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GM opens fourth IT Innovation Center

General Motors IT Innovation Center – Chandler, Ariz.
Every day, we work to improve GM, to make our company more efficient, more responsive and more customer-centric.  Our enterprise-wide focus on speed, simplicity and accountability are changing the way we do business, and that includes business functions like Information Technology.
GM’s IT function is in the midst of a huge, multi-year transformation to better support company-wide efforts to reduce costs, increase innovation, and deliver winning p…

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The Sistine Chapel Is Getting A High-Tech Bug-Proofing

Sistine Chapel Clayton Tang/Wikimedia CommonsPlugging leaks as the Papal conclave confers Back in 2005, before it was announced that Joseph Ratzinger would be pope, a leak helped the German media break the story. The conclave, the group of cardinals that elects the pope, will soon make another decision, and they don’t want a repeat of 2005. The answer? Bug-proof any areas where the cardinals are working, including the Sistine Chapel. To do that, Vatican officials will be installing a Faraday cage that c…

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Name That Shifter, No. 119

It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to present this week’s shifter. You’ll have until mid-day Wednesday to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence this shifter came. The first person to respond correctly in the Backfires section below will win a Save the Manuals button and sticker.* Good luck!
(* Offer open to U.S. and Canadian residents only.)

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Wheels: Monday Motorsports: Kenseth’s Vegas Gamble Pays Off

Matt Kenseth celebrated his 41st birthday on Sunday by winning the Las Vegas stop on the Nascar Sprint Cup circuit.

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Tesla Model X Production Pushed Back to Late 2014

Production of the Tesla Model X crossover has been pushed back from the end of this year to the end of 2014. A Tesla representative told the Los Angeles Times that the wait for the electric crossover has increased as the company focuses on filling orders for the Model S four-door, which could reach 20,000 [...]

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‘Downton Abbey’ cars with a modern twist

The Morgan Three Wheeler is about as basic as automobiles can get, but they sure are fun.

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61st Detroit Autorama bodes well for car culture: Past Ridler winners return for 50th award

The state of the auto enthusiast can be gauged yearly by two distinct events taking place between January and March at Cobo Center in Detroit — the

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Chinese Car Sales Down And Up

 
As a Chinese New Year expert, you most likely know where February auto sales in China headed: Down. Knowing how our patent-pending Chinese sales oracle, GM, did, you could also predict that there is a silver lining. And so it happened.
Chinese car sales were down 13.6 percent in February, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers CAAM says. However, Chinese New Year threw everything out of whack. One need to look at January and February, and for the two months, sales rose 14.7 percent.

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Chinese Car Sales Down And Up

 
As a Chinese New Year expert, you most likely know where February auto sales in China headed: Down. Knowing how our patent-pending Chinese sales oracle, GM, did, you could also predict that there is a silver lining. And so it happened.
Chinese car sales were down 13.6 percent in February, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers CAAM says. However, Chinese New Year threw everything out of whack. One need to look at January and February, and for the two months, sales rose 14.7 percent.

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Lamborghini at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show

We certainly don’t need to tell you what Lamborghini was up to this year at the Geneva Motor Show. If you haven’t heard about the Lamborghini Veneno yet, where have you been? for a quick overview, the Veneno – of which only three will be made – uses the Aventador’s 6.5-liter V12 engine tuned to 750 hp. They’ve managed to cut the weight down to 3,190 lbs, which is lighter than a Honda Accord, allowing the car to reach sixty from zero in only 2.8 seconds and move on t…

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