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High Gear Media Staff,
Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC continued to drop in sales during the month of October while General Motors and foreign nameplates posted modest gains, despite signs of a softening market overall. On an adjusted...
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High Gear Media Staff,
The official summary of General Motors’ tentative contract with the United Auto Workers includes a sweeping look on GM's product plan for the next half decade. The product plan for a company such as General...
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High Gear Media Staff,
The U.S. federal government has mandated electronic stability control for the 2012 model year. But while it’s on the way as standard equipment, its installation is spotty — and often, as it is around the world...
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High Gear Media Staff,
Most remember when cars were cars, and trucks were trucks. Even back when cars, too, rode on full frames, trucks were clearly different. They looked like trucks, drove like trucks, and worked like trucks. Hardly...
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High Gear Media Staff,
In a striking move for a troubled brand, General Motors’ Buick division landed in a first-place tie with Toyota ’s vaunted luxury marque, Lexus, in the latest long-term reliability study by quality gurus J.D....
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High Gear Media Staff,
RX330/400h Debuting in spring of 2005, the RX400h is a gas/electric hybrid-powered version of RX330 sport-utility vehicle. It's powered by a combination of the conventional model's 3.3-liter V-6 engine and the...
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High Gear Media Staff,
Most of us think the idea in business is to keep the winners and sell off the dogs. At Ford the idea seems to be to sell off successes, or car lines on the edge of success. Spend wildly on them during the failure...
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High Gear Media Staff,
While Toyota’s upstart Scion brand, its new Tundra pickup truck and its growing lineup of hybrids have grabbed most of the company’s headlines in the past year, Toyota says it’s products like the new 2008...