The Detroit Three automakers posted sales gains during 2013, even as sales waned toward the year's end. For the year, General Motors Co. saw sales rise 7% to 2.8 million vehicles, even as December fleet sales declined 9% and retail sales ...
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Nissan has released a first teaser image of what will likely be the next-generation Maxima, ahead of its world premiere at January’s Detroit auto show. Said to preview “a future production sports sedan”, Nissan is giving ...
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The first full image of the Formula One-inspired Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge concept has been released ahead of its world premiere at January’s Detroit auto show. Teased early last month, the Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge is expected to preview ...
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The Kia GT4 Stinger concept has been teased for the second time in two weeks ahead of its Detroit auto show unveiling later this month, with a 235kW turbocharged engine and rear-wheel drive now confirmed for the sports car. First teased ...
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Georgia Regents University has joined the national Cooperative Multicenter Reproductive Medicine Network designed to enable large clinical trials that improve the diagnosis and treatment of reproductive health issues such as male and female ...
By 2016, General Motors executives want to reduce the automaker’s North American material and logistics costs by $1 billion, according to a Detroit News report. The project involves creating localized logistics and distribution ...
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In the factory that you own, there will be all kinds of machinery, ranging from the heavy to the light. The various parts of such machinery are required to be fastened together for assembling. In doing so, you will need different fasteners ...
Details of the new additions to Lexus Australia’s showroom in 2014. Lexus CT200h facelift (first half) Bringing the premium hybrid hatchback into line with the luxury Japanese car maker’s ‘L-Finesse’-styled ...
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Peterbilt Ontario Truck Centre has announced the opening of another full-service Peterbilt dealership to serve the Windsor-Essex region. "We are opening another full-service location in Windsor, Ont. to provide better service to our ...
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The realisation was as surprising as it was momentous. Toledo, long known as Glass City, needed glass, and it could no longer be manufactured locally quickly enough. So Toledo turned to China to make the 360 panels, weighing 589kg each, ...
Nebulizers -- devices that transform liquid asthma medications into an easy-to-inhale mist -- aren't providing people with asthma a full dose of medication, according to a small new study. Researchers found that less than 20 percent of ...
Energy drinks may provide a bit too much of a boost to your heart, creating additional strain on the organ and causing it to contract more rapidly than usual, German researchers report. Healthy people who drank energy drinks high in ...
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Low levels of vitamin D have been implicated as a potential cause of diseases ranging from cancer to diabetes. Now an extensive review suggests it's really the other way around: Low levels of the "sunshine vitamin" are more likely a ...
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The vast majority of epilepsy patients who have brain surgery to treat the seizure disorder find it improves their mood and their ability to work and drive, a new study reveals. Meanwhile, a second study also indicates the procedure is ...
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A new study has uncovered evidence that most cases of narcolepsy are caused by a misguided immune system attack -- something that has been long suspected but unproven. Experts said the finding, reported Dec. 18 in Science Translational ...
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