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REPORT: Analysts chide GM for boosting production [*UPDATED]

General Motors has announced its planned production for next year: 2.8 million vehicles. That's a 45% increase over its production this year – 1.9 million cars and trucks – and according to some analysts, it's completely unwarranted. GM says it arrived at that number based on "real simple math." Analysts quoted in the Detroit Free Press today appear believe that GM was guided more by hope and a quest for market share. Just about everyone agrees that next year's new car market will grow compared to this year, with estimates ... Read more →

Maserati's North American CEO steps down... after less than one year? Michael Harley

Marti Eulberg, CEO of Maserati North America, has left her position to "pursue other opportunities," the company announced today. Eulberg, a veteran of Ford and Jaguar, held the CEO position for less ...

Coming to America? Peugeot entering new segments, markets Noah Joseph

Peugeot is a long way off from its ambitious target of selling 4 million units annually by the end of the decade. This year its sales projects put it at 2 million, but chief executive Jean-Philippe ...

Lamborghini picks L.A. for new HQ location Merritt Johnson

Some automakers might be concerned over California's fight for an EPA waver, but Lamborghini isn't one of them. Regardless of government-imposed regulations, the Italian exotic car maker knows that ...

US-market Alfas could be built in Mexico Dan Roth

Alfa Romeo is returning to the US market in about a year, offering the zooty 8C Competizione and 8C Spider atop a range of less spectacular offerings. While the top-end 8Cs will probably be Italian ...

Rendered Speculation: Alfa Romeo MiTo could be first true MINI-killer 1 year ago on Autoblog

The Mini is so 2006. VW's new Polo has yet to launch. Neither of those cars matter once you set eyes on the forthcoming hotness from Alfa Romeo. Alfa is coming back to the U.S. market, and while everyone's been ga-ga about the 8C Competizione, supercars just don't support the type of sales volume ...

Coming to America: VW Polo may come stateside 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click image for a hi-res gallery of VW Polos "Do you need the Polo?" That's going to be Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn's query to US dealers when he meets with them this week. The answer could determine whether or not we see a sub-Golf sized VeeDub here in the United States. Rising fuel prices ...

Honda to double North American production of the CR-V 2 years ago on Autoblog

Recently, Honda has had issues with keeping supply and demand in check with its newest products. Waiting lists for everything from the Civic Si to the Honda Fit have become bones of contention with consumers, and the recently redesigned Honda CR-V was among them earlier this year. Sales of Honda's ...

Jump Ship! Another VW ad exec splits 2 years ago on Autoblog

Perhaps sensing impending doom, Volkswagen's David Goggins is cleaning out his desk as director of product and marketing strategy. There's been a good amount of turnover in VW's marketing ranks in the last year and a half, and Goggins had only served for 14 months before deciding to return to ...

Spy Shots: i spied in Canada 2 years ago on Autoblog

What you're looking at is a right-hand-drive Mitsubishi i spotted in Toronto, as in Toronto, Canada... as in on the North American continent. Mitsubishi's initial line was that the i would be for the Japan Domestic Market only. Then they exported it to Hong Kong, Singapore and Brunei. Then New ...

Volvo says it won't be building in North America 2 years ago on Autoblog

There have been periodic rumors of a United States assembly plant for Volvo cars since at least the early 1980s. There was a North American construction arm of the Swedish carmaker, situated in Nova Scotia, but that plant has been shuttered for several years now. Volvo CEO Fredrik Arp has told ...

MG may yet find a home in Oklahoma 2 years ago on Autoblog

The first Modern Gentleman has come off Nanjing's reconstituted assembly line in China, but we're getting conflicting reports about whether or not a rumored factory in Oklahoma will happen. Nanjing has been offered $20 million in incentives to come and build the MG TF where the wind comes sweepin' ...

New Infiniti G35 released in South Korea ahead of US debut 3 years ago on Autoblog

They may live below a country run by a husky dictator who has a thing for BluBlockers and nuclear weapons, but South Koreans can take heart knowing that Infiniti has bestowed upon them the honor of being the first market to receive the new G35 sedan. Infiniti announced the G35's arrival in South ...

Ford to build new low-cost assembly plant in USA? 3 years ago on Autoblog

Ford Motor Company is said to be looking to build a new low-cost assembly plant, and would like to place it somewhere in the United States. Ford North America president Mark Fields states that the location of the plant will be determined by financial and not political reasons (Q: Which category do ...






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