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General Motors and TARDECwill reveal a Chevrolet Coloradohydrogen-based fuel cell electricvehicle in October at the fallmeeting of the Association of theUnited States Army (AUSA) inWashington, D.C.The vehicle is being developed

under an agreement betweenTARDEC (the U.S. Army Tank Au-tomotive Research, Developmentand Engineering Center) and GMthat was signed in 2015, said GMspokesman Alan Adler.The collaboration enables

TARDEC to access consumer-dri-ven automotive technology foruse in military applications whileproviding GM with feedback onnon-standard fuel cell technologyapplications.Consistent with the Depart-

ment of Defense’s desire to lever-age commercial innovation in itsnext-generation technologies,TARDEC spokesman Doug Hal-leaux said the Army will use thevehicle to demonstrate thecapabilities fuel cell electricpropulsion and power genera-tion systems can bring to themilitary, including quieter mobili-ty, exportable power generation,low-end torque and water gener-ation.The Army intends to conduct

user assessments and demon-strations in 2017, said Halleaux.“Hydrogen fuel cells as a pow-

er source have the potential to

bring to the force incredibly valu-able capabilities,” said TARDECDirector Paul Rogers.“We expect the vehicle to be

quiet in operation and readyto provide electricity generationfor needs away from the vehi-cle.“With fuel cell technology

advancing, it’s an ideal timeto investigate its viability inextreme military-use condi-tions.“Fuel cell propulsion has low-

end torque capability that is use-ful in an off-road environment,”Rogers said.“It also offers additional char-

acteristics attractive to both

commercial and military off-roaduse.”Neither GM nor TARDEC re-

leased vehicle specifics, butRogers said the Army is focusingon the technology and its capa-bilities, regardless of the plat-form.“This project is another exam-

ple of how fuel cell propulsioncan play a role in non-traditionalapplications,” said CharlieFreese, executive director ofGM’s Global Fuel Cell Activities.“We need to continue pursuing

these opportunities along withour plans for production of acommercial fuel cell system inthe 2020 time frame.”

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2016 GMC Canyon

The 2016 GMC Canyon hasbeen named the Best MidsizePickup Truck of 2016.Cars.com put the current line-

up of midsize pickup trucks tothe test in its Midsize PickupTruck Challenge to determinethe overall best option for buy-ers.Canyon, the segment’s only

premium midsize truck, was alsonamed the top pick by the edi-tors of Cars.com in a 2015 mid-size pickup comparison test,said GM spokeswoman KellyWysocki.

“Establishing a benchmark fora premium midsize pickup wasour goal with the Canyon, andPickupTruck.com’s insights af-firm our instincts,” said DuncanAldred, vice president of GMCSales and Marketing.“The Canyon’s quiet cabin,

premium design and materialsmake it a maneuverable solutionfor customers who want the ca-pability of a pickup with themodern amenities customers ex-pect from GMC.”

‘Canyon is All-Around GreatTruck’ – Cars.com Editor

TARDEC and GM will unveil a fuel-cell electric vehicle in October.

GM, Army to Debut Hydrogen-Powered Auto

Despite very tight dealer in-ventories, General Motors sold212,915 vehicles to individual or“retail” customers in August,down about 5 percent from lastyear, but in line with the indus-try’s retail performance for themonth.Based on initial estimates,

Chevrolet’s retail market sharerose 0.4 percentage points in

August to 11 percent. Chevrolethas gained retail market share inseven out of eight months thisyear and remains the industry’sfastest-growing full-line brand.GM’s total sales in August were

down about 5 percent year overyear to 256,429 vehicles.Year to date, GM’s perform-

GM August Sales Down;Chevy Gains Market Share

Overall U.S. Ford sales totaled214,482 vehicles, an 8 percent de-cline from August of last year.But not all the sales numbers

were bad, said Ford spokesmanErich Merkle.Lincoln sales rose 7 percent in

the U.S. in August versus a yearago with 9,243 vehicles sold,while Ford Motor Company vansreached best-ever August saleswith 20,355 vehicles sold.

