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Cars and Drivers
Ford CEO Makes $23 Million
Courtesy Ford Motor Co.Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) CEO Alan Mulally will be remembered for two things. The first is that he turned around the No. 2 U.S. car maker and kept…
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6:41am ET
Cars and Drivers
America’s 10 Most Popular Cars
One measure of vehicle popularity is which vehicles people search for online. Edmunds, the car research site, keeps records of search volume by vehicle. Here is a look at the Edmunds top…
2:39pm ET
Cars and Drivers
New Car Sales Forecast: Higher in March
ThinkstockThe March forecast for new car sales calls for a year-over-year increase of 2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 15.7 million units according Kelley Blue Book (KBB). The forecast for…
10:30am ET
Cars and Drivers
Analyst vs. Perception: Is Tesla Fully Valued?
Tesla Motors is without a doubt the most exciting U.S. automobile manufacturing story of the past couple of decades. The real question to ask is how much being able to tell that…
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Cars and Drivers
Green Bonds Now Out for Auto Industry Financing
ThinkstockCitigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Toyota Motors Corp. (NYSE: TM) are said to be making history with the first “green bond” of asset-backed securities in the auto industry. Green bonds are securities…
6:44am ET
Cars and Drivers
Jaguar, Land Rover, Cadillac Among Least Fuel-Efficient Cars
courtesy of Chrysler GroupWith gas prices rising to their highest levels in months, American buyers of cars, SUVs and pickups may become more fuel-efficiency-conscious as they shop for new cars. Some of…
8:10am ET
Cars and Drivers
Car Companies Offer Aggressive March Discounts
courtesy of Fiat SpACar companies continue to have high levels of vehicles in inventory, particularly at their dealer locations. This, as well as worry that the economic recovery may have lost steam,…
6:25am ET
Apps & Software
LinkedIn Chief Is Highest Rated CEO
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner received the top grade in Glassdoor's new "Highest Rated CEOs 2014." The rating is based on employee answers to the question, "Do you approve of the way your…
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Cars and Drivers
GM Debuts 3-Cylinder Engines — Go-Karts for Freeways!
Ford Motor Co.General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced on Wednesday that it plans to have annual production of its Ecotec small-displacement engines ramped up to 2.5 million a year by 2017. How…
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Cars and Drivers
Will Ford Sell Cars for Tesla?
courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) will need to adopt some kind of a local dealership network in the United States if it is going to sell more than tens…
6:41am ET
Cars and Drivers
GM Sales in Europe Jump Higher
After years of trouble in Europe, General Motors has finally gotten some relief as sales of its cars and light truck rose in the region during February. It is better than the…
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Cars and Drivers
Can “Need for Speed” Boost Mustang Sales?
courtesy of FordThe film “Need for Speed” posted poor first weekend ticket sales of just $17.8 million, which was a disappointment given the huge public relations and marketing effort put into the…
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Cars and Drivers
Ten Cars People Won’t Buy
Ferrari SpAAuto dealer inventories are at five-year highs. The most important effect of this for consumers is that dealers and car companies will soon open up another aggressive round of discounts and attractive…
6:33am ET
Cars and Drivers
Car Inventories Reach Five-Year High, Discounts Likely to Increase
ThinkstockCar inventories have reached a level last posted toward the end of the recession, hitting a five-year high. The average car currently spends more than 60 days on the lot. This trouble…
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Cars and Drivers
Six-Year Car Loan Becomes Standard
ThinkstockOne of the contributors to the rise in sales of cars and light trucks in the United States has to be the extremely attractive financial packages that automakers offer. Among these is…