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Last week Apple executive Eddy Cue said 12 car brands will let motorists link iPhones to center consoles to make calls, send text messages, use maps and issue voice commands.
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General Motors' decision to stop publicly disclosing monthly production numbers has touched off concern among industry analysts and economists, as well as suppliers that rely on the data for their production plans.
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Vehicle production in North America is back near record levels, with output forecast to surpass 16 million units this year for the first time in more than a decade.
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Mitsubishi's new ad campaign to launch its redesigned 2014 Outlander crossover -- built around the tag line "Find your own lane" -- also will have to help the brand find a route back to relevance in the U.S. market.
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North America and South America are radically different markets. But Toyota Motor Corp. has installed two familiar names from the United States to lead them.
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Car companies are moving full steam ahead on voice controls and are unlikely to be slowed by the note of caution AAA sounded last week, automakers and suppliers say.
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For nearly two years, GM dealers have been suffering through a shortage of off-lease customers. That's because leasing by GM dealers all but dried up in late 2008, amid the financial crisis, and didn't resume in earnest until mid-2010.
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Rather than its traditional touting of genteel luxury and British roots, Jaguar is taking a walk on the wild side with the marketing of the new F-Type convertible.
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One of the best-known and longstanding names in automotive data, R.L. Polk, is being absorbed into one of the fastest-growing research firms, IHS Automotive.
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Land Rover is expected to add a seven-seat, long-wheelbase version of its LR2 when the crossover is redesigned in 2015. The LR2 is currently offered only as a five-seater.
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A bigger and roomier fourth-generation 2014 Mercedes-Benz C class will have a more dynamic exterior styling to challenge the BMW 3 series and the redesigned Audi A4 also due next year, sources tell Automobilwoche, Automotive News'...
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Mercedes-Benz says introducing AMG's first four-cylinder engine in November on the 2014 CLA45 AMG will help the performance sub-brand increase its share of the company's U.S. sales.
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Audi plans to charge a premium of more than $2,000 for its three new TDI models, testing luxury buyers' willingness to pay for the fuel economy of a diesel.
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Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will show a sedan version of its Mirage hatchback compact car to visitors from North America this month in Thailand, to gauge prospects for exporting the car to America.
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Toyota Motor Corp.'s incoming chairman said he wants the sports car the company is developing with BMW to be a mid-sized vehicle comparable to the Supra, which was discontinued in 2002.
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As Lincoln tries to reinvent itself, Ford Motor Co.'s struggling luxury brand will target only the fastest-growing luxury segments in which it can competitively and profitably field entries, the company said.
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The Buick lineup has taken on a decidedly European flavor in the past three years. The Regal and Verano sedans and the new Encore compact crossover are Opels that migrated to the U.S. market wearing Buick badges.
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Last week, Diana Tremblay was reassigned from her post as GM's top manufacturing executive in North America to lead a newly formed business unit charged with whacking away at the company's bureaucracy.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
It's so nice that we have Bob Lutz around to psychoanalyze our industry's leaders.
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| KEITH CRAIN
I am constantly amazed by how much bureaucracy dealers face running what used to be called small businesses.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The Q&A with Chrysler's Doug Betts was interesting, but what caught my attention was his citing a "roughly 60 percent improvement in warranty rates."
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EDITORIAL
As Apple squares off with Microsoft to determine which will become the dominant operating system for in-vehicle infotainment programs, there is another factor to consider.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Far too many times fraud takes place undetected for long periods. Then when it is discovered, minimal action is taken.
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EDITORIAL
It had to happen. State highway maintenance programs are at least partially funded by gasoline taxes.
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Chrysler Group has tweaked its stair-step sales incentives to make them more palatable to dealers, said Reid Bigland, the automaker's head of U.S. and Canadian sales.
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Since instituting one-price selling, First Texas Honda has jumped from 380th among Honda dealerships in terms of sales volume to the top 30, and from selling 200 new and used vehicles a month to 450.
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How can an auto company save money while introducing 18 new or refreshed vehicles in 12 months? General Motors must answer that question if the company is to achieve CEO Dan Akerson's goal of increasing profits and widening profit margins this year...
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The redesigned 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra now arriving in showrooms sport sharply stronger resale values than the models they replace.
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Chevrolet, General Motors' best-selling brand globally, is falling further behind rivals in Europe as the region's buyers turn their backs on the marque's aging products.
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| Q&A: JEAN-MARC GALES, CLEPA
Europe is in a deep slump, but many suppliers in the region are adding business because of their global footprints. The key for Europe's parts makers is technology, says Jean-Marc Gales, CEO of CLEPA, a European supplier trade association.
