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...A US regulator has ordered General Motors to recall nearly 6m trucks and sport-utility vehicles fitted with the same Takata airbags that have killed more than two dozen people with exploding shrapnel....
...“When I see a bubble forming, I rush in to buy, adding fuel to the fire,” he admitted in a 2009 speech....
...Carmakers in the US last year sold 17.33m cars, trucks and sport utility vehicles, close to the all-time record....
...Within a couple of hours she was driving off in an $18,000 Chevrolet sport utility vehicle, financed with a $16,000 loan from Santander Consumer USA, the auto-loans division of Spain’s biggest bank....
...The plant is running flat out, working three shifts a day from Sunday night to Saturday, making engines for vehicles including Chevrolet’s Suburban and Tahoe sport utility vehicles, for which sales are booming...
...The US company has pledged to continue deliveries of US-made Corvette and Camaro sports cars to wealthy Russian clients, as well as its Chevrolet Tahoe sport utility vehicle....
...Instead, the company will focus on iconic luxury products like its US-built Corvette sports car and Tahoe sports utility vehicle that appeal to Russia’s super rich....
...GM, like other carmakers, generates higher earnings from light trucks — defined as sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks — than passenger cars....
...The largest part of the recall relates to a software fault on nearly 470,000 four-wheel drive pick-up trucks and sports utility vehicles that could stop power going to the vehicles’ wheels....
...Chrysler, for example, having devoted resources in previous years to modernising the line-up of its Jeep sports utility vehicles and Ram pick-up truck ranges – both high-return, critical models – is launching...
...Daimler is a big employer in nearby Tuscaloosa, where about 3,000 people make Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicles. None of those workers belong to a union....
...Ford unveiled a concept for a small luxury sports utility vehicle aimed at reviving the fortunes of its ailing Lincoln luxury brand....
...Tony Cervone, a spokesman for the US arm of Germany’s Volkswagen, one of the pioneers of the global platform trend, said it would be showing a concept for a seven-passenger sport utility vehicle designed...
...Among the concept cars on show were compact sports utility vehicles from Ford’s Lincoln brand and Japan’s Honda, as well as the Atlas pick-up truck concept from the core Ford brand....
...Opel has smaller financial losses and some promising forthcoming models in popular segments, including its Mokka small sport utility vehicle and Adam city car....
...That led it into heavy discounting to shift cars and light trucks, including sport utility vehicles, off dealers’ lots....
...But Mr Pipas expects the swing to be especially strong in North America, where small vehicles’ share will grow from 31 per cent to 36 per cent, entirely at the expense of the biggest pick-up trucks, sport-utility...
...Demand for big sport-utility vehicles and pick-up trucks, their most profitable vehicles, showed signs of revival. Could this mean that Americans are regaining their appetite for gas guzzlers?...
...General Motors rolled out fresh incentives on Monday in an attempt to staunch plummeting sales of gas-guzzling sport-utility vehicles, pick-up trucks and other slow-selling models....
...As a cleaner pushed a broom between the gleaming 911 sports cars, Boxster roadsters and Cayenne sport utility vehicles, a lone young man quietly studied the dashboard of a Targa 4 from the car’s passenger...
...It is particularly hard when you are stuck with high structural costs, an inflated dealer network and regulations that provide you with incentives to make trucks and sports utility vehicles....
...As we watch, a sports-utility vehicle threads its way through the traffic, overtaking other cars, stopping at stop signs and manoeuvring around obstructions....
...GM and Ford are now producing well-reviewed models – the former’s Saturn Outlook sports-utility vehicle is one – that match or beat Japanese rivals’ offerings in consumer rankings....
...Its Chevrolet Tahoe two-mode hybrid won last year’s Green Car of the Year award in the US....
...cars will prove more resilient than the faltering market for gas-guzzling sports utility vehicles and pick-up trucks....
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