All the same, with CES increasingly
counting car news among its gadget pageantry just a week prior, there were questions from some quarters as to whether the North American International Auto Show 2018 would have any news left.
Not exact matches
For now, Chevrolet alone still sells somewhere around 12
car models if you
count Corvette, although there have been rumors and
news it will cut or end production of at least some of those.
Just to make sure, I swabbed a subway
car handrail and had it checked for two bugs that are often in the
news lately, E. coli and staph bacteria, as well as for a general measure of bacterial activity, known as the standard plate
count, or SPC.. The E. coli and staph test came back negative, and the rail's SPC
count of 480 compared favorably with the SPC of 200,000 that was obtained from a swab taken at a water fountain in a park near DISCOVER's offices.
The
count is now 10 deaths and more than 100 injuries globally, according to Automotive
News, and potentially 25 million
cars and light trucks in the U.S. alone (plus at least 9 million more in the rest of the world) need to be recalled so their Takata airbag inflators can someday, somehow be replaced.
According to Automotive
News, Ford sold more Fusions in just the month of July than it has sold Tauruses in all of 2015 if you don't
count police
cars.
Toyota is aiming for hybrid vehicle sales of 1 million units a year by the early 2010s and is
counting on plug - in
cars to help it get there, says Automotive
News.
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