It’s a bit like the 70’s oil crisis all over again for GM. Having just announced the scrapping of one large-car RWD project, a casualty of new CAFE laws coming into effect in the U.S. comes the news overnight that a large part of the SUV range is under review, including the Hummer brand as [...]

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It appears that Ford Australia is not the only colonial outpost of the big American manufacturers to be given the red light for developing future large rear-wheel-drive sedan platforms.

Automotive News is reporting that a GM source has indicated that a similar program led by Holden has been shelved. Under the plan, Holden would have [...]

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California’s ‘Governator’ Arnold Schwarzenegger is gearing up to butt heads with North America’s Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. The Alliance represents a number of auto manufacturers including the ‘Detroit 3’ and Toyota. The issue on the agenda is California’s upcoming rules which are likely to set a fuel efficiency standard of around 40.5mpg a target that [...]

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It would seem that BMW may be struggling to work out what people really want. They know what future U.S. fuel economy standards will require but it seems that while we all talk about being green, it is possibly empty rhetoric for the ‘dyed in the wool’ BMW devote.

BMW in theory, needs to find [...]

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At last weeks Detroit Auto Show, Bob Lutz put the kibosh on any chance of their being a Pontiac Sportwagon based on Holden’s upcoming VE Commodore Sportwagon, as wagons just aren’t fashionable in the States…but that’s not the only cat that the GM General let out of the bag.

Lutz, while having a chat with GoAuto [...]

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Just yesterday, Toyota’s CEO Katsuaki Watanabe gave us an indication as to the future green initiative underway at Toyota and it includes the ongoing development of lithium-ion hybrids with plug-in recharge capabilities, but its a playing field that will not be exclusively Toyotas. GM’s Saturn division introduced the second and third hybrid versions of their [...]

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In a speech made earlier this week, Toyota Motor CEO Katsuaki Watanabe has laid down the eco-friendly gauntlet by outlining a number of bold plans for Toyota over the coming years.

First off, it is Watanabe’s intention to ensure that Toyota meet the new U.S. CAFE standard of 35mpg, well ahead of the regulations start [...]

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