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Editorial: To All the Mopar Haters…

January 17, 2010

I spent a good amount of time reading about the Detroit auto show, especially about Chrysler. With nothing new to show, Chrysler arrived in Detroit tooting about revised model lines, new standard equipment, etc. Hardly exciting stuff. Checking out the responses from readers at various auto-related blogs, a good deal of the general public seems [...]

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Name that Mopar

January 12, 2010

If the curves behind the lovely lady don’t look familiar, you would not be unlike many of the journalists at the Detroit auto show over the past couple of days. The car is clearly not a traditional Chrysler, yet it is wearing Chrysler badging. There are no signs anywhere near it and no nameplate.Curiously, there [...]

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Abarth shows off at Mugello

December 6, 2009

One of the great things about Italians is their passion for the good things in life. Fortunately that passion extends to cars and motorsport, especially Italian cars. The good folks at Abarth have been sticking scorpion badges on Fiats for many years, most recently Fiat’s new 500 and they wanted to share their passion for [...]

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Dodge Viper Lives!

July 11, 2009

That’s right friends! Fans of the hairy V-10 American sports car can all breathe a collective sigh of relief, the Dodge Viper’s life has been spared. Originally scheduled to cease production in December 2009, Chrysler announced that production of the Viper will continue. Equally critical to the fate of the Dodge Viper is the news [...]

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Video teaser: The Scorpion Tales

June 26, 2009

With the recent and ongoing total revamp of the auto industry, we are very soon going to see new Fiat models for sale once again on North American shores. Fortunately for us gearheads, that also means Abarth is also coming to our continent once again. I’ve been aware of the cool that is Abarth since [...]

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Andre’s new baby comes home

June 8, 2009

Regular readers might recognize the name AndreGT6 from his comments here in The Garage. Andre’s post name comes from his mint ‘68 Triumph GT6. His pride and joy. Until now that is. Last summer, Andre made the mistake of going to the annual vintage race at The Glen and fell in love with vintage racing. [...]

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My first car, sort of: Fiat 124 Coupe

May 29, 2009

There are often some interesting conversations that happen over on Twitter that never make it to The Garage, and sometimes those conversations even become post food. This is one such post. Tino Rossini (@stradablog on Twitter) from Strada asked a bunch of his Tweetpeeps to report on what their first car was. Tino’s was a [...]

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Black Russian

May 28, 2009

Long time readers of The Garage may recall that years ago I used to crew for a team that campaigned a 1967 Fiat 124 Special. The Italian Brick. Years later, that brick shed the twincam head, 5 speed and 4 wheel disc brakes and Fiat sold it to Russian automaker Lada. Same brick, but without [...]

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Top three bidders for Saab named

May 12, 2009

According to the newspaper Göteborg Tidning an unnamed source at General Motors suggests that the top three bidders hail from three countries.
Chinese auto firm Geely, Italy’s Fiat, and a German investment bank are the three most likely to purchase Saab from their current owner General Motors. The source also added that current GM CEO Fritz [...]

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Chrysler Files for Bankruptcy

April 30, 2009

The news today did not come as a total surprise-Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy today. While listening to local news reports from various Chrysler dealerships today, the general feeling was relief-not panic, the emotion normally associated with this sort of news. The key here is that Chrysler (and GM, for that matter), were asked [...]

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