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Chrysler Launches Sebring Convertible at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant

The Chrysler Group earlier announced the launch of the 2008 Chrysler Sebring Convertible, which will be built at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant (SHAP) in Michigan. The new convertible will be manufactured alongside the Chrysler Sebring Sedan and the 2008 Dodge Avenger which were launched earlier this year. The SHAP employs the Chrysler Group's expanding Flexible Manufacturing Strategy (FMS). FMS allows the automaker to bring its new product lines to market more quickly and the SHAP...

Declining Truck Sales Cripple Gm

General Motors Corp.'s sales sagged in June as demand for its small cars dropped. Also, aggressive discounting by the Toyota Motor Corp. injured GM’s pickup trucks. Of the Detroit Big Three, GM suffered the largest monthly decline, with sales diving 21.3 percent - the number is slightly weaker than June last year. Overall, vehicle sales fell three percent from year-earlier levels, and the drop would have been sharper if there had not been an extra selling day in June. On a seasonally...

Spirituality and kabbala, creation and God

Foreword The following exercises are designed to assist in freeing the most potent energy known to humanity and resident in creation. They are not designed for someone with little or no esoteric experience. In general, it would be advisable to have at lest one to two years of practical, daily experience with the Middle Pillar and/or Pentagram Rituals; in addition, an equal amount of time with the Hexagram Rituals. Several working of the 32nd through 24th Paths on the Tree of Life would...

Technician of the Year Offers Summer Driving Tips

Summer has always been a time when most Americans take their vacations and take extended road trips. This tradition will no doubt be observed this season even with the price of gasoline increasing. But before hitting the roads, it is of utmost importance that one should consider checking their cars for potential threat of malfunctions. The National Automotive Parts Association 2007 Technician of the Year Kit Johnson has some pieces of advice to offer to drivers who are planning to get...

Sales Doldrums Cripples General Motors

Declining truck sales and a bunch of condemnation have weakened General Motors Corp.'s turnaround plan, threatening to outdo the automaker's product successes and cost-cutting efforts of the past year. GM's June sales were down 21 percent from a year ago, with sales down seven percent year to date. The automaker’s June sales report reflected surprising weakness in its new full-size pickup trucks, a key to the automaker's comeback plan. The continuing sales doldrums etches doubt over...

Domestics to Claw Back Small Car Shoppers

With the realization that shoppers are shifting from huge vehicles to compacts, domestic automakers plan to claw back into the small car market. American automakers have long put emphasis on the manufacture of big vehicles such as pickups and sport utilities. Now that shoppers entertained a change of heart, domestics also plan to sing a new tune to win over customers. In the hope that the new strategy will gain shoppers, domestics are launching tuneful small cars. This is Detroit’s...

Do you Drive a Gay Car?

Is your car the gayest? Wheels24, a South African website spent 3 weeks running a poll to vest the "Alternative Car of the Year" title. After furious voting online, Wheels24 divulged the 3 new car models that wowed auto crowd the most. From there, the gayest and straightest cars were named. At the finish line is the vivacious Peugeot 207, which was named the "gayest car." Next to it is the muscular Audi RS4, which was tagged the "straightest car." Alfa Romeo Brera was also awarded the...

Lutz Says Fuel Economy Killed Some Gm Concept Cars

General Motors Corp. Product Chief Bob Lutz said that the company has killed some of its concept-car ideas because of an increased emphasis on fuel economy and sensitivity over the automaker's public image. Lutz, speaking during a video podcast on GM's Web site released over the weekend, said that the company has "arranged our priorities on now getting more fuel efficient, (and) spending a lot more money on alternative(s)." Those alternatives include hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, and...

Advanced Astrology and the Beginnings of the Zodiac

Most people know what their astrological sign of the zodiac is. Even if you do not believe that the positions of the planets at the exact time of your birth is an indicator of your personality and can determine events that happen to your throughout your lifetime, you have almost certainly met someone who does. So just what is your astrological sign of the zodiac? In western astrology your sign of the zodiac depends on the location of planets and constellations at the moment you were born. Are...

Cal to Road-test Toyota Plug-in Hybrid

The Toyota Motor Corp. took a big leap last Wednesday towards marketing plug-in hybrid cars when it announced it would provide two specially-made Priuses to the University of California for testing on American roads. The largest Japanese automaker will be the first to put the experimental electric-gas hybrid cars on American streets for daily driving when the Priuses take to the road in Berkeley and Irvine this fall, said Michael Taylor, a Chronicle staff writer. Plug-in hybrids run...