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Ratings for SPEED's The Car Show with Adam Carolla and the second season of History's Top Gear USA show the latter with an audience of approximately 2.0 million viewers, compared to just 249,000 for the former. More »
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Due to the failure of Knight Rider and expected production costs, NBC has decided to pass on Top Gear USA. The BBC's shopping the US rendition of the hit show to interested cable outlets. More »
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If we lived down under, we would have tuned in to SBS on Monday at 7:30 to watch the Top Gear Australia shootout between the iconic Holden Commodore and Ford Falcon...but we don't. Watch the clip and judge for yourself, but we think that even though it may not be quite as polished as the UK original, this segment wasn't all that bad. So why did the ratings for this second episode drop off significantly from the series premiere's, even though they were actually expected to go up? More »
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Ja, the London and Frankfurt based investment bank has given a big thumbs up to DaimlerChrysler and moved them from the "Add" to "Buy" category. But at the same time, the article on the news is somewhat interesting: More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=188405&view=rss&microfeed=true While the parties involved talk about whether they'll talk, Banc of America's taking a big step forward and raising their rating on General Motors from "sell" to "neutral." The investment bank's dropping all their chips on black and praying a GM/Renault-Nissan partnership will take place. Well...it's really their clients chips...so we guess it's not that big a risk for them. Anyway, it worked — GM's up $0.53 on the news. More »
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Honest Abe would surely give his namesake auto brand a crisp five-spot for its customer- service performance. According to JD Power and Associates (yes, them again), Lincoln owners who brought their new cars in for service within the first three years topped the list of most satisfied with their dealer service experience. It's the first time a domestic brand has won top honors two years in a row. And you know Lincoln owners know from whence they speak, considering many of them own Navigators. (Just to be fair, the LT and Town Car have much more solid reputations. Mom, stop looking over my shoulder.) More »
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