Details on the car like the auto-open charging lid and the car-shaped key fob with corresponding pressure points show that innovative thinking found its way into every aspect of the vehicle.
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The failing economy, tightening credit and evaporating new-car sales counter-punched the auto industry late in 2008, leaving Chrysler and General Motors on the ropes and in need of immediate financial CPR.
Lori Johnson, a longtime auto mechanic, teaches car-owners the basics at Ladies Start Your Engines.
The Dodge Durango hybrid, this is a car - well one auto writer has said by going hybrid with the Dodge Durango, you can take a car that gets 12 miles to the gallon and get 16 miles to the gallon instead.
This owner, operator and promoter of auto raceways has hitched its bumper to a phenom--the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.
Waddling into first place, not surprisingly, is Los Angeles County, the car capital of auto-crazed California.
The small hatchback that Mercedes-Benz has on a pedestal at its auto-show display looks like a car that got lost on its way to the Toyota stand.
This assumption was based on the stable underpinnings of auto demand--cheap financing by car companies (and by home equity loans) and a customary replacement cycle of three years.
Riding high on its previously-introduced sister products -- the Handheld PC and Palm PC platforms, now dead and transformed into Windows Mobile, respectively -- Microsoft's Auto PC initiative was promised to herald a revolution for in-car entertainment and productivity.
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And auto executives said the strength in new-car sales is coast to coast.
Auto makers reported the pace of new-car sales slowed in April.
As exotic-auto makers redefine what a superluxury car can be, their executives are attempting a delicate balancing act: maintaining the exclusive cachet of their upper-crust brands while pursuing new wealthy customers that lower-end luxury rivals are currently scooping up.
Multiple manufacturers have told us that they'll be launching initiatives in 2013 to enlist the help of outside developers and, while we're still a long way from a truly open source car, expect some auto-related APIs to launch at CES. This should, finally, help to push the selection of apps available to run in cars.
Instead of spending a loathsome afternoon with a salesman, customers of Auto-by-Tel, the leading Internet car-buying service, simply tell the service what kind of car they want, and wait for nearby dealerships to make their best offer.
In Europe, anti-car activism is quite advanced, and many inner cities ban internal-combustion auto traffic entirely.
New-car sales in the 27-member European Union are in the ditch, auto workers are fighting for their jobs and expectations of any relief this year have been wiped away like fingerprints on the glossy paint of the show's stars.
After the TV show ended in 1968, Barris kept the Batmobile, storing it at his north Hollywood custom-car shop and trailering it to auto events nationwide.
Farmers was founded in L.A. and is headquartered 6 miles away from the proposed stadium site in downtown L.A. (plus an auto insurer sponsor like Farmers makes sense in car-clogged L.A.).
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They got the car working during a one-day auto-repair binge.
The next-best long pick was mega car dealership United Auto Group, headed by racecar great Roger Penske.
Shanghai Automotive has produced its first own branded car, using designs from the former British auto-maker MG Rover.
Another local producer, Severstal-Auto, has sensibly decided that rather than taking on foreign car brands, it will instead specialise in small vans and trucks, demand for which will be driven by the fast-growing retail sector.
The greatest fortune ever made in the auto business was made by Henry Ford with his low-priced Model T car.
The LF-A supercar prototype, equipped with a 500-horsepower V-10 engine, is a follow-up to a concept car Lexus debuted on the 2005 auto show circuit.
So with one click, our electric car salesperson can import a contact from Hootsuite into Nimble and auto-populate the record with additional contact information and activity streams.
This long-expected (and recently spied) auto is a shortened, slightly smaller car that is said to be priced at a "much lower price point" than its predecessor.
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Cars that can do smaller functions, such as control a car in traffic jams, keep you inside lane markings or auto-park, are already on the road or about to come to market courtesy of Toyota, Mercedes, BMW and others.
If the yet-to-be-named car is a success when it goes on sale next year, it would herald the emergence of Tata Motors on the global auto scene, mark the advent of India as a global center for small-car production and represent a victory for those who advocate making cheap goods for potential customers at the "bottom of the pyramid" in emerging markets.
For the auto show the company had time to build only a fiberglass shell of the car--yet it was an enormous hit.
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