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I trust you'll understand why I was perturbed to see CNBC's Phil Lebeau get the "exclusive" on Chrysler's electric car program, ENVI, Tuesday morning. Embargos were tighter than Lehman Brothers' credit line before the 10 a.m. (Eastern) reveal of the

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DETROIT - He's 63, just two years short of the traditional retirement age, but only a couple years older than Chrysler president Jim Press. Chrysler design chief Trevor Creed's credits, according to chairman Bob Nardelli, include the new Dodge Challenger,

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The 14th annual Woodward Dream Cruise revs up this weekend, and just as it's done for the past eight years, Chrysler held a Dream Cruise kickoff breakfast at which it unveiled a special edition of its retro-mobile PT Cruiser. This neoclassic hot rod so

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DETROIT - Chrysler LLC's announcement came late Thursday, just before Independence Day and the automaker's two-week shutdown. That made it look like the kind of news release Washington or Wall Street times carefully to miss the news cycle, one that avoids

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DETROIT - The difference in efficiency between the seven biggest automakers in North America is minor, much like the quality differences among 36 auto brands, as I reported in my last post. And they're all improving, says Ron Harbour, whose Harbour Report

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Editor MacKenzie and I were hashing about Chrysler's product lineup, possible chassis architecture strategies, and general future the other day. At about the same instant, we were both struck with the idea of Chrysler using Mazda as possible brand poster

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We've all owned them: the cars we now wish we'd never sold. Matt Stone gets misty-eyed every time he talks about his Viking Blue '71 Olds 4-4-2. Truck Trend art director Thomas Voehringer regrets unloading his '70 Challenger, even though it was only a 383

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Word around Detroit is GM and the EPA are apparently duking it out over the Chevy Volt. The problem is this: Is the Volt an electric car or a hybrid? How you define the Volt is important, because it dictates how the official EPA fuel-economy numbers will be

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Every car has stories to tell, if people will only make the effort to listen. But I'll bet this shopworn '56 Chevy has more to say than most, as it for many years served as a road trip taxi for a guy named Garcia, and his band, The Grateful Dead.

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Chevy's new three-row crossover proves among the more pleasant surprises in this year's sport/utility contest. The Traverse is the fourth General Motors' model built on its Lambda chassis architecture, others being the Buick Enclave, Saturn Outlook, and GMC

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Ferrari president Luca Cordero di Montezemolo made it clear: "I have been president of this company for nearly twenty years, and I hope to continue for another twenty, and as long as that is so, Ferrari will not make a four-door sedan."

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From this month’s Playboy magazine: “88% of American women say they would be more attracted to a man who has a hot, new fuel-efficient car than a hot, new sports car.” There’s an interesting stat that could open up many a can of worms.

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Let's say Grammy just clocked out, and left you $250,000. After taxes. A quarter of a million bucks is about to be yours, with one stipulation: You must spend it on cars, trucks, bikes, Winnebagos, tractors, a tank, whatever. Seems the old girl was a

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Cruising into Hyderabad, also known as Cyberabad for its software technology park, I'm sweating. The temp is 90, the humidity is high, and the 612's air conditioning is blowing nothing but

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Bangalore, a busy metropolis of around seven million people, is known as the Silicon Valley of India, what with its booming IT sector that includes the likes of Infosys and Google R&D. Further, Bangalore is residence to Kingfisher Airlines—major sponsor to

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My first day of action does not get off to a good start-not for me, personally, but rather for the entire Ferrari crew. The original plan was to depart at 9 a.m., but a revised schedule was dispersed the previous evening, highlighting a notable change at 10

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When I arrive in Chennai, my taxi driver, Arun, informs me that monsoon season may have arrived a bit early, the sheets of heavy rain blanketing our car providing some compelling evidence. Trying to peer through the windshield, the wipers of the Tata unable

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Just last year, Ferrari celebrated its 60th anniversary, a commemoration that included some of the world's most seductive and imposing road and racecars. From such production models as the 375 MM, 365 GTB4, Testarossa, and 599 GTB Fiorano to such race

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The first alternative-fuel car of the 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show has already been announced; Toyota will combine natural-gas and hybrid power in its CNG (compressed natural gas) Camry hybrid concept. (Camry SE shown.) While natural-gas cars get roughly equivalent fuel economy as those powered by gasoline, the key difference is that emissions are cleaner. Plus, natural gas is clean-burning and

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I was a Matchbox kid. I loved those beautifully detailed cars from Lesney and the cute little boxes they came in. I was smart enough to save most of those boxes (and the cars, too) and never set my Matchbox cars on fire, as many of my friends did. I loved

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Be prepared to encounter a new kind of bright headlamps coming at you on the road. I recently ventured out to GM's Milford, Michigan, Proving Ground to try out the Cadillac Escalade Platinum's spanking new LED low- and high-beam headlights. Cadillac is the

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At today's launch of Cadillac's first ever factory station wagon on the 18th green at Pebble Beach, the point was made that just 10 years earlier the Evoq concept car made its debut here, launching the Art & Science design ethic that has been largely

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The Nurburgring-record-setting silver 2009 Cadillac CTS-V is now making its way across the country on a barnstorming tour of sorts. Its latest appearance was at an enthusiast event at the Auto Club/California Speedway in Fontana, California, put on by

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MILFORD, MICHIGAN -- I six-point buckle into the passenger seat of John Heinricy's 2009 Cadillac CTS-V. It's a silver sedan with a roll cage that earned the Nurburgring decal with the number 7.59.32 added on the rear deck. An automatic, Heinricy shifts it

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MILFORD, MICHIGAN -- Official Society of Automotive Engineers numbers for the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V are 556 hp and 551 lb-ft of torque. Its 6.2L supercharged OHV V-8 propelled it around a lap of the Nordshleife in seven min, 59.32 sec recently, and Cadillac

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