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Ford Deluged With Applications for Limited-Edition GT
Hundreds of applicants have submitted videos hoping to bolster their chances of buying one of the £350,000 performance cars. The reverse pitches have featured children, lighting effects, racing footage, revving engines, garage tours and life stories.
By Paul Myles • May 17, 2016 -
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Toyota 86 Sports Car Morphs Into ‘Shooting Brake’
Toyota 86 global chief engineer Tetsuya Tada says the concept adds a more practical hatch styling to the rear of the sporty 4-seat coupe. The design has been described as evolving into a 2-door station wagon.
By Alan Harman • May 17, 2016 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineArtificial Intelligence
Automakers and dealers alike are increasingly seeing the use case for AI within their operations. Explore some use cases in this trendline.
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GMC Exec Sees No Easing of Pickup, SUV Surge
The combination of demand and refinement has been a boon to GMC, pushing up average transaction prices and take-rates for the brand’s upscale Denali range of luxury models.
By James M. Amend • May 17, 2016 -
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Hyundai Hires Ace Korean Designer Away From Bentley
Sangyup Lee joins Hyundai in June as Genesis design chief and will report to global design chief Luc Donckerwolke, who also heads the automaker’s Prestige Design Div.
By Vince Courtenay • May 16, 2016 -
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Magna Steyr May Build Sports Cars for BMW, Toyota
A newspaper reports Magna Steyr is expected to launch production of a BMW sports car that will succeed the Z4, in 2018, with a Toyota model to follow some months later. Plans call for combined production of at least 60,000 vehicles per year.
By Peter Homola • May 13, 2016 -
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Hyundai Flexes R&D Muscle With Wearable Robot Suit
The warehousing industry and the military are potential mass-production markets. Hyundai says a soldier wearing the suit easily can carry 100 pounds yet move very quickly. A possible medical application would give impaired patients mobility.
By Vince Courtenay • May 13, 2016 -
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German Court Puts Muffler on Mercedes’ Airscarf
A German court rules Mercedes-Benz infringed on a patent with its Airscarf, a headrest-mounted system for warming or cooling driver and passenger neck areas.
By Greg Kable • May 13, 2016 -
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CrossBlue in Crosshairs as VW-UAW Clash Escalates
The UAW’s success in organizing skilled-trades workers, whose extensive training would make them hard to replace, gives the union a foothold in Chattanooga before VW recruits new employees to build the CrossBlue CUV, which the automaker is counting on to help reverse its sharp decline in the U.S. market.
By Joseph Szczesny • May 12, 2016 -
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Cadillac Posting Serious Financial Numbers
If we assume Cadillac is making roughly $4,000 profit on each vehicle – not an unreasonable assumption – that means it’s generating about $1.1 billion in profit annually for GM.
By John McElroy • May 10, 2016 -
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ASEAN-Minded Nissan Expands Thailand R&D Facility
Nissan’s first R&D vehicle-test facility in the ASEAN and Oceania region initially will evaluate 12 models, including its core model Navara, Almera ecocar and X-Trail Hybrid.
By Alan Harman • May 9, 2016 -
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Honda Looks to Meet, Maintain Ridgeline Sales Record
The pickup’s best annual volume was 50,193, but Honda manufacturing capacity may need to be adjusted to keep that figure consistent.
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Malaysian Automaker Proton Shakeup at Top Continues
Syed Faisal Albar, group managing director of Proton parent DRB-Hicom, replaces Mahathir Mohamad, the country’s prime minister from 1981-2003 who resigned March 30. Faisal also becomes chairman of Group Lotus.
By Alan Harman • May 6, 2016 -
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Compliance Lessons Learned from VW Scandal
To ask questions and find risks takes real expertise which, frankly, not many people possess. It requires people with a range of skills – part business knowledge and part investigative.
By Scott Lane • May 6, 2016 -
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It Was Only Matter of Time: App Ties Apple Watch to Luxury SUV
Employing a bespoke digital architecture, the app allows drivers and passengers of the $229,100 luxury off-roader to remotely control several onboard systems.
By Paul Myles • May 5, 2016 -
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Audi Claims No.1 on Most Engaging Auto Ads List
The Audi ad carries a promotional tie-in for “Captain America: Civil War,” which opens in theaters this week.
By WardsAuto Staff • May 5, 2016 -
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GM Thailand Unhitches Colorado From Workhorse Image
The new Colorado has been refined with an eye toward new consumer demographics. That follows the direction of where the ASEAN truck market is heading: the premium end of the segment, with its higher margins.
By Edd Ellison • May 4, 2016 -
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VW Rolls Out High-Performance, Limited-Edition Golf GTI Model
In addition to 306 hp, the GTI Clubsport’s tweaked 2.0L DI turbo engine delivers 280 lb.-ft. of torque and propels the car from standstill to 62 mph in 5.8 seconds.
By WardsAuto Staff • May 3, 2016 -
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Toyota Flat, Honda and Nissan Gain in April
Strong light-truck sales could’t offset depressed car deliveries for Toyota, while Honda cars and a smattering of Nissan products put those two automakers ahead of year-ago.
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Jeep, Ram Vans, Minivans Drove FCA’s U.S. Showroom Traffic in April
Cars and MPVs were down 8% in volume, while utility vehicles rose 13% and trucks gained 12%, the automaker says.
By David Zoia Editor • May 3, 2016 -
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Chinese Market Successful Czech Mate for VW’s Skoda
Skoda’s lineup of mostly small, fuel-efficient cars is catching on in China as the economy cools down. The automaker’s 281,707 sales in China in 2015 accounted for more than one-quarter of the brand’s 1.055 million global deliveries.
By Wang Fangqing • May 3, 2016 -
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GM China JV Not Big on Beijing Auto Show Buzz
There is not a single local or global debut from Buick, Cadillac or Chevrolet at the Beijing auto show whose 9-day run closes Wednesday. The only all-new entry on display is the Baojun 310 subcompact hatchback.
By Vince Courtenay • May 2, 2016 -
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Jaguar Leaps Into Lead on Most-Engaging Car Ads List
This week’s Most Engaging Auto Ad, a Jaguar commercial titled “Master Plan,” features Tom Hiddleston and Nicholas Hoult in a secret high-tech lab.
By WardsAuto Staff • April 28, 2016 -
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GM Korea Targets Top of Charts With New Malibu
The automaker is looking for the revamped sedan to challenge the Hyundai Sonata for supremacy in one of Korea’s hottest and most competitive segments.
By Vince Courtenay • April 27, 2016 -
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Nissan Bumps Micra, Pulsar From Oz Product Range
The affected models remain on sale in Nissan dealerships across Australia, with the remaining stock expected to sell out before year-end. The moves are limited to Australia and do not affect any other Nissan markets globally.
By Alan Harman • April 27, 2016 -
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In Spain, Hyundai’s Tucson Is Little CUV That Can
The new Tucson, as well as new models recently introduced in the Spanish range and new sale channels as Click2Drive, key factors to achieve this objective.
By Jorge Palacios • April 27, 2016
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