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- Honda And Subaru Lead Consumer Reports' Honor Roll For 2010
- Depressed Sales Could Hurt Dealer Service Business For Years
- BREAKING: GM Battery Czar Denise Gray Leaves Volt Team For California Startup
- 2010 Geneva Motor Show Preview: Hyundai i-flow Concept
- HUMMER, An Obituary: 1999-2010
- HUMMER Sale Nixed By China; GM Begins Winding Down Brand
- Adding Urea To Clean Diesel Cars: Can I Just Pee In The Tank?
- Hyundai Puts The Brakes On The 2011 Hyundai Sonata
- 2010 Geneva Motor Show Preview: Honda 3R-C Concept
| Honda And Subaru Lead Consumer Reports' Honor Roll For 2010 Posted: 24 Feb 2010 04:35 PM PST  Subaru (TSE: 7270) and Honda (NYSE: HMC) are tied for the number one spot from Consumer Reports this year, based on the average of its vehicles' overall road-test scores and predicted reliability ratings. Subaru's overall score was aided by the excellent evaluations given to the new 2010 Subaru Legacy and 2010 Subaru Outback, even though the...
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| Depressed Sales Could Hurt Dealer Service Business For Years Posted: 24 Feb 2010 02:29 PM PST  The depressed auto sales trend that began back in 2008 is going to leave some lingering effects, affecting the service department business of new-car dealerships for many years. So predicts J.D Power and Associates—that dealer service traffic will decline by 20 percent between 2009 and 2013, with a 25-percent drop in service dollars from...
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| BREAKING: GM Battery Czar Denise Gray Leaves Volt Team For California Startup Posted: 24 Feb 2010 02:00 PM PST  A key member of the small team brought together four years ago to create the 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric car is unexpectedly leaving General Motors. Denise Gray, director of global battery systems engineering at General Motors, will leave the company on Friday, March 5, to take an unspecified position with an unidentified battery startup in...
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| 2010 Geneva Motor Show Preview: Hyundai i-flow Concept Posted: 24 Feb 2010 01:52 PM PST  The Hyundai Genesis Sedan, the recently-unveiled all-new Sonata, and the upcoming executive-class Equus are reshaping Hyundai's lineup from budget South Korean automaker to world-class player. The next car, previewed with the i-flow concept coming to the 2010 Geneva Motor Show next month, will likely replace the current Azera to complete the...
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| HUMMER, An Obituary: 1999-2010 Posted: 24 Feb 2010 12:13 PM PST  HUMMER's dead. Short of a last-minute rescue by an unlikely, as yet unheralded white knight, the newest GM brand to the fold will be folded, like so much of its trucks' hard-edged sheetmetal. It's been about 12 years since the notion of buying the rights to AM General's Hummer products took hold at GM. Back then, gasoline was under a buck a...
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| HUMMER Sale Nixed By China; GM Begins Winding Down Brand Posted: 24 Feb 2010 09:56 AM PST  UPDATE: GM has just confirmed the sale to Tengzhong will not take place and that it will begin wind-down operations for the HUMMER brand. More to come -- the entire release follows at the end of this post. General Motors is having a win-some/lose-some kind of week: a day after the company wrapped up its drawn-out sale of Saab, GM has confirmed...
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| Adding Urea To Clean Diesel Cars: Can I Just Pee In The Tank? Posted: 24 Feb 2010 09:26 AM PST  We get punchy around High Gear Media occasionally, and sometimes we BS back and forth about topics less salubrious than, say, fuel efficiency and lowering our oil dependency. Which is how the following question came up: If the urea runs low in my new clean-diesel car, can I just pee in the tank to top it up? Urea to cut NOx First, a bit of...
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| Hyundai Puts The Brakes On The 2011 Hyundai Sonata Posted: 24 Feb 2010 08:39 AM PST  2010 may be the lunar Year of the Tiger, but if things continue as they have, it could be remembered as the Year of the Recall for many Asian automakers. Not only are Japan's Toyota and Honda up to their eyeballs in fixes, but now Korean automaker Hyundai has announced that it's issuing a voluntary recall for the 2011 Hyundai Sonata. According to...
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| 2010 Geneva Motor Show Preview: Honda 3R-C Concept Posted: 24 Feb 2010 02:23 AM PST  Honda is set to unveil a radically styled electric three-wheeler concept at next week’s 2010 Geneva Motor Show, which the automaker has revealed the first details on today. The new concept is called the Honda 3R-C and it envisages the automaker’s vision for a minimalistic urban commuter. Designed to carry just one occupant, the 3R-C...
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