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Chrysler, Ford Show Strong Financial Results
Yesterday, Chrysler Group LLC reported net income of $473 million USD for the first quarter of 2012. This was a gain of 407 percent over...
Yugo’s Former Factory Facilitates Fiat 500L...
Over the years, we have been one of the few outlets to give Serbian automaker Zastava a fair shake. This fact did not go unnoticed by the...
Review: 2012 Volkswagen Jetta GLI Autobahn DSG
There are several ways to make your critics shut up. One is to address their criticisms point by point, giving in to your critics'...
More Trouble With EV Economics
About a year and a half ago, we looked into what is the single biggest threat to the electrification of the automobile. And what is that...
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Peugeot to Display World’s First Production...
By Chris Haak Today in 2010, the environmentally-conscious crowd has split into two distinct sets of car-buying preferences. In one...
Review: 2011 Ford Mustang V6 Premium Coupe
By Chris Haak In December 1967, South African surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant. ...
Mercedes-Benz Reveals 2012 CLS Four-Door Coupe
By Chris Haak Several weeks prior to its formal introduction at the 2011 Paris Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz has released a flotilla of images...
The Volkswagen Phaeton is Returning to the US. Why?
By Chris Haak From the day the flagship Volkswagen Phaeton launched in the US, analysts and customers questioned the wisdom of a company...
Report: Maruti Suzuki Planning Low-Cost Alto to Compete...
By Chris Haak Even though Suzuki only sells a few thousand cars in the US each month and can't seem to get the right product mix in the...
Breaking: GM CEO Whitacre to Step Down September 1
By Chris Haak I can hear the ticker-tape machines humming away in the background as I write this from the Full Metal Autos newsroom. Hot...
Hyundai Becomes a KBB Most-Considered Brand
By Chris Haak Hyundai's rise to one of the world's largest - and fastest-growing - automakers over the past several years has been nothing...
Is the 2012 Mercedes-Benz A-Class Coming to the US?
By George Straton Is a Premium Compact Hatchback with the Three Pointed Star from Sindelfingen (via Hungary) coming to a U.S....
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GM To Include 4G LTE Connectivity In 2014 Model-Year...
If you're worried about in-car distractions getting worse and not better, you're not going to like this news. GM announced today that in...
Does the 2014 Corvette “Stingray” Foretell...
While attending the launch event for the 2014 Corvette Stingray last month, I was struck by a thought that just wouldn't leave my head....
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Review: 2012 Fiat 500 Sport 5MT
One of the worst-kept secrets in the auto industry is that the Fiat 500 was not going to hit its sales target of 50,000 units for 2011. ...
Review: 2012 GMC Acadia Denali AWD
By Chris Haak Perhaps you've heard the Japanese word kaizen, which means 'improvement.' In the context of the auto industry, has been...
Honda Civic Hybrid Plaintiffs SHOULD Win
By Chris Haak By now you've surely heard the story of Heather Peters, a disappointed Honda Civic Hybrid owner who took Honda to...
Chinese Knock Off the Ford F-150
By Chris Haak These may be some of my favorite kinds of stories to write about. My very limited understanding of Chinese culture ,...