Retail sales totaled 168,543 ve-hicles for the month – an 8 per-cent decrease. Fleet sales of45,939 vehicles, including dailyrental, commercial and govern-ment segments, were down 10percent as well, Merkle said.Lincoln’s retail sales grew 10

percent, thanks to a 55 percentretail increase in Lincoln MKX

Ford August Sales Down,ButVans Best Ever, MKX Soars

The news for Fiat Chrysler’sAugust sales was good.The automaker reported U.S.

sales of 196,756 units, a 3 percentincrease compared with sales inAugust 2015 (190,887 units).Fiat Chrysler’s retail sales were

150,153 units in August, whilefleet sales were 46,603 units. Re-tail sales represented 76 percentof total sales, while fleet sales

were at 24 percent, said FiatChrysler spokesman RalphKisiel.The Jeep, Dodge and Ram

Truck brands each posted year-over-year sales gains in August,led by the Jeep brand’s 12 per-cent increase. Five of the six Jeepbrand vehicles recorded sales in-

Fiat Chrysler August SalesIn U.S. Increase 3 Percent

The UAW Region 1 Car andMotorcycle Show is coming totown.The annual event takes place

Sunday, Sept. 18, from 11 a.m. to4 p.m., said Greg Ezyk, UAW Re-gion 1 vice president of Solidari-ty Riders, a club of American mo-torcycle enthusiasts.“The show – to be held at

27800 George Merrelli Drive inWarren right by UAW Local 160 –is open to the public at nocharge,” Ezyk said.“The show has always been

held at the end of September. It’ssort of the last car show of theyear for a lot of people. Oncethis event is over, they put theirvehicles into storage for the win-ter.”Ezyk said all the money raised

goes to the UAW’s Veteran’sCouncil, which has programs de-signed to help military veterans.The show is co-sponsored by theVeteran’s Council and the Soli-darity Riders.“We want this show to be a

family event,” Ezyk said. “So it’sopen to everyone. It’s free, but itcosts $20 for people entering avehicle to be on display. Pre-reg-istered vehicles can get in for$18, and you don’t have to be aUAW member to have a vehiclein the show. This is the secondyear we’ve had motorcycles.We’re trying to expand theshow.”This year, a number of differ-

ent categories in which vehicleswill be judged will be offered,Ezyk said. The car categoriesare:• Original – 1900 - 1989;

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DETROIT (AP) – The U.S. isseeking to forcibly limit how fasttrucks, buses and other large ve-hicles can travel on the nation’shighways.A new proposal Aug. 26 would

impose a nationwide limit byelectronically capping speedswith a device on newly made U.S.vehicles that weigh more than26,000 pounds. Regulators areconsidering a cap of 60, 65 or 68mph, though that could change.Whatever the speed limit, driv-

ers would be physically prevent-ed from exceeding it. The pro-posal, which comes from the Na-tional Highway Traffic Safety Ad-ministration and Federal MotorCarrier Safety Administration,does not force older heavy vehi-cles to add the speed-limitingtechnology, but the regulatorsare still considering it.The government said capping

speeds for new large vehicles willreduce the 1,115 fatal crashes in-volving heavy trucks that occureach year and save $1 billion infuel costs.While the news is being wel-

comed by some safety advocatesand non-professional drivers,many truckers said that suchchanges could lead to dangerousscenarios where they are travel-ing at much lower speeds thaneveryone else.The rule has been ensnared in

a regulatory maze in the decadesince the nonprofit group Road-safe America issued its first peti-tion in 2006. The group was

founded by Atlanta financial ad-viser Steve Owings and his wifeSusan, whose son Cullum waskilled by a speeding tractor-trail-er during a trip back to school inVirginia after Thanksgiving in2002. The nonprofit was laterjoined by the American TruckingAssociations, the nation’s largesttrucking industry group.Owings said he will continue to

