News Editor Edward Lapham discuss a 2007 Saturn Aura after it was announced as a finalist for the North American Car of the Year Award Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006 in Detroit, Michigan. Lapham was a member of the jury
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Liberal bomb-thrower and “Roger & Me” documentarian Michael Moore described his “mixed feelings” about a proposed Detroit
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MSNBC is reporting that auto-state senators’ aides say they’ve reached a compromise to throw money at “speed emergency loans”
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At its annual shareholder meeting in Melbourne, Australia yesterday, Redflex announced it had become the largest
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The Automotive Lease Guide has released its projections for the vehicles most likely to retain their value three years from now,
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The cynical amongst you will see this as a direct rebuke to Detroit: a shot across the bow of the Big 2.8 execs who sat in front of America’s duly elected representatives
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Auto shows are intended to be recipes for excess. Take one excessively large convention hall, fill it to capacity with excessive quantities of costly chrome
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The Chair of the National Automotive Dealers Association, Annette Sykora, sought to distance her
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That was quick. GM is saying nein, danke to SolarWorld’s offer to buy elements of its Opel subsidiary for one billion Euros. “This is pure speculation. Opel is not for sale,” GM Europe spokesman Nelson Silveira tells Automotive News [sub]. Meanwhile Opel is slashing production, and angling for its own federal
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