Archive for March, 2009

Details on Government’s Warranty Commitment Program

Filed under: Maintenance, Government/Legal, Chrysler, LLC., GM

One of the issues that is central to the survival of General Motors and Chrysler is how comfortable people are buying their vehicles while they attempt to restructure. The media paints a pretty bleak picture of these two automakers, so some buyers may avoid General Motors and Chrysler vehicles […]

REPORT: Hummer’s fate to be decided by Tuesday in a few weeks

Filed under: SUVs, Trucks/Pickups, Government/Legal, GM, HUMMER, Earnings/Financials

General Motors has been trying to unload its Hummer division for nearly a year now. Despite assertions late last year indicating that it hoped to have the troubled brand off its books for good before 2009 rolled around, we are now nearing the end of the first quarter […]

VIDEO: Honda’s strategy of winning through failure

Filed under: Videos, Honda

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As enthusiasts, we sometimes make the mistake of referring to Honda as a car company. Honda started out as a motorcycle manufacturer, and now makes everything from generators to IRL engines to robots. The Japanese automaker has produced a series of short films to give […]

LIVEBLOG: President Obama’s press conference on the Auto Industry

Filed under: Government/Legal, Chrysler, LLC., GM

President Obama is scheduled to give a press conference today at 11:00 AM EST today in which he’ll officially reveal his plans for the U.S. auto industry. Stay tuned and keep hitting refresh on your browser to learn the latest.
Hightlights - Follow the jump for full liveblog
- Gov’t will give […]

SPOILER ALERT: 2009 Formula 1 season kicks off with a kick in Australia

Filed under: Motorsports, Australia

2009 Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix - Click above for high-res gallery
Boring. Predictable. The world’s most expensive parade. Sound familiar? If it does, chances are you’ve steered clear (so to speak) of Formula One for the past decade or so. And even the most red-blooded racing enthusiasts among us would have to […]

Retrolicious: Chrysler unveils 2009 Dodge Challenger SE Rallye

Filed under: Coupes, Chrysler, LLC., Dodge

Challenger SE Rallye - Click above for high-res image gallery
Attention ponycar people: the V6-powered Challenger SE is now available with a pretty slick new dress-up package. The Challenger SE Rallye takes the base car and adds stripes, an R/T-style chrome fuel door, black-accented 18-inch wheels, and a rear decklid spoiler. […]

Acura X6-fighter officially named ZDX

Filed under: Concept Cars, New York Auto Show, Crossovers/CUVs, Acura

Acrua ZDX Concept - Click above for a high-res gallery
After a series of spy shots and a handful of teasers, Acura has finally given a name to its BMW X6-fighting crossover: the ZDX. Due to arrive in concept form at next week’s New York Auto Show, […]

Mulally on Ford: “We are competitive now.”

Filed under: Ford, Earnings/Financials

If we were cynics, we could say that Ford just happened to get stuck in deep doo-doo when America’s credit markets were still reasonably flexible. When Ford leveraged all of its assets, right down to its logo, the most difficult part was probably not getting the money, it was probably swallowing its […]

A GT-R more wicked than the Spec-V this way comes…?

Filed under: Sports/GTs, Supercars, Nissan, Special/Limited Editions

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Nissan GT-R SpecV
When the Nissan GT-R SpecV was unveiled, we called it “Nissan’s most super of supercars.” We were, uh, mistaken. Inside Line spent a few fast days in Japan trying out the SpecV under the eye of the car’s chief […]

What You Missed: Day of Rejection for U.S. Auto Industry

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