LAST AUTO NEWS – FORD, GM CEOS TO DRIVE THIS TIME — CHRYSLER KEEPING MUM

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 Last Auto News   Ford, GM CEOs to Drive This Time    Chrysler Keeping Mum

Leaders of America’s better automakers fabricated a huge accessible relations blooper endure ages by flying, anniversary in a abstracted accumulated jet, to Washington, D.C. to ask for federal aid to advice acclimate the accepted recession. It’s a aberration they will not accomplish again.

The AP reports, “A General Motors agent says Chief Executive Rick Wagoner will biking to Washington, D.C., after this anniversary by car instead of aerial a bartering airline or accumulated jet.” Wagoner best a fuel-efficient car for the trip. “Spokesman Tony Cervone says Wagoner will drive in a Chevrolet Malibu amalgam auto if he makes the 520-mile expedition from Detroit to Capitol Hill.”

Another amalgam authoritative its way down I-80 will accommodate Ford CEO Alan Mulally. Autoblog notes, “Mulally has fabricated the politically actual accommodation for his acknowledgment cruise to Washington DC this anniversary and is absence the aggregation jet. In fact, he’s absence the airport altogether and hitting the alley in an Escape Hybrid.”

The two will not be allotment of a band of fuel-efficient cars authoritative its way to D.C. – that abstraction was alone backward endure anniversary if organizers said they couldn’t administer the acumen of the operation in time for this week’s hearings.

They may, or may not, be accompanied by Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli. A Chrysler agent told the AP that “Nardelli will not biking by accumulated jet,” but “his biking affairs will abide abstruse for aegis reasons.”

They may abide abstruse for accessible relations affidavit as well. The alone amalgam cars Chrysler makes are ample SUVS – and it ability appearance ambiguous acumen to appearance up to the bailout hearings in a full-size, truck-frame SUV. Not to acknowledgment that a new Chrysler Aspen Amalgam wouldn’t appear abutting to the ability of Mulally or Wagoner’s rides – the Aspen HEV manages just 22 mpg on the highway.

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