Shame, the new metallic chisel-beak. Though some love the styling of the new-for-2009 Acura TL, its controversial looks appear questionable at best in many circles.
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Jaguar is expanding the XF range for the 2010 model year with the addition of the high-performance XFR.
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General Motors is delaying the launch of the Chevrolet Camaro sports car by a month, without explaining why.
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Hyundai's North American design chief, Joel Piaskowski, left the automaker on Dec. 31.
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Ford Motor Co. will expand its voice-activated Sync information service globally beginning in Europe in 2010.
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New vehicle sales in the Philippines declined by 18.5% year-on-year in December to 9,885 units, according to figures released by the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc (Campi).
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Mahindra Forgings has said its UK unit, Stokes Group Ltd., will close its manufacturing facility at Walsall, West Midlands, by the end of April, due to slower demand in Europe for its products.
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BMW Group ended 2008 with what it called a "moderate" 4.3% overall decrease in unit sales though expanded ranges helped Mini and Rolls-Royce both set records.
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Hyundai Motor will cut overall production by at least 25% in the first quarter of this year, according to a union spokesman.
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Renault has said it is freezing its project to build cars at Chennai in India.
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GM in Poland has registered an 8.3% year-on-year decrease in its 2008 output.
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Ford plans to sell its Sync mobile phone and digital music player voice control system more widely starting with Europe in 2010.
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Good news from a tightly controlled and heavily taxed emerging market: four-wheel vehicle sales in Vietnam rose 37% despite a second half dip.
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Here's a game for many players with a serious side to it. GM (amongst others) needs to avoid going bust in one big bang. Bust over the long run in the British Leyland (once the world's third largest car maker remember) style may be inevitable, but sudden failure and the consequences of that are unthinkable.
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Hyundai Motor is cutting output in South Korea by 25-30%.
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Kia rolls out a possible next member of its youth market-targeting Soul family at the Detroit auto show.
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Kia had planned to keep the Soulster concept under wraps until Saturday morning. But the launch plan got an unplanned boost from the Internet, so here's a look at the concept.
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