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With too many factories making slow-selling cars, General Motors can't afford to keep them all operating without making some tough decisions. But the political atmosphere might be limiting its options.
Steve Tramell remembers when the news got out in 2006 that Kia was planning to open a plant in West Point, Ga., population 3,700. "The excitement in downtown was wild," says Tramell, the city's mayor.
As car reviewers, we get asked that question all the time, but answering literally with "Rolls-Royce Phantom" isn't really helpful. At least if you're actually trying to buy the best car possible.
I met Bill Tower at his Corvette Racing Seminar at the 2016 12 Hours of Sebring event. Tower started working for Chevrolet as a Corvette development engineer late in 1963, and today lives in Plant City, Florida.
Under the proposal, passengers would travel between downtown Chicago and O'Hare airport in 16-person vehicles travelling at 240km/h, slashing travel time to 12 minutes, from the current 30-45 minutes Chicago has selected Elon Musk's Boring Co to build a futuristic US$1 billion underground transit system that will whisk people from Chicago's downtown Loop district to O'Hare International Airport at 240km/h, the billionaire entrepreneur and Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday.
It's available in no fewer than 12 different models with four powertrain choices, and the option of rear- or all-wheel drive. You can get a no-nonsense commuter with just over 200 horsepower, or even an all-wheel-drive V6 hybrid.
Gregory A. Tracy, 63, was pronounced dead after he sideswiped a Toyota Corolla in the southbound lanes, skidding off the road, and struck a dirt embankment around 4:50 p.m. Saturday, New Hampshire... The Manchester Monarchs couldn't sweep their weekend series against the Wheeling Nailers on Sunday afternoon, and fell, 4-2, at WesBanco Arena.
General Motors shares rose the company said 2018 earnings will be largely flat compared with 2017 and forecast higher profits in 2019 when its revamped line of high-margin pickup trucks hits the U.S. market. Aleksandra Michalska reports.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at unveiling of the Model 3, March 31, 2016, in Hawthorne, CA. CREDIT: AP/Justin Pritchard Back in 2015, Tesla CEO Elon Musk explained why hydrogen fuel cell vehicles "are extremely silly" and why " hydrogen is an incredibly dumb " alternative fuel compared to electricity .
Wall Street investors are growing weary of Tesla as the electric vehicle maker's bond prices have tumbled since the company issued a massive bond sale in July to finance production on the Model 3. Tesla's bond prices fell 2 percent Monday as investors start having second thoughts about the health of the Silicon Valley company's finances. The automaker debut in the junk-bond market in early August, which is typically relegated for companies with poor credit.
The US's U2 spy plane, designed during the 1950s, has provided intelligence for more than a half-century by flying at high altitudes over sensitive and remote locations. But the same features that make the "Dragon Lady" so effective when it's 70,000 feet in the air create problems on the ground.
When Trump administration appointee Wilbur Ross sat for a hearing on his commerce secretary nomination, one name kept coming up: Toyota. A senator from Vice President Mike Pence's home state asked to be reassured trade reforms wouldn't compromise Indiana jobs.
Registration will allow you to post comments on ctpost.com and create a ctpost.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. There's a big contradiction in Trump's plan to secure the border and undermine the Mexican auto industry President-elect Donald Trump promised during the election to get tough on undocumented immigrants from Mexico by among other things building a massive wall.
Tiajuana Williams lives in a one-story apartment building in Princeville, North Carolina, that was flooded by a river bulging with rainwater from Hurricane Matthew. Before driving out of town in her Honda Civic ahead of the storm, she hurriedly packed a small bag with little more than a change of clothes.