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Ford Has An Escape Engine Fix, Maserati Plans More Models, And The 2014 Chevy Silverado Is Coming

Source: Jalopnik, Dec 11 2012, 9:00am CST

This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. I ...

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10 hours ago

Official: E85 plug-in hybrid Chevy Malibu powers Penn State to second year EcoCar 2 win [w/video]

Source: AOL News  |   May 25 2013, 4:04pm CDT

EcoCAR 2 Competition Announces Year Two Winner: Penn State University 15 Student Teams Test Drive Eco-Engineered Vehicles on GM Desert Proving Ground SAN DIEGO -- (May 24, 2013) -- EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future tod ...

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13 hours ago

Ford Testing Retired U.S. Currency For Use In Vehicles

Source: Humanitarian News  |   May 25 2013, 1:50pm CDT

Car manufacturers have made great strides in recent years in an attempt to reduce environmental concerns. While the companies still have significant steps still to take, little steps have been made in increasing low-emission vehicles and increasing ...

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23 weeks ago


Quote:
"There's no mechanical problem with the engine. This is how we're electronically controlling some of the valves"


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18 hours ago

Ford Calls It Quits in Australia

Source: Motley Fool  |   May 25 2013, 8:15am CDT

Ford (NYSE: F ) said this week that it will cease making vehicles in Australia. Ford has been making cars and trucks Down Under since 1925, but fading demand for its locally produced products – and competition from cheaper im ...

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A Future Look at the Connected Automobile

Source: Motley Fool  |   May 25 2013, 8:08am CDT

Keep track of the stocks that matter to you. Help yourself with the Fool's FREE and easy new watchlist service today. Imagine the scene from Will Smith's I, Robot movie -- minus the killer robots -- where cars dri ...

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23 hours ago

Six wrong guesses get no respect

Source: Winnipeg Free Press  |   May 25 2013, 3:20am CDT

Automakers can't guarantee success for a new car or truck, even after spending hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars on development, testing and market research. Each new vehicle is a great big guess. An educated guess, for sure, but ...

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Which cars get the most safety complaints?

Source: 49 News Topeka  |   May 25 2013, 1:39am CDT

USA TODAY - In 2012, drivers filed just under 30,000 complaints about their cars with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The complaints included problems with brakes, powertrains and every other par ...

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Car of the Year since 1964: picture special

Source: Autocar  |   May 25 2013, 12:39am CDT

The annual Car of the Year contest set out to find the best new car launched in Europe over the preceding twelve months. It has expanded since its 1964 inception to include more journalists and magazine titles, so that thi ...

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1 day ago

Transmissions Keep Shifting Up

Source: The Lakeland Ledger  |   May 24 2013, 8:11pm CDT

Automakers are spending billions of dollars to squeeze efficiency from a car part most people never think twice about — the transmission. In the next five years, many new vehicles will have transmissions with up to 10 spee ...

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Mercedes-Benz Consults With Ford to Figure Out How to Make a Good 3-Cylinder Engine

Source: Automotive Blogs  |   May 24 2013, 5:23pm CDT

Remember how we told you that in recent history, automakers have made a handful of three-cylinder engines, and all but the one in the 2014 Ford Fiesta 1.0-liter EcoBoost were terrible? One of the culprits was the Smart Fortwo, which is a jok ...

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