha near ... Bank on more competition - Andrea Arnold, the British film director and Palm d'Or jury member, has lamented to The Times the absence of any female directors in competition at ... Honda unveils robotic scooter - ACURA- ASTON MARTIN- AUDI- BENTLEY- BMW- BUICK- CADILLAC- CHEVROLET- CHRYSLER- DODGE- FERRARI- FIAT- FISKER- FORD- GMC- HONDA- HUMMER- HYUNDAI- ... AAA Projects Rise in Memorial Day Travel - Going somewhere Memorial Day weekend? AAA projects that 34.8 million Americans plan to travel 50 miles or more during the holiday weekend (Thursday, May 24, to Monday, May 28). That's 1.2% more ... GM, Ford in Facebook marketing war of words and tweets - In Facebook parlance, the relationship between General Motors and Ford is, shall we say, complicated. After GM drew attention Tuesday for its decision to ax its $10 million Facebook ad budget, Ford ... Zimbabwe politician drives off in auto show display car - HARARE, Zimbabwe -; State prosecutors in Zimbabwe say an opposition politician at a Ford Motor Company car show got into the latest model on display and drove it away. He faces car theft charges in ... April factory output rises on stronger autos - (AP) WASHINGTON - U.S. factory output increased in April, helped by a gain in auto production. Busier factories have driven stronger hiring this year and helped the economy grow. The Federal Reserve ... GM rises after Berkshire Investment christens 'Buffett Motors' - General Motors Co. gained as much as 4.3 percent, the most in almost a month, after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. disclosed it bought a stake in the largest U.S. automaker.GM gained ... Ford fastest to replace models through 2016 - Ford Motor Co. will lead the industry in introducing new or refreshed models in the U.S. at the fastest rate for model years 2013 through 2016, according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch ... Mitsubishi UFJ Reports Profits - Analyst Blog - MTU ) reported net income of 981.3 billion (US$12.5 billion) for fiscal year ended March 31, 2012 versus net income of 583.1 billion (US$6.8 billion) in the year-ago period. Diluted net income ... 11th Qingdao Int'l Auto Show kicks off in China's Shandong - Visitors tour the 11th Qingdao International Auto Show at Qingdao International Convention Center in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, May 16, 2012. Over 50 new cars will be introduced ... Autos Help Speedup In Factory Production - Workers on the assembly line at a Ford truck plant in Dearborn, Mich. Half of the April increase in factory output reflected a 3.9 percent jump in the production of motor vehicles and ... BMW, Mercedes look to grow by shrinking - BMW gave U.S. buyers a first taste of the X1 at April's New York Auto Show, but only last week revealed the crossover-utility vehicle's $31,545 base ... Mercedes-Benz Next Best New Restaurant, Daniel Humm Outstanding Chef - The James Beard Foundation held its annual awards show at Lincoln Center. Mercedes-Benz presented the Best New Restaurant Award to Grant Achatz of Next in ... Factory production up in April across U.S. led by autos - In this April 4, 2012 file photo, auto workers at the Ford Stamping Plant in Chicago Heights, Ill., stack the inner door panel for a Ford Explorer. / AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, ... US factory output increased 0.6 percent in April, led by big increase in auto production - WASHINGTON – U.S. factory output increased in April, helped by a gain in auto production. Busier factories have driven stronger hiring this year and helped the economy grow. The Federal ... Memphis councilman proposes auto inspection fee - ABC 24 reports . Ford also wants to force inspection on and charge people who work in the city of Memphis but may live in the surrounding area. He went as far to propose police officers use license ... All-new, 2013 Nissan Altima begins production in Tennessee - SMYRNA, Tennessee--It has been 20 years since the first Nissan Altima rolled off the line in Smyrna. Today, more than 4.4 million Altimas later, Nissan celebrates another milestone: production of ... Buy This, Not That - In this latest round of Buy This, Not That, we focus on soon-to-be-discontinued midsize luxury and mainstream sedans. Included in this rundown are the Ford Fusion, Nissan Altima, Lexus ES, Lincoln ... Natural gas uses rises in autos, trucks - Follow this company (NYSE: EQT) and Giant Eagle but also at least one resident who told KDKA-TV that he converted his 2004 Ford Explorer to run on natural gas for about $6,800. ... Fight Over Auto Emissions Is Measured in Grams - fuel-efficient cars, favored a proposal requiring each automaker’s fleet to emit, on average, 120 grams of CO2 per kilometer, or about two ounces per 0.6 ... Build Cars with Edward and Arthur - Build Cars with Edward and Arthur is a creative game where kids can create thousands of fun cars and then test-drive them on the race track. Depending on what parts you use the car will behave ... Thais in swoop on Birds Eye - Ratko Mladic was warned to stop taunting the families of his victims after he made a throat-cutting gesture to them in court as his genocide trial began today. Now 70, the former Bosnian Serb ... Porn site opt-out for 4m families - Ratko Mladic was warned to stop taunting the families of his victims after he made a throat-cutting gesture to them in court as his genocide trial began today. Now 70, the former Bosnian Serb ... Audi A3 2.0 TDI 150PS - First Drive - '); $(".galleria-info-link").click(function(){ $(this).hide(); $(".galleria-info-text").show(); $(".galleria-info-close").show(); return false; }); ... Protecting Autoworkers From Back And Shoulder Injury By Tilting Cars On The Assembly Line - Letting autoworkers sit while they reach into a car's interior could help prevent shoulder and back strain - but another solution might be to tilt the entire car so that workers can stand ... Group B rally monsters rise again - is back! The 500hp (373kW) cars famously banned for being ‘too fast to race’ following repeated fatalities will again have the opportunity to grace the ground… most probably ... Working the assembly line at GM not as easy