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- General Motors' CEO to meet with U.S. lawmakers from Maryland and other states this week. Maryland lawmakers say the decision to end operations at its White Marsh facility demonstrates "extremely poor corporate citizenship.” The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday night in Washington.
- For a sizable contingent of Americans, the pickup truck has emerged as a means of establishing their ties to a distinctly blue-collar identity in the course of flaunting their bourgeois prosperity. And the pickup’s political implications have most commonly skewed right, even far right.
- A Taneytown man and woman were arrested while allegedly attempting to steal a vehicle. The two are suspects in a series of vehicle break-ins in Westminster that were reported in the past few days.
- The assault and taunting of a Pennsylvania man who was driving through Harford County earlier this week is being investigated as a potential hate crime and Maryland State Police troopers are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspects involved.
- While Dominic Toretto and the street racers of "The Fast and the Furious" live their lives a quarter-mile at a time, the drag racers at the annual Buckwild Truck and Tractor Classic are given just 250 feet to prove their worth. The show — featuring drag races, tractor and truck pulls, a car and truck show, and more — is an annual fundraiser for the Carroll County Agriculture Center, and helps keep the facility maintained and running throughout a year of events and celebrations held
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Ask the experts: Debuts, tech advancements and zero-emissions engineering at the Baltimore auto show
Auto companies are making big advancements, and big promises. - Using a clean white rag to spiff up a multipurpose hauler, C.J. Miller LLC driver Bobby Warfield readied his rig for the third annual Carroll County Buckwild Truck and Tractor Classic.
- Baltimore's tradition of using folding chairs and other junk to reserve street parking after a snow storm must end
- This month, five countries and eight U.S. states — including Maryland — announced a pledge for all new passenger cars sold by 2050 to be zero emission vehicles. This was a big symbolic announcement. Indeed, transportation accounts for 25 to 30 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. and Europe, and most of these emissions are from the oil we burn in our vehicles.
- After years of massive recalls across the auto industry, car dealerships and drivers are in new territory with the announcement that Fiat Chrysler must buy back some defective Ram pickups and Dodge and Chrysler SUVs.
- The pickup truck speeds down the runway of the airfield here on the Eastern Shore, a small, unmanned aircraft in its payload. And then the aircraft takes flight, banking over the heads of the spectators.