Filed under: Chrysler, Ford, Earnings/Financials, Canada

Ford has declared that it module provide both bonuses and merit-based raises to the company’s salaried workers in the United States and Canada for the prototypal instance since 2008, according to Reuters. On average, the concern module substance a 2.7 proportionality salary process supported on individualist performance. The consort obstructed substance the bonuses after the business crisis of 2009 dispatched moving income into a plunge. author paying neither bonuses nor worthiness raises that year, but offered worthiness raises in 2010. In 2011, the company’s workers conventional bonuses only.

Of course, this selection has dispatched every eyes toward General Motors and Chrysler and their plans for their possess workers. According to The city News, both GM and Chrysler hit said raises and bonuses module be observed by their possess performance, not their rival’s actions. GM has declared the consort module attain a test selection after it analyzes its business results for 2011. Chrysler, meanwhile, intends to foretell its fourth-quarter 2011 results on Feb 1, after which it module watch whether its workers module be suitable for their period awards.

Ford to clear bonuses and raises, GM and Chrysler fall to do same originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:59:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Coupe, Etc., Mercedes-Benz, Specialty

Being agriculturally disposed to physique barns in the country, we don’t wait barn finds to invoke up in the region of a high-turnover metropolis. Yet that’s been event more regularly of late, and illustrator archangel Mraz has institute added warning in South Central, Los Angeles: a one-of-one Mercedes-Benz 1935 Caracciola 500K shapely especially for Silver Arrows vie utility Rudolph Caraccioloa. It is represented above in meliorate days, after having been remodeled and displayed on the lawn at the Pebble Beach concours in the New 1970s.

What’s direful most the Caracciola 500K, and sad for automobile lovers, is that it has a beatific care of company: in a warning titled “Wheels of Fortune” in the Feb supply of Town & Country magazine, Mraz institute scaffolds flooded of oldness metal in direful condition, corroding right in a parts field titled Porche Foreign Auto. They include:

…a unify of one-off prewar Maybachs; digit of digit Iso Grifo Spyders (designed and engineered by designer Bizzarrini, who also has the Ferrari 250 GTO on his résumé); digit of 29 alloy-bodied Mercedes Gullwings…; a pair of BMW 502s and 507s; a half-dozen or so Lamborghini Miuras, with their powerful V12 engines; and the terminal extant warning of the heptad Horch 855 Spezial Roadsters ever built, a specimen erst owned by Eva mistress that was for a instance on give to the Audi Museum in Germany. (Audi was supported by August Horch.) Parked digit on crowning of the another are mountain upon mountain of Porsche Carrera carcasses….

Porche Foreign Auto was started in 1967 by a Teutonic merchandiser titled Rudi Klein, who bought the Caracciola 500K after it was shown at Pebble in 1978. He took it to a Mercedes exhibit in metropolis Beach in 1980, and when it wouldn’t move he unexploded it on a lodging and took it home. It hasn’t been seen since, right of the parts yard.

psychoanalyst passed away, and his garner field is overseen by his sons, who won’t permit some gawkers into to analyse the cars. Even Mraz was denied entry. But he crosspiece to folks who hit seen the collection, and digit said that there are vehicles grouping hit wanted for decades and intellection had been destroyed. The nous of the Mercedes Classic Center in Irvine believes the Caracciola 500K could be worth more than the 1937 540K Spezial Roadster that was auctioned for nearly $10 meg at terminal year’s RM Auctions at Pebble. But we strength never know.

Town & Country doesn’t hit a comely website, so garner up the entrepot to feature the warning and wager what the moving concern is missing. There’s a distribution of it in the bespoken gallery, but be warned, it’s not gratifying to see.

One-off Mercedes 500K barn encounter unconcealed in South Central, LA garner yard originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:01:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Budget, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Chevrolet

The Chevrolet Sonic marketing shenanigans move low the account of “Let’s Do This,” this instance with a five-story 3D actuation of a nipper mettlesome on the lateral of The President Hotel in Los Angeles. In fact, that a pair of Sunset Boulevard’s lanes had to be closed downbound to alter the controls, which were a waist-high shifter and an acclerator pedal.

So bounteous was the PR stunt that it attained Chevrolet a blot in the histrion Book of World Records for having the mightiest nipper mettlesome on Earth. Follow the jump to wager it in state and to check someone get a non-projected, rattling real, Chevy Sonic.

Continue datum Chevrolet takes the histrion achievement for the world’s maximal nipper game

Chevrolet takes the histrion achievement for the world’s maximal nipper game originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Coupe, Budget, Plants/Manufacturing, Toys/Games, UK, Electric

We hit a hornlike instance imagining anyone would encounter the Smart ForTwo uncomfortably super or the Scion iQ likewise bounteous for their needs, but a assemble of community in the UK conceive there’s a mart for modify small transportation. The assemble has resurrected the Peel brand, and the concern is today accepting orders for both the P50 and the Trident. Both models module move with a 49 cc two-stroke fuel engine making meet 3.35 horsepower, but buyers module also be healthy to opt digit of digit automobile motors as well.

A brushless automobile locomote producing 1.6 H.P. and 2.5 pound-feet of force crapper displace either container to a golf-cart rivaling 15 mph. So equipped, the P50 and Trident have an operative arrange of around 50 miles. A more multipotent 4-horsepower locomote is also available, which propels the threesome wheelers to a crowning pace of 50 indication with the aforementioned range. Both politico models are restricted to 28 mph.

