General Motors is a mixed bag. Among the bright spots is the redesigned Chevrolet Malibu with above-average reliability for the 4-cylinder model and average for the V6. The Buick Lucerne V8 and four-cylinder Pontiac G6 are both above average. The Chevrolet Avalanche is now average. But a quarter of GM models are still well below average.
Herb Gordon Nissan While we wanted to follow Nissan s re-imaging plan, we really spared no expense in this renovation because our customers deserve the best in automotive shopping and servicing. The entire renovation was done with our customers in mind. said General Manager for Herb Gordon Nissan, Van Westerlund.
Ralph Cestero remembers August 17th of 1977, his first day selling cars, because it was the day after Elvis died. He was racing cars as well, but he said that it was going nowhere and so through a friend he got a job selling Porsches. He went on to sell Jaguars, Lexus, and then Mercedes cars at American Service Center in Arlington , Virginia . At that time American Service Center had the only Ferrari Factory authorized dealership in the Northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC area.
Maita Automotive Group continues to sell Chevrolet, Hyundai, Nissan, Scion, Subaru and Toyota brands at dealerships in Sacramento and Elk Grove. Maita Ford Mercury joins nearby Auburn Nissan in closing. Michael Barbieri, owner and manager of Auburn Nissan, at 536 Grass Valley Highway, cited financial difficulties when he shut April 24, with 14 people losing their jobs. Dealership woes extended beyond the immediate Sacramento area over the weekend. On Sunday, Lithia Dodge of Fairfield closed down.
Story Comments Total Post : 2 Posted By : pnbiswas on 04 March,2008 The cut in excise duty is welcome particularly in small towns where no public transports are available. However, to avoid city congestion there is an active need to reduce the life of a car to 7-10 years. Further, congestion zones should be earmarked in all cities and any car entering into it should be asked to pay Rs.1000/- per occasion with staying limit of two hours.
Bradley Fay When the 12- to 14-hour days at the Tochigi plant near Tokyo begin to wear on him, Fay dons his leather, hops on his Honda motorcycle and cruises across the crowded Japanese countryside, a world away from the comparative vastness of the Mount Victory-area farm where he grew up. Traffic is crazy, but Fay uses the berm to weave through.
AV, I give you that interiors in VW are better and Dollar/Euro/Yen deal. But about parts - this is where you are wrong. Not many VW parts are shipped from Europe. Most parts used for VW service are aftermarket parts which could be made in USA/Canada/Mexico/Asia. And even those OEM part, which come with your car are likely to be made in Asia and now Russia. Russia is automakers’s new land. Almost all brands now have manufacturing facility there because Russia also has any resource you need.
“They were selling dozens each month and making millions of euros a year. “It was a very well run Mafia operation.” Those arrested are being held on suspicion of fraud, conspiracy and receiving stolen goods. Carofiglio said one of the cars seized was a flaming red F360, which is no longer made. It was selling at 100,000 euros - half what it should cost. Dozens of false Ferraris have been seized in Italy over the last 25 years.
Scroll down for more … Fake versions of Ferraris like this were being sold online by the Mafia Twenty-one of the fake cars were seized in Palermo and were put together using parts salvaged from stolen cars and write-offs. General Carofiglio described the fake mechanics as “extremely talented” and said that they also used second-hand American Pontiacs before selling them on for a huge profit. He added that a used car cost them 3,000 Euros, while the finished product fetched 20,000-50,000 Euros.
Reliability trends Our latest survey tracks a decade’s worth of trouble Reliability remains a forte for most Japanese brands. Twenty-three of the 33 models in our most reliable list are from Japanese automakers. Moreover, we ve predicted average reliability or better for all Honda and Subaru models based on our most recent survey. This year s forecast shows that domestic models, led by Ford, continue to improve and that there are small improvements in European makes as well.