– Failure to conquer the U.S. market could be the undoing of Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn if Ferdinand Piëch, the head of VW’s supervisory board, gets his way. Just last week, things looked splendid in Winterkorn’s world. With two years remaining on his contract as CEO, his eyes were firmly set on a subsequent five-year tenure as Piëch’s successor at the top of VW’s supervisory board. That world has
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– Remember when Dodge announced its slightly confusing but ultimately quite cool 1 of 1 custom-order program for the 2015 Viper SRT? Today you can begin acting out your most perverted Viper customization fantasies, because the online configurator for the burly sports car is now live, and it’s refreshingly free of limits. For starters, you’re free to create whatever color you damn well please, and for the most part, you
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The all-new 2016 Volvo XC90 is an alluring proposition, and not just because of its Swedish good looks and airily plush interior. While the T6 base drivetrain is no slouch, cranking out 316 horses and 295 lb-ft of torque from a 2.0-liter four-cylinder that’s both turbo- and supercharged, the real engineering feat is the T8 plug-in-hybrid drivetrain that Volvo claims is good for 400 horsepower and 59 MPGe. Today, Volvo revealed how
– Overwhelm the senses or starve them. Connect the driver so completely with the car that he has to duck to avoid the crankshaft throws, or isolate the cabin so absolutely that its occupants feel cleansed by its serenity. Constant stimulation or sensory deprivation? When engineering an expensive car, a path must be chosen. READ MORE ›› –
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-Just before it crashed to earth in a smoldering knot of bankrupt wreckage, one of America’s crooked savings-and-loan institutions, amidst much panicked parboiling of hooks and ledgers, described its lack of cash as an “ephemeral fiscal shortfall.” Imaginative euphemisms are an American tradition. Recall, for instance, one other: “the unfair advantage.” That was the annotation Roger Penske and Mark Donohue, throughout their long partnership. affixed to what was, in less
Iraqi security forces fought Islamic State militants at the gates of the western city of Ramadi on Friday, and local authorities warned it was in danger of falling unless reinforcements arrived soon. Police sources and provincial council members said the militants were no more than half a kilometer from the center of the capital of Anbar province, and many residents were rushing to leave, waving white flags. “The situation in
By Mohamed Mokashaf ADEN (Reuters) – Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Friday he would not leave the country, dismissing reports in the Gulf Arab media that he was seeking a safe exit as Saudi Arabian war planes bomb troops loyal to him and their Houthi militia allies. The United Nations, meanwhile, said about 150,000 people had been driven from their homes by three weeks of air strikes
