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Let's get cracking! Cerberus green-lights a slew of Pentastar projects

Cerberus isn't wasting any time teaching its new elephant to tapdance. Just days after closing the deal, taking over Chrysler and bringing Robert Nardelli on board, Cerberus has earmarked $3 billion for new powertrain facilities, indicating some level of its desire to steward the brand back to strength. Work has started on three engine plants that will build a new family of V6 engines incorporating the fuel-saving multi-displacement system. Ground has also been broken on a transmission plant that will build a new dual-clutch unit co-developed ... Read more →

Autoblog Maintenance/Project Garage: 2006 wrap-up Eric Bryant

In 2006, we spent a lot of time spinning wrenches here in the Autoblog Garage in the process of taking on common maintenance tasks and a few performance upgrades. For your convenience, we've compiled ...

Autoblog Project Garage: Axle swap, Part IV Eric Bryant

One of the goals of the Autoblog Project Garage posts is to give our readers some insight into the scope of various projects, including a sense of the amount of time it might take to complete a job ...

Autoblog Project Garage: Axle swap, Part II Eric Bryant

With the axle disassembled in the previous installment of this project, it is now time to start putting things back together with fresh parts as needed. One surprise that we encountered during the ...

How not to drift, Vol. II Eric Bryant

Previously, we learned that it's a bad idea to drift in areas populated with curbs. In this installment of Autoblog's Please Don't Act Like a Dufus lessons, the class will learn that other real-world ...

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Autoblog Project Garage: Axle swap, Part I 3 years ago on Autoblog

Here's a great example of a project that has undergone a bit of "feature creep". Oh, it started innocently enough, with my wife asking if anything could be done to improve the brake feel of our 1996 Buick Roadmaster. Sure, I said - we can ditch the rear drum brakes, and install a set of discs from ...

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Chris, Editor Paukert, and Dan send the Podcast off for the Christmas holiday in proper fashion

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