| Survey Says Spouses Lie About Dings and Accidents |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
has attempted to answer that question by asking married couples whether they lie to their spouses about their driving habits. Of the 1,000 married people surveyed, 35% admitted to dinging the car themselves and telling their spouse that someone else did it. Fully one quarter said they kept a traffic ticket secret from their spouse, and nearly that many have kept a car accident ...
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| VW hires Maserati executive as COO for namesake brand in U.S. |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
Volkswagen AG, pursuing aggressive sales growth, said it hired Mark McNabb as chief operating officer for its namesake brand in the U.S., overseeing sales and customer experience.McNabb, 51, joins VW from Fiat SpA's Maserati where he was chief executive officer of the luxury brand's North America operations, the Wolfsburg, Germany-based automaker said Thursday in an emailed statement. ...
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| Peugeot said to consider 2013 Aulnay shutdown after strikes |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe's second-biggest carmaker, may shut its plant in the Paris suburb of Aulnay as early as this year because strikes are disrupting production, according to two people familiar with the matter.Peugeot is considering closing the factory as soon as September, according to the people, who asked not to be named because no decision has been made yet.The carmaker outlined ...
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| Huge Sinkhole Swallows Cars |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
CHICAGO (CBS) — A massive sinkhole swallowed three cars on the South Side overnight. WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports the hole is in the 9600 block of South Houston in the South Deering neighborhood and takes up the entire ...
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| Toyota to expand North American production of Lexus outside Canada |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
Toyota Motor Corp. will expand North American production of its luxury Lexus vehicles outside Canada to a plant in Kentucky.A Toyota plant in Georgetown, Ky., will begin production of the Lexus ES350 sedan in 2015, industry sources said Thursday.Toyota chief executive officer Akio Toyoda is scheduled to make the announcement on Friday at a news conference in New ...
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| Fitch Assigns Auto ABS FCT Compartiment 2013-1 Expected Ratings |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
Spike in Starts a Sign That U.S. Housing is Now Thriving Single family U.S. housing starts posted a solid March while multifamily results were spectacular, an encouraging sign that the housing market's moderate recovery may pick up in intensity in the coming months, according to Fitch Ratings' latest edition of the 'Chalk Line'. That said, housing is still treading in ...
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| 1 injured after sinkhole swallows 3 cars on Southeast Side |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
One person was hospitalized this morning after a sinkhole swallowed three cars in the South Deering neighborhood on the Southeast Side. The person was taken from the hole, at 9600 South Houston Avenue, to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, according to the Chicago Fire Department. The sinkhole is the result of a water main that broke in the area and his gushing ...
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| Tony Hsieh’s Plan To Reinvent Vegas Transportation With Electric Cars |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
Project 100 is the latest plank in Hsieh's $350 million Downtown Project, his privately-funded plan to simultaneously revitalize downtown Las Vegas and evolve his company. Project 100 is the code name for an ambitious new car-, bike-, and bus-sharing service with the fleet of Teslas ...
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| Toyota to build luxury brand in Kentucky |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
Japanese automaker Toyota Motor Corp. is preparing to build a luxury Lexus model car in the United States, a person familiar with the plans said. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday a source close to the company said Toyota will move part of its production of Lexus ES350 models from an assembly plant in Kyushu, Japan, to one in the United States, which is the top market for that model. ...
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| Storm woes continue sinkhole swallows three cars in Chicago |
Apr 18th, 2013 |
CHICAGO - Middle America was getting everything nature has to throw at it on Thursday, from snow in the north to tornadoes in the Plains, and with torrential rains causing floods and transportation chaos in several states - and a sinkhole in ...
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