push NHTSA to force older heavyvehicles to limit their speeds.“We are dismayed and out-

raged to learn the proposed rulewill be for newly manufacturedtrucks and will not apply to themillions of trucks with which wecontinue to share the roads to-day,” he said.NHTSA said retrofitting vehi-

cles made after 1990 with thespeed-limiting technology couldbe too costly, and it is still seek-ing comments and additional in-formation. NHTSA said it couldcost anywhere from $100 to$2,000 per vehicle, depending onwhen the vehicle was made.Changes to some engines couldalso be required, increasing thecosts, NHTSA said. Heavy vehi-cles made before 1990 don’t havethe capacity to add the technolo-gy.The government agencies in-

volved will take public commentfor 60 days, then determine thefinal limit and decide if the regu-lation should be put in place.To James Chapman, a big rig

driver from Spartanburg, S.C., 68mph would be the best optionand he’d accept 65. But 60 wouldbe too big of a difference fromcars that go 75 or more.

“To me it would be a safetyhazard unless it slowed every-body else down,” he said whilerefueling his truck Aug. 26 alonginterstate 75 near Findlay, Ohio.The agencies said that limiting

the speed of heavy vehicles to 60mph could save as many as 498lives annually. Limiting it to 65mph could save as many as 214lives, and limiting it to 68 mphcould save as many as 96 lives.There are 3.6 million big rigs onU.S. roads.The agencies said the proposal

is based on available safety dataand the additional benefit of bet-ter fuel economy.But Norita Taylor, spokes-

woman for the 157,000-memberOwner Operator IndependentDrivers Association, said hergroup has opposed the speedlimiters because they create dan-gerous interactions between ve-hicles as faster cars slow downfor trucks. “Differentials in speedincrease interactions betweenvehicles, which increases thelikelihood of crashes,” Taylorsaid.Yet there is another compelling

reason to limit truck speeds. Aninvestigation last year by The As-sociated Press found that 14states have speed limits for bigtrucks that are equal to or higherthan their tires were designed tohandle. Most truck tires aren’t

designed to go faster than 75mph, and tire manufacturers saytraveling faster than that cancause tires to fail and blow out,creating safety issues.Most of the states with the

higher speed limits are west ofthe Mississippi River. Of the 14,five have speed limits of 80 mphor more and allow trucks to ex-ceed the capability of their tires.NHTSA has said that the speed

limiters should be able to takecare of the discrepancy betweenstate speed limits and truck tirecapabilities.Most of the states with speed

limits of 80 or above either didn’tknow about the truck tire speedratings or didn’t consider them.States set their own speed limits,having been given sole authorityto do so by Congress in the mid-1990s.

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Testing, Wysocki said, includ-ed head-to-head comparisons in18 objective categories and in-cluded the following vehicles:2016 GMC Canyon, 2016 Chevro-let Colorado, 2017 Honda Ridge-line, 2016 Toyota Tacoma and2016 Nissan Frontier.“The Canyon is an all-around

great truck,” said Patrick Olsen,Cars.com editor-in-chief. “It iswell-balanced and confidentboth on paved streets and off-road. It’s a well-appointed truckon the interior and has some se-rious ability when it comes topayload and towing as well asoverall engine performance.”Cars.com editors wrote of the

