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AWD Genesis Lures Equus Buyers
The second-most-expensive Hyundai car is cannibalizing sales of the most-expensive Hyundai car, as all-wheel drive proves alluring to buyers in cold-weather markets.
June 3, 2015 -
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Tata Plots Comeback With Reinvented Nano City Car
“This is a make-or-break opportunity for Tata,” Girish Wagh, senior vice president-product planning and the original Nano’s chief engineer, says of the extensively upgraded Nano GenX.
By Sudhakar Shah • June 2, 2015 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineAutomotive Manufacturing
Production strategies are changing rapidly as tariffs and shifts in consumer buying patterns affect the industry.
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Car Sharing Same as Bed Sharing?
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.Sharing cars with people you don’t know is like sharing beds with strangers.That’s how Robin Chase described it to doubters in the startup d...
By Steve Finlay 2 • May 26, 2015 -
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Striptease and Hype
It used to be no one got to see the new model before its big reveal. Now automakers are leaking early glimpses of future cars and trucks through spy photographers and other means. Is this a good thing?
By Theo Nissim • May 22, 2015 -
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Chevy Corvette Plant Gets $439 Million Paint Shop
Sprucing up Bowling Green likely indicates GM plans to keep building the Corvette there for many years to come in a future of tightening fuel-economy rules.
By James M. Amend • May 21, 2015 -
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Heirs of Italian Tradition to Unveil Supercars at Turin Show
Both limited-run models will feature high-powered V-12 engines.
By Giancarlo Perini • May 18, 2015 -
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UAW Takes Lear Organizing Demands to Shareholders
Protesters voiced UAW demands for better wages and respect for workers’ right to join a union, particularly in the South, where anti-union sentiment is high. The Lear plants at the center of the protest are located in Alabama and are non-union.
By Joseph R. Szcezsny • May 18, 2015 -
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Here’s Mud on Yer Lens
Ford thinks it’s high time rearview cameras get washed – and it is. But as vehicles become more autonomous, will that be good enough?
By Bill Visnic • May 18, 2015 -
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’16 Chevy Camaro Bows, Promises ‘Finely Honed Performance’
The sixth-generation redesign witnesses a shift for the Camaro to the sophisticated Alpha platform, and for the first time the sports car will be available with a 4-cyl. engine.
By James M. Amend • May 16, 2015 -
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WardsAuto Flashback – MAY 2015
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.75 Years Ago (May 1940): Output Up 24%; Hupp Skylark Bows; Ward’s Warns on Fifth Column; No Rubber Worries YetU.S. vehicle production in the...
May 15, 2015 -
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New Small-Van Segment Finds Commercial Success
Car dealers played a big role in encouraging automakers to offer commercial vehicles that are smaller than the standard van.
By Tom Beaman • May 15, 2015 -
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Cars Lose Weight, One Part at a Time
Auto industry concentrates more than ever on designing weight out of vehicles.
By Steve Finlay • May 14, 2015 -
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FCA’s Busse Finds Inspiration Outside Industry
The splatter from a paintball, a genuine Texas Ranger’s badge, the warm lights of the Middle East and Lake Michigan stones are just some elements that have influenced recent FCA interiors.
May 14, 2015 -
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North American Capacity Utilization Hits 100% Again in Q1
Additional North American production capacity in 2016 from a new plant at Volkswagen and increases at existing facilities among other automakers will raise available straight-time production to 18.4 million units.
By Haig Stoddard • May 14, 2015 -
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Truck Designers Walk Line Between Gritty, Pretty
Customers told designers of the all-new ’15 GMC Canyon midsize pickup “they didn’t want a car – but they didn’t want it to look rough or cheap,” design chief Helen Emsley says.
May 13, 2015 -
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What Would Mao Drive? Regardless, Today’s Chinese Like Luxury Cars
Conspicuous consumption is evident in what once was a bicycle-riding nation of people who drably dressed the same in order to blend in.
By Steve Finlay • May 13, 2015 -
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Time for an HMI Intervention
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.Anyone who has created something understands that knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to leave in.That is, everyo...
By Drew Winter • May 13, 2015 -
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When the Wind Tunnel Is Not Enough
Massachusetts firm Exa promotes aerodynamic software simulation for faster, less expensive and what it says are more accurate results.
May 12, 2015 -
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Jatco Geared to Meet Growing Global CVT Demand
Management claims to be on track to reach its ¥1 trillion ($8.4 billion) sales target by fiscal 2018 and become the world’s top producer of automatic transmissions by 2020.
By Roger Schreffler • May 12, 2015 -
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Remembering Automotive Pioneer Denise McCluggage
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.We were part of Volkswagen’s introduction of the Passat with 4Motion at the 2000 Geneva Auto Show, test driving the new full-time all-wheel-...
By Barbara McClellan 2 • May 8, 2015 -
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Seeing Red Isn’t All Bad
In a car like the all-new Mercedes C-Class, the Diamond White Metallic sheet metal is the predictable, safe bet, but the soft, quilted crimson leather that appears once the door opens serves as an invitation as irresistible as the siren’s song.
May 7, 2015 -
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Chinese Auto Market Cooling Down, Not Cooling Off
While China’s vehicle sales have slowed from the unsustainably torrid rate of a few years ago, they nevertheless are growing, and should grow at a healthy rate for another decade, government and private analysts say.
By Alysha Webb • May 7, 2015 -
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The Minivan, Reborn
Great colors, materials, ergonomics and creature comforts (footrests!) make the ’15 Sedona quite possibly the ultimate minivan.
May 5, 2015 -
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Canada April LV Sales Set Mark
Light-vehicle sales in Canada reached an April record of 188,300 units that also happened to be the market’s second-best month ever.
By Al Binder • May 4, 2015 -
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Let’s Rewrite This Movie’s Script
Editor's note: This story is part of the WardsAuto digital archive, which may include content that was first published in print, or in different web layouts.In the movie “Jaws,” it was Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfus running around warning the citizens that the shark was still out there. Unfortu...
By Jim Ziegler 2 • May 4, 2015
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