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Toyota Related Deaths Might Go Up to 42
Toyota Related Deaths Might Go Up to 42

20 Feb 2010, 07:03 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / It seems that more deaths cause by Toyota’s killer accelerator pedal are being discovered, as Safety Research & Strategies Inc. (SRS) released an addendum saying that NHTSA allegedly exclu...

 
Smart Car Wash Owners Invited to Obama’s Speech
Smart Car Wash Owners Invited to Obama’s Speech

19 Feb 2010, 11:51 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The Americans seem very happy with the way they managed to deal with the recession. On Wednesday, President Obama held a one-year anniversary of the Economic Recovery Act speech. At this speech, the...

 
GM to Build Ecotec Engines in the US
GM to Build Ecotec Engines in the US

18 Feb 2010, 16:40 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / General Motors will build greener engines, as the US car manufacturer will invest $494 million in Bay City, Defiance, Ohio, and a in plant in New York that will support two next-generation, fuel-eff...

 
Survey Shows Americans Have Lost Faith in Toyota
Survey Shows Americans Have Lost Faith in Toyota

16 Feb 2010, 10:28 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Ever wonder what would people buy instead of Toyota, with the Japanese car manufacturer facing disaster nowadays? A recent survey shows that 80 percent of American car buyers would chose a Ford, Chr...

 
Ford Presents CNG Connect Taxi
Ford Presents CNG Connect Taxi

9 Feb 2010, 13:18 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Ford seems determined to offer alternative fuel options to several businesses out there. The automaker will unveil the all electric Transit Connect in order to help fleets reduce costs while "s...

 
2011 Hyundai Sonata Tops ALG Residual Value Index
2011 Hyundai Sonata Tops ALG Residual Value Index

9 Feb 2010, 09:21 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Things have been really going well for Hyundai in America. The Korean car manufacturer managed to finish 2009 with bigger sales than in 2008, it launched a lot of new models and will continue to do ...

 
Subaru US Brings Back “Master the Mountain”
Subaru US Brings Back “Master the Mountain”

8 Feb 2010, 11:14 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Subaru had a great year in the United States, as the Japanese car manufacturer managed to pull the unthinkable and sold more cars in 2009 than in 2008. And you have to agree that this is quite an ac...

 
Obama Takes Action to Boost Biofuels
Obama Takes Action to Boost Biofuels

5 Feb 2010, 08:50 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / It seems that the Americans decided to become energy independent, especially after seeing that oil is getting harder and harder to get. Action has been taken, as President Obama announced a series o...

 
Toyota Will Give Money to Dealers
Toyota Will Give Money to Dealers

4 Feb 2010, 15:50 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Though Toyota is in a lot of trouble, the Japanese keep an open mind and think about all repercussions. The automaker decided to help out its dealers in these tough times. And what better way of hel...

 
Hyundai Reports January Sales Increase in the US
Hyundai Reports January Sales Increase in the US

3 Feb 2010, 13:07 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / It’s not a secret that Hyundai had a great year in the US. The Korean manufacturer managed to top its 2008 sales and continue growing, thanks to its new line up and affordable prices. Though 2...

 
Toyota January US Sales Drop
Toyota January US Sales Drop

3 Feb 2010, 10:13 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Due to the problems Toyota managed to get itself into, its report of the January US sales is quite an interesting piece of information. Everybody already knows about the recall and the faulty accele...

 
Hyundai Sonata Gets Listed in ACEEE’s “Green Choices 2010”
Hyundai Sonata Gets Listed in ACEEE’s “Green Choices 2010”

25 Jan 2010, 08:33 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Nowadays, any car manufacturer who wants to get one of its models recognized as an environmentally friendly car has to think about hybrid technology. Though batteries become more and more popular, m...

 
Chevrolet Volt Heading to Washington D.C.
Chevrolet Volt Heading to Washington D.C.

25 Jan 2010, 07:54 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / General Motors has just announced that Washington D.C. will be one of the lead retail markets for the upcoming Chevrolet Volt, which means the USA capital will join California and Michigan in the fi...

 
Chrysler Presents "What Can You Do With a HEMI?" Museum Exhibition
Chrysler Presents "What Can You Do With a HEMI?" Museum Exhibition

8 Jan 2010, 12:54 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The Walter P. Chrysler Museum, in Auburn Hills, will be the host of a very interesting and unique exhibition called “What Can You HEMI?”. The exhibition will be on display from January 1...

 
Think Announces US Factory
Think Announces US Factory

6 Jan 2010, 11:56 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The Scandinavian electric vehicle constructor Think is set tot take over the world. They have announced for some time now that they were considering building a manufacturing plant in the US, but unt...

 
GM to Repay Government Debt by June
GM to Repay Government Debt by June

16 Dec 2009, 14:02 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / General Motors decided to pay its debt to the US and Canadian government by June. "We intend to pay the debt," chairman and acting chief executive Ed Whitacre said in his first meeting wit...

 
Rare Lamborghini Reventon Auctioned on eBay
Rare Lamborghini Reventon Auctioned on eBay

16 Dec 2009, 13:27 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / If extremely expensive and rare supercars should or shouldn’t be driven, that’s a really long discussion. But the fact is that most rare cars, like the Lamborghini Reventon, spend most o...

 
Mercedes USA to Handle Pre-Delivered BMWs
Mercedes USA to Handle Pre-Delivered BMWs

12 Dec 2009, 16:11 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / In order to save time and money, BMW of North America signed an agreement with Mercedes-Benz of USA concerning pre-delivered BMWs and MINIs. The agreement in question regards having the BMW cars be ...

 
smart Gets Saturn Former General Manager
smart Gets Saturn Former General Manager

9 Dec 2009, 10:16 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / General Motor’s decision to close the Saturn brand affected a lot of people, but now we know at least one of them found a new job. Saturn’s former general manager Jill Lajdziak, was recr...

 
Subaru Reports US Sales Growth
Subaru Reports US Sales Growth

30 Nov 2009, 09:26 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Things are looking better for Subaru owner Fuji Heavy Industries, as the auto brand has improved its US sales by 20 percent. This is the only US sales rise this year, apart from Korean rivals Hyund...