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Chrysler plans for 400+ hp V6

DaveAdmin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:53:07 +0000

By 2014, Chrysler could have a V6 engine pushing out over 400 horsepower, according to charts in the five year plan. A three-liter version of the Pentastar V6 with dual turbochargers is charted out in the plan at around 425 horsepower, the same as...

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Dodge to fix trim levels

DaveAdmin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:58:07 +0000

The five year plan calls for a complete repackaging of all Dodge cars, with new options mixes, by the end of the fourth quarter of 2009. A complete overhaul of branding, marketing, positioning, and point of sale is to be completed by the end second...

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Chrysler doubling retail expenditures per vehicle

DaveAdmin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:40:40 +0000

To start repositioning its brands, Chrysler is doubling the amount it spends on retail costs per vehicle, according to disclosures made in the five year plan discussion. Chrysler, which had cut discretionary ad spending (such as Google placements)...

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Firestone introduces Ride-Rite LS

Bill Cawthon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:21:32 +0000

Firestone Industrial Products Company announces the development of Ride-Rite LS, a new load adaptive shock designed to work with the company’s Ride-Rite air helper springs. Ride-Rite LS is a tri-tube, mono-flow shock absorber designed to...

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Bob Stone, firefighter, photographer, suffers fatal heart attack

Bill Cawthon — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:10:38 +0000

Robert Paul “Bob” Stone of Douglassville, Pennsylvania passed away Wednesday, November 4, following a cardiac emergency suffered after returning from a call with the Amity (PA) Fire Department. Bob, who served as the department’s...

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Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Metadata madness: UTIs & Launch Services on Snow Leopard
This post by John Siracusa hopefully explains why using UTI's to replace type and creator codes a) a bad idea, and b) won't work. He also offers a potential solution for the problem with Snow Leopard's default Launch Services policy... but it might have to wait for Mac OS X 10.7.