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TCC Team
General Motors’ beleaguered Buick brand is going green unveiling its first-ever hybrid-electric vehicle at this week’s Shanghai Motor Show. The hybrid version of the Buick LaCrosse will feature the same basic...
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High Gear Media Staff,
Jim Press, the highly respected U.S. executive who is most credited with Toyota’s surge in America over the last decade, will become the first non-Japanese person to sit on Toyota Motor Corp.’s board of...
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Richard Yarrow, Editor
The next generation of Ford’s massively popular European B-segment hatchback, the Fiesta, will come to theUSA. The company hinted at the move during its Geneva press conference and company sources privately...
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High Gear Media Staff,
Mark Schultz, head of international operations for Ford Motor Co., will retire early next year, the automaker said Thursday. Schultz, 54, has responsibility for the automaker’s businesses in Europe, Africa, and...
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High Gear Media Staff,
The European auto industry is learning the hard way the same lessons about global economics that has been hammered home here in theU.S. Last week, Mercedes-Benz workers staged a brief walkout to protest plans...
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Jim Burt, Editor
That's $10 billion with a "b." Toyota Motor on Tuesday became the first Japanese company to report a net profit of over a trillion yen, or about $10 billion U.S. greenbacks. Toyota's global sales are slightly ahead...
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Joseph Szczesny, Editor
BERLIN — DaimlerChrysler AG executives insisted they have not yet decided on a plan for helping Mitsubishi, the German-American company’s struggling Japanese partner. In the face of hostile questions from...
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High Gear Media Staff,
MITSU WILL BRING EVO TO AMERICA According to AutoWeek, Rhys Millen, a Mitsubishi-sponsored driver, has confirmed that the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII will be sold in the U.S. starting next year, although ...