iflove Archive for October, 2008

Opec organizes conference to discuss cut in output as oil price hits the lowest level

Opec organizes conference to discuss cut in output as oil price hits the lowest level. News detailed as follows: Oil prices plunged below $85 a barrel yesterday, the lowest level in a year, as Opec, the oil exporting countries’ cartel, called an emergency meeting to discuss reducing its crude production to halt the collapse in [...]

General Motors needs money to acquire Chrysler, Industry Analysts Indicates

General Motors needs cash to acquire Chrysler, Analysts Indicates. News from DETROIT, details: For General Motors Corp. to acquire Chrysler LLC and all of its warts, GM would have to get desperately needed cash as part of the deal. Lots of it, according to industry analysts.
With both automakers struggling to survive amid slumping sales, a [...]

Ford Motor May Sell Mazda Controlling Stake After Almost Three Decades as Investor

FordĀ  Motor May Sell Mazda Controlling Stake After Almost Three Decades as Investor. News on Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — Ford Motor Co., after almost three decades as an investor in Japan’s Mazda Motor Corp., is considering selling its controlling stake, a person familiar with the deliberations said.
A sale of the one-third holding in Mazda isn’t [...]

General Motors Don’t Believe in Auto-asphyxiation While Dow Jones Industrial Average Trading at a Hair

General Motors Don’t Believe in Auto-asphyxiation While Dow Jones Industrial Average Trading at a Hair. OK. The news details are as follows: The Dow Jones Industrial Average was trading at a hair above 200 points, the Soviets had just declared themselves a nuclear power and the US population was half of today’s level. Much has [...]

Chrysler Accuses Getrag of plant financing, Dispute jeopardizes U.S. dual-clutch gearboxes

Chrysler yesterday sued Getrag in Michigan, alleging that the German supplier failed to raise up to $300 million in debt financing necessary to build and equip a plant in Tipton, Ind., to produce the transmissions.
Chrysler LLC’s source of dual-clutch transmissions in the United States is jeopardized by a factory-building dispute with supplier Getrag Transmission Manufacturing [...]

Volvo to introduce diesel hybrid by 2012 while start-stop technology will arrive in 2009

PARIS, Volvo to introduce diesel hybrid by 2012 while start-stop technology will arrive in 2009 –Volvo Car Corp. will introduce a diesel hybrid in 2012 if not sooner, while start-stop technology will arrive in 2009, company executives said here at the auto show.
The hybrids will be sold in Europe and the United States.
The start-stop technology, [...]

Mazda3 sedan breaks cover early, updated tail compliments Mazda3’s new front clip

All-New Mazda3 Sedan to Debut at 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show. The all new Mazda3 sedan breaks cover early. An updated tail compliments the Mazda3’s new front clip.
The all new Mazda3 sedan breaks cover early. An updated tail compliments the Mazda3’s new front clip.
With Mazda’s redesigned Mazda6 sedan completed and on showroom floors, the automaker [...]

Brand-New Mazda3 Sedan to Be Present at 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show

Auto Industry News Hiroshima, Oct 08, 2008 – Brand-New Mazda3 Sedan to Be Present at 2008 Los Angeles Auto Show. Mazda Motor Corporation has confirmed that the sedan version of the all-new Mazda3 (known as Mazda Axela in Japan), fully redesigned for the first time in 5 years, will be revealed at the Los Angeles [...]

Audi Q7 diesel road trip-Blitzing to Chicago in a Q5

Audi Q7 diesel road trip-Blitzing to Chicago in a Q5: As we settled into our first drink before dinner Tuesday evening, we were met with an intriguing proposal: Would we trade our U.S.-spec Audi Q7 for a European version of the Q5?
Let’s see: Trade a car we’ve driven for the better part of two days [...]

Mazda plans to roll out redesigned Mazda3 sedan in Los Angeles auto show

Mazda News Latest: Mazda to roll out redesigned Mazda3 sedan in Los Angeles auto show
Mazda on Thursday said it plans to roll out the redesigned Mazda3 sedan at the Los Angeles auto show in November.
Mazda also released three photos of the redesigned car, which is sold under the Axela name in Japan.
The redesigned car, which [...]