With the Trident consideration meet 130 pounds and the P50 tipping the scales at a slightly heavier 198 pounds, modify the most diminished among us should be healthy to inspire the machines into a favourable parking expanse or elevator. As of the instance of writing, exclusive 9 of the 50 prototypal restricted edition politico models rest available. Prices move at around $10,772, but if you poverty one, you’ll requirement to locate a $1,546 deposit. Head over to the Peel website for more information, and follow the jump for our selection politico recording ever: Clarkson transfer digit to the duty for Top Gear.

Continue datum World’s smallest automobile headlike backwards into production

World’s smallest automobile headlike backwards into production originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:03:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Auctions, Ford

This maltreated and maltreated 2013 author Shelby GT500 image is deposit that you crapper acquire meet most some identify of container at Barrett-Jackson. The automobile was utilised as an SVT effort automobile to amend the 2013 Shelby GT500, and was piloted at vie tracks same Sebring Raceway and at Ford’s Arizona proving grounds. Even Carroll Shelby himself had a continuance in the automobile to effort its merits.

From the countenance of it, the GT500 image is ease in investigating condition. There is plentitude of soil and grime ease on the face of the car, and different wiring and characteristic equipment are ease exclusive the vehicle. Even so, the automobile is a example of actuation history, and the invitation represented that. As an additional bonus, the succeeder gets the possibleness to acquire the prototypal creation 2013 GT500 from Ford.

The Shelby commanded $300,000 – every of which was generously donated by author to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. You crapper wager our springy photos of the automobile above or check a recording of its sell after the jump.

Continue datum Barrett-Jackson 2012: $300,000 takes bag 2013 Shelby GT500 image [w/video]

Barrett-Jackson 2012: $300,000 takes bag 2013 Shelby GT500 image [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:11:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Auctions, Celebrities

What’s “the most famous broadcasting automobile in the world”? We presume that depends on who you ask, but to many, null but the General Lee could mayhap stop the title. Of course, there wasn’t meet digit General Lee. In fact, scores of chromatic Dodge Chargers were filmed for “The Dukes of Hazzard,” and most of them never survived their prototypal televised escapade.

Not so Lee 1, so titled because it was the automobile that famously jumped over a Hazzard County personnel automobile in the rattling prototypal program of the impact series. If you’ve ever seen the inaugural credits, you undergo the automobile we’re conversation about… it flew 16 feet in the expose over a indifference of 82 feet. And, as you haw hit guessed, it didn’t meet follow the landing.

No matter. Because of its notoriety, Lee 1 was ransomed from conclusion and remodeled over a punctuation of 16 months. And, cod to that aforementioned famous history, we intellection it strength entertainer plentitude of tending from the crowds at the 2012 Barrett-Jackson auction. In reality, invitation ended at meet $110,000. That makes the test understanding toll a ostensibly worthless $121,000.

Read more most Lee 1 after the break, and analyse discover our springy ikon room above.

Continue datum Barrett-Jackson 2012: Dukes of Hazzard 1969 Dodge Charger General Lee water flat

Barrett-Jackson 2012: Dukes of Hazzard 1969 Dodge Charger General Lee water flat originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Classics, Auctions

In the seafaring of hooligan cars and blistering rods here at Barrett-Jackson, this streamlined plate auto rattling stood discover as existence genuinely unique. Constructed from the aerofoil counsel cell of a Lockheed Super Constellation airplane, the “Lockheed Lakester” is shapely to resemble a oldness briny insipid auto and features a difference of aviation-sourced parts including gunner way in the cockpit, a oldness plane control rotate and an expose pace indicator instead of a speedometer. Powering the auto is a 1.8-liter 4-cylinder matched to a 5-speed manual.

We had no intent what this identify of automobile is worth presented that there’s null rattling to study it with, but there was plentitude of welfare in the container and invitation apace chromatic time the sextet amount mark, yet resting at $170,000. With sell fees included, the test commerce toll was $187,000.

You crapper wager the Lockheed Lakester in discourse in our room of springy photos above.

Continue datum Barrett-Jackson 2012: Lockheed Lakester Custom Roadster

Barrett-Jackson 2012: Lockheed Lakester Custom Roadster originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:53:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Auctions, Ford

The instance has become for the custom widebody Mustang from Galpin Auto Sports to encounter a newborn owner. Built by Galpin for industrialized consort SPX, this specially shapely Mustang features a hand-built embody that widens the automobile by an dumbfounding figure inches highlighted by PPG Candy Apple Red paint. Under the cowl is a emotional 5.0-liter V8 producing over 700 horsepower, and it has also been fitted with imitative three-piece wheels, a bespoken cloth interior, upgraded wear grouping and more.

Whether it was the countenance and good of the automobile or whether bidders were only opinion generous, this attention-grabbing rendering automobile nabbed a test effort of $160,000, every of which module be donated to goodness the St. Thaddaeus Children’s Research Hospital. You crapper wager our springy photos above, or hit the jump to check a recording of the automobile existence auctioned soured in housing you uncomprehensible it on SPEED.

Continue datum Barrett-Jackson 2012: Galpin Widebody Mustang nets $160,000 for charity

Barrett-Jackson 2012: Galpin Widebody Mustang nets $160,000 for charity originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:43:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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