This Week in Cars: 02.28.2010 – 03.06.2010
March 7, 2010 by Colin Bird
02.28.2010
- Ford can’t get labor savings [link]
03.01.2010
- Two Toyotas earn IIHS Top Safety Pick [link]
- Jeff Bridges voice-overs removed from Hyundai’s Oscars blitz [link]
03.02.2010
- February car sales up 13.3%: Ford number 1! [link]
- Geneva Motor Show wrap-up [link]
- GM’s Reuss takes bigger role in sales [link]
- GM recalls 1.3 million compact cars [link]
- Toyota hopes 0% financing will lure customers [link]
- Poll says 31 percent of Americans believe Toyotas unsafe [link]
- U.S. considers brake override system [link]
- Daimler, BYD to develop electric vehicles jointly in China [link]
- NHTSA has only five electrical, one software engineer [link]
03.03.2010
- 2011 Ford Mustang V-6 to get 31 MPG [link]
- GM names new VP of communications [link]
- Toyoda got it right in China [link]
- NUMMI’s pension plan being taken over by U.S. guaranty fund [link]
03.04.2010
- Chrysler promotes two execs [link]
- Auto veteran Bob Lutz to retire from GM [link]
- Global car sales weakened last month [link]
03.05.2010
- GM to give 600 dealers another chance to sell its cars [link]
- GM to pay Vice Chairman Girsky $5 million [link]
- Toyota owners file 60 complaints after recall fixes [link]
Clip of the Week:
Note: Apparently one of the gymnast severely hurt their ankle during the production of this ad.
