Archive | July, 2009
Marchionne: Chrysler could go public in about 30 months

Marchionne: Chrysler could go public in about 30 months

Chrysler Group’s new CEO Sergio Marchionne said today that the U.S. automaker could be listed on a stock exchange about 30 months from now. Marchionne said Chrysler will generate “healthy profit margins” when the U.S. market returns to 13 million to 14 million sales a year, but he does not foresee such volume in 2010, reports [...]

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Toyota’s Solar Flowers provide charging and Wi-Fi access while promoting 2010 Prius

Toyota’s Solar Flowers provide charging and Wi-Fi access while promoting 2010 Prius

If you live in Boston and happened to pass by Boston’s Prudential Plaza a couple days ago, you were probably wondering what a giant 18-foot sunflower was doing in front of the building. Known as Solar Flowers, these gigantic sunflowers will be popping up all over the place courtesy of Toyota and its 2010 Prius. [...]

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Honda fast-tracking upgrades to the 2010 Insight

Honda fast-tracking upgrades to the 2010 Insight

When the 2010 Honda Insight went on sale in Japan and in the U.S., the model was off to a very strong start – almost, scaring the pants off of Toyota and their third-generation Prius. However, things have started going downhill for the Insight after that. Honda had hoped to sell 90,000 units of the [...]

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2010 Chevrolet Camaro Transformers Special Edition Revealed

2010 Chevrolet Camaro Transformers Special Edition Revealed

Today at Comic-con in San Diego, GM announced the release of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Transformers Special Edition allowing us Autobot fans a chance to become Sam Witwicky and have our very own Bumblebee parked in our garage. “When the first TRANSFORMERS movie was setting box office records, we had countless customers asking to purchase [...]

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Leaked: 2010 Saab 9-5 makes an early debut

Leaked: 2010 Saab 9-5 makes an early debut

The embargo on the 2010 Saab 9-5 has apparently been broken, and all the leaked images are out via AutoBild. We don’t have any technical details as of yet but we’ll be sure to update you as soon as we get them (along with better high-res photos). Stay tuned. Click through for more images. 2010 [...]

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SV 9 Competizione: An Italian take on the all-American Corvette C6

SV 9 Competizione: An Italian take on the all-American Corvette C6

SV Motor Company is putting the finishing touches on a new project known as the SV 9 Competizione. Ready to make its debut in the coming days, here is your first look at an all-American Corvette C6 with an Italian styled exterior and interior. The new Italian-styled body is made of lightweight carbon fiber, helping [...]

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GM’s global sales down 15% in second quarter, up 20% from first quarter

GM’s global sales down 15% in second quarter, up 20% from first quarter

General Motors Company announced today that it sold 1.94 million vehicles globally during the second quarter of 2009, down 15 percent during the same period last year. Nonetheless, compared to the first quarter of 2009, sales were up almost 20 percent. GM sales outside the United States were up 72 percent of total sales. During the [...]

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2009 Hyundai Genesis tops J.D. Power ranking of vehicle launches

2009 Hyundai Genesis tops J.D. Power ranking of vehicle launches

The 2009 Hyundai Genesis has been ranked the most smoothly launched vehicle in the U.S. according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2009 Vehicle Launch Index SM (VLI) released today. The study grades automakers on their ability to hit sale targets, price and dealer-profit targets with newly launched models. The 2009 Hyundai Genesis scored 689 points out of [...]

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Double CA$H For Your Old Car: Chrysler offers to double your ‘Cash for Clunkers’ rebate

Double CA$H For Your Old Car: Chrysler offers to double your ‘Cash for Clunkers’ rebate

So you thought getting up to $4,500 from the Car Allowance Rebate Systems (CARS), aka ‘Cash for Clunkers,’ sounded pretty exciting. Well, Chrysler has announced its new “Double CA$H For Your Old Car” incentive program that gives those with an eligible trade-in under the CARS program up to $9,000 to purchase a new Chrysler, Jeep or [...]

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2010 BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo hanging out in Munich airport

2010 BMW 5-Series Gran Turismo hanging out in Munich airport

A 2010 BMW 530d Gran Turismo is on display at one of the busiest and largest airports in Europe: Munich “Franz Josef Strauss” Airport. The airport estimated passenger traffic at 34.73 million in 2008, so you can be pretty sure that this 5-Series GT will be viewed by millions of people during its stop-over. The 2010 BMW [...]

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