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Preventing Hunting and noisy engine

Hunting can be prevented by using higher-octane gasoline, keep the engine working at normal temperature with the cooling system to maximize performance and reduce the compression ratio. Of the three, the easiest is...

$24,000.00 Clunkers a Clunker?

Used car website, Edmunds.com, is raising questions about the price the government  paid for gas-guzzling cars under it's recently ended "Cash for Clunkers" program. The maximum allowed by the program was...

USA: Minnesota Auto Mogul Hecker HQ Raided for Possible Fraud

" June 2009 | by Eric Kelsey The Minnesota State Patrol raided Denny Hecker Automotive Group headquarters in St. Louis Park, along...

Chrysler Cuts 1200 Jobs at Its Canadian Plant

Michigan based Auto giant Chrysler LLC has announced that it is cutting its entire third shift at it's minivan assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario indefinitely, affecting about 1,200 jobs. The company said Wednesday...

U.S. Steel to Idle Two Canadian Facilities, Affecting 1500

The United States Steel Corp., the largest US based steel maker, announced Tuesday that it will temporily idle two Ontario facilities, affecting 1,500 employees in Hamilton and Nanticoke, as demand suffers from...

Mahindra sells 1,788 XYLOs in 2 weeks, bookings cross 4,000 mark.

Synopsis: 1,788 Mahindra XYLOs sold between January 16 – January 31, 2009 XYLO bookings cross the 4,000 mark Mahindra ramps up production to meet demand XYLO website registers over 7 lakh hits till date February 2, 2009, Mumbai: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., (M&M),...

The basics of Tyre Burst / Blow Out

1. How To Handle A Tyre Burst:a. What Not To Do:DO NOT PANIC!!Yes… no matter how many times you hear this about everything else in life, its true. If you panic, you tend to hurry and not think clearly and in that you may end up doing one of the following things that you are...

The Mahindra-Renault Logan Mileage Run

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Detroit: A Decimated Industry, An Indicted Mayor, And...

Detroit has major problems and an 0-16football team only adds insult toinjury.  They need an almost completerestructuring and that will take timeand a lot of money. "Folks in Detroit can be forgiven if they...

the Auto Industry Moving South, Study UAW Wrong

" A few years ago the Center for Automotive Research published a very useful study titled "The Auto Industry Moving South: An Examination of Trends" [PDF]. The study's authors looked at a variety of factors influencing this trend, including the role of incentive packages that...

Suzuki Pulls Out of 2009 World Rally

    Suzuki, a Japanese car manufacturing company announced on Monday that they will be pulling out of the 2009 FIA World Rally Championship due to the global financial crisis. This really comes as...

Hawaii to be 1st state with electric car stations

Some interesting developments in the world of electric cars.  Personally I thought we'd have jetpacks by now but I'll settle for this in an era of global warming and peak oil."HONOLULU – Hawaii has unveiled...

Let the Auto Industry Go Bankrupt

Mitt Romney Makes a good argument why American Taxpayers should not Bail out the Auto industry.  Bankruptcy would make the Auto industry restructure through the Court System allowing them to negotiate it's...

Ford Motor Company Statement on Proposed Congressional Automotive Industry Bill

I offer the following straight off the Ford PR presses."DEARBORN, Mich., Dec. 8 – As we told Congress, Ford is in a different position. We do not face a near-term liquidity issue, and we will not be seeking a short term bridge loan. But Ford fully supports an effort to...

Should the public own the auto industry?

Jim Stanford and Justin Fox discuss public ownership of the Big 3

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