as it seems - --------------------------- VIDEO LOG begin (File: ody_ArtVideo.js) --------------------------- --> API Response: {"id":1641108932001,"name":"Training for new Cadillac ... GM poised to drop ads as Facebook ads IPO looms - General Motors is dropping its advertising on Facebook just as the social-media giant's public stock offering is poised to become one of the largest in IPO history.GM spokesman Greg Martin ... Ally's U.S. auto lending operations not for sale, CEO says - Ally Financial's U.S. auto lending operations are "absolutely not" for sale, the company's CEO, Michael Carpenter, said Tuesday.Carpenter said the decision to place its mortgage ... Ford, Detroit Free Press honor local high school journalists - Detroit high school journalists in the Freep High program. Read below for a social media transcript of the event, including reactions from some of the award ... Cadillac ATS a key vehicle for GM - For Taylor resident Jerry Pekala Jr., luxury means labor.Wearing a gray tank top and a baseball cap bearing a silver angel pin, he joined 15 newly hired hourly workers for assembly-line training ... Michael Clarke hit for six over rally drive - will swap cricket whites and the baggy green for a race suit and helmet when he competes in the upcoming 2012 Brakes Direct International Rally of Queensland (IROQ). Clarke, a BP Ultimate ... Ex-Ford CEO 'Red' Poling steered firm through'80s turnaround - Harold Arthur "Red" Poling, a former Ford Motor Co. chairman and CEO who helped revive the troubled automaker during the 1980s and launched the Taurus, died Saturday at his home in Pacific ... GM making 600 new hires at Lansing plant to build Cadillac ATS - Delta Township -General Motors Co. will hire a majority of new-to-GM employees as it adds a second shift at its Lansing Grand River assembly plant to build the Cadillac ATS, a plant official said ... GM unfriends Facebook, pulls $10M in ads - General Motors Co., the world's largest automaker and one of its biggest advertisers, confirmed Wednesday it will halt paid advertising on social media website Facebook.Confirmation came just ... Driver madness is the problem, not the cars - In light of this observation, I have formulated what I think is a way of purging our roads of this problem, and it is in the form of a law that goes something like this: It should be illegal for all ... Thai auto firms zoom down the eco road - This has resulted in a major change in the auto market, and many companies are forced to revamp their marketing strategies. They are also waiting to see how the eco-cars will affect the fast-growing ... Skoda Citigo Rally concept teased - concept will headline the Czech manufacturer's display at the 2012 Worthersee Tour in Austria. The Citigo Rally concept looks the part thanks to its massive front bumper and wheel arches, ... France’s Areva, Japan’s Mitsubishi Join Forces on Uranium Project in Australia - The exploration will be carried out over an unspecified number of years, Areva said in a statement published in its Web site, across a large number of square kilometres ... plug-in supercar takes shape - has hit the road, signalling the beginning of a new stage of development for the plug-in hybrid supercar that launches in 2013. With camouflage inspired by the liveries of the iconic Porsche 917 ... More charges dropped in Big 3 auto case - Sabhi (Alex) Bakir is seen leaving the Ontario courthouse in Windsor, Ont. in this February 2012 file photo. Bakir is one of the accused in the Big 3 auto fraud case. (Nick Brancaccio / The Windsor ... Cars.com Reviews the 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth - The sported-up version of Fiat's tiny 500 has extra horsepower and catch-me-if-you-can styling, but its appeal ends there, according to Cars.com Editor Kelsey Mays. Sure, the 500 Abarth is fun ... Nissan to Build Facility in Tennessee - Analyst Blog - DDAIF ) with the sole purpose of launching production of Mercedes-Benz 4-cylinder gasoline engines for Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz vehicles from the facility. The new facility located in North ... The Fastest and Most Fuel-Frugal Sports Cars - Click for full photo gallery: 10 Fast and Fuel-Frugal Sports Cars It doesn't take a market research maven to determine that with gas prices still hovering around the $4.00 mark, fuel economy ... Honda to make walking obsolete with the Uni-Cub - (Credit: Honda) (CBS News) Mankind continues its inevitable journey towards a future that most likely resembles "WALL-E." After all, why walk when you can have a machine carry you ... Chrysler exec to serve as keynote speaker at Hispanic Network conference - Fred Diaz , president and CEO of the Ram Truck Brand and Chrysler de Mexico, will deliver the keynote speech on Thursday, May 24. The conference theme is Mission PosSIble: Leading, Exploring and ... NTSB urges new fight against drunken driving deaths - Washington -The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday called for a renewed push to cut down on drunken driving deaths.The number of deaths from drunken and drugged drivers is down from ... Surfer barrels to record on 78ft wave - The share of British exports destined for the eurozone has slipped to its lowest level on record in the first quarter of 2012 but demand from China ... Corpus Christi Parking Control officers start booting cars Tuesday for unpaid parking citations - CORPUS CHRISTI -- Corpus Christi officers are cracking down on people with unpaid parking citations, so if you have at least three, the boot is coming for you. Parking Control officers with the ... Boston Not Rolling Out Red Carpet To Fashion Trucks - BOSTON (CBS) – First it was the food trucks, selling inexpensive eats all over Boston. Now some clothes lovers are taking the food truck idea and running with it. But not everyone is rolling ... General Motors gives Facebook the boot ahead of $100bn share sale - General Motors , the world's biggest car company, has unfriended Facebook just days before the social media giant is planning a stock market sale that is expected to value the company at ... Copyright © 2012, Residual Income Home Business Opportunity. All Rights Reserved. |
