General Motors unveils the price of the Volt this week, the customers should expand $41,000 to get one of the 600 Chevrolet able to travel 40 miles on its battery charge.
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Volkswagen's Passat for 2002-03 is under investigation by federal regulators for the second time in three years after identical complaints about engine compartment fires related to ignition-coil failures.
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It's an idea whose time came, and went: the factory dedicated to supplying seats to one assembly plant on a just-in-time basis.
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Chrysler Group adopted Fiat S.p.A.'s production system just one year ago, but it has already generated a measurable improvement in manufacturing efficiency.
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ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR CHERYL L. BLAHNIK: This sticker just feels a little too steep for this car. I was expecting this to be about $3,000 less.
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In today's News Brake: A look at Infiniti's new hybrid system, Geely takes over Volvo, and Ford has big plans for its future products . . . But Wait, There's More!
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. -- Automotive tool and die suppliers in North America have been hit hard by the past two years' of the recession, Jay Baron, CEO of the Center for Automotive Research, said today at the Management Briefing Seminars.
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TI Automotive Ltd. has bought out its partner in a 23-year-old Japanese joint venture. TI acquired the half of Mitsuba Walbro Inc. that it didn't already own from Japan's Mitsuba Corp. The unit makes fuel pump motor armatures and modules.
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BorgWarner said second quarter 2010 US GAAP earnings were $0.68 per share, up from a net loss of $0.05 per share a year ago. Sales were up 55.2% to $1.42bn.
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Chrysler has reprieved its Sterling Heights assembly plant (SHAP) in Michigan, originally to close some time after 2012. It will add a second shift - almost 900 jobs - in the first quarter of 2011.
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Geely's eventual takeover of Volvo - although widely trumpeted for several months now - does throw up one interesting and potential source of cultural difference.
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New UAW President Bob King said today that the union would add another tool for organizing the transplant automakers by asking the companies to sign principles for free and fair elections at the factories.
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GM Daewoo Auto and Technology on Monday said automobile sales increased 49.4% year on year in July on strong overseas demand.
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Ford Motor Co.'s credit rating was raised two levels by Standard and Poor's today because of expectations the company will remain profitable and signs that customers have a better impression of the automaker's vehicles.
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MANAGING EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: This is a beautiful car, in styling and trim, with a sweet and strong turbo powertrain, but for some reason, it leaves me wanting more.
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Sales of new cars, trucks and buses in Japan rose 15% year on year in July to 333,403 units for the 12th straight monthly increase due largely to the government's incentives to purchase environmentally friendly vehicles, an industry body said on Monday.
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Car sales in Italy were expected to have fallen 26% in July, as government incentives ended, la Repubblica and other newspapers reported, citing car dealers association Federauto.
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