Category Archives: Auto Talk
Obama Visits Chrysler Plant
Chrysler Group, hosting President Obama in Indiana, today said it is contemplating an $843 million investment to upgrade a Kokomo, Ind., transmission plant to build a new front-wheel-drive automatic transmission for future models.
Chrysler said that with the project its total investment in U.S. facilities would climb to nearly $3 billion since June 2009. With previous plans to spend $343 million to upgrade the Kokomo plants, those operations now stand to undergo $1.1 billion in renovations, Chrysler said.
U.S. Border Patrol Get Custom Ford Raptors
The Customs and Border Protection division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were delivered at least 10 Ford SVT Raptor pickup trucks to patrol the area where Arizona borders with Mexico. They had them special made without the custom leather interior of all Ford Raptors.
Hyundai-Kia overtakes Toyota as biggest Asian automaker in Europe
European car buyers have a favorite Asian automaker, and its name is no longer Toyota. Hyundai and Kia have tag-teamed to best the longtime Japanese automaker, with a four percent overall rise in total units through the first ten months of 2010. During that same period, Toyota-Lexus sales have fallen 17 percent, with Hyundai at 521,369 vehicles sold compared to 511,754 for Toyota.
2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon
The Z06 Carbon will reportedly be priced at $90,960 and goes on sale the beginning of 2011.
(Video) T-Pain Shows Off His Bugatti; Says It’s to “Motivate Everyone”
Motivate? I guess. Nice hoodie, by the way. LOL. And I’m guessing by the lights on his face during the first half of the video that the Hit Factory is all ready for Christmas? Ha.