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Dealerships are seeing a surge of traffic on their Web sites and a greater willingness by shoppers to leave their crucial contact information, said data consultant Dataium.
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| DAVID BARKHOLZ
When we asked readers last month whether the business development center is obsolete, you'd have thought we had asked something as monumental as who should be Major League Baseball's MVP.
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Until a month ago, Acton Toyota of Littleton had a nice little side business for five years selling Toyota-sponsored extended service contracts over the Internet.
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Time ran out last week for Exide Technologies, the 125-year-old battery maker once led by longtime auto industry executive Bob Lutz. With its Vernon, Calif.
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Carmakers including Audi and Mercedes-Benz are turning to high-tech adhesives as they seek ways to make vehicles lighter and tougher.
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| Q&A: PETER GUTZMER, SCHAEFFLER AG
Suppliers' responsibilities in vehicle development are growing. Peter Gutz-mer, chief technology officer at Schaeffler AG, aims to develop valuable products in a wider range of functions.
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Tired of plowing through a 300-page owner's manual to pair your smartphone with the infotainment system in the rental car you just picked up? There may be a solution.
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Gesture control, the use of hand gestures to control a vehicle's infotainment system, is gaining momentum.
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Buyers include Lithia, Garff, Pope, Fenton and Jenkins. Sellers include Roberson, O'Brien and Group 1.
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Dealers and organizations include the Ohio Automobile Dealers Association, Tom Heffernan of Tom Heffernan Ford in Lake City, Minn., Dennis Dubie of K-M Toyota in North Adams, Mass.
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General Motors' decision to shift Cadillac's advertising account to the newly formed ad agency Rogue last week was fueled in part by the automaker's aggressive overseas growth plan for its luxury brand and a desire to strike a more emotional chord...
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General Motors has too few minority-owned dealerships -- especially those owned by blacks -- civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said during GM's annual shareholders' meeting here this month.
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The vehicles are just too old.
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Since returning to America in 2011, Fiat and its struggling dealers have been getting by on just the 500. But the cars that rolled off a transport ship from Europe in June promise to change that.
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Two years after Nissan started selling the Leaf electric vehicle, Nissan is puzzling over a new question: how to sell the car when it comes back used.
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| HANS GREIMEL
For months, U.S. and European automakers have fretted about the potential boost to Japanese brands' sales in their markets from the tumbling yen, which makes Japanese exports more profitable and increases their allure in overseas markets.
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Making sure vehicles are "built Ford tough" has become too tough on the test drivers whose job involves putting thousands of bone-jarring, teeth-rattling, mind-numbing miles on new models.
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The auto industry needs a standard for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure data communication in order to keep a leading role in providing services to motorists, says Luca de Meo, Audi board member for sales and marketing.
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Strong consumer interest in BMW AG's upcoming i3 electric compact car makes the company confident that its first EV will be a game-changer in the segment, sales boss Ian Robertson said.
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AUTOMOTIVE NEWS EUROPE CONGRESS
The biggest and strongest automakers, or those whose vehicles have high average selling prices, will best emerge from the European economic crisis, Morgan Stanley analyst Stuart Pearson said.
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Both Nissan North America and Hyundai-Kia more than doubled their fleet sales in May, but overall fleet sales by the top seven automakers in the United States increased just 4 percent from a year ago.
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Industry leaders gathered in Paris last week for the 16th annual Automotive News Europe Congress and third annual Rising Stars program. PHOTOS BY SILVIA STEINBACH
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Light-vehicle stocks became leaner last month, falling to a 57-day supply on June 1 from 63 days on May 1. It was the first time inventories have fallen since the start of the year.
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SiriusXM Radio is launching a program this summer that allows dealers to offer a complimentary two-month SiriusXM subscription to qualifying service customers.
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Chalk it up as another rough week on the electric vehicle front.
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Toyota may never recapture the 17.0 percent share of the U.S. light-vehicle market that it achieved in 2009, Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota North America, told reporters before the company's annual shareholders meeting.
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| RICHARD JOHNSON
Bob Lutz says nice things about Rick Wagoner in his new book, Icons and Idiots, but faults his former boss at General Motors for coddling "useless" executives. Lutz got sideways with a few bosses in his time and never made CEO.
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Any parent who has taught a kid to drive a stick knows the problem: When the clutch comes up too slowly, the engine stalls; too fast and there's lurching, angst and potential whiplash. Bosch thinks it has a solution.
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State lawmakers seeking a new revenue stream to pay for the upkeep of roads are looking for owners of vehicles that use little or no gasoline to pay a little more.
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Automotive News top global, Europe, and North America suppliers ranked by sales of original equipment parts in 2012
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