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Posted January 11 2012 08:00 AM by Truck Trend
Nationwide, gas prices went up an average $0.083 this week. A gallon of diesel also sees the same upward trend with an increase of $0.045 versus last week. But it's a different story for the Rocky Mountain region, where...
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Posted August 26 2011 07:00 AM by Truck Trend
Testing on smarter cars, vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and how humans respond to the actions of such cars is underway in a DOT study in Michigan, Texas, California, Florida, Minnesota, and Virginia. Manufacturers VW,...
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Posted July 1 2011 07:53 AM by Truck Trend
Navistar is suing its previous accounting firm, Deloitte & Touche LLP, for $500 million in damages for professional malpractice. D&T had a working relationship with Navistar for many decades, and was replaced in...
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Posted June 28 2011 06:46 AM by Truck Trend
In his 2012 budget, President Obama proposed killing funding for the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act created in 2005, even though Congress approved five more years in January 2011. Proponents argue it should have been...
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Posted June 27 2011 07:02 AM by Truck Trend
Cummins' ISF line of four-cylinder diesels displacing 2.8 and 3.8 liters is in use on multiple continents, and Cummins is working with Nissan and the Department of Energy on a project to prove its viability in the U.S....
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Posted June 24 2011 12:19 PM by Truck Trend
Riding an increase in sales thanks to crossovers and SUVs, General Motors is aiming to increase the differences between Chevrolet and GMC products. Those differences currently range from sheetmetal and gadgets on some...
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Posted April 4 2011 03:50 PM by Scott Evans
March was a mixed bag, wasn't it? We're hearing now that the economy actually grew a bit and added some jobs, and the auto market is looking strong. But tempering all that good news are the terrible results of the Japanese...
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Posted March 25 2011 07:38 AM by Truck Trend
The Internal Revenue Service is making changes regarding claimed tax credits for alternative fuel vehicles, because a 37-page Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report said 14,000 people incorrectly claimed...
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Posted March 23 2011 07:40 AM by Truck Trend
At least for the first month. GM sold 125,389 vehicles in January and claimed the top sales spot over Ford and Toyota. Pickups were relatively flat while crossovers like the Equinox played a big part, and the new Cruze,...
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Posted March 14 2011 05:33 PM by Truck Trend
Following a petition from Growth Energy and 54 ethanol manufacturers, the EPA approved a waiver allowing use of E15 (15 percent ethanol) fuel in 2007 and newer cars and trucks. The Clean Air Act requires a waiver for...
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Posted March 7 2011 09:11 AM by Scott Evans
Just when you thought you'd heard the last of it, Cash 4 Clunkers is back in the news. No, it's not back, it's just that it took this long for the industry to outperform the C4C stimulus.
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Posted February 24 2011 10:58 AM by Todd Lassa
In the year it issued a record $23 billion initial public offering, thus reducing U.S. Treasury (our) ownership from 61.8 percent to less than 27 percent, (plus 7 percent for Canada) General Motors posted its first...
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Posted February 3 2011 10:27 AM by Scott Evans
The new year is looked upon by many as an opportunity to make changes and is often punctuated by the traditional song "Auld Lang Syne," which suggests looking forward rather than back. It's a sentiment many automakers are...
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Posted January 13 2011 04:14 PM by Todd Lassa
Since 2005, sister publication, Motor Trend , has published " The Power List ", our lineup of the 50 most influential movers and shakers in the auto industry. Alan Mulally leads that list for the first time, in 2011. Of...
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Posted January 5 2011 09:46 AM by Todd Lassa
Our long, automotive industry nightmare appears to be over. Car and light truck sales in 2010 totaled 11.6 million, plus medium and heavy-duty trucks. That's up 11 percent from 10.4 million in '09, which was the worst...
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