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Motor Spain2010 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 - Auto ShowsCar and Driver, MI - 23 hours agoBY STEVE SILER It’s been scarcely two months since we got our first look at the 2010 Ford Mustang at the Los Angeles auto show, and Ford is already showi…

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Sports Briefing | Auto RacingNew York Times, United States - Dec 31, 2008By AP Speedway Motorsports Inc. purchased Kentucky Speedway, clearing the way for SMI’s owner, O. Bruton Smith, to try to bring a Nascar Sprint Cup race to …

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Treasury Maintains Leeway in Auto AidWashington Post, United States - 2 hours agoAlready the Treasury has pledged $17 billion for General Motors and Chrysler, and $6 billion to help GMAC, the auto finance company. …Treasury lays out details…

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ReutersTreasury Expands Possibilities for Aiding Auto IndustryNew York Times, United States - Dec 31, 2008By BLOOMBERG NEWS The Treasury said on Wednesday that it had drafted broad guidelines for aid to the auto industry that would let offi…

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Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Nissan

Three video spots for the new Nissan 370Z show the marque is serious about reclaiming some of the genuine sports car credentials that were crushed underneath the weight of the last version. Apparently done before Nissan changed its tagline to “Shift_the way you move,” these are straight up about shifting desire at high speed from one point to another. One of them is a Japanese market commercial, which means lots of clouds and piano music, but the rest are all Six Million Dollar Man: better, faster, stronger. Follow the jump to check them all out. Thanks for the tip, Chad!

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US EQUITIES WEEK AHEAD: Data On Jobs, Auto, Retail SalesCNNMoney.com - Dec 31, 2008NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Reports on December unemployment and auto and retail sales will highlight the first full week of 2009 - and likely show the recession …

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For the auto sector, brakes gave out in 2008Forbes, NY - 3 hours agoBy DAN STRUMPF , 12.31.08, 01:18 PM EST For the auto sector - and many of its stocks - 2008 was nearly the end of the road. First came the record-breaking …

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Automakers push deals at auto showMSNBC - Dec 31, 2008The smallest car at the Indianapolis Auto Show seems to be attracting the biggest share of attention. "I'm surprised I fit in it," said one visitor after …

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Chrysler, LLC.

After receiving at least $4 billion dollars in low cost government loans, Chrysler, LLC thought the least it could do was thank the American people for their support. Instead of calling a press conference or writing a heart-felt letter to major newspapers, team Pentastar thought it best to take out full page ads in newspapers across America. Actually, maybe it wasn’t such a good idea (not to mention several pop-up text ads). It seems there are quite a few Americans that don’t like the fact that Chrysler found the need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars taking out ads in papers when the company is struggling to remain in business. The full page ads were run in papers including the USA Today and Wall Street Journal, where the price of a full-page ad can reportedly cost up to $264,000.

Action group American Solutions calls the ads “a precise example of the fact that they do not get it” and Americans for Tax Reform likened Chrysler’s ads to a polite robber that said please and thank you but still made off with the cash. It’s not surprising that special interest groups would jump on the ads, but apparently some tax-paying Americans are just as displeased. A click over to Chrysler’s blog shows some angry responses. There are 15 consumer responses so far, and none of them are positive. We’re no ad gurus, but this didn’t seem like a very good idea from the start, and it appears we’re not alone.

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ReutersGlobal Auto Sales to Fall 7.7% in 2009, Hyundai SaysBloomberg - 9 hours agoHyundai and affiliate Kia Motors Corp. have curbed production as US auto sales have dropped to the slowest pace in 26 years, while demand is also cooling in …Hyun…

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Javno.hrUS STOCKS-Wall St gains as latest auto bailout raises hopesReuters - Dec 30, 2008(Adds context to Dow) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, Dec 30 (Reuters) - US stocks climbed on Tuesday after the government expanded its bailout of the auto ……

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Washington TimesUS STOCKS-Wall St climbs on extended auto bailout, tech cosReuters - 1 hour ago… after the government expanded its bailout of the auto industry, bolstering hopes that lawmakers could curb the severity of the year-old recession. ….

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