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0Official: GM confirms $275M investment in Ft. Wayne Assembly for next-gen pickups 1319657460
General Motors has announced its final factory investment, a $275 million spend on the Fort Wayne, IN, plant that assembles full-size pickups. Back in May, the General promised it would be spending $2 billion on factory investments over the next year and a half. A series of announcements ...
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Report: Nissan to remain "patient" with Titan full-size truck 1319225460
The Nissan Titan is being redesigned for 2014, and if we're to take the Nissan America's chairman at his word, another new one will be in the pipeline after that. Colin Dodge tells Automotive News, "We're going to need two or three cycles to be as professional as the people who have been doing it ...
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Report: Factory-built Jeep pickup "at least four years away," still not confirmed 1316527080
For those of you patiently waiting for a production Jeep pickup that you can pick up at your local dealership, we have bad news. Automotive News is quoting Jeep CEO Michael Manley as saying it won't be happening anytime soon. "It is too late in Wrangler's product cycle to add a pickup. The 2015 ...
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Official: Fiat Doblo gets a dropside Work Up 1314795480
Where Americans use pickup trucks, Europeans typically use cargo vans. But even on the other side of the Atlantic, some things just won't fit inside a van. For just those occasions, Fiat Professional has come out with the Doblo Work Up. Based on the Doblo cargo van, the Doblo Work Up features a ...
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Video: Ford vs. Chevrolet monster truck tug-of-war is a fight to the finish 1313539020
Is there any automotive rivalry burned into the American psyche as deeply as Ford versus Chevrolet? We don't think so. Those whose blood runs blue would never dream of piloting anything wearing a Bowtie, and vice-versa. This being the case, it doesn't surprise us in the least that Adam, a Ford ...
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Rumormill: Next Honda CR-V to spawn compact pickup? 1313514000
The Honda Ridgeline is dead! Long live the Honda Ridgeline! Despite a coming refresh for the 2012 model year, Honda has been widely reported as planning to send its unibody Ridgeline down the same road as its Element and S2000 after 2013. Even if that's true, that doesn't necessarily mean the ...
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What would a BMW X5 pickup look like? 1309908360
There are no pickup trucks in the BMW lineup, save for one very special M3. But, dare we ask, what would a real Bimmer truck look like? Automotive manipulator Theophilus Chin was curious, so he fired up his favorite photo editing software and created the beast you see here. Behold, the X5 ...
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Report: Custom 1956 Bentley S1 ute up for charity auction in Australia 1309433940
Bentley and Bugatti may be under common ownership these days, but back in the day, they were bitter rivals. That rivalry lead one Ettore Bugatti to deride his English competition as "the world's fastest lorries" (the British term for commercial trucks). He was speaking figuratively, because ...
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Report: Jeep pickup put on the backburner 1309212000
If you've been saving your pennies in anticipation of the upcoming pickup truck from Jeep, get ready to wait a little longer. According to PickupTrucks.com, Jeep CEO Mike Manley has said that resources at Chrysler are all tied up in other projects at the moment. With the full brunt of the ...
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Upset Detroit woman tears down own home with pickup truck 1308171420
For those of you with a string of leased homes or apartments in your past, you probably know how trying a rental experience can sometimes be. Leaky faucets, recalcitrant appliances and squeaky ceiling fans are bad enough, but if you've got a difficult landlord, these sorts of everyday problems ...

