Almost since the invention of the automobile, people have dreamed of building a single vehicle that could drive on the road and take to the sky. Over the years there have been numerous attempts to build a viable “roadable aircraft” – a self-contained airplane/car hybrid – but few of these concepts ever made it off the drawing board. And even fewer made it off the ground. But with advances in technology and engineering, modern designs for the flying car are making that dream closer to reality… Details
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A chance to see the Top Gear boys famous car-boat challenge! Will any of their amphibious converted cars survive the Top Gear challenges? Find out in this BBC automobile video clip.
GMC and Buick survive the cuts, while Saturn, Saab and Hummer will be gone by the end of the year
As he faced the media this week and announced the death of the Pontiac brand, GM CEO Fritz Henderson testily defended the decision by attacking “frankly disconcerting” coverage of whether it should have been the GMC truck brand or Buick to receive the axe.
GM executives have been very protective of Buick, not because it’s been burning up the sales charts in North America — in fact far from it — but because of the brand’s popularity in China… Details
Chrysler LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, CNNMoney.com reported on Thursday. But a deal has been reached to combine the company with Fiat in order to allow Chrysler to stay in business.
The bankruptcy filing, which was made in federal court in New York, comes after some of Chrysler’s smaller lenders refused a Treasury Department demand to reduce the amount of money the troubled automaker owed them.
In remarks at the White House, President Obama said …Â Details