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CNBC Does Ford

Ray Wert — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:00:00 EDT

Fresh from bedding a broke and busted GM, CNBC's Phil LeBeau now prepares to ~~go deep inside~~ ~~lovingly, metaphorically caress~~ deify Ford CEO and soon-to-be-patron-American-automotive-saint Alan Mulally. Watch him do it November 10th at 9 PM ET/PT on CNBC. More »

Bob Lutz Is A CNBC Contributor Now?

Ray Wert — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:45:00 EDT

Wait, what? Seriously? GM's ex-Vice Chairman — and CTS-V Challenge track star — "Maximum" Bob Lutz is a CNBC contributor? Does CNBC's Phil LeBeau know someone's muscling onto his turf? [via Business Insider] More »

CNBC's Phil LeBeau Owns Meek Fox Business Reporter

Matt Hardigree — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:30:00 EDT

CNBC auto industry reporter Phil LeBeau's job is to try to explain simple concepts to Mike Barnicle, so he's got a lot of pent up frustration. It explains why he so brilliantly scrum fucks this Fox Business Network reporter. More »

CNBC Reports: GM To Kill Pontiac

Ray Wert — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:45:00 EDT

CNBC's Phil LeBeau finally picks up the "GM kills Pontiac" story. Where's he been? [CNBC] More »

What To Expect From Chrysler, GM "Mid-Terms"

Ray Wert — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:30:00 EST

CNBC's Phil LeBeau reminds us this morning we'll be seeing Chrysler and GM's plans to the federal government revealed after 4:00 PM and probably before 6:00 PM EST. But what should we expect? More »

Today Show's Matt Lauer First Journalist To Drive Chevy Volt

Ray Wert — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:30:00 EST

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We knew the Chevy Volt would increase global levels of smugness. Here's Matt Lauer, crowing about being the first to drive it to CNBC's Phil LeBeau — and that was only a test vehicle! More »

What's Going To Happen In 2009?

Ray Wert — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:15:00 EST

Know what will happen in 2009? Tell Phil Lebeau. [CNBC] More »

GM's Wagoner: Send Help... Please

Matt Hardigree — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:20:00 EST

Speaking with CNBC's Phil LeBeau, who has spent today talking to more distressed people than Dr. Phil, GM CEO Rick Wagoner outlined how grim the news is for the troubled automaker, and mentioned the "domino effect" losing GM would have on the economy ( as an aside, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) claims 6.5 indirect jobs for each OEM job — whether that's supplier jobs or just the guy who runs the dry cleaners in the RenCen). The big concern is that GM will simply run out of the cash it needs to operate, which Wagoner said was between $11 and $14 billion. Though the company is currently losing $2.3 billion per month in cash, he thinks the company will lose something closer to the $1 billion a month it was losing in the first half the year and will try to offload assets. And bankruptcy? More »

Officially Unofficial CNBC "Saving General Motors" Live-Blog

Ray Wert — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:00:00 EDT

Dale Earnhardt Takes The New Camaro Sideways With CNBC On Secret Aussie Test Track

Ray Wert — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:17:26 EDT

While yesterday gave us our first look at the un-camouflaged new Chevy Camaro, who knew CNBC's Phil LeBeau had a scoop that'd put our blow-the-top-off coverage of Chevy's new muscle car to shame with the mullet-wearing demographic? He's got NASCAR star-of-stars Dale Earnhardt, Jr. ripping the new 2010 Chevy Camaro sideways through a secret test track somewhere in the Aussie outback in this new video over at CNBC. Though the 2010 Camaro is still wearing some serious body camo cladding, we're totally loving the screechingly good music coming from those rear tires. However, we'll try to ignore that "body roll" comment, because perhaps Dale just doesn't know that drive impressions are probably embargoed for sometime next year. Well, whatever. By the way, we've got a whole mess of new shots of the new Chevy Camaro RS below — now looking yellow, red and silver — so pick your color pleasure. [CNBC via Camaro5] More »

CNBC's Business Nation Shows Us How To Shred A Car!

Ray Wert — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:30:00 EST

Sweet! CNBC's website has a clip from the new episode of Business Nation airing tomorrow night showing a car getting shredded! Alas, Phil LeBeau isn't running the crane dumping the car into the waiting blades. Sad. [CNBC via Digg] More »

Car & Driver Reveals Top Ten Cars For 2008

Ray Wert — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:45:00 EST

We just saw ~~Chubby Checkers~~ ~~Sabra Sarah~~ Csaba Csere, zee editor-und-chief of Car und Driver revealing the top ten cars for 2008 live on CNBC, 'merica's business channel. Hmm, maybe we need a top ten list to give out as an exclusive...hmm, not so shabby of an idea — we'll have to look into that. In the meantime we'd like to link to the list from CNBC's web site — but they don't appear to have it up and the buff book appears to have a website more dedicated to the "show" than the "go." So instead we've got Car & Driver's ~~Amerigasm~~ top ten best cars for 2008 below the jump: More »

Climb Into A Lamborghini "Road Rocket" With CNBC's Phil LeBeau

Ray Wert — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:00:00 EDT

What with UAW negotiations, sales numbers and the boardroom-stocking going on over at "The New Chrysler," I feel like it's getting to be rare for us to see CNBC's auto blogging on-air talent Phil LeBeau actually get the chance to sit down and do some ride n' drives with one of the products he covers. So, when he gets the chance to play with a high-powered Italian stallion, we like to highlight the lovable LeBeau lovin' the seat time. So sit back and watch as LeBeau ~~takes a junket~~ spends some time in Italy driving a Lambo and touring the Lamborghini factory as he learns all about the bullish brand and where it has its fiery and angry eyes set on next. Hint: it's not just the upper-upper class of 'merica anymore — now it's the middle-upper class. Also, try not to point out how LeBeau's lazily handling the steering wheel like he's driving a Lincoln. More »

Which Automaker Is CNBC's New Motown Stock Star?

