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Ikea designs $86,500 prefab house, instructions included

luapo | March 10, 2012

I’ve put together some Ikea furniture in my time, but nothing close to an entire house. I’m pretty confident I could make it through Ikea and Ideabox’s Aktiv house with minimal cursing, though.

Fortunately for prospective home owners, the Aktiv doesn’t arrive in a massive pile of flat-pack cardboard boxes. It’s delivered in a couple of chunks by semi.

The house is a joint-effort between Ikea and Ideabox. The companies’ designers integrated Ikea kitchen cabinets, appliances, flooring, bathroom appointments, and built-in closet systems into the prefab one-bedroom home.

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luapo | March 9, 2012

GM Suspends Chevy Volt Production After Poor Sales

luapo | March 9, 2012

General Motors said Friday that it is temporarily suspending production of the Chevrolet Volt following disappointing sales.

General Motors told the Associated Press Friday that the company will shut down production of the Volt from March 19 until April 23, idling 1,300 workers at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant.

GM sold sold 1,023 Volts in February and 603 in January, and fell short of its goal of selling 10,000 Volts last year, the AP reported.