Canyon, “finishing in first placeby one of the slimmest marginsin any test we’ve conducted, theGMC Canyon won this competi-tion by keeping a slow andsteady pace in each and everyevent.“Yes, the Canyon won four ob-

jective test categories outright(two of which it tied with ChevyColorado), but maybe more im-portantly, it finished first or sec-ond in the majority of categories,as well as scoring two and fourpoints (out of a possible 1,000)ahead of the Ridgeline and Col-orado, respectively, in the five-judge portion of our test.“Many of our experts com-

mented on how well-balancedand confident the truck feltwhile on the track, drivingaround country roads and evenat the off-road park.“The midlevel SLE package is

decently appointed, collecting asolid number of points frommost judges, while the structureof the vehicle put it at the top ofthe capability categories.“This pickup had the highest

payload capacity and GrossCombination Weight Rating, itwas the lightest of our competi-tors, was the only four-wheel-drive system in our test with aseparate all-wheel-drive setting,and the V6 gas engine was bothpowerful and efficient.“The GMC Canyon SLE is prob-

ably the best heart-of-the-market offering of the test, pro-viding value and strength forthose who need versatile capa-bilities in a downsized package.”

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Massimo Denipoti has beenappointed president of Cy-LaserAmerica, based in SterlingHeights.Cy-Laser America is part of Cy-

Laser SRL, which has its worldheadquarters in Schio, Italy.Denipoti’s appointment is con-current with Cy-Laser America’smoving its North American head-quarters from Geneva, Ill., toSterling Heights, said Cy-Laserspokesman Jim Meloche.The company is a worldwide

provider of fiber optic laser sys-tems for metal cutting, Melochesaid. It’s been around since 2004and maintains a presence in theUnited States, Canada and Mexi-co.“Massimo’s many years of ex-

perience in bringing Italian ma-chine tool companies to NorthAmerica is a big asset for Cy-laser America,” said FedericoCampana, CEO of Cy-Laser SRL.“In addition to his duties as pres-ident, (he) leads the sales man-agement team. He is also a part-ner in Venture Systems (a busi-ness unit of Venture USA), the im-port and distribution companythat helped Cy-Laser and severalother Italian companies establisha presence in North America.”Campana also said that having

the company’s North Americanheadquarters in Sterling Heightsgives it the advantage of havingan on-site demonstration and

technical center near its cus-tomers as well as more space forthe business to grow.Meloche said that in other

staff moves Geff Smith was pro-moted to the position of Serviceand Support manager.Additionally, Meloche said,

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The Detroit Arsenal’s chapterof Federally Employed Women(FEW) earned two second-placeawards at the national group’sannual program in Dallas recent-ly.

FEW is designed to improvethe working status of women em-ployed by the federal govern-ment.

The local chapter, comprisingabout 45 members affiliated withthe arsenal, won the nationalgroup’s Chapter FundraisingAward and Chapter SpecialProject Award.

This year’s Chapter Fundrais-ing Award, Higgins said, recog-nizes the Great Lakes Chapter’s“ingenuity in aligning itsfundraising efforts” with a na-

tional nonprofit organizationdevoted to helping civilian feder-al and postal employees.

Several other chapters in theGreat Lakes Region are now us-ing this approach to raise moneyfor local scholarship awards.

“Everyone who donated fundsto us helped us earn this award,”said Leslie Wilson-Smith, formerchapter president. “From myviewpoint, it was an enterpriseapproach where we had supportfrom everybody.”

The Special Project Award hon-ors the chapter’s support toHAVEN, Oakland County’s onlycomprehensive program for vic-tims of domestic violence andsexual assault. It provides shel-ter, counseling, advocacy and ed-ucational programming to nearly20,000 people each year.

The program is often in need offood, clothing, bath, toiletry andhousehold items, items for ba-bies and children, and gift cardsfor gas, groceries and major re-tailers.

“HAVEN allows us to collectthings that women who are flee-ing for their lives need,” said Wil-son-Smith. “We collect funds tobuy gift cards that they mightuse for a place to eat or a placeto shop. We collect items for ba-bies and toddlers and for person-al hygiene. We have donated box-es of items that have been donat-ed across the enterprise. I likedthe special chapter project thisyear because it allows us to con-tinue helping the community.”

The scholarship, resulting

from the fundraising program,went to Danielle Smith (no rela-tion to Wilson-Smith), one of thevolunteers for the HAVEN proj-ect, Higgins said.