Ray Wert — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:15:00 EDT

Breaking Even: CNBC's Phil LeBeau "Causes" Accident In Front Of GM World Headquarters!

Ray Wert — Thu, 03 May 2007 12:02:57 EDT

The Official Car Pundit Drinking Game: Is The UAW In Bed With Kirk Kerkorian?

Ray Wert — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:33:22 EDT

We're willing to forgive CNBC's Phil LeBeau for not including a link to the Jalop on his blog yet over at their newly-revamped website for the financial news network, but only because he totally gets us the scoops. Like this little Chrysler Group sales speculation:

CNBC has learned people friendly with Tracinda Corp. have had cursory discussions with the UAW regarding a possible purchase of Chrysler.

How Many Drinks Was That? Wert Talks About Hybrids, LeBeau Talks About NASCAR

Ray Wert — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:19:25 EST

Talk about all your CNBC automotive clips are belong to ToMoCo. Wert was "On The Money" last night by following the money on hybrids and helping them figure out whether or not they're mainstream enough to have some serious sales given lower gas prices the past month. He's closely followed by CNBC's professional auto pundit, Phil LeBeau, who was down in Daytona to report on the big move by Toyota into NASCAR. LeBeau was asking the question of how 'mericans who watch cars that only turn in one direction will take the arrival of the number one super best automaker from the land of the rising sun. But the big question for us after you watch the video over on CNBC's website is — how many drinks was that? More »

CNBC's Phil LeBeau "Finds" The Bugatti Veyron, Attempts To Drive Wheels Off Of It

Ray Wert — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:18:27 EST

Hey look kids, it's a 1000 hp car that Jean Jennings says "you can drive the wheels off of" — and in this clip from CNBC, you can watch Phil LeBeau do just that. CNBC's auto correspondent takes us inside the VW Bugatti "HQ", where he — umm — we're not really sure why he was there. Although we've noticed that the mainstream media every month or so seems to think they've "found" the Veyron for the first time, methinks there was another need here. Maybe LeBeau, in a tie and sans sports coat, just wanted to drive the Veyron in this segment advertising his one-hour "Behind The Wheel" special on December 15th, just to look i-banker manly for the ladies. – Ray Wert More »

CNBC's Phil LeBeau Put "On Notice" After Getting "Behind The Wheel"

Ray Wert — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:29:54 EST

CNBC has long been the web-version of the red-headed stepchild of NBC Universal's on-line presence due to an agreement giving them second billing to the online "juggernaut" that is MSNBC. Well now they're more like the fave son after a relaunch of it's website today with among other things, for-pay streaming video. On top of the multimedia fireworks, they've also stepped out into the light of Web 2.0, serving up a group of "blogs" from some of the big names in the financial network's punditocracy. One of those soon to be finding themselves on the Blogebrity list (assuming B-level, but whatevs, he's probably ok with that) is none other than mon automotive-journo-frere, Phil LeBeau. His new blog's called "Behind The Wheel" and there's one post on it — from Saturday — a totally blogspot-esque "welcome to my web log" post. While we'd normally be willing to overlook that, what really burns us enough to put the big LeBeau-ski into a Colbert-esque state of "on notice" is that he doesn't even include us in his "favorite links." Thanks Phil, after all those long nights of punditing together on CNBC's "On The Money" — this is how you repay us? And we were totally all ready to have you on the Hanukkah card list this year too. – Ray Wert More »

Maximum Bob, Born From Zurich

Ray Wert — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:24:39 EDT

The General's Vice-Chairman, Bob Lutz, got down with the french elbow press this past week at the Paris Auto Show, and although yours truly was there hanging on each and every one of the multi-talented and multilingual product czar's every syllable (with emphasis all in the right place, we might add) tape recorder in hand, the boys over at the never-straight road caught it via camcorder, and put together a nice little vid of the man getting his parlez-tu on. They've also included yet another look at the non-caped crusading Bob and Silent Rick in all their frontal glory. We still maintain they're hotter from behind, but maybe that's just us. Still, other than the sheer weirdness of seeing the General's #2 man speaking in tongues, the funniest part of the entire video's got to be when CNBC's Phil LeBeau moves his mic (you'll see it near the end) towards the french journo asking the question...and then...despite the wine-swilling press-man's already finishing the question, he seemed unsure if he could yet bring it back over to Lutz. Standing next to him, I saw his wrist moving haltingly and yes, even limply, as he brought it back over for the man born from jets, sunglasses and two large Swiss parents, to complete his answer. High comedy, it's not — but hey, for the Paris Auto Show, it was pretty damn hilarious. – Ray Wert More »

Parking! CNBC's Phil LeBeau Lets Lexus LS 460 Park Itself

Ray Wert — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:45:00 EDT

Phil LeBeau decided this past week he'd take his life out of his own hands, and leave the parking to Lexus. The CNBC correspondent showed off the latest in "parking assistance technology" on the LS 460 and although not death-defying, it wasn't exactly what you'd call amazing. It looks like the technology backs your Lexus about 65% of the way into a parallel space — but then it's up to you to finish the job. Let's just say after looking at the video we're slightly underwhelmed. It's our belief that, like happy endings, you should get the job finished for you, not force you to take matters into your own hand after the fact. That's just — well — not as satisfying in our minds. More »