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Lonnie Miller from Polk Joins the Autoline After Hours Crew Tonight

Miss Motor Mouth — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:40:24 +0000

This week our guest is Lonnie Miller the VP of Marketing and Industry Analysis for Polk. One of the questions we’ll be asking him: just how bad is the Detroit Three’s addiction to fleet sales? Of course, we’ll be exploring other hot subjects as well including John’s recent drives in the Kia Optima, Sorento and the 5.0 Mustang. Also, August sales numbers are out, Chrysler-Fiat has revealed its dealership plans, and automakers are putting up a fight over E15 regulations. John McElroy’s in studio with Peter De Lorenzo, the Autoextremist, and Rod Meloni from WDIV Channel 4 News in Detroit.
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Dealer Joe Serra Joins AutoLine After Hours

Miss Motor Mouth — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:04:03 +0000

This week we invite Joe Serra on the AAH stage to talk dealerships. As a dealer principal, Joe has seen a lot in the past couple of years, and we’ll be asking him how business is and what kinds of cars are moving out of the lots these days. As usual, we’ll review some of the most interesting news of the week including the possibility of VW buying Alfa Romeo. Also, Chris Perry, formerly of Hyundai, is tapped to run Chevrolet marketing, and speaking of Hyundai, John recently got some seat time in the new Equus, so we’ll see what he has to say about that. John McElroy’s in studio with Peter De Lorenzo, the Autoextremist, and David Welch from Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

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Autoline After Hours Special from the Woodward Dream Cruise

Miss Motor Mouth — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:57:07 +0000

Tonight “Autoline After Hours” goes retro from the site of the world’s largest one-day automotive event, The Woodward Dream Cruise. Well, actually the Cruise occurs three days later, but crowds and cars start populating the sidewalks and parking lots early as many of the 40,000 classics get Woodward warmed up for the big day. And that’s what the AAH crew will be doing LIVE from Woodward tonight from 5:45PM ET until 8PM. Join John McElroy, Peter De Lorenzo and David Welch with a host of special guests during the two-hour broadcast.

We’ve got so many fascinating people and cars planned for you that we’re going to have to start earlier than we initially planned! Guests such as: Pietro Gorlier, Pres. & CEO, Mopar;Mike Colleran, Pres. & COO, Saab Cars NA; Moray Callum, Exec. Dir., Ford Americas Design, and many more special guests.

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Chris de Boer, Head of R&D at Transonic Combustion Joins Autoline After Hours

Miss Motor Mouth — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:07:35 +0000

This week we invite Chris de Boer, head of R&D at Transonic Combustion to join us in the AAH studio. We’ll be asking him if his technology is really the big breakthrough we’ve been waiting for, and how he can get 30% better fuel economy just by changing the fuel injection. As always we’ll be getting into the big news of the week including GM’s announcement that Big Ed Whitacre will be stepping down as CEO. Plus, Chrysler and GM both posted profits this week, and–can you believe it–the U.S. Department of Transportation found no electronic flaws in Toyotas. John McElroy’s in studio with Peter De Lorenzo, the Autoextremist, and Jim Hall from 2953 Analytics.

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Amy Marentic from Ford Joins Autoline After Hours Tonight

Miss Motor Mouth — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:30:53 +0000

This week the gang is all back together and they invite Amy Marentic, the marketing manager for the newly-revealed Ford Explorer, onto the show. We’ll be asking Amy just how many people she thinks Ford can bring back to the SUV segment. Of course, the panel will also get into the news of the week like the EV number wars going on between the Volt and the LEAF. We’ll also discuss our recent trip to the VW research labs where we saw an amazing autonomous Audi TT, and we’ll talk about their EV strategy which takes the laptop-battery route. John McElroy’s in studio with Peter De Lorenzo, the Autoextremist, and David Welch from Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

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Peter Hofbauer of EcoMotors on Autoline After Hours Tonight!

Miss Motor Mouth — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:33:40 +0000

This week we welcome Peter Hofbauer, a former diesel-engine designer at Volkswagen who’s now the Founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of EcoMotors, the company that’s developing a revolutionary opposed-piston engine. We’ll be talking all about the future of the ICE and what his company’s new powerplant can offer the auto industry as it shoots to deliver better fuel economy. As usual, we’ll also get to the news of the week like how GM’s getting ready to start mass producing batteries for the Chevy Volt. John McElroy’s in studio with Peter De Lorenzo, the Autoextremist, and David Welch from Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

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Richard Dreyfuss, Devils Tower & Me

Miss Motor Mouth — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:53:29 +0000

It was the natural wonder that was there when I fell in love with Richard Dreyfuss. My mother wouldn’t let me see Jaws (and with good reason- my father had convinced me that the government had released sharks into Conchas Lake when I was 8 years old leaving me terrified of swimming in the fresh water lake in Northern New Mexico). I was 10 years old When Close Encounters of the Third Kind came out and Roy Neary had a vision and was experiencing the super natural. I was right there with him.

My mother was a bit horrified with herself for taking me to see Close Encounters; not because of the scary idea that aliens came to take people from Earth (and mind you, we lived in Roswell, New Mexico at the time). It was the kiss between Richard Dreyfuss’s character and the widow, Jillian Guiller, who was very clearly NOT his wife, that disturbed her. After the movie while my mind was whirling with the synthesizer tones that beckon aliens and how I could maybe play them on my piano and get aliens to come see me and maybe bring me the appealing Dreyfuss as an unclear bonus, my mother hesitatingly asked me if anything about the movie bothered me. How could I explain the stirrings I felt that was an unfamiliar combination of thrilling beings from another planet and the stirrings I felt in my body for a grown man? I stammered out an answer, something along the lines of, “Aliens are real?” and she said, “NO! Of course not! But you know, honey… that kiss between the daddy who went with the aliens and that lady who was not his wife? That was a kiss between friends. He will always be married to that blond lady.” Oh. I briefly thought to myself, “So he can kiss me too?” before I shoved the idea out of my protestant guilt ridden mind.

Over the years, I have often felt like flinging newspapers on my kitchen table and slamming mud onto it and shaping a form with frustration. Maybe clarity would come, probably not aliens and most definitely, Richard Dreyfuss would never arrive. Being an adult isn’t always fun and regrets and choices can pollute visions.

Seeing Devils Tower for the first time completed part of my own vision. Oddly, there was no mention anywhere in the Devils Tower Park of the movie. It is a beautiful site and now that I have been there, it has more texture in my mind. It is a kind of filmic icon that rarely occurs in filmmaking. Who besides me remembers what the New York apartment of the single mom looked like in The Goodbye Girl?

What A Vacation With Miss MotorMouth is Like

Miss Motor Mouth — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:01:55 +0000

This pretty much sums up the week on the road for the Great American RoAb Trip.

The Great American #RoAb Trip Live on #MMNTV from Jackson, Wyoming

Miss Motor Mouth — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 07:06:41 +0000

This week was broadcast live from Jackson, Wyoming while I was on the Great American #RoAb Trip with two of my fellow RoundAboutShow.com.We were given the opportunity to live stream a trip from Detroit to Yellowstone and back in a Lincoln MKT and since we found ourselves in a Motel 6 in Jackson, Wyoming on the night of my MingleMediaTV show, we did it from there!