Danielle, the daughter of ReneKoop, the Great Lakes Chapter’svice president, is a recent highschool graduate and incomingpre-med freshman at MichiganState University.

Wilson-Smith explained howDanielle became involved withFEW.

“She came to me and said,‘Would you mentor me and can Ipartner with FEW and supportthe shelter?’ Just think, at thetime when she did her first initia-tive, she was in 10th grade goinginto the 11th. We thought, howimportant is it for someone of

that young age to want to giveback?”

Danielle has volunteered withHAVEN for three years.

“We remember where we camefrom because we have had chal-lenges in our lives,” said Koop.“We have had to stay with othersand there are things we did nothave. So I always told my daugh-ter that if we ever got to a placewhere we could give back, wewould share our resources.”

Koop said Smith’s personalgoal was to provide 10 baskets ofdonated goods a year. She col-lects items from such places aslocal doctor and dentist offices,classmates, and used her ownmoney to put together basketsfor babies. She supports FEW’scoat drive for a soup kitchen.

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sales and an 8 percent uptick inMKZ retail sales.“Strong sales of high-end Lin-

coln vehicles and Ford SUVs alsohelped us continue outpacingthe industry in average transac-tion pricing, which increased$1,200 versus a year ago,” saidMark LaNeve, Ford vice presi-dent, U.S. Marketing, Sales andService.August’s record van sales were

up 13 percent versus a year ago,

driven largely by Ford Transitgaining 17 percent.Total truck sales were down 2

percent, with 88,372 vehiclessold. Ford F-Series sales of 66,946trucks mark a 6 percent decline –and F-Series’ best retail month ofthe year.Some Ford August 2015-2016

sales highlights:• Focus – 16,321 versus

11,772, a 27.9 percent decline;• Expedition – 3,401 versus

5,725, a 68.3 percent increase;• Escape – 28,870 versus

28,061, a 2.8 percent decline;• Edge – 11,832 versus 11,204,

a 5.3 percent decline;• Lincoln MKZ – 2,571 versus

2,754, a 7.1 percent increase;• Lincoln MKX – 1,763 versus

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Uber announced Aug. 18 that itwill partner with Volvo to makeautonomous vehicles.The tie-up is the latest be-

tween automakers and tech com-panies hoping to speed driver-less cars to market.Here’s a rundown of who’s

working with whom:• Uber/Volvo/Toyota/Otto –

Ride-hailing company UberTechnologies and Volvo Carssigned a $300 million deal forVolvo to provide SUVs to Uberfor autonomous vehicle re-search.

The Volvo SUVs will be part ofUber’s self-driving fleet of taxis inPittsburgh.Both companies will continue

to develop autonomous vehiclesseparately. Uber also is buyingOtto, a startup that has devel-oped software that lets big rigsdrive autonomously. Earlier thisyear, Toyota Motor Corp. boughta small stake in Uber for anundisclosed amount.• Lyft/GM/Cruise Automation

– General Motors Co. invested$500 million in Uber rival LyftInc. earlier this year. The compa-nies are developing a fleet ofautonomous electric taxis thatcould be deployed through Lyftwithin the next year.GM also acquired Cruise Auto-

mation, a startup that makesautonomous vehicle software,for $581 million.• Lyft/Didi Chuxing/Uber/Ap-

ple – Chinese ride-hailing compa-ny Didi Chuxing invested $100million in Lyft last fall. The part-nership allows U.S. customers touse the Lyft app to hail Didi rideswhile in China and vice versa.Uber recently complicated thatdeal by selling its China businessto Didi in exchange for an 18 per-cent stake in the Chinese compa-ny.And there’s another wrinkle:

Apple Inc., which is believed tobe working on its own autono-mous cars, invested $1 billion inDidi in May.• Google/Fiat Chrysler –

Alphabet Inc.’s Google, whichhas been working on self-drivingcars since 2009, is working withFiat Chrysler Automobiles tobuild 100 self-driving ChryslerPacifica minivans. The vans willlet Google double the size of itsautonomous test fleet.• Volkswagen/Gett – Volkswa-

gen AG invested $300 million inUber competitor Gett Inc. in May.Gett said it would provide Volk-

swagen with the technology toexpand beyond car ownershipand into ride- and car-sharing.• BMW/Intel/Mobileye – BMW

AG, Intel Corp. and Israel’s Mobil-eye NV are teaming up to buildand commercialize driverlesscars. The companies say theycould have autonomous vehiclesin production by 2021.

