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Hyundai Connectivity Concept swaps car keys for smartphones from 2015

Audi is turning more gloomy about the chances of growing earnings next year due to weakening European markets, potentially making it harder for parent Volkswagen Group to meet its goal of lifting profits in 2013.

Audi is turning more gloomy about the chances of growing earnings next year due to weakening European markets, potentially making it harder for parent Volkswagen Group to meet its goal of lifting profits in 2013.

Corrected: The key for Suzuki to sell more cars in the United States, apparently, is to go out of business.

When it comes to EVs and hybrids, resale value may not be on par with conventional ones, but it isn't too far behind.

New vehicle sales in Malaysia increased by 10.5% to 53,365 units in November, compared with 47,755 a year earlier, according to local reports citing government registration data.

Fuji Heavy Industries has started production of the Subaru XV crossover SUV at Tan Chong Motor Assemblies in Malaysia.

Nissan's senior vice president for supply chain management and chairman of Africa Middle East and India region, Trevor Mann has been appointed executive vice president and chairman of the management committee for the Africa Middle East India and Europe.

Europe's Competition Commission has asked France to clarify its position with regard to the US$15.2bn refinancing deal with PSA Peugeot Citroen's banks backed by a US$9bn guarantee, raising the possibility the move constitutes a form of State aid.

Like any year in the auto industry, 2012 saw its fair share of company ups and downs, industrial comings and goings, and a fair old sprinkling of corporate drama. It was also a year of economic uncertainty hovering over automotive markets. We covered it all on just-auto. Editor Dave Leggett sifts through the lot and picks out a few highlights from the year just gone, month by month. Part one covers the first half of the year, part two the second. This is part two (July-December).

In light of automotive production growth in the North America, Toyoda Gosei is establishing a new plant for automotive interior and exterior components in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

Denso says it has developed the world's first integrated, in-vehicle wireless cell phone charger, in collaboration with Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS).

Capitalizing on the popularity of car commercials, the advertising competition known as the One Show will make an appearance during the

Motor City Blogman: It’s Almost Over, Though It’s Never Really Over, as GM Buys Treasury Shares

To free-marketers and Republicans, it will be $12 billion forever lost to a failed American automaker.

To free-marketers and Republicans, it will be $12 billion forever lost to a failed American automaker. To Democrats and President Obama, it was a necessary move, a last-ditch attempt not just to save the American auto industry, but perhaps to save American industry, and what’s left of the labor movement, in general.

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NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: An executive in search of a hot rod -- look no further. This Hemi-powered hooligan is a well-dressed rocket, with one of the nicest blends of class, comfort and raw power of any large sedans on the market.

French Economic Redevelopment Minister, Arnaud Montebourg, has welcomed this week's agreement between Renault and Algeria to produce vehicles, while also seeking to reassure unions of continued domestic work.

The car review is our bread and butter here at Autoweek. And we reviewed hundreds of cars and trucks in 2012. Here, in no particular order, are the top car reviews that you voted on, with your mouse clicks, in 2012.

Asking George Barris about how he built the

The Walter P. Chrysler Museum may be

Nissan Executive Vice President Colin Dodge, head of global operations in the Americas, Europe and emerging markets, is lightening his workload, partly so he can focus more on the United States.