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...1950s Chevys to Land Rovers and Rolls-Royces....
...Trucks are a money spinner for the big autos -- Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler -- so it is no surprise GM is cutting models and focusing on what works....
...Chrysler insisted its new jobs had never been destined for Mexico....
...“Fiat Chrysler just announced plans to invest $1BILLION in Michigan and Ohio plants, adding 2000 jobs....
...GM has shown with the Chevy Bolt that it can make an electric car with both a range — 238 miles on one charge — and a pricetag similar to the Model 3....
...General Motors has opted to continue producing its low-volume Chevy Cruze hatchbacks in Mexico, and said that would manufacture its revamped Terrain sport utility vehicle in the country as well....
...GM looks likely to be the only one of the US’s established big three domestic manufacturers — a group that also includes Ford and Fiat Chrysler — to have a significant presence in the electric vehicle market...
...The Italian group, which is being spun off from Fiat Chrysler, raised $893m by selling 17.2m shares at $52 apiece....
...Then, towards the end, comes Adam McEwen’s “Untitled (Jeff)”, a fake newspaper obituary of Koons, whose immortality the Whitney has helped ensure....
...The company had outgrown its rented space in the Chrysler Building amid a booming postwar spirits business and wanted to build a space of its own....
...Many belong to the artists and are studies for or unknown versions of acclaimed works, including Hamilton’s “Study for Hommage à Chrysler Corp” and “Swingeing London 67 (a)”, and David Hockney’s “First Love...
...Max Azria, founder of clothing brand BCBG, designed a brushed nickel convertible Chevy Cavalier; Tommy Hilfiger Jeans’ version featured an indigo denim carpet and red leather bucket seats with matching steering-wheel...
...“The Chevy Sonic is probably one of the best small cars on the market, if not the best,” says Michelle Krebs, senior analyst with Edmunds.com, the US carbuying website....
...General Motors’ Chevy Silverado also leaves the Camry in the dust....
...Sales of the Chevy Volt extended-range electric car reached its highest level of the year....
...The bottom third of the list is now crowded with European brands and units of struggling Chrysler....
...In an industry where many of the most admired chief executives, such as Fiat and Chrysler’s Sergio Marchionne and Ford Motor’s Alan Mulally, come from outside carmaking, many – including the US Treasury...
...This week, GM cemented a joint venture with Ebay to sell vehicles online, outlined plans for a new Cadillac model and trumpeted the fuel efficiency of its new Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid, to be launched at...
...GM will be quite happy if people who pop in to admire a Camaro end up leaving with a Malibu sedan or – starting in early 2011 – a Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid....
...Several other recent GM models – including the Chevy Malibu and Buick LaCrosse sedans – have been well received by critics....
...Another superb pairing traces pop’s evolution into late-20th-century parody/embrace of banality: Warhol’s late silkscreen and acrylic “Gun” paintings stare down to a room lined with Jeff Koons’ coloured...
...That is just as American as “taking the [US-made] Chevy to the levee”. francesco.guerrera@ft.com...
...GM and its Detroit rivals, Ford and Chrysler, have long maintained that they cannot produce and sell small cars profitably in North America....
...Few would quibble with the truck award going to the Chevy Silverado. But the choice of the Saturn Aura as car of the year has raised more than a few eyebrows....
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