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What Do You Think About Chrysler's Plan? AutoSpies Weighs In On FOX

Agent00R submitted on 11/5/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 11:59:21 AM

Listen up, ladies and gentlemen.  Today on the FOX Car Report AutoSpies will be on-air speaking alongside an interesting panel about Chrysler and their new plan to bail them out of the ashes.Will it work? Is it fruitless? Reliance upon Fiat to d...

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Fiat Decides To Save Viper And Continue Development

Agent009 submitted on 11/4/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:51:29 PM

Dodge will work with Fiat to develop a new version of its iconic Viper sports car that will be sold well into the next decade, it has announced.Chrysler LLC confirmed the plan for the Viper at a press conference in Detroit designed to outline how it ...

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Which Import Brand Has The Genesis Hurt The Most? Read The Facts And See

Agent009 submitted on 11/4/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:11:01 PM

When Hyundai debut the Genesis sedan Last year they made it clear that it had targeted the luxury community, they were putting the establishment on notice so to speak. Since then the economy has gone in the tank, and to almost everyone it seemed to b...

58 user comments | Category: Report Cards

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GM Pisses Off German Government And Decides To Keep Opel

Agent009 submitted on 11/4/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 8:32:54 AM

Workers at automaker Opel planned walkouts to protest General Motor Co.'s decision not to sell the European subsidiary, while Germany's government vowed Wednesday to recover euro1.5 billion ($2.2 billion) it loaned GM to finance the sale. Klaus Franz...

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Who Is Next? Acura Scales Back - Officially Shelving Tier One Aspirations

Agent009 submitted on 11/2/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 4:04:46 PM

Acura is reversing course in North America as the brand suffers through the shift from high-performance luxury vehicles and the cancellation of its V8 and rear-wheel-drive programs.There is "a certain level of confusion" about Acura in the ...

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Is This Fair? Fed Slashes Salaries Of Executives That Took Federal Funds

Agent009 submitted on 10/22/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:30:32 PM

The U.S. Treasury this afternoon unveiled sweeping pay cuts for the top 25 executives at seven companies that received government bailouts, including General Motors Co., Chrysler Group LLC, GMAC Inc. and Chrysler Financial LLC. In nearly all cases, s...

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Buick Continues To Build Product Line, Possibly Add Riviera To Line-Up

inspirion7 submitted on 10/16/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 6:47:13 PM

For those that remember back in 2007 at the Shanghai Motor Show, GM-China showed the Buick Riviera Coupe' Concept. The car wowed the public but GM wasn't in the position to bring the it to market. Fast forward to the Tuesday's meeting this week wit...

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Budget car, a top priority for Porsche

tryme submitted on 10/7/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:19:00 PM

We told you this week that Porsche is planning to build cheaper and smaller vehicles. This fact remained unchanged but today we found out something else: the German manufacturer is now a step closer in producing its own version of the Volkswagen Blue...

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Hate To Say We Told You Cash 4 Clunkers Was A Bust BUT...

Agent001 submitted on 9/21/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 5:10:03 PM

We took a lot of heat for not jumping on the bandwagon immediately, when the new admin sang its praises. But we knew Cash For Clunkers would be a disaster from the get go and a COLOSSAL waste of our tax dollars.And now the most damning evidence is up...

80 user comments | Category: Spy News

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Off Base? Audi President Labels The Chevy Volt As A Car For "Idiots"

Agent009 submitted on 9/3/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 2:20:26 PM

I've come to know Audi of America President Johan de Nysschen as a passionate advocate of fuel-sipping diesel engines. That passion was on full display when I sat with de Nysschen at a media dinner in Carneros, Calif. (after test drives of three new ...

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Has Buick Finally Out Maneuvered Lexus: 2010 Buick La Crosse VS. 2009 Lexus ES 350

inspirion7 submitted on 8/31/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 7:51:59 AM

If you do your part to forget about your (grand)father's Buick, we'll do ours to refrain from picking the low-hanging fruit when it comes to smart remarks in this comparison test of the 2010 Buick LaCrosse CXS and the 2009 Lexus ES 350. There will be...

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Is VW Taking Porsche Main Stream? Will It Dilute The Brand?

inspirion7 submitted on 8/31/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:35:17 AM

We spoke with Martin Winterkorn, Volkswagen Group chief, just days after the denouement of the VW-Porsche takeover saga. Porsche had to give up its four-year attempt to take over VW and was itself taken over. Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking lost his j...

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Cadillac BLS killed due to poor sales

tryme submitted on 8/20/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 3:24:16 PM

Cadillac has had to cut back on its plans due to the financial difficulties faced by parent company General Motors. Already, it has scaled back its European expansion plans and it has put on hold the development of a new diesel powerplant. However, C...

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2010 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG First Drive

theoptimisticpessimist submitted on 8/15/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:20:17 PM

The black-and-white prototype appears over the gentle rise in the wide main straight and spears past us, pursued by the deeply penetrating bark of its V8 engine. As it accelerates past, the front end lifts ever so slightly under the strain of power b...

25 user comments | Category: Reviews

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Hyundai Announces New Assault On The Premium Market, Who Will Be The First Victim?

Agent009 submitted on 8/12/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 12:47:52 PM

Hyundai is shaking things up at the annual Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance by announcing its intention to launch its most premium luxury sedan in the U.S. next year. Hyundai's flagship, badged as the Equus in the Korean market, will be on display an...

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