March 02, 2009
Filed under: Gadgets, Videos, Toys Click above for high-res gallery of SuperCar Challenge screen caps System 3 has a follow-up title to last year's Ferrari Challenge: SuperCar Challenge. The new game will offer 40 cars to choose from, not all of which are Ferraris this team. The roster will include ...
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February 24, 2009
Filed under: Car Buying, Motorsports, Subaru, Special/Limited Editions Click above for a high-res gallery of Prodrive's first Impreza WRC car Prodrive helped make its name - and a whole lot of World Rally Championship fans - with its race prepped, royal blue Subaru Impreza race cars. Now the very fi...
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February 05, 2009
Filed under: Etc., Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, BMW Chris Bangle, who left BMW earlier this week to move "beyond the automobile," did not create the butt that bears his name - Adrian van Hooydonk did. But most importantly, Bangle did not stand behind that butt; he stood in front of it. It was Bangle's v...
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February 02, 2009
Filed under: Government/Legal, GM, Earnings/Financials, UAW/Unions Ask for a little help from the government, and the next thing you know you're asking for the government to protect you from the very help it's giving you. General Motors is restructuring its debt load by offering equity shares instea...
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February 01, 2009
Filed under: Etc., Videos Click above to watch video after the jump It's hard to tell what's going on in this first trailer for the upcoming Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen sequel that will air tonight during the Super Bowl, but there are more psychotic Decepticons amped up for a rematch, lots o...
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January 29, 2009
Filed under: Gadgets, Tech, Audi Audi's MMI in-car command system is one of the most intuitive offered by an OEM, but that isn't stopping Audi from piling on the improvements. The screen is now a seven-inch, 800x400 TFT display, being fed info from a high-capacity hard disk, a DVD drive, and an NVID...
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January 26, 2009
Filed under: Government/Legal, Plants/Manufacturing, Saturn, Earnings/Financials The good news: Saturns will remain in production until 2012 or 2013... at least. The bad news: the Saturns currently being produced might not get any new updates or engineering before then. That's the bitter and the swe...
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January 24, 2009
Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Chrysler, LLC., Celebrities If a company is going to stay in business, there's no question that it must continue to market itself. Yet Chrysler's choice to pay to do so via this summer's Terminator: Salvation is a head-scratcher. Some folks have made an issu...
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Filed under: Etc., Chrysler, LLC. Chrysler chieftan Bob Nardelli sent a letter to "all employees, dealers, suppliers and other stakeholders" to explain what's happening at the smallest of the Detroit trio. Everything done now falls under one of three umbrellas: enhancing the core, which is improving...
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January 03, 2009
Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Green, Earnings/Financials, Lifestyle A gas tax is about more than putting liquid into your tank and subtracting a higher amount from your bank account. A gas tax is -- just like CAFE and hybrids and $25 billion set aside to finance fuel efficient technologies --...
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