Lear to Open Plant in Detroit, Donates $5 Million
5 Aug 2010, 09:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American supplier Lear, who emerged from bankruptcy in November last year, announced today it will open a new manufacturing plant in the Detroit area and will be hiring at least 200 people in 2011. ...
Half of Detroit's Bus Drivers Call in Sick...
10 Jul 2010, 17:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Talk about contagious! In what turned out to be a nasty surprise for the some 65,000 people traveling on an average Saturday by buses operated by the Detroit Department of Transportation (DDOT ), ha...
Chrysler Builds New Grand Cherokee in Detroit, Announces Second Shift
22 May 2010, 14:05 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / In an event held yesterday, Chrysler officially launched production of the all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee at the Jefferson North Assembly Plant (JNAP) in Detroit, Michigan USA. Along with the car ...
US Buses to Carry Atheist Message
5 Mar 2010, 07:17 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / More than twelve buses bearing the “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” message will hit Detroit roads on Thursday in an attempt to try and bring atheists closer together. The...
GM Will Not Move Employees from Detroit
8 Feb 2010, 16:19 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / Back in November, GM announced its plans to move 1,500 employees from its Detroit headquarters. That was terrible news for the city, so it decided to make a deal with GM and offer important tax brea...
Government Paper Powered Car Debuts at Detroit
26 Jan 2010, 14:46 UTC · By: Alex Vasile / The idea of alternative fuel has been pushed to a new level as a car powered by government office wastepaper and waste cardboard is about to be driven on the streets of Washington DC. The impressive...
Detroit, the Cradle of American Automotive Civilization...
25 Jan 2010, 15:58 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / ...Statistically, every North American Auto Show has always been the venue where every US manufacturer is making its best peacock impressions in front of its competitors. Why? Well, it would be hard...
Marchionne Says Sicily Plant Will Be Shut
17 Jan 2010, 07:23 UTC · By: Alexandru Radu Chis / On location in Detroit at an industry event on Wednesday, Fiat SpA Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne announced Fiat will continue with the company’s plans to shut down the Termini Imerese, fro...
Tata Nano Goes to Detroit
7 Jan 2010, 14:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although some still consider the Tata Nano as being two small for such a big country, the Indian manufacturer and Tata Technologies (which, by the way, has a regional headquarters in Novi, Michigan)...
Audi Design Chief to Address Students in Detroit
7 Jan 2010, 11:39 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / German carmaker Audi announced yesterday their Head of Design Stefan Sielaff will address students at the College for Creative Studies (CCS) in Detroit on January 10, before the 2010 NAIAS event kic...
$3 Million to Get Cobo Ready for NAIAS
5 Jan 2010, 08:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) just around the corner, the Cobo Center in Detroit is getting ready to receive its visitors. According to the organizers of the event, Co...
MINI Announces Lineup for 2010 NAIAS
4 Jan 2010, 09:37 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / After sometime last month BMW detailed the models which will be seen at the 2010 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), it is now MINI’s turn to present its lineup for the upcoming ev...
Saab to Move US HQ From Detroit
15 Oct 2009, 09:30 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Detroit isn't quite a top-notch location during economic recession, especially when thinking that most major automakers based in the region went bankrupt and begged for government money. Obviou...
The Bright Side of the Financial Dowturn: Less Traffic Congestion
26 Feb 2009, 13:44 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / Hardly could we have imagined that the gloomy financial downturn has a bright side as well but, apparently, it does as it puts the brakes on traffic congestion. According to New York Times Blogs,...
GM Intends to Save Saturn
2 Feb 2009, 10:42 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / Although in December last year, GM mobilized all its forces to convince the Congress help it save Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC and no word was mentioned about the Saturn brand, it seems that t...
$50 Million to Redeem the Detroit 3's Image
14 Jan 2009, 09:52 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / Although advertising is considered to be absolutely necessary in a fast-paced modern world, during crisis times budgets for commercials and marketing lower considerably. So what do you do when you d...