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.
The new EcoBoost family of [...]
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 same period in 2006, [...]
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 be deemed confidential.
The health-care trust [...]
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 services [...]
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 supplier to pay $10.5 [...]
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 better fuel economy. Here [...]
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.
While the futuristic-looking vehicle [...]
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 the third hybrid in [...]
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 June 2007. The automaker had [...]
