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Hybrid Sales Falling Like A Rock, Will Resale Soon Follow?

Agent009 submitted on 1/7/2009 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 1:44:24 PM

December's gas-electric car and SUV sales plunged almost 43 percent from the final month of 2007 as the year wound up on a discouraging note for the only alternative technology vehicles to so far make a dent in the auto market. It was a near repe...

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DETROIT PREVIEW: The Chevy Orlando Will Make It's North American Debut In Detroit

Agent009 submitted on 12/18/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 4:40:39 PM

The Chevrolet Orlando show car made its North American debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The compact, seven-seat multi-purpose vehicle has the versatile attributes of a sport-utility, a family van and a wagon. Based ...

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Ford Asks Congress For $9 Billion In Stand By Credit But Has No Plans To Use It

Agent009 submitted on 12/2/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:14:33 PM

Ford Motor Co. is asking Congress for a $9 billion "stand-by line of credit" to stabilize its business, but says it doesn't expect to tap it. Unless one of Detroit's other Big Three auto companies goes bust, Ford exp...

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BREAKING PORSCHE NEWS: The Panamera Breaks Cover, Not At the LA Auto Show - But Here At AutoSpies.com

Agent00J submitted on 11/22/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 10:27:27 AM

With all the news of all the new cars shown at the LA Auto Show this week, there was one participant absent from all the festivities.Agent 001 and I were talking about the lack of the new Porsche Panamera, and the fact it wasn't present for public vi...

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GM Delays Dealer Payments To Conserve Cash

Agent009 submitted on 11/18/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 11:09:38 AM

General Motors Corp., seeking low-interest federal loans to stave off financial collapse, said it will delay reimbursing U.S. dealers for sales incentives by about two weeks to preserve dwindling cash.The move postpones payments to almost 6,500 deale...

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BMW, Audi And Mercedes Battle It Out In October

audispy submitted on 11/15/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 1:02:38 AM

October global sales for the big German three are in and you may be surprised. BMW, the world's largest premium car maker, and Mercedes-Benz Cars of Daimler posted sharp unit sales declines in October due to continued weakness in U.S. and western ...

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They Say WE Like Starting Flame Wars. How About This One From Audi?

Agent001 submitted on 11/14/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 10:39:23 PM

In case you haven't noticed I love people with passion and drive (no pun intended), so I love it when someone is proud of their product and isn't afraid to pick a fight with their competitorBut in an intelligent way, say via ad campaigns.So I want to...

62 user comments | Category: Spy News

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WEB RAGE FRIDAY-Tell The World What's On Your Mind-GOOD or BAD!

Agent001 submitted on 11/14/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 2:31:50 AM

TGIF.It's the end of the week and probably a hard one for most of our readers due to the uncertainty of this crazy economy.So we thought we would start something new, to lighten things up or give you a place to vent at the end of a hard week.We're ca...

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DETROIT RESCUE PLAN SOLUTION: Spies Tell Obama To Do A Tony Soprano And Make Americans An Offer They Can't Refuse

Agent001 submitted on 11/13/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 1:56:48 AM

The Wall St. Journal headline this morning read... "Democrats Plot Detroit Rescue".The article goes on to say that President Elect Obama has ordered his transition team to find ways to aid the car industry before his inauguration.The aid is...

72 user comments | Category: Spy News

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2009 Vw Passat CC recalled due to a steering problem

tryme submitted on 11/11/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 9:33:52 PM

Volkswagen announced that is recalling 130 units of the 2009 Passat, Passat wagon and CC vehicles due to a steering problem. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says some of the vehicles may have an electromechanical steering gear c...

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Is YOUR New GT-R Going to Spend More Time In The Shop Or On The Road?

Agent009 submitted on 10/28/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:26:04 PM

So are you still secretly lusting after that new GT-R?   Maybe not after reading this.Since our good friends over at Edmund's Inside Line have their very own example as a long term test car, I decided to live a bit through them and check ou...

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GM delays Chevrolet Cruze until 2011

omarrana submitted on 10/25/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:31:09 PM

Just yesterday we got a taste of how bad things are really getting for GM. Cash is so tight that the company is not only delaying production model world premieres but is even scrutinizing over electricity and utility bills. As times get worse, GM ...

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Dealers Claim GMAC's New Credit Rules Cut Out 40% Of All Customers

Agent009 submitted on 10/21/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 3:16:16 PM

The head of the California Auto Dealer Association warned that as many as 40 percent of California consumers wouldn't qualify for an auto loan under new stricter guidelines announced by GMAC last week and that many General Motors Corp. dealers could ...

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SOUND OFF: What Makes You Dislike Certain Brands?

Agent009 submitted on 9/19/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 1:23:34 PM

We all have our favorite brands, and it is pretty obvious what they can be:  Agent00J falls down in favor of BMW time and time again.  While Agent004 also favors BMW, he holds Infiniti in high esteem as well.  Agent001 sometimes hints ...

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SOUND OFF: Are You You Being Branded By The Car You Drive?

Agent009 submitted on 9/17/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 2:22:07 PM

We see the advertising where the luxury car owner enjoy the day yachting across the bay, then runs from the deck of the boat to the car off to an art auction.  This advertising alone paints a pretty picture, but the picture they paint is pretty ...

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