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Mini Will Get 3-Cylinder Engines
By Chris Haak Cars sold under BMW's small-car brand, Mini, will roll with three-bangers under their little hoods with their next-generation models, according to a report in...
GM Hires Joel Ewanick from Nissan to Lead Marketing
By Chris Haak GM announced today that its head of marketing, Susan Docherty, is now its former head of marketing. Prior to that, Ms. Docherty had previously been head of...
April Sales Results are Good, Not Great
By Chris Haak The auto industry still has a big, big hole to dig out of to get anywhere close to the volumes of the peak years earlier in the last decade, when 16 and 17 million...
Geithner Claims “Reasonable Chance” GM and Chrysler Will Repay Aid
But of course, there's a catch. By Chris Haak US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that taxpayers were still at risk of loss from...
China’s Brilliance Withdraws from European Market
We have yet to see Chinese cars in the US, and they're about to become more scarce in Europe. Back in November 2009, HSO Motors, the European importer of Brilliance automobiles,...
GM to Invest $893 Million in Next-Generation V8s
By Chris Haak To steal from Mark Twain, rumors of the V8's death have been greatly exaggerated. We reported in January on the end of big block V8 production at GM's Tonawanda,...
Ford Posts $2.1 Billion First Quarter Profit
By Chris Haak It doesn't seem as if things could go much better for Ford these days, particularly in terms of relative performance. While its crosstown rivals are still...
Beijing Auto Show: BMW Concept Gran Coupé
By Chris Haak Back in 2007, BMW used the occasion of the Shanghai Motor Show (obviously in China) to debut its Concept CS, which was BMW's take on the then-nascent four-door...
Beijing Auto Show: Ford Start Concept with 3-Cylinder EcoBoost
By Chris Haak If you haven't already noticed, several of us at Full Metal Autos are big fans of Ford's 3.5 liter, 350+ horsepower EcoBoost V6. The powerful engine has the...
Beijing Auto Show: Chevrolet Volt MPV5 Crossover Concept
By Chris Haak Last week, the sleuths at GM Inside News stumbled upon a design patent drawing for a crossover that seemed to basically have the Chevrolet Volt's face attached to a...