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<title><![CDATA[How Toyota Outshines BMW (5/21/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 May 2013 08:25:37 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hybrids help lift Japanese brand's value to $24.5 billion; Tesla's U.S. loan repayment imminent; not always easy going 'viral.']]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automotive News Europe salutes Nick Collins]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Automotive News Europe salutes the winners of the 2013 Rising Stars awards. Every day until June 12 one of the 18 winners will be featured. Today's Rising Star is Nick Collins, Ford of Europe's global vehicle line director for the B segment. For his full profile and profiles on all the other 2013 ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Porsche to keep U.S. ad account with Cramer-Krasselt]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 19:16:59 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Porsche, after a six-month review of advertising agencies, has opted to keep its creative advertising account for the United States parked at Cramer-Krasselt, the incumbent agency that has held the account since 2007. The search was launched nearly six months ago, and was narrowed down to five ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chrysler's Toyota Chase (5/20/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 15:50:12 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. automaker says it's catching in quality; Ford 4-banger forecast; Chevy plays along with 'Mad Men' plot.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The road to a greener America is littered with roadkill]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 11:43:10 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- In October 2004, then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rolled up to a pioneering fueling station at Los Angeles International Airport in a hydrogen-powered metallic blue Hummer loaned to him by General Motors. The "California Hydrogen Highway," Schwarzenegger's vision ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Magna opens body, chassis plant in China's Chongqing]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 03:36:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Magna International Inc.'s Cosma unit has opened a plant in the southwest China municipality of Chongqing to supply body and chassis parts to automakers in the area. The production facility will mainly supply Ford Motor Co.'s plants in Chongqing and Volkswagen's plant in Chengdu, Magna said. ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[CFO says GM streamlining is 'on its way']]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- As a banking adviser to General Motors when he was at Morgan Stanley, Dan Ammann got an upfront view of GM's spiral into bankruptcy in 2009 and subsequent restructuring. Now, more than two years into his job as CFO, Ammann acknowledges that he had only a faint idea at the time of how ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kogai takes reins of Mazda's comeback]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[TOKYO -- Mazda Motor Corp.'s CEO designate, Masamichi Kogai, had a big hand in creating the more stable, profitable carmaker he inherits. But formidable challenges lie ahead. The manufacturing and purchasing specialist spent the last four years overhauling the export-reliant carmaker's ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chafing against engine friction]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Friction is enemy No. 1 for powertrain engineers striving to meet rising fuel-economy standards. "As engines get smaller, eliminating friction becomes even more important," says Dave Lancaster, a General Motors technical fellow who works at the automaker's powertrain engineering operations in ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM, Chrysler are still working on supplier relations]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Are General Motors and Chrysler Group playing hardball with suppliers again? The latest automaker-supplier relations study by the consultant firm Planning Perspectives Inc. was troubling. The big jump in their scores in last year's study appeared to show that GM and Chrysler had learned a hard ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Celebrating Europe's Rising Stars]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The future of the European automotive industry looks bright because of the strength of the young executives who are making huge strides forward. Automotive News Europe will honor 18 of these talented executives in Paris on June 12. From automakers to suppliers, manufacturing to design, logistics to ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sources: Chrysler plans high-hp Hellcat V-8]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Chrysler Group is developing a supercharged Hemi V-8 with power approaching the 640 hp of the SRT Viper's V-10. The 6.2-liter engine, code-named Hellcat, is expected to debut on the next-generation Dodge Challenger and perhaps other vehicles, according to sources within Chrysler. The ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chrysler exec: Our vehicle quality rivals Toyota's]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- The quality gap between Chrysler Group's vehicles and those of Japanese automakers has become so small that it no longer should matter to consumers, Chrysler's quality chief says. "We still benchmark Toyota," says Doug Betts, Chrysler's senior vice president of quality. "Toyota's very ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Automotive News Europe salutes Filiz Albrecht]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Automotive News Europe salutes the winners of the 2013 Rising Stars awards. Every day until June 12 one of the 18 winners will be featured. Today's Rising Star is Filiz Albrecht, group vice president of human resources at supplier Mann + Hummel. For her full profile and profiles on all the other ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Online video has changed how auto marketers connect with customers]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- Chrysler-Fiat marketing chief Olivier Francois hopes he has this summer's pop-music hit in his back pocket, the thumping soundtrack to a Fiat 500 commercial that has evolved into a full-length, party-themed video for a song with "Fiat" in its title. "If it works, we will have written ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cost is key to fate of talking cars]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Cars that communicate with each other to avoid crashes or traffic jams will save lives, but the cost of the systems will determine consumers' acceptance, the U.S. transportation secretary said last week. "These are definitely safer vehicles. At what cost though?" Ray LaHood told ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Again, Tokyo show a no-go for Detroit 3]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Detroit 3 will sit out the Tokyo Motor Show, no-shows for the third straight time. Yoshiyasu Nao, vice chairman of the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, which organizes the show, said his group petitioned the Detroit automakers to participate but was turned down. "We asked them to ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Industry: EU trade deal would lift exports]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. auto exports to Europe could quadruple within 15 years if regulators get rid of tariffs and adopt standard vehicle-safety rules, automaker associations say. That point, which European automakers and the Detroit 3 are making to officials with trans-Atlantic trade talks approaching, suggests ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hyundai, Kia losing ground to luxury imports at home as tariffs fall]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 19 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SEOUL (Bloomberg) -- Lee Tack Young says Hyundai Motor Co.'s luxury vehicles are oversized, overpriced gas guzzlers. So he opted for a more modest alternative: a BMW 528i. Foreign brands have seen their share of South Korea's market for premium vehicles surge to 41 percent from 28 percent in the ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audi overtakes BMW as India's top-selling premium brand]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MUMBAI (Bloomberg) -- Audi has overtaken BMW as India's top seller of premium vehicles. The carmaker says the success is due to its rapid expansion outside large urban centers and the introduction of the Q3 compact SUV last year. The growth of premium car sales in India has traditionally been ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Family-Friendly Nissans (5/17/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 14:15:49 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Pathfinder climbs to top of best family-car list; automaker sees more repeat buyers; Lapham on idea of Fiat moving to U.S.antv]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM shares return to $33 IPO price on optimism for truck sales]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 10:19:21 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- Shares in General Motors topped its $33 initial public offering price for the first time in more than two years as the automaker prepares to introduce redesigned full-sized pickups. GM shares closed up $1.03, or 3.2 percent, at $33.42 in New York Stock Exchange trading today ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[European car sales post 1st gain in 19 months]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 05:19:21 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MILAN, Italy (Bloomberg) -- European car sales rose for the first time in 19 months as a gain in consumer sentiment in countries using the euro led to rebounds in Germany and Spain. Registrations in April increased 2 percent to 1.08 million vehicles from 1.06 million cars a year earlier, the ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VW, GM, others get unexpected boost in China]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (Bloomberg) -- A surprise policy shift in China is expected to give a boost to Volkswagen Group, General Motors Co. and other foreign automakers planning to expand in the world's largest car market. China said it will encourage foreign investment in vehicle manufacturing in its western ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Russian car sales down 8% in April]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russia's year-on-year car sales fell 8 percent in April after a decline of 4 percent in the previous month, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) said. "Typically for the Russian market, April sales exceed March level ... This year we see basically no uplift, showing the ...]]></description>
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