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Visitor remark: Will guarantees made in Detroit 3 promise talks be guarantees saved?

Baua Electric

The Detroit 3 have fewer gear of their arsenal than they did in 2003 or even if they ultimate negotiated a do business in following a 40-day clash in 2019. Those provisions will save Canadian and American jobs and rob the Detroit 3 of one of the crucial tough levers that they had. 2nd, the macro condition has shifted.

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Honda FCV Concept to make North American debut at 2015 NAIAS in Detroit

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The Honda FCV Concept ( earlier post ) will make its North American debut at the 2015 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. Additional Honda fuel-cell vehicle firsts include: The Honda FCX was the first fuel-cell vehicle to start and operate in sub-freezing temperatures (2003). Earlier post.).

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Toyota Assembly Plant in Texas Turns Twenty

The Truth About Cars

Because the products that pop from this plant are one of the few that have had even a meager amount of success in challenging the Detroit Three in the half-ton truck game. That’s something to crow about – even if the market share of these models remains a sliver of what Detroit grabs every year.

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Italian Government Upset Alfa Romeo ‘Milano’ Will Be Built in Poland

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That’d be like Ford or General Motors producing something called “The Detroit” and then having it built somewhere in Mexico. "A A car called Milano cannot be produced in Poland.

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Junkyard Find: 1964 Mercury Montclair Four-Door Hardtop Marauder

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It was brought back to life on the 2003-2004 Marauder , a version of the Grand Marquis powered by the Lincoln Mark VIII 's DOHC engine. Sadly, big Detroit four-doors of the 1946-1975 era just don't have much of a following among American car aficionados, even when they have hardtop roofs, big-block engines and generous helpings of chrome.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. is providing incentives to voluntarily replace 19 drayage trucks operating 1995-2003 engines. The full list of projects selected for 2014 DERA funds: California.

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Ford Launching Transit Connect in US Starting This Summer; Battery-Electric Version Due in 2010

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To prepare the Transit Connect, introduced in Europe in 2003, for the needs of small businesses in the United States, Ford upgraded the powertrain to a Duratec 2.0-liter More than 600,000 Ford Transit Connects have been sold since 2003, to customers in 58 countries and on four continents. The Transit connect will start at $21,475.