Walking the crowded floor of the auto show here last week, Montana dealer Bill Underriner was thrilled with the new vehicles and encouraged by the industry's more positive mood.
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As a lack of production capacity restrains its growth, Hyundai will consider a second U.S. assembly plant. "That's something that we're going to look at," John Krafcik, Hyundai Motor America CEO, said last week at the Detroit auto show.
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Brimming with confidence after launching 16 new or revamped 2011 vehicles, CEO Sergio Marchionne served notice here last week that the Chrysler-Fiat alliance has more product surprises in store.
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Get ready for a bloody battle in the small-car segment. Compacts and subcompacts grabbed the spotlight at the Detroit auto show.
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McLaren Automotive has picked former Audi sales executive Greg Levine to oversee the global launch and marketing of its first high-performance road car, the 600hp MP4-12C.
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With U.S. gasoline prices poised to revisit the $4-plus per gallon peak hit in 2008 just before the recession, sales of new smaller cars introduced since then would seem assured.
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Lincoln vehicles will be dramatically different from Ford brand products, Ford Motor Co. executives said last week.
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Dany Bahar is still sure the Lotus branding debacle in formula one will not see the inside of the London High Court.
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Felipe Massa is hoping Pirelli is the key to returning to the front in formula one.
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Ferrari's racing duo has bemoaned the increasingly complex task of driving a formula one car.
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Red Bull has released a new video that shows how the X1 Formula 1 prototype was transformed from a Gran Turismo 5 fixture into a full-scale model.
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Here's a schedule of the launches of the new, 2011 Formula 1 cars. Note that half of the new cars will be unveiled at Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valenca, Spain prior to the first off-season test session.
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As it turns out, online rumours of Maybach's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Mercedes-Benz, which owned the ultra-premium brand, is about to resurrect it.
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The new Ford Fiesta RS WRC, the replacement of the Focus in the World Rally Championship, will make its racing debut at the Arctic Rally, which will be held late January in Finland.
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A huge crowd filled Chase Field in Phoenix for the second race of the AMA Supercross championship to watch Yamaha's James Stewart take his first win of the season after finishing second in the season opener in Anaheim.
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The 1M will arrive in both U.S. and Canadian dealers this spring, but don't expect BMW to dump boatloads of them in North America.
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The MotoGP Grand Prix commission revealed that the riders will have more time during each race weekend as it announced a more liberal MotoGP practice schedule.
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One of the most anticipated cars at the 2011 NAIAS in Detroit was definitely the Honda Civic Concept. Shown in both coupe and sedan configurations, it stays true to the current-generation (8th) model from a design standpoint while displaying some new tricks, including a couple of bold lines, a newly-integrated muffler and a tail section that's got a personality of its own.
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Replacing the X3 as BMW's smallest SUV, the X1 made its North American début at the Montreal International Auto Show. The entry-level model of the German manufacturer's SUV lineup, the X1, of which only 2,000 units were produced for its first year, targets younger buyers and is not necessarily an urban vehicle.
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We've been talking about the Chrysler 200 for a while now, set to replace the Sebring in the American automaker's portfolio. Today, Chrysler officially presented the convertible version of the car.
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