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Maruti Suzuki Kizashi Launch Soon In The World

Suzuki’s newest main course is definitely all-new mid-size sedan for its the year electric period and a platform price tag putting up in $20,500. Through Western, Kizashi equals “Something impressive is coming.” Period may explain to if this resolution eliminates possess.
Available at a March limelight unveil in American, Suzuki V . p . Gene [...]

GM’s Management of AmeriCredit Offers Chance to Show a “New GM”

By Doron Levin

If the new General Motors truly is a different company, it can ratify that claim by shrewdly managing AmeriCredit, a Texas-based subprime lender it's buying for $3.5 billion. More broadly, GM has to learn once again how to profit from automotive finance while remembering that its main business is car-making.

The old GM's management of its GMAC lending subsidiary was dreadful. In the bad old days, GMAC financing became the tail that wagged the dog, providing incentivized leases, cash rebates and 0 percent financing as catnip to shoppers unimpressed with GM's vehicles. Old GM morphed into an automaker that sold deals, not cars.

A two-cylinder hybrid: Can consumers change?

Outrageously cheap and fuel efficient
In the very near future Fiat might offer a two-cylinder car for the American market. Obviously, such a vehicle – one would think – would be called a joke by most Americans. Yet, what if Fiat offered an agile, fun-to-drive 100 mpg, 2-cylinder hybrid for just $12,000?
Could such a hybrid outsell [...]

Do auto makers have to become battery makers?

Can automakers afford lithium?
Today, lithium is already available on the high end of the luxury hybrid market. Soon, however, lithium battery packs will be available in many other hybrids, plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.
Still, can automakers derive a profit from lithium-powered vehicles?
Certainly on the high end, automakers are very capable of deriving profits from battery-powered [...]

Chrysler Says It Turned a profit in Q2

Some people may be on the lookout for flying pigs today.  Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne says the company turned a profit in the second quarter. Automotive News reports, "Chrysler Group posted its second straight operating profit as the automaker continues to recover from its 2009 bankruptcy. The announcement was made today by CEO Sergio Marchionne in a call with analysts. He didn't say how much Chrysler earned. Specific numbers will …

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Honda to Introduce Plug-in Hybrid and Electric Vehicle by 2012

Honda has announced that it plans to introduce a plug-in hybrid and electric vehicle (EV) to the U.S. market by 2012. “Japan’s No.2 automaker was one of the world's only car makers to offer gasoline-electric cars during the past decade but has begun looking like a laggard without a ‘strong’ hybrid or concrete plans to mass-produce pure electric cars,” writes Reuters. The introduction of two new fuel-efficient models will allow …

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Sonata: Hybrid sedan slayer

Let the hybrid price wars begin
Sedans aren’t the biggest sellers when it comes to hybrid cars. However, if hybrids are to ever achieve more than 3 percent market penetration, then sales of hybrid sedans will probably have to increase significantly.
Fortunately, with the Hyundai Sonata hybrid poised to hit the market as the smoothest, cheapest and [...]

Report: Honda to roll out plug-in hybrid car in 2013

Automaker working on hybrid that can be recharged at home and an all-electric vehicle, both ready in about three years, Nikkei paper reports.

Originally posted at Green Tech