Ford to unveil eco-friendlier engine January 6, 2008 By SARAH A. WEBSTER FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER Ford Motor Co. is to unveil a new engine technology today called EcoBoost that will deliver up to 20% better fuel economy on half a million of the company’s Ford, Mercury and Lincoln vehicles during the next five years. [...]
Gas prices aren’t spurring small cars DATAPOINT January 6, 2008 Gas prices are becoming a bigger issue in the U.S. auto market, but consumers are not necessarily flocking in droves to tiny, fuel-efficient vehicles. Through November, the small-car segment, which includes the Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic and Chevy Cobalt, rose just 0.4%, compared with the [...]
VEBA gag order irks UAW ranks GM retirees seek details of health trust January 6, 2008 By KATIE MERX FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER Retirees from General Motors Corp.’s UAW ranks are rankled over a judicial order that appears to allow just about anything in the court proceedings to establish a $29.9-billion UAW health-care trust to [...]
Delphi, Autonet team up to develop in-car Internet Delphi Corp. said Friday it will work on in-vehicle Internet information and entertainment products and services with a company that provides such systems to Avis Rent a Car. Autonet Mobile said in a statement that the two companies will seek to combine its technology that provides Internet [...]
State seeks Delphi taxes Michigan officials say auto supplier owes millions in unpaid business and use levies, dating to 1999. Saturday, January 5, 2008 David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The state of Michigan is conducting two new tax audits at Delphi Corp. as it presses a bankruptcy court to force the [...]
Chevrolet Tahoe hybrid: Just right, yet wrong Saturday, January 5, 2008 Review Dan Neil / Los Angeles Times By way of a fantastic exertion of technology and human capital — which I hereby honor and praise even as I question them as mis-allocated — GM has managed to give one of its behemoth SUVs marginally [...]
Iconic Explorer embarks in new direction Saturday, January 5, 2008 Scott Burgess / The Detroit News Ford Motor Co. unveiled the future face of its iconic SUV on Sunday — the Ford Explorer America concept — and it’s a radical departure from the past that reflects the rapidly changing dynamics of the U.S. car market. [...]
Vue gets ‘greener’ with another hybrid model Saturday, January 5, 2008 Scott Burgess / The Detroit News Saturn plans to market another "green" Vue — this one a two-mode hybrid , and the Vue Green Line 2 Mode hybrid will have its world debut at the North American International Auto Show next week. It is [...]
GM ends $4.1 billion credit line Automotive News | January 4, 2008 – 3:35 pm EST DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors today said it terminated a $4.1 billion standby credit agreement with a syndicate of banks, saying it had sufficient liquidity without the borrowing arrangement. GM had entered into the credit agreement in [...]
