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[GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site] Why the Buick CUV Plugin Will Have a 3.5 L, 6 Cylinder Engine | GM ...: GM’s two-mode hybrid system is very advanced and made great strides for the capacities of their full size pickups and SUVs but the public perceives it as inferior to the Prius or the general strategy that Toyota has been undertaking. From an engineering perspective GM’s parallel hybrid strategy has been a smart one but from a marketing perspective the public will continue to see it as weak and inferior to Toyota’s high millage strategy.

[HybridCars.com] GM's Green Gambit, Decoded | Hybrid Cars: The principal findings of the study show GM using a classic gambit move: the company takes a risky step about a green initiative, waits for criticism, and then allows a company executive, most notably product chief Bob Lutz, to “freely admit failure and fault.” Critics are unaccustomed to GM admitting fault and are somewhat neutralized as the company returns to claims about green car programs that could take several years to produce results.

[The Truth About Cars] DetN's Burgess Defends the Indefensible: The Chevy Aveo5 | The ...: It took the esteemed GM technician six weeks to put a motor in it while they fought with each other who would pay the carrying charges while the warranty claim was being processed. In four weeks, I didn’t receive a single call from the dealer, who, with the ultimate in class, blamed me for causing the engine failure by using synthetic oil.

[GM FastLane] Still Open for Business | GM FastLane: While this enlightened policy, so evident at GM nowadays, certainly has its proponents, one can understand why the allmighty, and certainly fickle consumer, would have problems understanding why this policy should affect him or her in the pocket book, while trying so hard to maintain their cars without resorting to the time consuming process of warranty repairs. Then again, paying such a high price for a car, even though that high price helps to offset the warranty repair costs might be fair, in your opinion, it would tend to price the car out of the market (you can pay me now or pay me later, but either way, you gonna pay for repairs that should be under warranty).

[GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site] What Question Would You Ask GM CEO Fritz Henderson? | GM-VOLT ...: When I have several 40 year old men and women come into my retail store asking for job applications because they have lost their jobs at GM after working 25+ years, I have to wonder when we will stop to take a look at the structure we have all helped to create–myself included. When do we all say enough is enough and start treating people like fellow human beings—making others in companies share the wealth so when large companies like this fall, the common working class fellow is not left destitute and struggeling off of state while CEO’s are trying to figure out how to keep their money and create new cars after becoming bankrupt?

[drive blog] drive blog: So, what is the best car in the world?: Other European makers (Mercedes, Volvo, Rover) started innovating with passive safety in the early 60s, that's also around when front disc brakes started to become common. BMC had a go at space-efficient front-wheel drive designs starting with the Mini, and did more than anyone to make front-drive widely accepted, then they used a suspension designed along similar principles for the Morris 1100 in 1962 and later the Austin 1800.

[oilprimer blog] Exxon News 2009: “For now and the foreseeable future, an integrated set of solutions is required — ranging from producing hydrocarbons more effectively, to using them more efficiently, to improving existing alternatives and developing policies that encourage long-term planning and investments.” "ExxonMobil is strong, resilient, and well positioned for the future, with plans to invest between $125 and $150 billion in new energy projects over the next five years alone," said Tillerson. “Our commitment to developing advanced technology, our industry-leading operational and project-management capabilities and exceptional employees continue to position the company as the world leader in the petroleum industry and a partner of choice for resource owners around the world.” Between 2008 and 2015, to offset normal field declines and depletion, ExxonMobil expects to add approximately 1.5 million oil-equivalent barrels per day of new capacity through new projects - equivalent to almost 40 percent of current production.

[The Truth About Cars] I Still Think the CTS Sport Wagon is Ugly | The Truth About Cars: One botheration is that I see many comments on TTAC that bitch about how US automakers don’t make wagons, but as soon as GM comes out with what I consider to be a pretty handsome wagon, even more commenters stampede in to bitch about how ugly it is. I’m all for this car, I think they did a fine job with it –

[On Pit Row] Have NASCAR Fans Let Toyota Off The Hook? : On Pit Row: And I think you’re attempting to steer a conversation because you’re at a complete loss to even address scores of valid points made here, such as Japans yen subsidies, the fact that yota’s direct invovement in nascar is to push sales of full size trucks to a certain demograph with their flag waving campaings (in hopes of wrangling away the last market hold the domestics have over them in the north american market), or the fact that in the first time in the history of professional motorsports, a manufacture has blatently copied the complete layout of it’s competitors to compete on the race track with them.

[Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] A Food Elitist Strikes Back - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine: As Hurststates in the article "On our farm, we have increased yields about50 percent during my career, while applying about the same amountof nitrogen we did when I began farming. That fortunate trend willincrease even faster with the advent of new GMO hybrids."

[Squawkfox] Cars Are the New Smoking | Squawkfox: As for the rest of this: I wholeheartedly agree that cars are obnoxious and SUVs need to die–which they are, but only after nobody could afford to gas them…BUT (and there’s always a “but”) the whole car thing wouldn’t be nearly so much of an issue if the racism of the 1960s weren’t so godawful.

[wowaboutbusiness] Q & Aha! • Social Advertising with Prius - wowaboutbusiness: As more competitors hop on the band-wagon, they've gotta claim their role, and stay out front. Their latest ad highlights the technical advances that keep customers coming: the new Prius has a Solar Roof, .

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