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"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow" - Jeff Valdez, Stand-up Comedian.
12 May 2009, 09:26 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The economic recession encouraged new car buyers to migrate towards small cars and the new Volkswagen Polo is the living proof of this. According to data provided by the German manufacturer, it has already received 13,000 orders for the new Polo in...
12 May 2009, 09:25 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The Opel odyssey is slowly but surely coming to an end. And this end might take place as soon as the end of May, according to Fritz Henderson, the newly-appointed General Motors CEO. During a new conference in Detroit, Henderson said that GM is cur...
12 May 2009, 08:40 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Operating losses and reduced sales shouldn't surprise anybody nowadays, especially given the avalanche of reports surrounding the economic chaos and its victims. Mazda for instance today announced the financial results for the fiscal year 2008...
12 May 2009, 08:38 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The OnStar system, already available on a number of GM models and especially aimed at enhancing safety, was recently upgraded with a new function that automatically submits data related to the position of the car to 911 centers. In case of emergenc...
12 May 2009, 08:00 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Safety is surely one of the main features a new car buyer is looking at so, in order to boost sales as much as possible, automakers around the world struggle to enhance this particular aspect. And Holden pretty much did it, as it mentions in a stat...
12 May 2009, 07:28 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The group of Chinese companies who are willing to launch shameless copies of European or North American models is quickly expanding, with a new company called Huatai Group reportedly working on a Bentley Continental Flying Spur replica. Details are...
11 May 2009, 15:10 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Japanese manufacturer Mazda unveiled the Norwegian-specification RX-8 Hydrogen RE at a ceremony in Oslo and first vehicles are expected to be delivered for leasing in the country as soon as this summer. With this occasion, Mazda emphasizes the comp...
11 May 2009, 14:57 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Following the disappointing result he got in the Spanish Grand Prix, Jorge Lorenzo promises a strong performance in the upcoming France GP this weekend as a way to make up for his error. Furthermore, the Spaniard emphasized that snatching a good re...
11 May 2009, 14:37 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Hybrid sales have adopted a continuously ascending trend ever since the beginning of the crisis and are now even exceeding passenger car sales in certain regions of the world. Such an example is Japan where Honda Insight has become the best-selling...
11 May 2009, 14:18 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Chevrolet is indeed a core brand for the American car giant and continues to drive the company's total sales forward in every single market. In the UK for example, Chevrolet's sales grew up by 17.84 percent in April over the figures of th...
11 May 2009, 13:13 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Still under Chapter 11, Chrysler is experiencing tough times in the United States where it has to recall no less than 37,407 model year 2009 Dodge Rams due to a malfunction in the air conditioning system. According to a notification published on th...
11 May 2009, 10:52 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / A potential merger between Fiat and Opel doesn't scare the PSA Peugeot Citroen group that might become the main rival in Europe, a PSA board director said. According to a report by La Repubblica, Jean-Philippe Collin, head of the Peugeot brand...
11 May 2009, 10:19 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors will make monthly payments to suppliers five days earlier this month, the American automaker mentioned in a letter sent a few days ago. The reason? The company is taking action "because of unsettled marketplace and because its f...
11 May 2009, 10:17 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / With the economic turmoil rather keeping the industry under pressure, General Motors' newly-appointed chief executive Fritz Henderson says Chevrolet will become a very competitive brand in the next two years, mostly thanks to the new models th...
11 May 2009, 09:25 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Toyota today unveiled pricing for the 2010 Sienna van which will be mostly the same with the 2009 model year prices. The Japanese manufacturer says the refreshed version is expected to arrive in authorized dealerships later this month and will be o...
11 May 2009, 08:50 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / With the economic recession rather deepening that getting back to the initial sales volume, there are a lot of questions regarding the models expected to be launched in the next few years, with next-year's vehicles in doubt mostly due to high ...
11 May 2009, 08:03 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Although some people might consider an expensive luxury sedan is not appropriate for such a difficult market like the one in the United States, especially if taking into account the economic chaos in the country, Hyundai is going to launch its new ...
11 May 2009, 07:21 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The new 2010 Opel Astra, which is very likely to be released at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show, has just been teased again, with Astra's Lead Designer Marc van der Haegen and Engineering Coordinator Laszlo Kreth starring in a bunch of new p...
10 May 2009, 08:48 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors is still keen on developing the over-discussed Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid and the company should enter production, as scheduled, in 2010. This is what Tom Stephens, the automaker's product development chief, said, hinting tha...
10 May 2009, 08:45 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / There's no wonder that automakers around the world are seeking ways to reduce costs in every single area but, in GM's case, things are evolving in desperate way. As if the so-many cost-cutting measures weren't enough, General Motors ...