BMW’s iNext electric sedanwill serve as the platform for thetechnology. Intel makes the com-puter processors necessary tooperate self-driving cars, whileMobileye makes advanced cam-era systems. The vehicles wouldlikely be used by ride-sharingfleets.• Ford/Velodyne/Baidu – Ford

Motor Co. is aiming to have fullyself-driving cars – with no steer-ing wheels or pedals – in ride-sharing fleets by 2021. Ford andChinese search engine companyBaidu Inc. – which has also in-vested in Uber – are investing$150 million in Velodyne, whichmakes the laser sensors thathelp guide self-driving cars.Ford also acquired Israel-

based SAIPS for its expertise inartificial intelligence and com-puter vision, and invested inBerkeley, Calif.-based Civil Maps.• Audi/Mercedes/BMW/Here –

Last fall, Nokia Corp. sold its digi-tal mapping business, Here, to aconsortium of German automak-ers for $3 billion. Audi, BMW andMercedes say precise maps are akey to developing autonomouscars as well as advanced driverassistance features.• Nissan/NASA – Under a five-

year partnership, researchersfrom Nissan and NASA are work-ing on autonomous driving sys-tems and human-machine inter-face projects with software thatcan be used on both cars andplanetary rovers. Nissan hopesto have self-driving cars on theroad by 2020.

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Commercial vans might nothave the cachet of performancevehicles like the Hellcat Charger,but there is pent-up demand forthese types of vehicles and Ramwants to improve its marketshare.“It’s funny,” said Dave Sowers,

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a strong commercial vehicle divi-sion, Sowers said.“There’s still pent-up demand

for commercial vans,” Sowerssaid. “The average age of a com-mercial van on the road today isseven years old. And the mostnumerous of the commercialvans on the road today is amodel-year 2006 van.”Sowers said that commercial

van sales are like the canary inthe coal mine. When sales drop,that’s usually an indication thatretail vehicle sales are headeddown in the near future. Andwhen commercial vehicle salesgo up, that usually means goodnews for future retail vehiclesales.“The recession of 2008 and

2009 really hurt small businessesand many put off buying newwork vans,” Sowers said. “As theeconomy recovered, these busi-nesses began getting new workvans, but we know there’s stillpent-up demand. But a lot haschanged since many of thesebusinesses last bought commer-cial vans.”And it’s these changes that

give Ram an opportunity to growits commercial vehicle subdivi-sion, Sowers said. It was createdout of Ram because it allowedFiat Chrysler to have a depart-ment that focuses directly on thecommercial vehicle market.And the commercial vehicle

market has changed, thanks tovehicles like the Ram ProMasterand the Ford Transit. Thesevans, Sowers said, are basedmore along European concepts

of a commercial van.That means they have a uni-

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ican and European van designscomes down to the pickup truck,Sowers said. Traditionally, Amer-ican van designs were based onthe popular pickup-style bodyand frame.But Europe doesn’t have the

pickup tradition of North Ameri-ca, Sowers said. So their com-mercial vans, he added, werebuilt around a unibody design,which is more efficient and moreoptimized in terms of weight,storage room, and fuel mileagewhen combined with modernpowertrains.“I feel comfortable saying

this,” Sowers said. “The ProMas-ter City is America’s most effi-cient work van based on payloadcapacity and fuel efficiency.”Payload capacity is the result

of another difference betweenAmerican and European com-mercial vans, Sowers said, notingthat European vans are boxier,which makes it easier to storeboxes and packages, while inAmerican vans, there’s a lot ofwasted space.The ProMaster City can haul

