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Posted January 12 2010 02:03 PM by David Zenlea
Another auto-show season is upon us in Detroit, which means there's another raft of announcements regarding the Chevrolet Volt. We sat down for a few minutes with the head of the Volt team to discuss the car's rollout,...
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Posted January 12 2010 09:32 AM by Joe Lorio
"Brown is the new white," says Audi chief designer Stefan Sielaff, commenting on the sudden ubiquity of a car color that has been reviled for the past 30 years. The question is, why?
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Posted January 12 2010 09:15 AM by Joe Lorio
It used to be that automakers put all their information for the press into big binders, but now it all goes onto a little flash drive, which leaves less room for creativity. Less, though, is not to say none.
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2010 Detroit: Ford's leaders speak
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Posted January 12 2010 06:43 AM by Joe DeMatio
I attended a dinner on the night of the first media preview day of the 2010 Detroit Auto Show with Ford Motor Company CEO Alan Mulally and two of his top executives, CFO Lewis Booth and recently appointed head of...
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Posted January 11 2010 01:48 PM by Rusty Blackwell
If Shaquille O’Neal’s sneaker were a car, it’d probably be the diminutive, shoe-looking Tango T600, an 8.5-foot long, 39-inch-wide, $150,000 tandem-two-seater in the basement of the 2010 North American International Auto...
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Posted January 11 2010 12:11 PM by Joe Lorio
At the European auto shows, the Italian brands can be counted on to have the hottest auto show models. At Detroit, that Fiat influence could be clearly seen in the quality of the presenters on the Chrysler stand.
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Posted January 11 2010 08:08 AM by David Zenlea
The Chevrolet Malibu will receive improvements in advance of its next redesign in effort to revive its flagging sales.
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Posted December 2 2009 05:09 PM by Phil Floraday
Mitsubishi released a few computer-generated images of the upcoming Outlander Sport crossover during its press conference today. The vehicle is named RVR in Japan, but there are numerous reports that Mitsubishi will call...
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Posted December 2 2009 12:45 PM by Eric Tingwall
Mercedes-Benz has a new dual-view navigation screen that will allow front-seat passengers to watch DVDs while the car is in motion. Known as SplitView, the feature is a work around to laws that cause a DVD playing on the...
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Posted December 2 2009 10:32 AM by Eric Tingwall
The ouster of Fritz Henderson from General Motors kept the former president and CEO from delivering his scheduled keynote address at the 2009 LA auto show, but he certainly had a presence here this morning.
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Posted December 2 2009 10:17 AM by Phil Floraday
Last night Infiniti revealed the facelifted G37 sedan along with its new 2011 M sedan at a reception in Beverly Hills. We've already seen the Infiniti M as the Nissan Fuga at the Tokyo show in October, but the G sedan was...
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