SENIOR WEB REPORTER GREG MIGLIORE: I felt very European in this German station wagon with a five-speed manual transmission. And I liked it. My coffee even seemed smoother. Really, the highlight for me is the agreeable gearbox.
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Chrysler Group prevailed in arbitration last week against two Texas dealerships, bringing the company's arbitration record to five victories and one defeat.
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In News Brake: The Ford Fiesta rings up 40 mpg, the next Honda Civic is delayed, and a piece of Corvette history is for sale . . . But Wait, There's More!
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General Motors Co. wants to return to the era of subprime lending. The problem is, it can't. At least not in big numbers. That's why the automaker wants more control over its lending again.
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Three years after General Motors won wage and benefit concessions from the United Auto Workers (UAW), the company has yet to realise savings from a key provision that cuts pay by more than half for new US hires, a newspaper report said.
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The German car-making industry develops without a plan or strategy, Sueddeutsche Zeitung's Karl-Heinz Bueschemann said in his new book on the sector, Crashtest.
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Toyota has now said it will suspend production at its Thai Auto Works factory just outside Bangkok at the end of this month, as part of a revamp of its global production and supply network, rather than close it.
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WITH VIDEO -- Most people have seen the Old Town section of Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, Calif., once a year--during the Rose Bowl parade.
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Toshiba on Monday said it was developing lithium-ion batteries with multiple automakers.
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Veteran Mazda engineer Hiroyuki Matsumoto is the new head of the carmaker's European randd center.
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One man's £12m order makes supercar even more difficult to find - snapping up 13 percent of the production run.
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Russian metal producers plan to increase the prices supplies to automakers by 10%-30% from 1 July, Kommersant business daily reported, citing representatives of automakers AvtoVAZ and Kamaz.
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AvtoVAZ announced price rises for its vehicles of 0.7%-3% from 15 May.
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We take a first look at the new game trackside, which will let gamers upload their real-life racing laps.
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EDITOR WES RAYNAL: A nice little ute, by far the best small SUV to come out of General Motors ever. It looks terrific to my eye, and I like the interior, too. The materials look good but aren't (too many hard plastics).
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For devotees of the Chevrolet Corvette, what price can you put on a unique piece of history? When we say unique, we mean it.
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Honda's redesigned Civic will not arrive until 2011, well past the typical five-year product cadence that would have landed the next-generation subcompact in dealer showrooms this fall.
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Lexus are giving you the chance to star in a new video campaign for the CT 200h.
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Detroit's automotive advertising agencies have had a rough few months, with Campbell-Ewald's loss last month of Chevy after nearly a century, BBDO Detroit shutting down in January and W.B. Doner and Co. scrambling to defend Mazda.
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GM said its European operations lost $500 million before interest and taxes in the first quarter, an improvement of $300 million from the fourth quarter of 2009.
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