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GM To Re-Open Spring Hill Plant To Build Chevy Equinoxes
By Chris Haak Today, General Motors officially confirmed the vehicle that will be produced at its currently-idled Spring Hill, Tennessee plant. The answer: the Chevrolet...
LA Auto Show: 2013 Cadillac XTS
By Chris Haak With the launch of its all-new 2013 XTS luxury sedan early in 2012, Cadillac can finally move its car lineup from being an "all-CTS, all the time" shop to one...
LA Auto Show: 2013 Ford Escape
Ford has spilled the beans on its all-new 2013 Escape, and after more than a decade of following the same basic template (that is, cute-ute, car-based mechanicals wrapped around...
GM’s Mark Reuss Shows Cadillac “ATS” Teaser
By Chris Haak For some time, General Motors has seemingly operated under the assumption that its buyers are define the value of their cars by a "by the pound" metric. The logic...
Four Cylinders Take Largest Share of US Market
By Chris Haak It's not the sixties anymore, kids. Though certainly there are still high-horsepower holdouts, the days of the V8 and even V6 (or inline six)-powered family sedan...
Do Ford’s High Fleet Sales Make the Tundra Look Bad?
Last Friday, I received a note on our article that asked "What happened to the Tundra?" from Jason Lancaster, administrator of TundraHeadquarters.com that prompted me to take a...
IIHS Releases Vehicle Death Rates For 2006-2009
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) recently released a major study regarding death rates from auto accidents, and while the results are not unexpected, they do...
Ford Expects to Increase Sales By 50 Percent By 2015
By Chris Haak Yesterday in New York, Ford Motor Company executives told reporters and investors that the company expected to increase its global sales by 50 percent by 2015 to...
Fiat Acquires a Majority Stake in Chrysler
By Chris Haak Last week, about two years after exiting bankruptcy protection, Chrysler Group LLC has repaid its outstanding government loans. Between a $5.9 billion...