China a bright spot for stumbling Detroit

With sales data for April showing double-digit declines for General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, the outlook certainly looks bleak right now for the Big Three U.S. automakers.

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Automakers have designs on global gains

With the largest collection of design studios backed by the world’s largest automobile manufacturers, Southern California has been seen as the undisputed hub of automobile design for decades. But your next Ford or Chrysler could be designed in Europe, or China.

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Edmunds.com, the premier resource for online automotive information, has determined that Cash for Clunkers cost taxpayers $24,000 per vehicle sold.

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"The woman, who is in her 80s, pressed the accelerator instead of the brake." The incident occurred on Sunday, October 18, 2009.

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"Two studies coming out in the journal Pediatrics . . . show that parents have a big impact on the safety of teen drivers."

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"A Colorado woman who spent five days on the side of a mountain after being severely injured was recovering Friday in Denver." The accident occurred on September 10, 2009 and she was rescued on Tuesday, September 15, 2009.

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China is "the world's biggest car market, having passed the US this year."

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A driver "miraculously" escaped alive after his car plunged over a 200ft (61m) cliff on Sunday, September 6, 2009.

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Revered by an aging owner base but lacking exciting vehicles to draw new buyers, Toyota's luxury marque is beginning to look like another prestige brand that followed its original customers to death's door: Buick.

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What is your "Dream Car?"

Most of the people on the Vine who've read my articles or comments would label me as a serious liberal. When it comes to the environment, I want what's best for our planet and I try to champion green policy whenever and wherever applicable.

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PORTLAND, Ore. - Crisscrossed with bike lanes and streetcar tracks, Portland has long attracted the young and environmentally conscious with its cutting-edge transportation system, which has resulted in 20 percent less driving than the national average.

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The BMW ActiveHybrid X6's power train starts with a 400 hp twin-turbocharged V8 gasoline engine and adds two electric synchronous motors delivering 91 hp/192 lb-ft and 86 hp/206 lb-ft, respectively. Maximum system output is 480 hp, and peak torque reaches 575 lb-ft.

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Tesla Motors, Being Green Does Not Have To Be Boring

Tesla Motors, Being Green Does Not Have To Be Boring

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Baboons at Knowsley Safari Park learned how to break into automobile rooftop luggage boxes.

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While EV owners can charge the cars by plugging them into a regular 110-volt outlet, the "slow charge" can take up to eight hours and may jack up an electric bill the equivalent of 2 kilowatts per month.

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Steven Rattner is quitting his post as President Obama's chief adviser on the troubled automobile industry at a time when an investigation into his former Wall Street firm's role in a scandal involving public pension funds has intensified.

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A Dallas inventor says your smelly car is the reason you're high-strung, overweight and terrible at your job

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"Men like loud noises."

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Who ever invented self parking cars should also create self driving cars.

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Chrysler will soon be making cars again.

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On the surface, it is a $80 VW Golf that can better the times of $1.4 million Bugatti Veyron. Dig a bit deeper, and the Golf has a 700bhp 1850cc turbocharged engine.

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Republican pundit and media personality Rush Limbaugh, along with fellow pundit Hugh Hewitt, has assembled a legion of red-state bloggers and are calling for a boycott of all GM vehicles according to Autoblog Green. They say that buying GM is tantamount to patronizing U.S.

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I can't believe it, but I saw it with my own Ears. My Uncle's, Cousin's, Nephew's, Brother's, Mother, says that she was able to run her car on water. Here is how she did it!!!

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We hear it, see it, and argue about it. Regular or Premium Gas. but do we really know the differences? How does it help with engine knock and fuel efficiency? What is the Straight Dope about Gas??

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We hear it from old men speaking on their front porches, shop classes in high school, and even the local mechanic. We have all heard the rumors about car makers and oil industry executives keeping a 200 mpg carb hidden from the rest of the world.

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New York City has banned automobile traffic for several blocks in the Times Square area. "City officials say" this "will reduce pollution and pedestrian accidents and ease traffic flow."

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Bad cars come and go, but flops are forever. By the same token, in the automotive world, a flop isn't necessarily a bad car.

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