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's most prominent and iconic feature and world headquarters for General Motors, has been given a dynamic new appearance by YESCO.

Worker conducts research at GM Tech Center in Warren. Detroit automakers and suppliers are a major source of patents.

Instead of creating a fact-filled, detail-oriented expose on the evolution of a vehicle, Chris Paine ("Who Killed the Electric Car?") has directed and co-written (with P.G. Morgan) "Revenge of the Electric Car," an articulate, character-driven documentary which looks at four very different auto revolutionaries, external rendering and wall coating each united with the belief that the world needs the electric car, as oil and fossil fuels continue to hold consumers in slavery, both in our mindset about the way in which we use gas-powered vehicles, and in our pocketbooks.

Former U.S. President George W. Bush told car dealers gathered at a convention in Las Vegas he "didn't want to gamble" with a depression in defending the loans he gave to General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.

"I didn't want there to be 21 percent unemployment," Bush said in a speech yesterday to cap the annual National Automobile Dealers Association convention, attended by more than 20,000 people. "I didn't want to gamble. Penny Stocks to Buy. I didn't want history to look back and say, 'Bush could have done something but chose not to do it.' And so I said, 'no depression.'"

Toyota's quarterly profit slid 13.5 per cent on production setbacks caused by last year's tsunami disaster and the flooding in Thailand, but Japan's top automaker raised its annual profit forecast, saying a recovery is on track.

Toyota Motor Corp reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly operating profit, shrugging off a firm yen and the damaging impact of flooding in Thailand, and raised its annual forecast, helped by cost cuts and Japanese government subsidies.

That's General Motors taking a shot at rival Ford in this Super Bowl ad for the Chevy Silverado pickup truck.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced that the MOL-operated containership MOL Summer rescued 116 survivors from the ferry Rabaul Queen, which sank about 17 km east of Papua New Guinea.

An exhibitor displays Honda's Civic Hybrid MX at an exhibition of the International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exposition in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, October 23, 2006.

Ford Motor Co. isn't too happy in wake of Super Bowl XLVI, and it's not because the Detroit Lions weren't playing.

Japanese carmaker Mitsubishi Motors Corp said on Monday it will end car production at its Netherlands plant at the end of 2012, including output of its Colt subcompact car and its Outlander sports utility vehicle there.

This video grab provided by Volkswagen of America Inc., shows a creature standing in the shadows at the Cantina.

D.Boerse CEO eyes new allies as NYSE deal crumbles Deutsche Boerse does not believe it can survive in the long term without a new partner despite the collapse of its proposed $7.4 billion merger with NYSE Euronext , its chief executive told a German newspaper.

Chrysler Group LLC will continue pursuing loans from the U.S. Energy Department while the failure of companies that have borrowed from government programs may prolong the process, the chief executive officer said.

Officials at the Milwaukee-based motorcycle company say they plan to have a rally in Rome that June and then a massive party in Milwaukee over Labor Day weekend in 2013.

NEW BRUNSWICK - In 2010, demolition work was completed on the old Mack Truck factory complex at the corner of Jersey Avenue and Sanford Street in New Brunswick, clearing the way for the development of 100,000 square feet of medical office space.

Honda Motor Co.'s choice to build what it calls a racing-oriented "supercar" in Ohio highlights confidence in its American engineers and plants.

Ron Safran assembles an air compressor at the Wabtec factory in Wilmerding. The rail equipment supplier reported nearly $2 billion in revenue last year.

Toyota expects its rechargeable Prius, capable of going 15 miles on electricity alone, to get a higher fuel-economy rating than General Motors' Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Hino Motors Ltd. is testing trucks that can withstand extreme cold in a bid to expand sales in the Russian market, company officials said Saturday.