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Dec
28th

Honda CR-V is Edmunds’ most-researched vehicle in 2016

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For the second year in a row, the Honda CR-V was the most-researched vehicle on Edmunds.com in the U.S., followed by two Honda car models in second and third place.
Dec
28th

VW buys mobile-payment provider PayByPhone for parking services

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Volkswagen AG bought North American parking-payment operator PayByPhone in the latest move by Europe's biggest carmaker to expand from manufacturing into mobility services.
Dec
28th

Why Beijing won’t punish U.S. automakers for Trump’s sins

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Will Beijing vent its anger on U.S. companies whenever President-elect Donald Trump annoys it? Such fears are not totally groundless, but there are three reasons why U.S. automakers aren't likely to be singled out.
Dec
28th

Ford expands fleet of self-driving test cars

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Ford has added 20 vehicles to its existing fleet of 10 autonomous Fusion Hybrids, retrofitted with more advanced driverless technology and reduced hardware.
Dec
27th

A farewell and a look back at my years at Automotive News

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Thirty-two years ago today, I walked in the door at Crain Communications as a newly hired reporter for a startup publication called Crain's Detroit Business.
Dec
27th

Ford Fusions, Mercury Milans under U.S. investigation for potential brake problem

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U.S. safety regulators are investigating Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans from the 2007 to 2009 model years for brakes that may fail in certain conditions.
Dec
27th

Panasonic to invest more than $256 million in Tesla’s U.S. plant for solar cells

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Panasonic plans to invest more than $256 million in a New York production facility of Elon Musk's Tesla Motors to make photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, deepening a partnership of the two companies.
Dec
27th

Researchers map rough road to reducing vehicle weight

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Plastics have seen increased opportunities to get onto North American-made cars and trucks as automakers work to improve their fleets' fuel economy.
Dec
27th

Nine vehicles Americans loved or hated in 2016

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Bloomberg crunched sales data through November to see which models posted the biggest demand spikes and swoons . These are the vehicles that show us the future -- and soon-to-be past -- of the car business.
Dec
27th

Why a tariff on Mexican auto imports could backfire

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Many, if not most, economists agree that the benefits of tariffs, no matter how well-intentioned, are temporary, if not illusory.
Dec
27th

Premium brands on track to win battle for midsize segment

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Sales of luxury midsize cars in Europe are on track to top sales of mass-market rivals this year for the first time as buyers looking to move upscale increasingly choose Mercedes, Audi or BMW cars over mass-market brands.
Dec
26th

Blindsided by SUV boom, Hyundai Motor trims costs, perks

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Headed for a fourth straight annual profit decline, Hyundai Motor is trimming its cost fat.
Dec
26th

Blindsided by SUV boom, Hyundai trims costs, perks

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Headed for a fourth straight annual profit decline, Hyundai Motor is trimming its cost fat.
Dec
26th

Glass-canopy roof, 1,000 hp, and refundable deposit money

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For shoppers worried that the Lucid Air will be more like elusive vaporware, the electric-car startup Lucid Motors is offering a no-risk purchase plan: fully refundable deposits.
Dec
26th

Day of reckoning for auto production

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Automakers are on pace to build more new cars and light trucks in North America this year than ever before, but efforts to reduce bloated inventories could lead to North America's first production decline since the Great Recession in 2017.
Dec
26th

Sales races to watch in the final stretch

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Yes, 2016 will go down as another big year for the U.S. auto industry. The question is whether it will go down as another record year.
Dec
26th

‘Held hostage’: Dealer’s battle with software giants escalates

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Tennessee dealer Mitch Walters has taken his gripes with the data security policies of major software providers CDK Global and Reynolds and Reynolds directly to the National Automobile Dealers Association.
Dec
26th

Mobileye’s Gat sees self-driving as a moonshot

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Mobileye's Itay Gat says developing self-driving cars is the automotive equivalent of putting a man on the moon. Be he expects fully autonomous vehicles to be a reality within five years.
Dec
26th

V2V finally on its way, but is it too late?

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The promise of vehicle-to-vehicle communications is clouded by concerns that technological development soon will shift away from radio-based technology and toward 5G cellular networks.
Dec
26th

BEST PRACTICES: Dealership’s multilingual staff caters to hearing-impaired

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Michigan dealer John Fox has identified employees who can converse in more than a dozen languages, including American Sign Language, to translate vehicle and other purchases for consumers who speak little or no English or are hearing impaired.
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