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15 - vehicles available on the American market with six-speed automatic transmissions in 2001
- Volkswagen To Hold Groundbreaking Ceremony Of Its U.s. Plant In Chattanooga
After a small delay that was caused by several members of VW's management board in Wolfsburg that couldn't make it in time for the initially planned January ceremony, Volkswagen is finally ready to celebrate today, Thursday, May 14, the placement...
- Scion Hikes 2009 Prices For Xb By $100, Tc Remains Unaffected
Toyota’s American sibling Scion, announced prices for the 2009 model year xB and tC sports coupe. The boxy xB that will arrive at dealerships later this month will carry a base price of $15,750 when equipped with a 5-speed manual transmission and...
- Chevrolet Vs Ford, Bowtie Vs Blue Oval - July 2010 In Canada
Chevrolet and Ford aren't even direct rivals in Canada. Okay, maybe that's a bit of an overstatement since, as you can see in the Graph below, there are plenty of Chevrolets and Ford just meant to be cross-shopped. But unlike the United States...
- Pricing The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro For Canada - By The Numbers
Already in production, the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro will be reaching dealers before long. Looking back over the last 25 years and the handful of new Camaro bodies which have been introduced, one struggles to find worse timing for the introduction of a muscle...
- Hybrid Sales In America Drop In 2008? By The Numbers
After gas prices brought Americans to their knees in the summer of 2008, a time when the Honda Civic temporarily outsold the Ford F150, one would assume that hybrid sales rocketed upward last year. One would be correct in that assumption, right? Wrong....
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RECENT CAR NEWS - By The Numbers
15 - vehicles available on the American market with six-speed automatic transmissions in 2001181 - vehicles available on the American market with six-speed automatics today
3,000,000 - anticipated total of annual transmission production with six speeds by General Motors in 2010
1,300,000 - total production of six-speed automatics by the preeminent transmission maker ZF last year
2012 - year in which Ford believes 98% of its North American vehicles will have six speeds
18.9 - average number of income weeks needed by a Canadian family to buy a new car, making 2007 car prices relatively similar to that of 1991 car prices; at least as reflected by before-tax income
28 - years of seniority claimed by a General Motors plant worker who disobeyed signs warning against cell-phone cameras, resulting in photos of the new Chevrolet Camaro in production and.... a firing
60 - years since the first Porsche 356 received type approval and homologation, to be officially marked on June 8th
4,500 - jobs to be created by Ford's $3B investment in its Cuautitlán, Mexico plant where production will switch from F-series trucks to the next Fiesta
5,564 - USD equivalent charged by Audi to have full LED headlamps on an R8, taking the total to 54
12 - life-cycle of the first Ford Ka, ready to be replaced by the '09 Ka, a cah (Kennedy-speak) that shares much under the skin with Fiat 500
30,855 - base price in the United States and in USD of the Lexus IS250
31,900 - base price in Canada and in CDN of the Lexus IS250, a price gap of just $1,045 that excited Canadian Lexus buyers to no end
- Volkswagen To Hold Groundbreaking Ceremony Of Its U.s. Plant In Chattanooga
After a small delay that was caused by several members of VW's management board in Wolfsburg that couldn't make it in time for the initially planned January ceremony, Volkswagen is finally ready to celebrate today, Thursday, May 14, the placement...
- Scion Hikes 2009 Prices For Xb By $100, Tc Remains Unaffected
Toyota’s American sibling Scion, announced prices for the 2009 model year xB and tC sports coupe. The boxy xB that will arrive at dealerships later this month will carry a base price of $15,750 when equipped with a 5-speed manual transmission and...
- Chevrolet Vs Ford, Bowtie Vs Blue Oval - July 2010 In Canada
Chevrolet and Ford aren't even direct rivals in Canada. Okay, maybe that's a bit of an overstatement since, as you can see in the Graph below, there are plenty of Chevrolets and Ford just meant to be cross-shopped. But unlike the United States...
- Pricing The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro For Canada - By The Numbers
Already in production, the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro will be reaching dealers before long. Looking back over the last 25 years and the handful of new Camaro bodies which have been introduced, one struggles to find worse timing for the introduction of a muscle...
- Hybrid Sales In America Drop In 2008? By The Numbers
After gas prices brought Americans to their knees in the summer of 2008, a time when the Honda Civic temporarily outsold the Ford F150, one would assume that hybrid sales rocketed upward last year. One would be correct in that assumption, right? Wrong....