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Junkyard Find: 2004 Mitsubishi Diamante LS

The Truth About Cars

Having read all four episodes, you now know that 2004 was the final model year for the Diamante in North America, and that only 4,379 examples were sold here that year. There was a time when Mitsubishi dealers in North America offered just about every kind of car and light truck for sale. The engine is a 3.5-liter

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Stellantis Cancels Ram 1500 Classic in Canada, America Next?

The Truth About Cars

For starters, mention of the truck for a 2024 model year has never been part of the brand’s build-and-price tool in that country, despite dealers in the area having the things parked cheek-to-jowl on their lots. After all, Ford did something similar with the F-150 way back in 2004 when that model was extensively redesigned.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

Cars That Think

On 12 August 1981, at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, IBM unveiled the company's entrant into the nascent personal computer market: the IBM PC. From IBM's perspective, a new and vast market quickly turned into an ugly battleground with many rivals. With that, the preeminent U.S. IBM CEO Frank T.

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Junkyard Find: 2005 Pontiac Sunfire

The Truth About Cars

market Js were available as two- and four-door sedans , coupes , three-door hatchbacks , convertibles and station wagons. This one rolled off the line in September of 2004. Those prices are likely meaningless, anyway, because dealers were motivated to get these antiquated heaps off their lots in order to make room for the new G5s.

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GM outlines plans for China with 17 launches this year; developing advanced propulsion and electrification tech in China

Green Car Congress

With more new models, the expansion of its local manufacturing capability and a growing dealer network, GM expects to increase Cadillac sales from 30,000 units last year to 100,000 units in 2015. Its longer-term goal is to take Cadillac’s share of China’s luxury car market to 10% by 2020. million units. —Bob Socia.

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Kansas City Assembly Plant comes on line as second US plant building new Ford F-150

Green Car Congress

Combined, Kansas City Assembly and Dearborn Truck facilities will have capacity to produce more than 700,000 Ford F-150 pickups per year for availability in 90 markets globally. In January, F-Series had its strongest sales month since 2004—Ford’s best sales year ever for F-150. Retail sales increased 7% in February.

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THE UNOBVIOUS ONES: Serving to Genesis Canada promote ‘anything else that drives benefit’ outdoor untouched automobiles

Baua Electric

Barrett, 46, studied industry and advertising and marketing in his local Montreal. Shifting to Ontario, he joined Kia Canada in 2004 in advertising and marketing and upcoming moved product making plans. “I I could look at the dealer statements and in five minutes tell what’s not working in the store.”