Jennifer Granholm has signed legislation aimed at keeping the North American International Auto Show in Michigan beyond 2010, preferably at its current home in Detroit’s Cobo Center.
The new laws signed Thursday call for a nearly $300 million expansion of Cobo and the creation of a regional authority to run and renovate the aging building.As a [...]
New-car registrations in Germany are expected to total more than 3.5 million vehicles this year, boosted by government-initiated scrapping incentives, German auto-makers association VDA said Thursday.
“This high level surely won’t be reached next year,” said VDA President Matthias Wissmann.In 2008, before the scrapping incentives, German new-car registrations totaled about 3.1 million vehicles.
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Auto Insurance In one of his last acts as chairman of the state’s high speed rail authority, Quentin Kopp is proposing that shuttered auto plants be converted into bullet train factories. Kopp, a Bay Area judge who will remain a member of the state-chartered authority, introduced a resolution Thursday encouraging U.S. and California authorities to [...]
BMW has finally ended its striptease for the X1, releasing official images and details of the new compact crossover ahead of its formal launch in September at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show. The BMW X1, however, won’t make the Atlantic crossing until calendar year 2011.
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With the ink still wet on the Fiat/Chrysler deal, many auto sites (including Autoblog) have had a bit of fun prognosticating which Fiat/Alfa models would be rebadged as Chrysler products. U.K. site Autocar is reporting that Fiat is exploring bringing in Dodge models to Europe to be rebadged at Alfa Romeos. CEO Sergio Marchionne is [...]
An Ocean County grand jury has charged a 52-year-old Staten Island man with collecting more than $14,000 by falsely reporting his Mercedes-Benz stolen. Auto Insurance In an indictment handed up Tuesday, the grand jury charged Daniel J. Roach, formerly of Brick, with second-degree insurance fraud, third-degree theft by deception and fourth-degree falsifying records.
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That’s the tripartite advice offered Wednesday by the Texas Auto Burglary and Theft Prevention Authority as it announced the kickoff to “Watch Your Car” month for July. Auto Car As temperatures rise in Texas, so do automobile thefts and break-ins. According to law enforcement officials, July and August are historically the two months when [...]
Ninety per cent of auto insurance shoppers are retained by their current provider, according to J.D. Power and Associates’ 2009 Insurance Shopping Study.The survey examined the purchase behaviours and overall satisfaction of U.S. buyers shopping for a new auto insurance provider.
The survey is based on responses from more than 13,500 consumers who requested an auto [...]
While sellers of new and used cars alike struggle, some auto-parts operators are prospering in tough economic times, Auto Traders as drivers strive to keep their cars running longer. Consumers who have financial concerns and can’t replace their existing cars are doing everything they can to keep them in order. But the older cars get, [...]
Joseph J. Donda II was proud of his job at the Midas auto shop, Auto Route and he was proud to show it off to his young son, Evan.Every now and then, Donda would bring little Evan to work at Midas in South Utica, where Donda used to work as an automotive technician, employees said. [...]
