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Posts related to ‘Autos’

Hyundai Loses Ground in the Car Sales Race

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:17 am

Hyundai, and its sister brand Kia, have had the hottest selling cars in the American market since the recession began. The rational for this is that the South Korean company ...
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Toyota Expands To Emerging Markets

Posted: May 25, 2012 at 6:06 am

Toyota (NYSE: TM) announced it would move more aggressively into emerging markets. The WSJ reports that Toyota, Japan's biggest car maker by volume, plans to sell more than 1 million ...
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The Most Dangerous States to Drive In

Posted: May 24, 2012 at 6:25 am

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, more Americans aged five to 34 are killed in motor vehicle crashes than from any other single cause. Despite this disturbing fact, ...
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Mazda And Fiat Build A Sports Car

Posted: May 23, 2012 at 6:32 am

Fiat and Mazda will build a small convertible together. Fiat is the controlling shareholder of Chrysler. The deal is an example of how large car companies which face slow ...
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Ford Gets ‘Investment Grade’ Rating At Moody’s

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 5:13 pm

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is now considered 'investment grade' at Moody's after a late-day upgrade.  Moody's Investors Service raised the senior unsecured ratings of Ford to Baa3 from Ba2, which ...
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GM Could Be Upgraded To ‘Investment Grade’ at Moody’s

Posted: May 22, 2012 at 4:27 pm

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) may soon get to be an 'investment grade' company on its credit ratings.  While this might not mean much on the equity level of the company, ...
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The Ten Most Expensive Cars to Own

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 6:32 am

The cost of a luxury automobile does not end with its purchase price -- it begins there. The true ownership costs are often much more than what customers perceive, after ...
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Winnebago Shuns Takeover Bid

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 12:13 pm

Recreational vehicle maker Winnebago Industries Inc. (NYSE: WGO) said this morning that the company received an offer from private equity firm North Street Capital L.P. to acquire all of Winnebago’s ...
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As European Car Sales Slide, the Industry Gets Desperate

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:29 am

The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) announced that April sales of cars and light trucks in the region were “6.9% less than in the same month of 2011.” That means only 1,017,912 ...
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GM Drops Facebook Ads

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 4:27 pm

In a glancing blow to Facebook Inc.’s coming IPO, one the of the three largest US advertisers in all media, General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM), will stop advertising on the ...
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Tesla Glides by Poor Results (TSLA, F, GM, TM, HMC)

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 11:59 am

Over the past 12 months, the best performing car maker stock is -- drum roll -- Tesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA). Shares in the maker of electric vehicles (EVs) are ...
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Luxury Cars On A Rise

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 7:15 am

The luxury car market around the world continues to explode as the relatively small portion of the globe’s population which is rich consumer at extraordinary levels. VW reports that ...
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Toyota’s Earnings Surge and Brand Power

Posted: May 9, 2012 at 6:32 am

After a three-year period in which Toyota (NYSE: TM) recalled more than eight million cars worldwide for problems that included faulty accelerators, as well as natural disasters in Japan and ...
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Europe Results Rip GM

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 8:44 am

Results from Europe hurt GM (NYSE: GM) sales in the latest quarter, hurting numbers as it did with Ford (NYSE: F) GM's Opel division has been a problem for some ...
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The Cars Americans Will Not Buy

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 6:46 am

April car sales data are out, and they are not cause for celebration. Though sales are up 2% overall from last April, they have cooled somewhat since the February and March ...
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