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<title><![CDATA[Toyota overtakes BMW as most valuable global car brand]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 19:15:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Toyota has overtaken BMW as the most valuable automotive brand, an annual ranking of the world's top brands shows. The value of the Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and Hyundai brands improved by double-digit percentages compared with 2012, largely because of strong demand in China and the United ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audi gripes, but Tesla could be en route to niche-brand success]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 15:59:11 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Audi wants to be clear: Just because the Tesla Model S is outselling Audi's flagship A8 in the U.S. luxury sedan market, it does not mean Tesla Motors is beating Audi. In a blog post today on Audi of America's official news channel, the company says it has a problem with recent news reports ...]]></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[Estimated Europe registrations by make, April and YTD]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 11:11:02 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mini's culture is as quirky as its cars]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- Mini is owned by BMW, but there's a broad gulf between the prestigious luxury marque and the funky small-car brand. Mini USA is housed in a corner of the three-story BMW of North America headquarters here. BMW has uncluttered cubicles occupied by employees in upscale ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A tech triumph for the S class?]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[HAMBURG, Germany -- With a technology-rich S-class redesign arriving this fall and several derivatives to be added by 2015, Mercedes-Benz aims to boost stalled sales of its flagship. Still, Mercedes executives do not expect the new S class unveiled here last week to approach the peak volume of the ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM seeks clean launch, regular updates for pickups]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mark Reuss, president of General Motors North America, says GM is staying vigilant on the June launch of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra full-sized pickups, its most important rollout since the company's 2009 bankruptcy. He says GM is closely monitoring suppliers to avoid bottlenecks that ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Acura seeks image boost by reviving NSX in Ohio]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- Honda officials hope the revived Acura NSX, an advanced hybrid sports car scheduled to arrive in 2015, will strengthen Acura's luxury footing. "We have a very clear understanding of the high customer expectations luxury buyers around the world have for a supercar, and our ...]]></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[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[Infiniti: Raise quality, sales will follow]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[KAMINOKAWA, Japan -- The boss says quality is key to Infiniti's future. After years with Infiniti at the back of the premium pack, Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Infiniti's parent, Nissan Motor Co., has ordered his team to nail quality once and for all as part of a push to catapult Infiniti into the top ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Goofy ads, variants help Mini rule its own little world]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. -- In 2005, three years after the Mini Cooper's surprisingly strong debut in the United States, brand executives wondered how many more buyers there could be for a 12-foot car. "When I first arrived in 2005, there was a question if Mini sales would decline," said Jim McDowell, ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[M-B redesigned S class with China in mind]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The redesigned Mercedes-Benz S class made its world debut last week in Hamburg, Germany, but Shanghai might have been more appropriate. Why? China accounted for 49 percent of all 2010-12 S-class sales. By comparison during the three years, 21 percent of S-class sales were in the United States and ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BMW counts on new models to keep luxury sales crown]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz led the U.S. luxury-brand sales race through April of 2013, but BMW of North America CEO Ludwig Willisch expects BMW to repeat as No. 1 for the year. Willisch says help is on the way in the form of three models debuting this fall: the 3-series GT crossover, 4-series coupe and a ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Small BMW team rethought electric cars for huge cities]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The world's so-called megacities, which have more than 10 million people, are mushrooming. Nearly six years ago, BMW AG's Project i began to position the automaker for the future. U.S. sales of the i3 electric are scheduled to start later this year. In an interview with Automobilwoche, a German ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[BMW counts on new models to keep U.S. premium-sales crown]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz led the U.S. premium-brand sales race through April of 2013, but BMW of North America CEO Ludwig Willisch expects BMW to repeat as No. 1 for the year. Willisch says help is on the way in the form of three models debuting this year: the 3-series GT crossover, 4-series coupe and a ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Snap-Happy]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Donna Gebers, general manager of East Bay BMW and East Bay Mini in Pleasanton, Calif., makes no apologies for including at least 60 photos of each used vehicle that the dealerships list with online shopping sites. Today's car buyers shop predominantly online and like visual evidence of a vehicle's ...]]></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[Behind the scenes, Straubel keeps Tesla running at pivotal time]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk was fresh off the sale of PayPal and starting another business, commercial rocket service Space Exploration Technologies Corp., when he met kindred spirit JB Straubel. Their shared belief that consumer electronics advances could be applied to more earthly modes ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[North America car and truck production - 05/20/13]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 17:24:30 EDT]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The death of driving? Don't make any funeral plans]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 11:29:49 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[You know that study that just came out declaring "the end of the driving boom," because Gen Y supposedly doesn't care about cars? Ignore it. The 69-page study by the Frontier Group and the Public Interest Research Group is just another case of inside-the-beltway thinking attempting to drive public ...]]></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[Europe car sales rise for first time in 19 months]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 02:34:21 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MILAN (Bloomberg) -- European car sales rose for the first time in 19 months on strong demand in the UK and a rebound in Germany, amid signs that governments may take measures to stem a contraction in the economy of the countries using the euro. Registrations in April increased 2 percent to 1.08 ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Russian car sales down 8% in April]]></title>
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<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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