Automotive & Travel
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Cars.com buys Web site for pickup owners, buyers
Cars.com has acquired PickupTrucks.com, a Web site for pickup news and information. Mike Levine, founder and editor of PickupTrucks.
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 21:34 pm BST Source: Automotive News Breaking News Feed
Nardelli seeks dealer donations to Chrysler Museum
DETROIT -- CEO Bob Nardelli has asked Chrysler LLC's dealers nationwide to donate $5,000 apiece to the Walter P. Chrysler Museum.
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 21:03 pm BST Source: Automotive News Breaking News Feed
GMAC's ResCap mortgage unit may fail to pay debts
GMAC LLC's mortgage unit on Monday said it would need to raise $600 million by the end of June to pay its debts and avoid "negative liquidity," even if a $14 billion bond exchange offer were successful.
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 20:25 pm BST Source: Automotive News Breaking News Feed
CAW, GM Canada to start contract talks Thursday
Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers union, said on Monday that the union will meet with GM Canada on Thursday to start bargaining for a new collective agreement.
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 20:20 pm BST Source: Automotive News Breaking News Feed
GM moves Malibu fender production to Michigan
General Motors isn't about to let a UAW strike today at a Kansas City, Kan., assembly plant interrupt production of its hot-selling Chevrolet Malibu sedan.
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 20:00 pm BST Source: Automotive News Breaking News Feed
Automatic Metros at Their Best and Worst
Automatic subway systems are no longer new technology as it may seem. Vancouver's automatic Skytrain is already twenty-three years old. The Victoria Line on the London Underground has used automatic train operation since 1968, where the driver only ...
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 17:00 pm BST Source: Autopia
UAW strikes GM's Malibu plant in Kansas
The UAW this morning struck a General Motors assembly plant that makes the hot-selling Chevrolet Malibu. Members of UAW Local 31 in Kansas City, Kan.,walked out at 10 a.m. EDT at GM's Fairfax assembly plant.
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 16:24 pm BST Source: Automotive News Breaking News Feed
Land Rover Turns Sixty, But What's Next?
A week spent behind the wheel of a $96,600 Land Rover Range Rover Supercharged was an opulent way to celebrate the brand's sixtieth birthday. It's a magnificent ride, no question, but its unconscionable thirst (12/18 mpg, city/highway; far ...
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 15:34 pm BST Source: Autopia
Ferrari to open first retail store in London
Italy's Ferrari, the luxury sports car maker of Formula One fame owned by Fiat, plans to open a store in London this autumn, the latest to join a lucrative retail network that stretches the globe.
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 15:00 pm BST Source: Automotive News - Automaker News Feeds
Bush: No quick fix for gas prices
President Bush said Monday that he's troubled by rising gas prices and will take a look at proposals to relieve the crisis but warned that there is no quick fix.
Monday, 5th May 2008 at 14:28 pm BST Source: MSNBC.com: Automotive
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