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...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...
...United States of Japan, by Peter Tieryas, Angry Robot, RRP£8.99/$14.99 Sometimes you just feel the need for a story about giant robots, virtual reality and sumo wrestlers....
...Qoros and its shareholders — including Kenon Holdings, which controls Israel Corp’s investment — are hoping that a new sport utility vehicle, called the Qoros 5, will help sales accelerate when it arrives...
...Instead, Americans have switched to buying large numbers of compact sport utility vehicles and pick-up trucks. “They have very few of these,” says Mr McAlinden....
...It is the latest version of the Escalade, a sport utility vehicle that weighs 5,718lbs (2.59 tonnes) and is 17ft (5.18m) long....
...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....
...Wearing US military uniforms and driving sports utility vehicles that resembled the ones Americans drove at the time, the assailants entered the governor’s compound where the Americans were staying....
...The data underscore the new-found resilience of the US car industry, which slumped badly when petrol prices spiked from 2006 and caused consumers to stop buying pick-up trucks and sport utility vehicles,...
...The MKX and Navigator sport-utility vehicle are little more than tarted-up versions of similar Ford models. The MKZ is built on the same platform as the Ford Fusion sedan....
...One urgent thing Ford needed to do was to pare back its sprawling “house of brands” and make fewer vehicles at a lower cost....
...About one-third of all vehicles were electric in America’s three biggest cities in 1904. Electric cars were cleaner and quieter than petrol ones....
...The Grand Cherokee is the first in a slew of new cars and sport-utility vehicles to be rolled out over the next three years. Much is riding on its success....
...Two unmarked police sport utility vehicles are parked outside a darkened two-storey house and remnants of crime scene tape are scattered in the front yard....
...In addition to Accords and Civics, the recall affects CR-V sport utility vehicles, Odyssey vans and Acura TL and CL saloons....
...Around the same time, Toyota introduced an electric version of its RAV4 sport utility vehicle, also built largely to meet California’s shifting rules on zero-emissions vehicles; it was discontinued....
...Drive up Mazaryk, an exclusive high street in Polanco, and you will see scores of suited and armed men standing on street corners or sitting in sports utility vehicles waiting for their employers to finish...
...The 27-month lease on the couple’s Honda Odyssey minivan was expiring and they browsed widely last month, weighing the merits of sport utility vehicles ranging from the Honda CR-V small crossover to Porsche...
...Chrysler will axe about 1,825 jobs by cutting one of two shifts at a Jeep and Dodge crossover plant in Toledo, Ohio, and accelerating the planned closure of a plant in Newark, Delaware, that builds sport-utility...
...But the vehicle which won last year’s challenge was very much a civilian one: a General Motors Chevrolet Tahoe sports-utility vehicle nicknamed the “Boss” in honour of Charles “Boss” Kettering, the founder...
...Tesla has won praise for its original thinking, but many executives at car companies privately question the Silicon Valley startup’s ability to pioneer and sell vehicles in one of the world’s most competitive...
...Once you sell your Hummer to buy a hybrid, you are not going to come back [to driving a sports-utility vehicle] quickly.”...
...The United States is obsessed with spectator sport....
...But this year’s sharp drop in US vehicle sales – especially of the sport utility vehicles, pick-up trucks and minivans that form the group’s core business – has turned Mr Nardelli’s mission from a turnround...
...The activists also declared themselves unimpressed with GM, which won the Green Car Journal’s Green Car of the Year award on Thursday for its Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid, a sports utility vehicle that achieves...
...(The ice was designed to prove the traction of Mercedes’ all-wheel drive cars and sport-utility vehicles.)...
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