Tips and Advice about June
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Flint: Next Year—Better or Worse?
That ugly word “recession” is being heard in the land. On financial TV shows they talk of a coming recession all the time. The columnist Dan Dorfman says it will be worse than recession. If times are bad, we...
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Ford Drops New N.A. Plant Plans
Ford is shelving plans to build a new assembly plant in northernMexico. Instead, Ford has promised the United Auto Workers in its new labor pact to build a small car in the U.S. Pushing both Ford and GM to build...
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Toyota Getting Hammered by Greens
Environmentalists are putting pressure onToyota to switch sides in the ongoing debate over fuel economy. As a member of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, Toyota, which has artfully used the hybrid Prius to...
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Jaguar Losing its Own Name?
The word “Jaguar” will start to be ditched from the back of production cars within two or three years, the firm’s design boss has confirmed. Speaking in late June as he showed off the XF at a secret media...
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U.S. House Puts Off CAFE Boost
The Democratic leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives has decided to put off a debate on changes to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of House, said...
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Fla. Governor Joins Arnold on CO2
Automakers are facing yet another indication of a sea change in vehicle emissions regulation, with Florida poised to adopt California ’s 2009 emissions regulations. The adoption would make Florida the first state...
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GM Wants Cars to Talk – To Each Other
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication – where cars silently talk to each other about traffic conditions further down the road – is on the way. That’s the view of bosses at General Motors, who have revealed the...
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‘57 Plymouth Waking from Time Capsule
A 1957 Plymouth Belvedere buried in a time capsule 50 years ago in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is about to return to the land of the living. On June 15,Tulsa’s town leaders will unveil the Belvedere as a part of...
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