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Thirteen years ago, the 1975 Celica you see pictured was nowhere near the sort of condition that has you currently shaking your head gently while admiring just how clean and well executed this build really is. A project, in the most blatant of terms, is what builder Kong Vue saw it as.
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.
A man who had a close relationship with suspected Russian spy Maria Butina is a charming political operative who left a trail of aggrieved former business partners complaining that he owed them money, according to court records and interviews in his home state of South Dakota. The emerging profile of Paul Allen Erickson, Butina's alleged one-time boyfriend, comes from CNN interviews with a neighbor, a former friend, political acquaintances and his one-time lawyer --- along with details contained in half a dozen lawsuits filed in local courts near Sioux Falls.
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.
Nick Cunningham at Oilprice.com points to the dilemmas implicit in the rumored Saudi plan to engineer a return to $100 a barrel oil. That price level translates into an average gasoline price in the US of $3.57, though in California, with a population of about 40 million.
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.
Ford's defunct Dearborn Assembly Plant produced more than six million Mustangs for nearly one-half of its 90-year history before production ended on Monday, May 10, 2004. The 80-plus year-old plant designed by Albert Kahn was torn down in 2008.