Posted on September 21st, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Automotive News is reporting that Chrysler is selling its factory-owned Motor Village LA dealership. The full-line dealership opened last November with a big splash and began selling vehicles earlier this year. Motor Village LA was supposed to be a showcase for Chrysler Group products in California, a market that the company has targeted for special [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2010 • by David Zatz
Paul Clinton of Government-Fleet.com reported that Dodge has added a new option to the Charger: a more performance-oriented gear ratio, to compete more effectively with the Caprice and 2012-model-year Volvo-based turbocharged cars. Police departments may now get either the usual 2.65:1 ratio for better gas mileage, or a 3.06:1 ratio for quicker launches. California has [...]
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Posted on April 9th, 2010 • by David Zatz
A judicial panel has decreed that all Toyota unintentional-acceleration lawsuits will be consolidated in the automaker’s US-headquarters state of California. Over one hundred cases have been filed, with very different demands. Most are claiming compensation for deaths and injuries. Others, though, only aim to force Toyota to broaden its recalls, demand the inclusion of brake [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 • by David Zatz
After the Detroit News wrote that the California Air Resources Board was threatening to renege on a deal with the White House and automakers to reach compromise national standards, CARB’s chair, Mary D. Nichols, denied that they had ever made this threat. Nichols wrote that they were “fully committed to the agreement” announced by President Obama [...]
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Posted on October 16th, 2009 • by David Zatz
The California Air Resources Board announced that vehicles with soft plastic windows, such as those in the Jeep Wrangler, will be exempt from new regulations that require thermal-control windows. The regulations, to be phased in starting in model year 2012, are designed to reduce vehicle emissions by cutting the load on air conditioners. Due to [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2009 • by Bill Cawthon
It appears the days are numbered for California’s last automotive production facility. Sources with knowledge of the situation say the Japanese automaker will most likely wind down its share of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant it once shared with General Motors, ending the employment of the only UAW workers building Toyota products. On [...]
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