2008 Chevrolet Malibu’s Hit after Hit after Hit

DETROIT – It’s been approximately six months since Chevrolet’s redesigned Malibu was launched. In that time, it has received critical acclaim – including being named 2008 North American Car of the Year – and numerous recommendations by consumer groups.

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Chrysler influences Crain’s Detroit Business List

Auburn Hills, Mich., Oct 19, 2007 - Crain’s Detroit Business magazine announced its 2007 list of the “most influential women,” and four executives from Chrysler LLC were among those recognized. The four honorees are Jan Bertsch, Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO); Kim Harris Jones, Vice President and Chief Controller; Pauline Kelly, Director - Mopar® and Service Systems Information Technology Management; and Deborah Wahl Meyer, Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Crain’s held its awards ceremony Thursday evening, October 18, in Novi, Michigan.

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Intellichoice ‘Best Deals of the Month’ for September

CAMPBELL, CA (September 13, 2007) – IntelliChoice.com (www.intellichoice.com), the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, today announced its “Best Deals of the Month” for cars, trucks, and SUV’s for September 2007.

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Second Annual Motorist Choice Awards

Campbell, CA – July 27, 2007 – PRIMEDIA’s IntelliChoice.com, the online source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, and AutoPacific, the industry source for owner satisfaction rankings, today announced the results of their second annual Motorist Choice Awards for model year 2007.

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Intellichoice Latest ‘Best Deals of the Month’ Show Value, Not Price, On Buyers Mind

CAMPBELL, CA (July 5, 2007) – PRIMEDIA’s IntelliChoice.com (www.intellichoice.com), the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, today announced its “Best Deals of the Month” for cars, trucks and SUVs for July 2007.

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Primedia Automotive Digital’s Automotive.com Among Top Ten Hitwise Sites

Irvine, CA (May 29, 2007) — PRIMEDIA Automotive Digital today announced its Automotive.com Web site ranked fifth among all U.S. Web sites in the Hitwise Automotive Classifieds category, based on U.S. visits it received 1Q, January through March 2007.

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Forbes Top Ten Good-byes For 2006 Cars

As 2006 comes to an end, Forbes discusses ten vehicles that the year proved to be their last days as well.

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L.A. Auto Show: The Big Leagues? Not Yet.

Upon attending this year’s L.A. Auto Show, I walked away somewhat disappointed. Perhaps it’s because I’m a grizzled veteran of automotive journalism of close to a decade. I have the receded hairline and pudgy middle to prove it. This year’s show was hyped like never before. The new date which moved it back so it no longer overlapped with the Detroit show promised all sorts of unique debuts, and finally the West Coast receiving its due respect as the center of automotive culture.

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Intellichoice does Best Deals for Month of October 2006

CAMPBELL, CA (October 10, 2006) - PRIMEDIA’s IntelliChoice.com, the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, today announced its “Best Deals of the Month” for October 2006, with Toyota notching an impressive ten vehicle turnout on the list.

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Toyota, healthcare, and its non-unions

Healthcare costs continue to rise here in the U.S. I can sympathize why the United Auto Workers and other unions in Detroit are fighting tooth and nail to maintain their phenomenal health coverage. Foreign automakers with plants on U.S. soil (called “transplants”) have made sure to match such benefits to keep their workers happy and, more importantly, prevent any unions from forming.

So what would happen to those benefits if unions didn’t exist anymore?

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