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Filed under: Budget, Hatchback, Volkswagen, First Drives Getting Back To Being A Credible Car For The Times 2012 Volkswagen Beetle Turbo – Click above for high-res image gallery Volkswagen’s choice of Berlin for the launch of its 2012 Beetle inevitably struck us Yanks as curious – and not just because of the horrible abundance of [...]
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Filed under: Chrysler, Fiat Fiat is well on its way toward owning 57 percent of Chrysler by the end of 2011, and CEO Sergio Marchionne appears to be ready to take the integration of the two companies to the next level. Bloomberg reports that Marchionne plans to unify the management structure of the two automakers, [...]
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Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Videos, Chrysler, UAW/Unions Chrysler employees caught drinking on lunch break – Click above to watch the video after the jump If this story sounds familiar to you, it’s because something very similar happened just ten months ago. Chrysler employees at the Jefferson North Plant in Detroit were busted for drinking beer during [...]
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Filed under: Etc., UK, Humor The least reliable car in the UK – Click above to enlarge Our friendly allies from Britain are known to have designed some truly beautiful automobiles over the years. Sadly, for all their inventive engineering and design talents, one thing that British cars have never been known for is reliability. [...]
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Filed under: Scion, Toyota Scion’s youth focus has served it well in the last nine years, with nearly 80 percent of first-time buyers moving into a Toyota or another Scion when the time comes to trade in. But Toyota is keenly aware that the youth market is retracting, and thus, Scion could be used as [...]