Category Archives: General Talk

Porsche reportedly planning a five-door Cayenne Coupe

BMW has the X6 and Mercedes-Benz will soon unveil a production version of the Concept Coupe SUV.

According to Autocar, Porsche plans a new five-door Cayenne coupe as part of expanded Cayenne SUV family.

German car sales drop for first time in five months

Sales of new cars in Germany fell by nearly 4 percent in April, bucking the trend in the other major western European markets of France, Italy and Spain where sales were up.

German passenger car registrations dipped to 274,097 last month, the Department of Motor Vehicles (KBA) said, the first drop for five months and a sign that a recent recovery in demand remains fragile.

Marchionne looks to double Jeep’s global sales by 2018

Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne wants the automaker’s Jeep brand to double its global sales to more than 1.5 million vehicles by 2018 with strong growth in South America and China, sources said.

Marchionne sees the iconic U.S. brand as one of the main pillars of growth for Fiat Chrysler and will announce his ambitions for Jeep when he unveils a new five-year product and business plan for the combined Italian-American company on Tuesday, sources said.

Activists sue San Francisco over controversial tech bus program

Demonstrators block the path of a Google commuter bus to Mountain View, in San Francisco

Activists have sued the city and county of San Francisco over a pilot program giving shuttles run by Google and other private companies access to municipal bus stops, claiming it favors higher-paid technology workers over low-income residents.

GM CEO tells students to quickly fix problems

General Motors CEO Mary Barra, center, is conferred an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree before addressing the University of Michigan graduates at a commencement ceremony Saturday, May 3, 2014 in Ann Arbor, Mich. Barra, the first woman to lead a major automaker, took the top spot at GM in January, just as a deadly ignition switch problem was starting to surface. Barra urged the students to be honest in every aspect of their lives, and to use their optimism and propensity for inclusion to rethink outdated assumptions and expose and correct injustice. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Work hard, be honest and address problems quickly so they don’t grow. That is the message that new General Motors CEO Mary Barra gave University of Michigan graduates at a commencement ceremony Saturday.