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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[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[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) -- As India's car market took off in recent years, global luxury brands focused on selling sumptuous sedans and big sport utility vehicles in Mumbai, Delhi, and Kolkata, home to the bulk of the country's wealthy. Audi shows that's changing. The brand has overtaken BMW as India's ...]]></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[In the Land of Many Buicks, one in particular stood out]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 15:59:44 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI -- If you were an alien from another world and your spaceship landed in Shanghai, you would immediately conclude that Buick is a planetary titan among automotive brands. Buick is the third-leading brand in China behind Volkswagen and Hyundai through March with 5.3 percent of the market, ...]]></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[VW Group sales increase 7% in April]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 06:06:13 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT (Reuters) -- Volkswagen Group's global monthly sales picked up pace again in April after growing at their slowest rate in more than three years a month earlier. VW Group said on Friday that deliveries to customers rose 7 percent to 784,600 vehicles last month. In March, sales had edged up ...]]></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[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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<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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<title><![CDATA[New S class key to boosting Mercedes profit margins, China sales]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 17 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI (Bloomberg) -- Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche was leaning back in the rear seat of a prototype Mercedes-Benz S-class sedan in 2010 when he realized it didn't recline far enough. With wealthy consumers accustomed to sumptuous airline seats, he figured Mercedes needed to approach that level of ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jaguar ponders XQ name]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Based on documents submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Jaguar may name the all-wheel-drive compact crossover it has in the works the XQ, and call a new compact sedan the Q-Type, according to news reports. Dealer sources say the small crossover likely would compete with the Audi A5 ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audi Q7 will shed weight]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[INGOLSTADT, Germany -- The redesigned Audi Q7 that debuts next summer in Europe will weigh about 363kg less than the current model, company insiders told Automotive News Europe sister publication Automobilwoche . The company sources said Audi is also planning a hybrid version of the next-generation ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tariff played a role in Mexico winning Audi plant]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are lots of reasons Audi chose to build its Q5 crossover in Mexico: cheap labor, a government willing to offer incentives to close the deal and favorable trade agreements with several nations. But at the May 4 groundbreaking for the plant in San Jose Chiapa, CEO Rupert Stadler offered another ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audi's Performance Push (5/16/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 May 2013 15:45:04 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A plan to rev up sales of models such as the RS5; two special Dodge Darts; an elusive safety crown; sending cars airborne.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Certified used-vehicle sales, April and YTD]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Customer Incentives]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Skoda's global April sales hit by switch to new Octavia]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PRAGUE (Reuters) -- Skoda's global sales fell by 4.6 percent to 77,600 in April due to a switch to a new Octavia compact model and continued weak demand in some European markets, the carmaker said today. Skoda, the Czech Republic's largest exporter and a unit of Germany's Volkswagen Group, is seen ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New S class key to boosting Mercedes profit margins, China sales]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 May 2013 09:00:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI (Bloomberg) -- Daimler AG CEO Dieter Zetsche was leaning back in the rear seat of a prototype Mercedes-Benz S-class sedan in 2010 when he realized it didn't recline far enough. With wealthy consumers accustomed to sumptuous airline seats, he figured Mercedes needed to approach that level ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audi shifting to high-performance models to propel sales]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 16 May 2013 04:34:21 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg) -- Audi, the world's second-largest maker of luxury cars, said high-performance cars like the RS5, as well as the new version of the A3 compact, will help propel sales this year amid intensifying economic headwinds. "We aim to increase sales of high-performance cars by one third" in ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Audi shifting to high-performance models to propel sales]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg) -- Audi AG, the world's second-largest maker of luxury cars, said