| Chrysler investing $19.6M at Ohio plant |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
Chrysler Group LLC said Friday it will invest $19.6 million at its Toledo Machining Plant in Perrysburg, Ohio, to increase capacity of the torque converter it is making for its nine-speed transmission.The new transmission, built at the automaker's Indiana Transmission Plant, will debut in the 2014 Jeep Cherokee.The company expects installation to be complete by the end of ...
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| Toyota Microsoft boost Gazoo Net service |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
TOYOTA is teaming up with Microsoft for an internet service that links cars, home computers and smartphones so users can find nearby tourist spots, connect on social networks and learn about new models. The service will start in Japan on May 30 as a revamped version of Toyota's internet service called Gazoo.com. It will be based on "cloud" computing from Microsoft, called Windows ...
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| Hondas Q4 profit rises despite China woes |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
HONDA'S fiscal fourth quarter profit rose nearly six per cent as the Japanese automaker's recovery from floods in Thailand offset recent sales losses in China. Honda Motor Co reported on Friday a quarterly profit of Y75.7 billion ($A743 million), up from Y71.5 billion for the same period of the previous year. Quarterly sales jumped 14 per cent to Y2.74 trillion ($A27 billion). The weak ...
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| Ford donating $1M to College for Creative Studies in Detroit |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
The Ford Motor Company Fund will donate $1 million to Detroit's College for Creative Studies, the college announced Friday.The Ford fund will donate the money over a five-year period and will help establish the Henry Ford Academy: School for Creative Studies College and Career Transitions Office at CCS, and start a Ford Blue Oval Scholarship fund at CCS for graduates of the Henry Ford ...
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| Chicago man charged in scam involving impounded cars |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
The scam was perhaps as crafty as it was criminal.A Chicago man was arrested Thursday for soliciting payoffs from drivers with impounded vehicles in a scheme that involved filing phony bankruptcy petitions to avoid paying the often hefty auto pound fees, federal prosecutors alleged. A bankruptcy filing would put an automatic hold on fines and trigger the release of the vehicle.Authorities ...
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| ET Milkmen auto drivers selling Uninor SIM cards |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
Restaurants & washrooms may have provided some brilliant ideas, but for Uninor, the flicker of inspiration came when a top exec was on his way home in an ...
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| Mo. House passes bill allowing guns in parked cars on business property |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
The Missouri House passed a bill that would prohibit business owners from denying anyone from legally possessing a firearm in their vehicle while parked at their business. Business owners would be able to ban firearms inside of company-owned vehicles, St. Louis Public Radio reports. The bill now goes to the Senate. On Wednesday, the Missouri House passed legislation that would make it a felony ...
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| Spring Showers Bring Summer Tires Back to Our Subaru BRZ |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
It has been a long winter here in Chicago. Even with the dawn of spring we experienced subfreezing temps, snow and just plain awful, gray days. That meant keeping our winter tires on Cars.com's ...
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| Fisker Edges Closer to Bankruptcy as New Details Emerge |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
The travails continue for Anaheim, Calif.-based Fisker. Executives at the struggling plug-in-vehicle maker met with Congress Wednesday, and new details emerged on Fisker's government dealings. It goes like this. The U.S. Department of Energy approved $529 million in low-interest loans to Fisker in 2010 as part of ...
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| Hybrid cars rush to market electric race towards future |
Apr 26th, 2013 |
Europe an Union will require the carbon dioxide emissions of new cars sold to be reduced to 95g per kilometer by 2020, from its current 130g per km, according to a new draft law approved on Wednesday by the European ...
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