Forget the Super Bowl: Ford's marketing chief Jim Farley says he can get more for less on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. If Farley is right, millions of hits for Ford Motor Co.
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GM began production of a version of the Chevrolet Cruze compact car more than three weeks behind schedule because of quality issues that the company declined to specify.
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Dana, which has had six CEOs in three years, said CEO James Sweetnam has resigned after leading the supplier since July 2009.
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Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne confirmed that the Italian carmaker will release new models in 2011 and said the company won't have problems meeting its targets. Marchionne also said that mid-term elections in the U.S.
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China's new-car prices are likely to fall 20% by 2020, said former VW China CEO Winfried Vahland. He said intense competition, low disposable income, and relatively low costs of production are the most important factors behind the drop.
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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to press Chinese political leaders to approve a new factory for Jaguar Land Rover quickly during a trade visit to the country this week, the Financial Times reported.
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Volkswagen plans to build and sell 10,000 electric cars in China from 2014 to 2018. VW will produce an electric model at local ventures with SAIC Motor Corp. and FAW Group Corp.
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Alan Mulally wears his heart on his sleeve. Well, sort of. He does wear the word "Ford" embroidered on the cuff of his white dress shirts. "My dream is you'll walk away and believe I'm about accelerating Henry Ford's original position," Mulally says.
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Subaru is on a roll. U.S. sales are up 23 percent through October and on pace to beat the market for a third straight year. And Subaru of America's parent, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., just doubled its full-year profit forecast.
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Honda Motor Co. survived the global financial crisis better than most, avoiding the full-year losses seen on many balance sheets. But Honda's rebound has not been as sharp as most of the rest of the industry.
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Tonkin Wilsonville Nissan in Oregon noticed a rise in online reviews in 2008. Soon, contacting each reviewer became a daily routine for General Manager Bill Jones.
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In radio ads that began last fall, Brad Benson -- then Hyundai's second-best-selling U.S. dealer -- pledged to remain celibate until his store in rural New Jersey regained the top spot. Benson, 54 and married, can breathe a little easier now.
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The new Republican majority in the House will investigate, slow and try to block Obama administration initiatives that it considers detrimental to the auto industry, lobbyists predicted.
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Instead of sending that 1997 Ford Aspire trade-in to auction, large dealership groups are seeking to retail such older cars for more profit. AutoNation, Lithia, Asbury, Sonic and Penske are among retailers trying to boost sales of old used vehicles.
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The slow-motion auto sales recovery may have reached a turning point -- and not just because of the healthy 13 percent October increase and the fact that the annual selling rate was the best since the heady cash-for-clunkers days of the summer of...
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Stuttgart. For the past 25 years, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has been offering the option - under the term "Exclusive" - of individually tailoring a Porsche to create an unmistakable, unique vehicle immediately on ordering it. Porsche Exclusive offers hand-crafted refinement ex-works to provide a highly personalised touch in terms of design and performance.
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Yamaha's Jorge Lorenzo had to work his way back to the front but still managed to take a comforting ninth victory in 2010 in the season finale run at Valencia (Spain) this weekend.
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No other car has been talked about as much in Europe during the past three years. The 500 has won multiple awards and recognitions across the pond, including the European Car of the Year title in 2008 and the 2009 World Car Design of the Year. It also has been offered in various different special editions, such as the Barbie version, the Abarth Esseesse, the Ferrari Version as well as the 500 Pink.
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Stuttgart. For the past 25 years, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, has been offering the option - under the term "Exclusive" - of individually tailoring a Porsche to create an unmistakable, unique vehicle immediately on ordering it. Porsche Exclusive offers hand-crafted refinement ex-works to provide a highly personalised touch in terms of design and performance.
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Nasser Al-Attiyah (Ford Focus) took victory in the Cyprus Rally, last round if the Intercontinental Rallye Challenge.
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