| Toyota April U.S. sales drop 1.1 percent |
May 1st, 2013 |
May 1 (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp reported on Wednesday a drop of 1.1 percent in April U.S. sales, missing analysts' expectations that ranged from unchanged to up 8 percent.Toyota is the third-largest automaker by sales in the U.S. ...
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| Chrysler And GM See Stronger Demand For Pickups And SUVs In April On Housing Recovery |
May 1st, 2013 |
Grand Cherokee had its best April since 2005 - Photo credit: joeracer Motown ended the month of April smiling, as Detroit's Big Three posted solid sales numbers on Wednesday. The early stages of a housing and construction recovery have ...
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| Chrysler Ford GM Nissan April US sales up |
May 1st, 2013 |
Ford, GM, Chrysler and Nissan all reported double-digit U.S. sales increases last month, signaling the best April for car and truck sales in six ...
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| Microsofts browser auto-update pays off as IE10 share doubles |
May 1st, 2013 |
Computerworld - Microsoft's Internet Explorer 10 (IE10) doubled its usage share last month, and now accounts for nearly 11% of all copies of IE in use, a Web measurement company said today. IE10, which Microsoft launched last October for Windows 8 and ...
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| General Motors April sales zip 11.4 best in five years |
May 1st, 2013 |
General Motors is counting on its new-design pickups, sich as the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado pictured, to exploit a booming truck market. The 2014 trucks go on sale this ...
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| US auto sales surge on truck and SUV demand |
May 1st, 2013 |
Detroit's Big Three automakers posted higher sales last month amid rising demand for larger vehicles such as SUVs and pickup trucks.Strong demand for the Ram pickup helped drive Chrysler's sales up 11 percent last month as the company posted its best April in six years. General Motors Co.'s U.S. sales rose 11 percent in April on continuing demand for pickups as well as small cars. ...
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| Get ready to shell out more as government approves auto and taxi fare hike in Delhi |
May 1st, 2013 |
Travelling in autos and taxis will cost more in the capital from tomorrow with the Delhi government deciding to hike fares by upto 30 per cent.The revision in fares, which came after almost three years, was done in view of the hike in CNG by 40 per cent in the past 36 months. The new fares will come into effect from Thursday.According to the government decision taken on Wednesday, a commuter ...
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| SUVs GPS Device Helped Capture Boston Bombing Suspects |
May 1st, 2013 |
Late in the evening on April 18, Boston marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev carjacked a black Mercedes-Benz SUV in Cambridge, Mass. Its driver escaped shortly after midnight on April 19; the ensuing saga left one suspect dead, another in custody and an entire city on lockdown. It turns out the Mercedes played a significant part in bringing the Tsarvnaev brothers ...
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| Ally Financial earns $1.1B in first quarter |
May 1st, 2013 |
Washington - Detroit-based Ally Financial Inc. said net income rose by nearly $800 million in the first quarter to $1.1 billion on one-time gains as it sheds its international operations.Excluding one-time items, Ally said it had a core pre-tax loss of $6 million in the first quarter, compared to $111 million in the same period last year.Net income for the quarter was driven by a $900 million ...
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| Start-up EV firm Coda files for bankruptcy |
May 1st, 2013 |
Washington - Start-up electric automaker Coda Automotive filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday and will abandon its electric vehicle production in favor of its energy storage business, the latest in a series of restructuring moves in the struggling sector.The Los Angeles-based start-up, which has only made a few hundred EVs mostly built in China, had faced severe problems in recent months. It had ...
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