Detroit-area lawmakers announce new package of auto no-fault bills (via Mlive.com) File photo Detroit Democratic lawmakers who oppose a Republican plan to reform the state’s no-fault auto insurance system announced their own legislation on Monday. The “Detroit Democratic Auto No-Fault Package” would track fraud, waste and abuse in Michigan’s auto insurance system, require insurance… Read More »
General Motors signs purchase agreement for Flint’s Durant-Dort Carriage ‘Factory One,’ birthplace of GM (via Mlive.com) Brian Laskowski | The Flint Journal This Durant-Dort carriage was found recently in a Clayton Township barn, where it had been forgotten under a pile of straw for more than 75 years. The carriage had been shuttered it in a barn more than seven ... Read More »
By Craig Trudell | Bloomberg.com For the first time in two decades, General Motors Co. (GM), Ford Motor Co. (F) and Chrysler Group LLC pulled off a sweep in the first three months of a year, with all three gaining U.S. market share in 2013’s first quarter. The momentum likely built in April versus Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) and Honda Motor Co., according to a survey ... Read More »
HHS Releases Medicare Data on Spending and Chronic Conditions (via The White House) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released a new, easy-to-use interactive tool that gives anybody – researchers, physicians, public health professionals, policymakers, consumer advocates, tech innovators, and the public – the ability to find and examine data on multiple chronic conditions… Read More »
BY DAMON LAVRINC | Wired.com Detroit Electric is back. Again. For real this time. And the reborn automaker will debut an all-new, all-electric sports car next month, with plans to expand the brand over the next two years. If you’re catching a twinge of skepticism about Detroit Electric’s chances, you’re not off-base. The automaker was reanimated in 2008 by ZAP and Albert Lam, former CEO ... Read More »
Gracie Love|StonesDetroit.com No city played a larger role in shaping the Twentieth Century than Detroit. The most popular mode of local transportation was perfected in the Motor City, revolutionizing where people lived, how they got to work, when they shopped and how they took vacations. Vehicles designed and built in Detroit drastically improved living standards and fundamentally altered how we ... Read More »
By: Alexander George | www.wired.com Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles. If Jim Kor’s dream is realized, that’s exactly how the next generation of urban runabouts will be produced. His creation is called the Urbee 2 and ... Read More »
By: Dave Rupe | www.stonesdetroit.com This is Detroit, home of the automobile. While the big three and even exotics enjoy name recognition, there’s one company you’ve likely never heard of, unless you’re a hardcore motor head. Back in 1985 Warren Mosler, a brilliant economist and investor, built his sports racer out of bits and parts that fell off the Big ... Read More »
By Jimmy Haddad | StonesDetroit.com There has been a horrific accident on South bound I-75 @ Springwells. A multi-vehicle accident has already lead to 4 deaths and 8 wounded, 2 of them adults for certain. The freeway is shut down and cleanup crews, EMS, Fire Department and warming buses are on the scene. It all started with 3 separate accidents ... Read More »
By: Terri Garza-Makowski | stonesdetroit.com There is plenty of talk about our fair city, Detroit. It is the one place that has nearly everything one could possibly imagine: blight, beauty, art, architecture, culture, theatre, music, manufacturing and political corruption. If you were to ask random people what they think about when they think of Detroit the answers will vary ... Read More »
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By Deepa Seetharaman and Paul Lienert Jan 29 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co on Tuesday predicted 2013 total operating profit would match results last year as market share gains in the United States offset deepening losses in Europe. Ford said the sales outlook was deteriorating in Europe, and it now expects to lose $2 billion in 2013, worse than the loss of $1.75 billion in ... Read More »
Detroit Free Press Staff Report Although many parking garages and lots can be found around downtown Detroit, here are a few city-owned parking places (lettered in map) that are reasonably priced and auto show accessible, near the People Mover. 4 • Related: What you will see at the auto show • Related: 2013 Detroit auto show schedule, prices and ... Read More »
By MARK BRUSH http://www.michiganradio.org At the unveiling of the all-electric VIA Motors truck, former auto exec Bob Lutz held a conversation with a holographic presentation of Thomas Edison. VIA Motors is a privately held electric vehicle development and manufacturing company. The company is working to develop a purely electric truck under the VTRUX brand name. Edison, the father of modern day electricity, once ... Read More »
By: Unknown Author | www.ap.org Dozens of successful Detroit high school students are earning money tutoring younger children after school, under a $1.5 million program dreamed up by a corporate executive who went through the city’s public school system and whose company is footing the bill. So far, 125 high school students from East English Village Preparatory Academy have received ... Read More »
By The Associated Press The North American International Auto Show in Detroit, which features more than 500 vehicles, opens to the public Jan. 19. Here are the details: WHEN: Public days are Jan. 19-27. The show is open from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day except Jan. 27, when it closes at 7 p.m. WHERE: Cobo Center in downtown ... Read More »
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