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• Can Jill Lajdziak Reverse Smart ForTwo Decline?

  
  The Auto Writer — Authority: 420
  Some automotive executives disappear when they leave or are given the boot (Rick Wagoner) while others land on their feet again taking on new roles with a different, sometimes competing automaker. Jill Lajdziak , former head of GM’s Saturn division, can be found in the latter category having recently been appointed ...
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• Former Saturn Boss Heads to smart USA

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 565
  Penske Automotive Group Inc. said Tuesday Jill Lajdziak, former general manager at General   Motors Co.s now-disbanded Saturn division, is joining Penskes smart USA Distributor LLC unit as vice president, sales and marketing. Lajdziaks appointment seems a strategy to address the startling drop-off of ...
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• Former Saturn Boss Heads to smart USA

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Penske Automotive Group Inc. said Tuesday Jill Lajdziak, former general manager at General
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• NASCAR: Penske names crew chiefs for Keselowski

  
  Flagworld.com >> News — Authority: 451
  Jay Guy named Brad Keselowski’s crew chief in Cup series Jay Guy will be the crew chief for Brad Keselowski’s #12 Sprint Cup Series team, Penske Racing announced earlier this week. Guy most recently worked as the crew chief on the #78 Furniture Row Racing car driven by Regan Smith. Guy also has been a crew ...
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• Penske Puts Guy, Wolfe With Keselowski

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 708
  Mooresville, NC (AHN) – There will be plenty of new faces at Penske Racing next season and new driver Brad Keselowski won’t be the only one. Penske Racing announced that both Jay Guy and Paul Wolfe have joined the organization as crew chiefs for Keselowski. Guy will call the shots as the crew chief to ...
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• GMs Henderson Resigns, Whitacre Takes Over

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 565
  General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson has resigned and government-appointed chairman Ed Whitacre has assumed control as interim CEO of the automaker. A search for a CEO begins immediately, Whitacre confirmed late Tuesday at a hastily scheduled  press conference at which he refused to answer questions. The ...
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• Great Domains & VC Dollars Are Helping 30-Year-Old Jay Penske Build a New Media Empire

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 160
  With acquisitions of Mail.com, Fan.com, Deadline.com & others, the 30-year-old son of auto racing legend Roger Penske is building an Internet media empire. Here’s how Jay Penske, backed by $35 million in venture capital, plans to be a big winner in the transition from traditional media to online publishing. ...
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• Dodging Out of Sight: The Decline of Dodge in NASCAR

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 786
  When it was announced that Richard Petty Motorsports would switch to Ford in 2010, it meant that one of the most recognizable figures in racing was switching affiliations. Back in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, Petty was the flagship driver for Daimler-Chrysler. Petty was constantly driving a Plymouth or Dodge and was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Renaults Apparent Cold Feet Killed Saturn-Penske Deal, Report Says

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 565
  Just as General Motors was about to seal the deal to sell Saturn to the Penske Automotive Group on Sept. 30, French automaker Renault, which had pledged to supply small vehicles to the venture, backed out, an executive involved in the negotiations told a Detroit newspaper. Tom LaSorda, retired Chrysler ...
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• Another GM Saab Story

  
  Artvoice Daily — Authority: 425
  As Heidi Klum might say, “One day you’re in; the next, you’re out.” So goes it with dealers for the Swedish automaker Saab. Just last week we read that 81 dealers (including Checkpoint Foreign Cars on Kenmore Avenue) received notice that their Saab franchises would be dropped after the purchase of the company ...
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• Indy Car: Will Power Driving For Team Penske Full Time In 2010

  
  MotorworldHype — Authority: 133
  It has been confirmed that the Aussie driver Will Power is going to be a permanent part of a three car Team Penske team in 2010.  Will Power first started driving for Penske last year when he filled in for Helio Castroneves as he dealt with legal troubles.  Once getting into a Penske car Will demonstrated [...]
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• Movers and Shakers

  
  Easy Music for Difficult Ears (The musical "Dallas" of Ireland) — Authority: 128
  Often when things heat up in the world of Formula 1 and the IRL, a tendency to just sit back, relax and watch what happens sets in as I am very well aware that things move very fast - often too fast to assert any sort of reliable thought or opinion.On many occasions, a potential will be announced, only for it to be ...
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• Team Penske will have full Power in 2010

  
  My Name Is IRL — Authority: 410
  It was just a few weeks ago the Will Power was discussing his Wolverine-like ability to heal so quickly from his broken back, saying "Ive got so much energy...I can do situps, Im swimming, Im wrestling Great White sharks every afternoon". (OK, I totally made up that last part, but its kind of a been a boring ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kilpatrick hearing reveals tantalizing details

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 598
  As the court hearings continue over former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his required restitution payments, some very interesting tidbits have come to light. It had already been revealed that a group of prominent Detroit businessmen — Peter Karmanos, Dan Gilbert, Roger Penske and James Nicholson — had given ...
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• NASCAR: Many roads end at Homestead

  
  Flagworld.com >> News — Authority: 451
  The end of the 2009 season marks the end of a number of NASCAR relationships The winds of change will be blowing at Homestead-Miami Speedway this week.The season-ending Ford 400 at the 1.5-mile track marks the end of the road for more than a handful of relationships in the Cup garage. Here’s a look of some of ...
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• Sprint Cup teams struggle to sustain sponsorship dollars

  
  FanZone Sports - Racing — Authority: 436
  NASCAR’s elite teams are desperately trying to hold the line on sponsorship prices despite a glut of valuable 2010 inventory that remains unsold late in the year. To resist the temptation to slash rates, teams are beefing up their offerings with media, track assets and other elements not typically found in a car ...
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• Season Review/Preview: Will Power

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 786
  The 2009 season was one of great opportunity for Will Power, the affable Australian who came over to the IndyCar Series after its merger with Champ Car. Winner of the final Champ Car race, held at Long Beach in the spring of 2008, he lost his Team Australia sponsorship at the end of that season, leaving him without a ...
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• Bonnie Fullers Online Debut: Its Like a Magazine Cover, But You Click on It [Celebrity-industrial Complex]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 866
  Bonnie Fuller finally re-launched HollywoodLife.com as a celebrity gossip site in her own image, and its as nauseating as we feared : In Touch and Life & Style have indeed vomited all over a ridiculously loooong Web page. Bonnie Fuller invented the modern incarnation of the celebrity gossip magazine at ...
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• (DAI) Daimler to Recoup Smart Sales

  
  Stock Blog Hub — Authority: 459
  Daimler ( DAI ) has started offering discounts for its micro-hybrid car, smart fortwo, in the U.S. in order to recoup its depressed sales. In the third quarter, Penske Automotive Group ( PAG ), which owns distribution entity for the smart for two in the U.S. through its 75 smart dealerships, saw a decline in smart ...
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• Daimler to Begin Smart Sharing Test Program in Austin

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Automaker Hopes To Rekindle Interest in Smart Cars With Short-Term Rentals Austin, Texas, a university city with a wide and deep green streak, has been selected as home for a pilot project that Germanys Daimler hopes will reignite interest in its Smart Car . Called car2go , the program will enable members to reserve a ...
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