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As the late Paul Newman said as Butch Cassidy, "Who are those guys?" I'm sure you don't recognize The Big Three, a Brian Epstein managed group that did not become the Beatles. A lot of folks don't recognize the Big Three from Detroit these days either. But on Saturday the Senate approved $25 billion in loans to Detroit, intended to spark innovation...

Bill Heard Chevrolet, advertised as "Mr. Big Volume", is based in Atlanta and has been operating for nearly 100 years. It was one of General Motors' largest automotive groups...

One of my buddies at Tire Town was at a tire seminar last week and he told me about this Bentley on Nokian snow tires. Here's the press release. Bentley Continental GT smashes world ice speed record 2 March, 2007 Oulu, Finland - A Bentley Continental GT, driven by four-times World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen, smashed the world ice speed record last week, reaching an average speed of 199.86mph (321.65km/h) on frozen sea off the coast of Finland...

 With all the government money being thrown around recently for bailouts, proponents of the bailout of the automakers are feeling pretty chipper. Critics contend the loans amount to just another government bailout -- a term automakers and their allies have been loudly fighting, even as Wall Street's recent troubles raise the prospect of more industries calling on Congress for aid. "If you look in the paper the last few days, you see 'bailout, bailout, bailout.' This is not a bailout," said Rep...

So I'm scanning the automotive headlines, looking for something interesting, and I see: Ford gets boost from Batman For a second I thought it was about some kind of actual sales bump because of Ford cars being in the movie. But it was more about how cars get placed in movies. "The Joker's henchmen drive black Ford Expeditions in the opening scene of the movie," said Brian Daly, Ford's man in Beverly Hills who works to "cast" Ford vehicles in movies and television...

The race between General Motors Corp. and Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp. to produce a rechargeable car is meaningless because the companies' vehicle designs are so different, GM's top product executive said Thursday...

Take a well knowm , recognizable product and give it a new look. A sure fire formula for success? You have to be careful when you mess with things people are attached to...

Oh yea, this will work. General Motors Corp has received interest from two separate investors from the Gulf Arab region to buy its Hummer brand, the company's Middle East chief told Reuters on Tuesday. I'm bouncing around on what's going on here...

There's no doubt that the price of oil has been a huge factor, both at the pump and on dealer's lots. Oil had leveled off a bit the last couple of weeks, but is down again this morning even in the face of hurricane Gustav. So I'm standing by my thought that the AR index is at the end of an inverse head and shoulders pattern and about to reverse course...

Beijing certainly wanted to put their best foot forward for the recently completed Olympics. One of the problems they wanted to alleviate for the games was the poor air quality in Beijing. Beijing's 3.3 million cars have been an important factor in making the city one of the world's most polluted...