Category: Trucks/Pickups

It’s (apparently) official: The Ford Ranger is dead come 2009

Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Trucks/Pickups, Ford

One little fact buried in the linked piece about Ford’s $2 billion UAW savings is this: the Ranger is dead come 2009. It has been known for a while that the Twin Cities Plant in St. Paul, MN that makes the Ranger would close, and the closure date has […]

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Posted in Trucks/Pickups on Nov 20th, 2007, 4:47 pm     

Spy Shots: 2009 Ford F-150

Filed under: Spy Photos, Trucks/Pickups, Ford
click above image for more spy shots of the 2009 Ford F-150
The 2009 Ford F-150 has until now been kept a closely guarded secret, but the Blue Oval’s best seller was recently caught by KGP photographers apparently on its way back to the safe confines of a trailer after a […]

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Posted in Trucks/Pickups on Nov 20th, 2007, 1:49 pm     

Federal court overturns MPG standards for light trucks

Filed under: Trucks/Pickups, Government/Legal, Green, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Toyota

The federal government has gotten more interested in greenhouse gases, and as a result there has been a lot of tough talk concerning raised CAFE numbers. Much less time has been devoted to reducing CO2, which is the single largest contributor to global warming. Now that the […]

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Posted in Trucks/Pickups on Nov 19th, 2007, 5:50 pm     

Federal court overturns MPG standards for light trucks

Filed under: Trucks/Pickups, Government/Legal, Green, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, Toyota

The federal government has gotten more interested in greenhouse gases, and as a result there has been a lot of tough talk concerning raised CAFE numbers. Much less time has been devoted to reducing CO2, which is the single largest contributor to global warming. Now that the […]

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Posted in Trucks/Pickups on Nov 19th, 2007, 5:49 pm     

Report: Pontiac G8 will spawn wagon, sport truck

Filed under: Trucks/Pickups, Wagons/Estates, GM, Pontiac, Holden, Australia

Automotive News is reporting what’s been suspected all along: GM will bring a both a wagon and a Ute to the U.S. after the launch of the G8 next year. Citing three sources intimate with the project, the report goes on to say that the two models will […]

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Posted in Trucks/Pickups on Nov 19th, 2007, 10:05 am     

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