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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
It isn't any secret that President Barack Obama toured Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly Plant this past week. It is also no secret that this was one of a couple of tours the President was on of the American car companies. After he spoke at Chrysler, Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
Today came a steady stream of live tweets from the @FordRacing team as they watched several of their competitors take on the X-Games 16 Rally Car Event. In a turn of events that no one, except maybe Ford Racing hopefuls, could have predicted, it came down to two Ford Fiesta's in the ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
MINI is known for some pretty interesting events and promotions in the automotive industry. In fact, you might recall the video releases the company put out during this years Geneva Motor Show entitled: MINIWOOD. The sense of humor of the company marketing folks and owners comes through just about everything they ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
The economy has been a source of much discussion over the last 18 months. We all know why because we have seen it affect our retirement accounts, luxury spending and industries that we work in. The automotive industry is no exception and has been struggling. The current benchmark for sales ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
This might be old news by todays standards but due to my technical difficulties as of late I am just getting to this and some other Mustang related news. About a week ago Jack Roush, owner of Roush Industries was attempting to land his Hawker/Beechcraft Premier 390 plane in Wisconsin at Wittman Regional Airport for ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Earlier this week I reported on the new 2011 Ford Focus commercial staring the Monster Rally Focus and Kent Block (more here). I also mentioned how Ford has become quite the master of using social media to promote their vehicles and expose consumers to them in a very interactive way. According ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
The 2011 Chevrolet Volt keeps making appearances in automotive industry news. This is mostly due to the expected launch later this fall, but it probably didn't hurt that President Obama was touring the Hamtramck, Mich., plant earlier today. During his tour the L.A. Times reports that GM said it "planned ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Just days after Nissan announced its 8 year, 100,000 mile warranty option for the 2011 Leaf, we've had a chance to do our second test-drive of the week in Nissan's $33,750 electric baby. Earlier this week, Nissan gave us some time behind the wheel of the Leaf in San Jose, ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
Green conscience and new technology are both laudable, but getting extra money in your back pocket is nice too. Now, after all those years of paying taxes on your hard work, you can finally get some of it back. Consider it a tax refund for buying an electric car. Now ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
There's been a lot of discussion and consideration given to the topic of public charging stations for electric vehicles. The old "chicken verses egg" conundrum is called to mind as auto makers and politicians seem to fumble around without really knowing what to do and where to allocate funds. Will ...
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