high-performance cars like the RS5, as well as the new version of the A3 compact, will help propel sales this year amid intensifying economic headwinds. "We aim to increase sales of high-performance cars by one third" in ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Volkswagen starts construction of 300,000-vehicle plant in China]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[FRANKFURT -- Volkswagen Group has begun construction of a new factory in Changsha, China, with an annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles, the company said in a statement today. VW said the factory, being built in cooperation with the automaker's local joint-venture partner SAIC, is one of seven ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Subaru, Mitsubishi small crossovers top new crash test]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Subaru Forester and Mitsubishi Outlander Sport have won top honors from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, becoming the only small SUVs to ace the group's new "s mall overlap" crash test . The Forester, which Subaru redesigned for the 2014 model year, earned Top Safety Pick+ accolades ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mercedes makes new S class leaner, greener]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[HAMBURG -- The new Mercedes-Benz S class is 100kg lighter than the model it will replace and its greenest variant will emit less CO2 than a Smart ForTwo. The brand's flagship sedan also has six eyes (cameras) and six ears (radar sensors) that allow it to see and hear enough to drive itself at speeds up to 60kph. "It may sound like Frankenstein, but it's considerably better looking," Mercedes CEO Dieter Zetsche said during the S-class launch here on Wednesday. Mercedes hopes that the S-class's powertrain, technology and safety upgrades will help it remain the world's top-selling upper-premium sedan, a title Mercedes says the car has had for eight consecutive years. Money-maker The automaker also hopes the S class will help Mercedes meet Zetsche's goal of regaining the No. 1 spot in global luxury cars sales by the end of the decade. BMW passed Mercedes for No. 1 in 2005 and Audi pushed the Stuttgart-based automaker to third place in 2011. Mercedes also trails its rivals financially. While Mercedes achieved an operating margin of 7.1 percent last year, BMW's margin was 10.9 percent and Audi's was 11 percent. In October, Zetsche scrapped mid-term margin targets that were supposed to be achieved in 2013, and last month said his revised full-year guidance from February would also not be met. The disappointing results mean that even more will be expected of the S class, which analysts estimate makes Mercedes double-digit returns on each model sold, although the true figure is a closely guarded secret. "We invested massively in the new S-class ... more Mercedes than an S class isn't possible," Zetsche said. Tech center The S class has traditionally served as the showcase for Mercedes parent Daimler's latest technology, including safety features that the automaker helped pioneer. The S class that debuted in 1978 was the first car in the world to offer ABS, for example. Daimler says that the new S-class's 6-D technology dubbed Intelligent Drive will be standard. The system uses six cameras and six radar sensors and a proprietary algorithm to give the vehicle "eyes and ears" that cover 360 degrees. This helps the car automatically adjust its handling to the street surface and anticipates the direction of movement of other cars as well as cyclists and pedestrians. The new S class goes on sale in Europe starting in July at an after-tax base price of 79,790 euros in Germany. The new-generation S350 BlueTEC diesel will cost about 3,330 euros more than the previous-generation model with the same powertrain. Super-low CO2 While the new and old versions each are powered by a V-6 with 258 hp, the new model's CO2 emissions decrease to a low of 148 grams per kilometer from 164g/km and fuel consumption improves to a top rating of 5.0 liters per 100km from 6.2l/100km. Later, Mercedes will offer even more fuel-efficient versions of the S class. The S300 BlueTec diesel hybrid will consume as little at 4.4l/100km and emit 115g/km of CO2 and the S500 plug-in hybrid will offer fuel consumption of around 3.0l/100km and CO2 emission of less than 75g/km, Mercedes said. By comparison, the two-seat Smart ForTwo diesel's best CO2 result is 86g/km. Said Mercedes randd chief Thomas Weber: "These figures prove that the S class is our most important pacesetter on the road to zero-emissions driving." Six body styles The new S-class, which is the sixth-generation of car, also will take on an even more important role now that it will also replace Daimler's failed Maybach ultra-luxury brand at top of the company's pyramid. Zetsche revealed in November 2011 that the Maybach brand would be discontinued and replaced by new S-class body styles, which are set to grow to six with the new generation from three (the sedan, a long-wheelbase sedan and coupe). A larger and longer S class, widely expected to be called the Pullman, will compete head on with Rolls-Royce and Bentley for the hearts of the super rich. The S class is a critical product launch for a company struggling to make a dent in the lead that rivals BMW and Audi enjoy in sales and profit. "Image-wise the S class is the vehicle that most personifies Mercedes-Benz. If they get it wrong, it could damage the brand and all the vehicles under it," said Christoph Stuermer, research director at IHS Automotive in Frankfurt. "Three generations ago (in 1991) they screwed up the S-class and it nearly put the company on the brink, that's how important a role it plays." Reuters contributed to this report]]></description>
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