Filed under: Euro, DaimlerChrysler, FIAT
Fiat and Daimler are reportedly in talks that may influence future products offered by each automaker. Fiat has already enlisted the help of Daimler to supply truck engines, at a cost of about $3.5 billion, but the current round of talks don’t just involve engines.
Fiat’s chief exec Sergio Marchionne is quoted […]
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Filed under: DaimlerChrysler, Ford, Earnings/Financials
According to a European Commission report, Ford is the car industry’s biggest spender on R&D. Ford was number one until this year, but got outspent by pharmaceutical company Pfizer. (The Blue Oval vs. the blue pill…who knew?) Ford spent somewhere between $7.4 billion and $8.2 billion dollars developing its product line. […]
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Filed under: Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler, Dodge, Jeep, UAW/Unions
A UAW leadership-approved contract between GM and the UAW is only a couple days from a rank and file vote deadline, so the UAW has begun negotiations with its next target, Chrysler LLC. The Cerberus-owned automaker is looking for a similar deal to what GM received, plus the same […]
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Filed under: Etc., Tech, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Ford, GM
Popular Mechanics is handing out its breakthrough awards, and Ford’s SYNC made its way into the tech magazine’s top 10 breakthrough products. SYNC’s reasonable $395 price tag and voice recognition capability gave Ford and Microsoft’s joint project the edge, and Popular Mechanics also really liked the fact that […]
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Filed under: Motorsports, DaimlerChrysler, Mercedes Benz
Okay, this is just getting ridiculous. Remember the story we brought you a couple days ago about the Mercedes employee in Spain who trashed Lewis Hamilton on Wikipedia? Yeah, pretty ridiculous, we know. But the British media, if you can believe it, is actually taking it seriously.
The Daily Telegraph […]
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