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Chrysler Considers Sale of Gas-Guzzling Dodge Viper
Money Morning submits: by Jennifer Yousfi With the U.S. auto market increasingly focused on practicality and fuel-efficiency, Chrysler LLC announced Wednesday it was entertaining offers for its Dodge Viper sports car. by Money Morning
Compressed Natural Gas: Key to American Energy Independence?
Paul Killinger submits: In previous posts we've written about the prospects for natursal gas [NG] powered vehicles, and their potential to reduce America's reliance on imported crude oil and increasingly expensive gasoline and diesel fuel. Currently there are only about 150,000 CNG compressed natural gas cars and trucks operating in...
Will Hyundai's Luxury Car Be Like the VW Phaeton?
Markham Lee submits: Reading about Hyundai's plans to break into the Luxury Car market reminds me of the days when Acura first launched and the parts under the hood still said "Honda" on them. It was a mistake that slowed down Acura's initial progress towards being recognized as a legitimate...
Automaker Rebadging Revisited
Markham Lee submits: Normally we think of rebadging as a situation when a stronger automaker (profits, engineering prowess, brand, etc.) builds cars for a weaker one to sell under its own name, the idea is that the weaker automaker could benefit by getting one of its competitor's better products and...
Chrsyler's Rebadging Plan: Strategic Blunder for Nissan?
Markham Lee submits: Last week one of the more bigger stories coming out of Detroit were the discussions between Chrysler and Nissan around Chrysler potentially reselling rebadged versions of mid-sized cars designed and manufactured by Nissan. From the WSJ: by Markham Lee
The Electric Car Battery Battle
Jim Kingsdale submits: The next five years will clearly be a transition period from the petro-car to the electric car. But this transition will feature an interesting horse race between two different battery technologies, a lithium-ion (Li-on) or an upgraded Nickel Metal Hydride [NiMH] powered battery. Apparently Toyota TM...
New Auto Sales: Up From June, Down From Year-Ago
Marketing Charts submits: July’s new vehicle sales including fleet sales will have totaled 1.26 million units, a 3.3% decrease from July 2007 and a 6.3% increase from June 2008, according to estimates by Edmunds.com. July 2008 had 26 selling days, two more than last July 2007....
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All-new 2009 Honda Fit Big on Style and Refinement, Small on Price and Fuel Consumption
Pricing starts at $14,550 with A/C, AM/FM CD player and power windows; EPA fuel economy(1) up to 35 mpg highway TORRANCE, Calif., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The completely-redesigned 2009 Honda Fit is set to go on sale August 26 with a Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price(2) MSRP starting...
Car satisfaction with U.S. brands slips
U.S. car buyers are growing less satisfied with their purchases from domestic automakers, while their Asian and European competitors continue to improve, according to a recent survey. Consumer satisfaction with U.S. auto brands slipped as Lexus and BMW tied for first place, followed by Toyota and Honda, according to the...
Pedrosa leaves Brno one day early.
Having branded the Czech Republic Grand Prix the 'worst race of his career', due to 'no grip at the front and no grip at the rear, from the first lap to the last', Dani Pedrosa failed to find any improvement from revised rubber brought by Michelin to Brno on Monday...
Shinya happy with base setting.
Shinya Nakano says his new factory Honda RC212V is now set-up well enough to begin specific tyre development with Bridgestone. Up until the Czech Republic Grand Prix weekend the only RC212Vs using the Japanese rubber were less powerful satellite specification machines, run by Nakano and San Carlo Honda...
Ellison targets victory at Cadwell.
James Ellison has his sights set firmly on securing his first Bennetts British Superbike win of the season as the series heads back to England for the ninth round at Cadwell Park. Ellison has been a revelation this season aboard the Hydrex Bike Animal Honda, the former MotoGP...
Shedden hits out at Turkington.
Gordon Shedden was left disappointed with his home rounds of the HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship after missing out on a potential podium finish on home soil at Knockhill. The Team Halfords driver went into the weekend looking to try and repeat his win from twelve months...
Tuesday MotoGP test times - Brno.
Casey Stoner, who fell from lead of Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix, was fastest on both days of testing. The Australian's fastest day two time was set with a qualifying tyre, but he was just 0.049secs slower on race tyres and finished 0.755secs ahead of nearest rival Valentino...
Honda Criticized for Discriminatory Insurance Practices
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Doctors and health care professionals at Alabama Fertility Specialists were caught off guard when they looked into Assisted Reproductive Technology ART insurance coverage for one of their patients. ART includes costly, but effective procedures like in vitro fertilization, intra-uterine insemination and other...
Break Media and Panache Research Findings Show IAB Standard Video Ad Formats Effectively Engage Consumers
Industry-First Research Provides Valuable Step for Supporting Online Video Advertising LOS ANGELES -- Break Media, the Internet's premier entertainment community for men, and Panache, the video advertising delivery-platform leader, today announced key findings from joint research which tested the effectiveness of four popular in-stream video advertising standard formats...
Pedrosa furious with tyres.
If Dani Pedrosa has any influence on the matter, and he undoubtedly does, then the Repsol Honda Team looks one step closer to a switch to Bridgestone tyres next season, after the world championship contender suffered 'a complete disaster' during the Czech Republic Grand Prix weekend. Already battling...
Monday MotoGP test times - Brno.
Full lap times from day one of the post-race MotoGP test session at Brno in the Czech Republic. Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa abandoned a planned appearance on Honda's pneumatic-valve RC212V after finding no improvement in grip from some new front tyres brought to the test by Michelin. ...
Michelin vows to fight back.
Michelin, once the dominant force in MotoGP, appears to be fighting for its MotoGP future after struggling at the last three events - culminating in a top-eight sweep by Bridgestone in Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix. As was made clear during 2007, such uneven racing could prompt the...
Nakano fourth on factory debut.
Shinya Nakano justified Honda's somewhat controversial decision to hand him a factory spec RC212V for the remainder of the 2008 MotoGP season by charging from twelfth to fourth in Sunday's Czech Republic Grand Prix. The Honda Gresini rider, who had taken a best finish of eighth prior to...
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