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Longtime auto industry lobbyist will retire
Washington — One of the longest serving auto industry lobbyists said late Tuesday he will retire early next year.
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Ex-Saab executives arrested on accounting charges
Stockholm — A Swedish prosecutor says three former executives of automaker Saab Automobile AB have been arrested on accounting fraud charges.
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Car condos proposed for former General Motors site in Pontiac
A Birmingham entrepreneur wants to turn more than 80 acres of vacant land once owned by General Motors Co. in Pontiac into a destination for car enthusiasts that would include more than 300 “car condominiums” to house their valuable, classic and exotic cars.
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European car sales rise slightly in April
In April, for the first time in 18 months, monthly new auto registrations in Europe increased.
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S-Class Mercedes unwrapped
Daimler AG has unveiled the newest version of its S-Class model from luxury brand Mercedes-Benz, a car that will play a key role in the company’s effort to restore its earnings performance.
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Aussie travels the world searching for Tucker cars
On an extended drive-about from Australia, Brendan Edgerton parked his $150 right-hand drive 1989 Holden Commodore at the entrance to the Henry Ford Museum. He had come to see Tucker automobile #16, one of the world’s 47 existing Tuckers built by automotive dreamer Preston Tucker in 1948.
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Auto review: Acura RLX too much like a Honda to justify price
Strip away the $61,345 price tag and ignore all of its competitors, and the 2014 Acura RLX isn’t a bad car.
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Tesla plans to raise up to $1.08B while repaying U.S.
Tesla Motors Inc., the electric-car maker run by Elon Musk, increased the size of its equity and debt offerings by 30 percent to as much as $1.08 billion to repay its U.S. loan and build up cash reserves.
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Peugeot settles with CGT Union on terms of factory shutdown
PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe's second- largest automaker, reached a deal with a striking union on closing a car factory in France, removing one of the last obstacles to a plan to cut 11,200 domestic jobs.
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Feds aim to foil traffic hacking
Washington — The top U.S. auto safety regulator said the agency would take action to ensure self-driving cars electronically connected to traffic networks and to each other can’t be hacked.
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Outlander, Forester pass crash tests
Washington — Two of 13 small SUVs passed new tougher frontal crash tests from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
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Patented powertrain key to EV carmaker’s success
Elon Musk was fresh off the sale of PayPal and starting another business, commercial rocket service Space Exploration Technologies Corp., when he met kindred spirit JB Straubel. Their shared belief that consumer electronics advances could be applied to more earthly modes of transport is a cornerstone of Tesla Motors Inc.
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White House not backing plan to tighten drunken-driving limits
Washington — The Obama administration isn't backing the National Transportation Safety Board's call to drop the legal limit for drunken driving from 0.08 percent blood-alcohol content to 0.05.
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Briefs: New No. 2 NHTSA official has history with automakers
Washington — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a new No. 2 official who has often sparred with automakers.
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Report: EV charging stations may grow tenfold by end of decade
The number of electric-vehicle charging stations is expected to grow substantially by the end of the decade, according to a new report compiled by IMS Research.
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Hyundai’s Blue Link-equipped vehicles to come standard with care service
Hyundai Motor America said Thursday that all new Blue Link-equipped vehicles will come standard with three years of free Assurance Connected Care service.
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NHTSA’s new No. 2 has history of tangling with automakers
Washington - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a new No. 2 official who has often sparred with automakers.
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Honda to convert Ohio plant to build supercar Acura NSX
American Honda Motor Co. Inc. said Tuesday it will spend $70 million to renovate a Honda logistics facility in Marysville, Ohio, into a production plant to ...
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Feds urge states to lower drunken-driving limit
Washington — A National Transportation Safety Board recommendation to lower the legal limit on drunken driving would save hundreds of lives annually, the NTSB ...
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Ally, ResCap strike deal to complete restructuring
Washington — Ally Financial Inc. reached a deal Tuesday that should allow its troubled mortgage unit Residential Capital LLC to complete its bankruptcy ...
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Harris survey: 6 in 10 predict demise of terrestrial radio within 5 years
Nearly 60 percent of Americans predict the death of terrestrial radio will happen within five years, according to results from a Harris Interactive survey ...
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Big 3 dominate vehicle quality survey, take or tie for 12 top spots
For the first time in more than a decade, the biggest U.S. automakers had a majority of category winners in a survey of vehicle quality, taking or tying in 12 ...
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‘Landmark’ Toyota settlement may cover 22 million owners
Washington — A federal judge will decide next month whether to grant final approval to a class-action settlement covering as many as 22 million current and ...
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U.S. opens safety investigations into older Chrysler, Mazda vehicles
Washington — The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday it is opening new investigations into older Chrysler vehicles that stall ...
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Survey shows relationship between automakers, suppliers fragile
New fuel-efficient cars and luxury-loaded pickups are driving the U.S. auto industry back from the depths of the Great Recession. Sales are up, profits are ...
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Cars made in Brazil are deadly
Sao Paulo — The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of ...
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World’s wrecked cars reincarnated on Afghanistan’s dusty streets
Herat, Afghanistan — They sit in the sun harboring their lost histories, their forgotten dreams, their traces of funerals, graduations and stolen kisses. ...
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Magna founder sees shift abroad
Washington — The founder of North America’s largest auto supplier says the struggling European auto industry will need to get smaller to survive.
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Progress being made in ResCap bankruptcy cases, court-appointed examiner says
Washington — A deal may be near to resolve claims from creditors of Ally Financial’s bankrupt mortgage unit Residential Capital LLC that could allow for a ...
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Auto review: Stretched Mini Paceman delivers more power, nimble performance
Linguistically, the Paceman is a Britishism wrapped in an Anglicism. It's a term from the decidedly English sport of cricket for a person who rolls a ball with ...
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GM’s Opel out of skid, but long term viability questioned
It's all gone quiet for now at General Motors Europe and its Opel and Vauxhall subsidiaries, thanks to some mildly positive news about the bottom... - 05/11/2013
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Reduced wind drag is nothing to blow off
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Good news for GM Europe's Opel-Vauxhall at last
Neil Winton General Motor’s Opel-Vauxhall subsidiary in Europe finally has some good news to report. Its market share in the first four months of 2013 improved for the first time in a...
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BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo - a hatchback by any other name
Neil Winton SIENA, Italy – BMW has invented another new niche. This time it’s a hatchback version of the 3 Series sedan. Calling it the Gran Turismo makes it sound much more...
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