| TOTD: What Does Scion Need to Recapture the Youth Market? |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
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One of the more active forum topics during the 4th of July weekend focused on Scion and its current struggle to hold onto younger buyers. The thread, started by forum user RE: Assembler, focuses on a recent report by The Detroit News that compared statistics from the brand’s launch 10 years ago to today. Key [...]
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| Kia Soul EV Prototype Spied Testing Near Euro Headquarters |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
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With camouflage covering the headlights and grille as well as the front and rear bumpers, the long-rumored Kia Soul EV has been spotted testing, and is expected to arrive after the redesigned gas-powered version goes on sale. Though the Soul EV will be Kia’s first electric car sold in the U.S., the Kia Ray EV [...]
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| Fiat exercises Chrysler options |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
It is my view that Fiat will not need to issue new shares to finance its Chrysler acquisition from VEBA. Fiat is now in a position to challenge Toyota Motor ...
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| What Is It Like to Drive a $500000 Rolls-Royce Convertible Just Like You’d Imagine Only Much Much Better |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
n the Detroit of our 1970s and 1980s youth--crippled as it was by the OPEC oil embargo, new pollution-control standards, and the influx of inexpensive (and superior) Japanese cars--the number of truly lust-worthy domestic vehicles, particularly for incipient urbane brand sluts like us, was quite limited. Fortunately, for the entirety of these two decades (and well into the 90s), one such vehicle ...
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| Recall Alert 2012 Chevrolet Volt |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
gas-electric hatchback due to a problem with the brakes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The affected vehicles were manufactured from March 1 through April 17, 2012 (check your vehicle's build date on a sticker on the driver-side doorjamb), and use a faulty brake pressure modulator valve. In these cars, brake pressure from the front brakes during a situation ...
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| Insurers’ Group Urges R.I. Governor to Veto Auto Body Legislation |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
The Rhode Island Legislature passed legislation before adjournment on July 3 that could impact the pockets of Rhode Islanders when they have to pay for auto body repairs, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), an industry association. The Auto Body Association of Rhode Island (ABARI) proposed HB 5263/SB 465, which PCI said could raise insurance costs and ...
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| Fiat to buy more Chrysler stock |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
Detroit - Italian automaker Fiat has exercised a third option to buy a small amount of Chrysler stock, but the sale won't go through until a US court settles a dispute over the ...
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| Fiat to Increase Stake in Chrysler to 70 Percent |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
Italian automaker Fiat said Monday it had moved to increase its stake in US subsidiary Chrysler to nearly 70 per cent, despite still being locked in litigation over the price to pay to a union-administered trust fund that owns the rest of the company. In a statement, Fiat said it had exercised an option to buy out a third 3.3 per cent tranche of shares from the United Auto Workers' ...
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| Fiat raises stake in Chrysler to 68.49 |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
Italian carmaker Fiat said on Monday it has exercised an option to buy 3.3 percent more of its US unit Chrysler, bringing it a step nearer to its goal of creating the world's seventh-largest automaker by sales.Fiat, which loses money in Europe, has said it wants full control of profitable Chrysler. This would give the company access to some of Chrysler's cash flow for investments in new ...
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| Nissan aims to sell 100000 cars in India this year |
Jul 8th, 2013 |
Across India flourish thousands of firms with no assets, fake addresses and whose untraceable owners are difficult to trace are hardly a staple of exotic tax havens only. Auditors who, desperate for biz, sign the books without asking too many questions. An ET ...
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