If you buy a car at Bill Kolb Jr. Subaru in suburban New York, there's a good chance it will have leather seats and a sunroof. Kolb customizes 40 percent of the cars in his showroom.
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The 2010 Ford Fusion is a key to Ford Motor Co.'s bid to become an industry leader in fuel efficiency. Ford made many changes when it restyled its flagship mid-sized sedan.
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DETROIT -- General Motors' tab for keeping a pledge to pay Saab's part suppliers through until Feb. 20 will be $127 million, people familiar with GM's purchasing strategy said.
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General Motors' European brands are near collapse, with Germany's Opel in need of more state funding and Sweden rejecting Saab's plea for state aid until its business plan is sound.
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Moody's Investors Service has cut its ratings on Renault into junk territory, citing the French automaker's "significantly worse operating performance" and negative free cash flow in 2008.
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General Motors' German unit Opel will present a business plan to the German government in the coming days, heeding calls to present such a plan in order to obtain state guarantees.
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Mark McNabb says the CTS family gives a clear indication of what he wants to do with the Cadillac car line: offer a range of models. "Look at a CTS and I think you can start understanding where we are going.
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When sales fall, the hawks predicted, Japan's auto industry would favor that nation's interests over America's. Japanese automakers would idle U.S. factories and workers while keeping their plants at home humming to build exports. Today, U.S.
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Mississippi Ford dealer Wayne Thompson is the first to admit he goofed when his sales fliers ended up across the Mississippi River in the hands of Louisiana consumers.
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General Motors axed its High Performance Vehicles Operations last week but hasn't eviscerated all its muscle cars.
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General Motors executives were surprised by the speed at which Saab filed for bankruptcy last week, leaving them with few answers for anxious U.S. Saab dealers.
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A potentially hostile Congress could get to decide whether General Motors and Chrysler LLC receive the additional immediate federal aid they say they need to stay in business.
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If Ron Bloom gets his way, everyone will sacrifice. Last week, President Barack Obama appointed Bloom to help restructure General Motors and Chrysler LLC.
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Chrysler LLC says it can survive without a proposed product-sharing alliance with Fiat S.p.A. if it gets an additional $5 billion federal loan. But analysts say Chrysler's stand-alone plan relies on extremely optimistic assumptions.
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As General Motors dumps brands and other automakers slash their retail networks, auto dealers are waging a nationwide lobbying blitz for more protection under state franchise laws.
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General Motors is trying to keep Saturn dealers in the fold even as it has pronounced the division's likely death.
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German automaker Volkswagen has just announced that they'll be participating in a project featuring fuel cell vehicles started in Sacramento, California. Volkswagen will be hitting American shores with 16 Passat Lingyu prototypes, designed in China and seen for the first time at the Beijing Summer Olympics.
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German automaker Volkswagen has just announced that they'll be participating in a project featuring fuel cell vehicles started in Sacramento, California. Volkswagen will be hitting American shores with 16 Passat Lingyu prototypes, designed in China and seen for the first time at the Beijing Summer Olympics.
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In these times of yo-yo gas prices and growing environmental concerns in the auto industry, diesel fuel is starting to look more and more appealing. Several automakers have come up with clean diesel engines, like Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz with BlueTEC. Gas-oil also seems to have a bright future.
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Formula one drivers have been given advice about how to dismount their cars as the controversial new energy re-use technology KERS is set to be introduced this season.
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