130 cubic feet of goods weighingup to 1,800 pounds while getting29 miles to the gallon.“That’s very good compared to

a commercial van from 2006,”Sowers said. “And that’s the chal-lenge for Ram. Business ownersare often very busy running theirbusinesses and they don’t have alot of time to spend researching

improvements in vans. They areoften loyal to a salesman or adealership.”And, Sowers said, because the

ProMaster City has front-wheeldrive, it has extra space in therear.“This gives us the ability to

have a low-load floor,” Sowerssaid. “That means the floor islower to the ground, whichmakes getting cargo in and outeasier. We’re able to do this be-cause there’s a genuine, fully in-dependent, dual-link rear suspen-sion and no driveshaft taking upspace. Front-wheel drive alsohelps give the ProMaster Citygreat traction and a great turningradius.”But if Ram can get business

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ness owners, Ram has spentmoney advertising in trade publi-cations and visiting trade shows,Sowers said. They also do target-ed Internet advertising.“And that’s been working,” he

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Dave Sowers, head of Ram Commercial Vehicle Marketing

creases in August, with the JeepCherokee turning in the largestpercentage year-over-year gain –41 percent, Kisiel said.The Dodge brand delivered

higher year-over-year sales asthe Charger, Challenger, Journey,Grand Caravan, Durango andViper all recorded sales gains inAugust, helping to propel thebrand to a 5 percent increase.Likewise, the Ram Truck brandwas up with the ProMaster andProMaster City vans each record-ing year-over-year sales increas-es for the month.Charger sales were up 24 per-

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BERLIN (AP) – Volkswagen’semployee council chief is sug-gesting that the automaker con-sider taking stakes in suppliersafter a dispute disrupted produc-tion in Germany.Volkswagen on Aug. 26 ended

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Meritor volunteers dropped and gave 20 to help veterans.

It’s a bit of a cliche – the toughdrill sergeant says, “Drop andgive me 20.” But that’s what vol-unteers did at Meritor, located inTroy, as a way to help veterans.The push-ups, said Meritor

spokeswoman Cheryl Kilborn,were part of a worldwide viralpushup challenge on Aug. 29 tohonor those who serve and raiseawareness for veteran suicideprevention.In addition, the company con-

tributed $5,000 from the MeritorTrust to provide outreach and re-sources for active-duty membersand veterans. On average eachday, 22 veterans commit suicide.Kilborn said Meritor volun-

teers completed 3,970 push-ups.As part of the 22KILL challenge,Meritor uploaded a video toYouTube that demonstrates itscommitment to veterans and thepassion of its employees.22KILL’s goal is to log 22 millionpushups by people around theworld.“Meritor has a proud history

of building components that of-

fer unparalleled performanceand protection for those whoprotect us,” said Jay Craig, CEOand president of Meritor.“We also extend our assistance

to veterans who have so honor-ably served in the armed forcesthrough a variety of voluntaryefforts championed by employ-ees and funding from the MeritorTrust.”Army Reserve 1st Lt. Dave

Rice of Davisburg, Mich., who isa manager of Product ValidationProgram Management for Meri-tor, demonstrated military-stylepushups with Army Sgt.1st ClassPaul Miller, Sgt. 1st Class JuanMartinez and Staff Sgt. Christo-pher Haddon of the 2nd Battal-ion, 337th Regiment Combat Sup-port/Combat Service Support inWaterford, Kilborn said.“This issue is particularly im-

portant to me because I knewsoldiers who have taken theirown lives. The personal connec-tion is very real,” said Rice, wholeads Meritor’s Veterans Busi-ness Resource Group (VBRG).

Volunteers Raise VeteranAwareness with Push-ups

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