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Sales Up 18.8% for the Month and 10.4% for the First Half of the Year Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) today reported June sales of 22,563 vehicles, an 18.8% improvement over June 2010, and the company’s highest June volume and first half of the year on record. On a year-to-date basis, the 118,021 vehicles sold represent a [...]

Ford to triple electrified vehicle production Ford will grow its electrified vehicle production capacity to more than 100,000 units annually by 2013 thanks to increasing consumer appetites for green vehicles. Ford will triple production capacity of its electrified vehicle lineup, further boosting volumes of its all-new C-MAX Hybrid and C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid, which begin [...]

More than 40,000 Chrysler Group LLC employees and their families stepped right up to the ‘big top’ at the Chrysler Technology Center (CTC) in Auburn Hills, Mich., as part of the complex’s Family Day Celebration. The company held the carnival-themed event to commemorate its second anniversary and the recent repayment of loans from the U.S. [...]

Italian luxury goods executive buys last DTS from Detroit-Hamtramck Nicola Bulgari, an avid car collector and vice chairman of the Bulgari luxury goods firm, prefers not to dwell on the sheer number of automobiles in his car collection. “Is it important?” Bulgari asked. “Is it the number or the quality that matters?  It’s the quality.” [...]

In auto production, more power, better fuel economy and fewer emissions rarely appear together. But the 2012 Camaro 3.6L direct injection V6 engine achieves all three by combining the exhaust manifold with the cylinder head into a single aluminum casting. Each integrated exhaust manifold cylinder head — a V6 has two — replaces a cast [...]