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...mild hybrid system next year, and may extend it to the entire product line. Next up is General Motors, which plans to roll out a hybrid version of the Saturn Vue next summer and offer hybrid versions of lumbering sport-utility vehicles such as the Chevrolet Suburban by 2007. Volkswagen and Porsche also have announced plans to introduce hybrids before the end of the decade...
...Business As Usual German business has always had a spotless reputation for moral probity. Lately, however, a succession of corruption scandals has dented the country's corporate self-image. In June and July, fraud and bribery charges were leveled against top executives at carmaker Volkswagen and at Infineon, Europe's second largest computer-chip maker. Now another iconic national brand, BMW, is making unsavory headlines. Last week, one of the firm's sales managers was arrested on allegations of taking up to $100,000 in bribes from an east German supplier for funneling orders its way. So far, the executive...
...Cardiff University's business school, sees a happy ending at Rover. With Britain "the first place to get major Japanese investment" in its auto sector, "it would be in keeping to get the first major Chinese offshore investment," he reasons. Could the good times catch on over at Volkswagen? Peter Hartz, head of personnel at the German carmaker, quit last week in connection with a bribery and sex scandal. Separately, the firm unveiled a cost-cutting plan aimed at restarting the firm. Said Wolfgang Bernhard, chairman of the Volkswagen Brand Group: "If we cannot survive here at Volkswagen, then industrial...
...record, the film is not entirely awful. “Ben-Hur” had Jesus, “The Fast and the Furious” had Vin Diesel; Lohan and the apparently-possessed Volkswagen known as Herbie are, perhaps, heroes for our time. The plot, in which a disgraced Herbie is reluctantly rescued from the junk-heap and proceeds to reclaim his former glory as an unlikely racing star, is cute enough...
...Cars Jalopnik, Autoblog www.jalopnik.com, www.autoblog.com Crazy about cars? Between these two blogs, you should be able to feed the beast within. Jalopnik's scribblings have more personality ("Volkswagen continues to tease us like the self-hating louts we are, releasing another teaspoon's worth of details on its yet-unnamed convertible....") while Autoblog delivers industry news straight-up ("Hybrids are Hot: Honda sells 100,000"). Bonus link: 10 Hot Vehicles for Techies, from the new cars.cnet.com...