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  • 10 best concepts of the International auto show season

    From Frankfurt to New York, with stops in Geneva, Detroit, and Los Angeles, automakers unveiled their secret design projects to the public. These concept cars showed off new styling language,...

  • Detroit, Midwest lead in IT job growth

    Dice reports more than 800 tech openings in Motor City -- more than double a year ago.

    Blog posts | February 9, 2011 8:21am PST

  • The electric-car all-stars come out (photos)

    A parade of electric and hybrid vehicles strut their stuff in Detroit, giving people a chance to drive commercial electric vehicles.

  • VCs find living dinosaurs...in Detroit

    Despite the billions in loans and bailouts and the much abllyhooed re-org of Chrysler and GM, some prominent Silicon Valley investment leaders find Detroit's auto industry hopeless and heedless of...

    Blog posts | September 18, 2009 3:28pm PDT

  • Photos: 2009 Detroit Auto Show preview

    It's been a tough year for the auto industry, and Detroit in particular. Major marques have pulled out of the once dominant Detroit show, but a number of new launches show this show is still alive...

  • I won't have to blog about the Detroit automakers again until next year

    Congratulations, fellow American, you and I are now part-owners or at least managers in absentia of two of the most crippled manufacturing companies on earth--that being General Motors and...

    Blog posts | December 19, 2008 2:23pm PST

  • Detroit? Climate Change? Waiting games continue

    There'll be no word on loans to Detroit's Shrinking Three from the White House until the U.S. President returns from his trip abroad. So the American-owned carmakers, the UAW and the many parts...

    Blog posts | December 14, 2008 6:27pm PST

  • Dashboard warning lights aglow: Detroit low on fuel and oil pressure

    The odds of the Detroit Shrinking Three automakers getting any kind of federal loan help this year are getting slimmer. Now comes word that even the robust popularity of a sitting President (I...

    Blog posts | December 10, 2008 4:52pm PST

  • Auto industry moves into passing lane...maybe

    Nothing is certain if you're watching the Detroit drama. Will they, won't they? Our lame duck Congress does not yet know its own will on this one. There is expected to be some bill offrinhg...

    Blog posts | December 7, 2008 5:25pm PST

  • Detroit may get some money

    There're hints the White House and Congress may compromise on a $14 billion loan package for the fainting auto makers in Detroit. That would be enough that the current President can say he saved...

    Blog posts | December 5, 2008 5:35pm PST

  • Khosla: Don't Save the Dinosaurs

    Well-known greentech VC Vinod Khosla has an opinion piece in a national news mag today...and it calls for letting Detroit's auto dinosaurs wander around among the financial ferns until they die,...

    Blog posts | December 5, 2008 11:13am PST

  • American auto industry low on fuel and popular support

    After today's Senate hearings the Detroit Big Three are nowhere nearer getting any federal aid than they were after their last visit. Whatever you may think of the automakers "plan" to change and...

    Blog posts | December 4, 2008 3:52pm PST

  • Detroit automakers have little to be thankful for

    But they do have a little time to pull their drumsticks out of the oven. Today the Democrats in Congress gave the U.S. auto industry until December 2nd to come up with a proposal acceptable to...

    Blog posts | November 20, 2008 12:44pm PST

  • Beggars, and no longer choosers

    Detroit, its auto industry and its UAW find themselves facing a whole new era. A Congress that may NOT come across with dollars to keep the Detroit Dinosaurs (that's a management team not an NBA...

    Blog posts | November 20, 2008 12:00pm PST

  • Collision course for American-owned car makers

    America's auto makers were very handy in protecting themselves against having tougher fuel efficiency standards. Just this past year as fuel prices spiralled ever upward the feds finally...

    Blog posts | November 17, 2008 12:16pm PST

  • Car crash imminent?

    Wow, the battle over the future of American-based car manufacturers is getting more complex. Now there's a major battle brewing WITHIN the majority Democratic Party, and it's centered on the...

    Blog posts | November 16, 2008 6:07pm PST

  • Give 'em the cash, forget fuel efficiency

    The chorus of disagreement in Washington over a measly 25-billion dollars is something to behold. For the record that's less than 4% of the money that's been earmarked by the federal government...

    Blog posts | November 14, 2008 3:27pm PST

  • Will General Motors go the way of Philco and Studebaker?

    The battle in Washington is on: what, if anything, to do for, or with, the big American auto makers. That's "big" as in "big trouble." And the battle's outcome may have a huge effect on what the...

    Blog posts | November 13, 2008 2:01pm PST

  • 2008: a year of decision for us all

    BMW335d. The above photo is from CNET"s gallery of diesel cars at the Detroit Auto Show. Click here to see whole line-up. It was the greenest auto show ever in that brown town of Detroit....

    Blog posts | January 20, 2008 3:30pm PST

  • Is Detroit going green? What does the auto show show?

    The big auto show in Detroit is now open to reporters so the big announcements and the hoopla have begun. There are moves toward greener cars, and there are moves to just make more money....

    Blog posts | January 13, 2008 5:27pm PST

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