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WEEKLY VIDEO: Viral marketing - ING Explains Formula 1

SEPTEMBER 27, 2008: Chrysler goes EV! Is the Future Electric – Or Another Case of Irrational Exuberance?

CANADIAN AUTO BUSINESS: CHANGING TIMES AND NEW FUEL ALTERNATIVES

Natural Gas - Canada's next opportunity
Pure Electric - EVs Are Coming: Are YOU ready? Part I

by Michael Pistol

By the corporate book, a crisis always brings about two very important dynamics: voluntary and involuntary business innovation. As this financial crisis current narrative goes on unabated, we can’t stop to wonder who is really holding the key to the guns locker – and what all of this debt detritus could possibly mean in the long term.
Perplexing as it is, when you think of it, what we’re dealing with here, is a multitude of problems – energy, environment, incompetent leadership, consumer debt and business lending, all neatly wrapped into the big one, a financial crisis monster that’s rapidly swallowing entire economies – Canada’s included.

Forget decoupling and the speedy recovery fantasies. Within the auto sector, OEMs have responded in different ways to the emerging challenges. From that voluntary and involuntary innovation perspective,we've looked at the Better Place project in the spring, then we’ve looked at GM last week, and surprisingly, this week’s main development brings us to the same type of ‘electric’ story. This time it is from Chrysler.

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Ipso Facto - Fundamentals September 2008

ECONOMIC FORECAST: Financial fireworks mask unimpressive economies – TD Bank

TD Economics believes that the U.S. recession will be at its worst this winter. "The economic fallout in the U.S. will get worse before it gets better, so it's likely going to be a year before the pace of economic growth in Canada experiences a shallow recovery...
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DEALERSHIP REJECTION? Shoppers Cite Dealer-Related Issues among Top Reasons for Rejecting a New Vehicle - J.D. Power and Associates

The study, which analyzes the reasons why consumers consider a model but ultimately purchase a different make or model, finds that 80 percent of vehicles are rejected...
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TECHNOLOGY: Scuderi Group Announces Partners Assisting in the Development of the Scuderi Air-Hybrid Engine

The Scuderi Group, developers of what is expected to be the world's most fuel-efficient internal combustion engine, has announced several ongoing development partners who are assisting in the research...
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INFLATION: Consumer Price Index rise 3.5%- August 2008

The 12-month increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) in August was the largest since the 12-month rate of growth of 4.2% in March 2003. The Canadian consumer faced on average a 5.8% rise in costs for transportation, largely the result of a 26.3% increase...
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EUROPEAN STYLE FUEL EFFICIENCY: New Renault Symbol - Just 3.15 litres/100km during the Renault Symbol Eco-Challenge.

New Renault Symbol 1.5 dCi 85 - fuel consumption of just 3.15 litres/100km - which is equivalent to CO2 emissions of 85g/km and a range of 1,700km on a full tank.
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RESOURCES 2009

CANADIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY RESOURCES

Need results? Meet our industry's key players.
Essential data, contacts, website.

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NEWS - Seven Days___________Sept.27 - Oct.03, 2008

APPOINTMENTS: INTEGRATED AUTOMOTIVE GROUP INC. Expands their Team of Automotive Event Professionals

PRODUCT: CSIRO’s UltraBattery to Arrive in Canada

FLEET PROGRAM: PHH Arval introduces new vehicle maintenance option

POLITICS: NDP’s Jack Layton Promises to Form “Prosecution Office to Deal With Gas Gouging”, Dismisses Carbon Tax

PARADIGM SHIFTS - Open Source for Automotive Business Leadership /October

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Happy Birthday GM!

Fascinating week – don’t you think? The third week of September 2008, will be remembered for a long time, no doubt, and it won’t be much related to September 16 General Motors’s 100 anniversary...
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Creative Destruction - And an update on alternative fuels

While the business world is gripped by venerable banks deathwatch, hair-raising Wall Street’ cliffhangers, Detroit Three’s bailout schemes and oil’s sudden abandonment by your pension plan or investment bank...
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