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• For dealers, auto bailout can’t come too soon
Sales taxes on automobiles alone generate almost $5 million a year for the city of 60,000, while a special property tax assessment on the Mile of Cars brings in $3 million more. Add in other taxes and fees on dealerships and supporting businesses ...
• Revving up the race for better fuel efficiency
Once fully deciphered, the phenomenon could give rise to better thermoelectric devices in automobiles and trucks. Collaborators at Michigan State University, in fact, are attaching such devices to the exhaust pipes of trucks, where temperatures ...
• Seven flights of fancy that fizzled
Automobiles that fly have been an old standby for magazines such as Popular Mechanics, which published its first "flying car" story in 1906. This is the cover from July 1957. © Image Copyright The Hearst Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Nov. 17 ...
• Plug-in cars don't come cheap
U.S. automakers faced a barrage of demands last week that they provide evidence and assurance that they would use federal bailout money to transform their companies to produce automobiles of the future, using advanced technologies and featuring ...
• Pelosi to automakers: Bring it in writing
were foreign built automobiles ! 2.) “worst-of-the-worst” list of 38 models — the overwhelming majority were automobiles built by detroit ! detroit automakers cannot compete — because of greedy unions & poor quality & overpriced cars. the ...