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Archive for April 21st, 2009
Lockheed Won’t Fight Pentagon on F-22 Plan
21, Apr 2009Lockheed Martin accepted plans to phase out the jet after a meeting with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but some lawmakers may push for more planes to avoid job losses.
- In: Aircraft
- Tags: accepted-plans, Aircraft, avoid-job, defense, defense-secretary, lawmakers-may, martin, more-planes, phase-out, robert, robert-gates, the-jet
Bill Ford: “One thing I’ll tell you for sure: our ability to forecast has been just horrible””
21, Apr 2009Loose cannons. Where would TTAC be without them? Now that GM Car Czar Bob Lutz has his bankruptcy-proof pension to think about (no thanks needed for the early heads-up, Bob), the man of Maximum has somehow learned to shut the f up.
- In: Automobile
- Tags: chrysler-vice, goose-since, involves-huge, its-mojo, like-the-gto, maximum, nardelli, press, queen, said-boo, the-man, the-way, ttac
In The Beginning There Was Hyundai
21, Apr 2009And the bigwigs spent ten years building brand equity with cheap, basic transportation. And lo, the Japanese automakers headed upmarket, ceding entry level business to the Koreans.
- In: Automobile
- Tags: ceding-entry, crowd, from-budget, hyundai, japanese, level-business, spent-ten, the-driver, years-building
Fiat Yamaha heads to happy hunting grounds
21, Apr 2009Fiat Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo head to Japan this weekend for the second Grand Prix of 2009 at Motegi. In the past the race has always come close to the end of the season and last year it was the scene of victorious celebrations…
- In: Motorcycle
- Tags: different-bikes, house, love-motorbikes, love-the-thrill, past, rain-or-shine, scene, the-past
Ford Offers Minority Dealers Full Ownership for $1
21, Apr 2009Earlier this week, one of our Best and Brightest wondered how Chrysler and GM’s collapse into receivership would affect minority dealers. He wondered if political correctness would color the Presidential Task Force on Automobiles decisions about which dealers get the axe and which don’t. Ford is proactively addressing the issue by launching a new program
Little Quantity of Fuel When Fast Pumping
21, Apr 2009This is an interesting fact that I got when I read a local newspaper. I think all of you want to save their money when it comes to the fuel of your vehicle.
- In: Automobile
- Tags: apply-the-scheme, Automobile, engine, fuel, image, images, islam-malaysia, money, price, source, style, sunday, vantage
The Next Generation of Biofuels
21, Apr 2009Americans burn through 140 billion gallons of gasoline a year. And even if drivers switch to more fuel-efficient cars and trucks, the nation’s fuel needs are expected to increase by a fifth over the next 20 years, thanks to dramatic increases in car and airplane use. Which is why, in addition to developing solar, wind and geothermal energy, policy makers, including President Barack Obama, are advocating biofuels to transform the transportation culture. They’re not talking about ethanol from corn, however, which has already proved wasteful and environmentally damaging. Instead eyes are on a handful of high-tech labs around the U.S. that are perfecting ways to make the equivalent of gasoline and diesel from the lowest life-forms on the totem pole: yeast, algae and bacteria. The challenge is to make enough of these fuels economically and in a form compatible with today’s vehicles. [More]