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Report: GM marketing changes to Run Deep?

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Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs , Marketing/Advertising , Chevrolet The Detroit Free Press reports General Motors may be out to reorganize its marketing effort once again. According to the report, Chief Marketing Officer Joel Ewanick noted at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show that the company is currently in the process of reviewing the agencies that handle media buying and Chevrolet advertising for the automaker around the world. Ewanick’s team is expected to make decisions about how to more effectively and efficiently use its marketing dollars in the next few weeks. That may translate into substantial reductions or changes.

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Video: Forza Motorsport 4 releases December IGN pack

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Filed under: Etc. , Videos , Toys/Games Turn 10 released the December IGN pack for Forza Motorsport 4 last week, complete with a laundry-list of drool-worthy digital rides for your racing enjoyment. Those start with the beastly Suzuki Monster Sport SX4 Hill Climb Special , which is the same machine that broke the ten-minute barrier at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb this year. As juicy as that is, we’re more stoked to get our hands on hardware like the Ford F-150 SVT Raptor , the ’77 Escort RS1800 and the ’88 Pontiac Fiero GT

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Escort marries social networking and radar detection with Android/iPhone app [w/video]

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Filed under: Etc. , Technology , Videos Now we’re not suggesting that you’re a lawbreaker, but if you’re a social networker and you’d like to know where speedtraps are – for no reason at all – then Escort might be able to help. Makers of the Passport line of detectors, Escort has started a mobile app-supported network called Escort Live that features Bluetooth notifications.

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Video: Family has snake appear on hood of moving vehicle, keeps driving

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Filed under: Etc. , Videos Parked vehicles are nearly the perfect hideout for all manner of critters. The infinite nooks and crannies of an automobile are all but irresistible for everything from insects to rodents, household pets and reptiles . One Memphis family recently had a close encounter of the legless kind when a nearly three-foot-long gray rat snake crawled out from under their vehicle’s hood as they drove down Sam Cooper Boulevard at highway speeds.

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Video: Ken Block Gymkhana, tilt-shift edition

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Filed under: Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Toys/Games Ken Block’s DiRT 3 promo in tilt shift – Click above to watch video after the jump We don’t know when tilt-shift video will be old and busted, but it isn’t today. Ken Block’s recent busting-through-boxes DiRT 3 Gymkhana at the Battersea power station rocked hard enough in full scale. It looks even cooler – or perhaps it’s just wackier and funnier – shot with a tilt-shift lens so that it looks like a tiny Ken Block is piloting a tiny Escort knocking over tiny boxes. The only thing stranger than the images is the music, which kept us wondering when the Harajuku girls were going to appear

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Video: Ken Block Gymkhana, tilt-shift edition