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0Report: Ford and GM in Twitterfight over Facebook advertising? 1337265300
Frenemies Ford and General Motors have taken to cyberspace for a little verbal sparing, trading snarky shots this week over which company is more likeable on Facebook. GM set itself up Tuesday after news broke that the carmaker decided not to spend $10 million on Facebook advertising the same ...
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Report: GM says Facebook ads not effective, pulls campaign ahead of IPO 1337178420
The Internets are buzzing over the upcoming initial public offering of Facebook, but General Motors doesn't seem all that impressed. The Huffington Post reports that The General has pulled its Facebook ad campaigns just days before the social media site is scheduled to officially hit the stock ...
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Video: Ferrari celebrates 8 million Facebook fans by taking 458 Italia for a spin 1335985080
Facebook is a big deal, even if you're an exotic car maker with one of the world's most powerful brands. In this case we're talking about Ferrari, which recently hit eight million followers on the social networking site. How does an automaker with such a rich history celebrate a 21st century ...
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Ailing Carroll Shelby addresses health on Facebook 1335475740
A few members of the Autoblog team have been grappling with the issue of our ages recently. Yes, some of us are feeling old. Given that a primary motivation for getting into this automotive journalism racket in the first place was a desire to avoid growing up by spending our whole lives playing ...
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Report: Chicago cops using social networking tools against food trucks that use them 1334588640
The Chicago Sun Times reports food truck operators in Chicago have met with a police crackdown. Some operators report officers lying in wait for the mobile food services to show up, threatening a variety of citations before the trucks even open their doors. How is that possible? The miracle of ...
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Teased: SRT drops one more official Viper teaser ahead of NY reveal 1333380420
Chrysler will be showing the all-new 2013 SRT Viper at the New York Auto Show on Wednesday, in what will undoubtedly be one of the biggest reveals of the show. While we've already seen spy shots, teasers, renderings, Hot Wheels cars, and unfinished parts from the forthcoming Viper, this new ...
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Video: What should Top Gear do to celebrate its next Facebook milestone... blow up a Veyron? 1331391660
The blokes at "Top Gear" love their Facebook friends so much, that when they got 10 million fans, Jeremy Clarkson recorded a short personal thank you. Well, as personal as Clarkson can get anyway. And the Stig showed his appreciation by exploding a caravan (video after the jump). But the batty ...
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Video: Ford attends Facebook Hackathon to create The Social Car 1330554660
Most of us don't quite understand why we'd want Facebook in our cars, but during a recent Hackathon at Facebook's Palo Alto campus, the Blue Oval and the new Big Blue combined forces to go beyond status updates and photos sharing. In an effort to make a truly "social" car, devs from Facebook ...
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Poll: Nissan Project 370Z: You choose the suspension [w/video] 1330021800
Nissan has turned to Autoblog for help picking one of the vehicle's most important systems: the suspension. Nissan knows how passionate fans of the company's 370Z can be. The enthusiast community has long embraced the Z as a capable performer right out of the box and a willing platform that ...
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Teased: Volvo confirms new V40 on the way with shadowy look 1329235260
Volvo's V50 wagon may have been discontinued following lackluster sales in the United States (it was phased out after the 2011 model year), but it's an important player in the Swedish brand's global portfolio, where small five-doors remain big business in other markets. To that end, Volvo ...

