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<title><![CDATA[Subaru's Hot Streak (5/21/13)]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 May 2013 16:20:41 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Brand racks up U.S. sales gains, Forester wins in Consumer Reports; Marchionne: Sorry for slur; Mercedes app pays off.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lutz's VL Automotive, Chinese supplier bid for Fisker, report says]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 May 2013 14:02:03 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT (Reuters) -- A boutique automaker led by former General Motors executive Bob Lutz and China's largest auto parts supplier submitted an offer to buy cash-strapped automaker Fisker Automotive, people familiar with the matter told Reuters today. VL Automotive and China's Wanxiang Group made an ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marchionne apologizes for 'wop engine' comment]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 May 2013 11:44:34 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Chrysler-Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has issued a written apology to an Italian-American anti-bias organization for saying at the Detroit auto show that an Alfa Romeo needed a "wop" engine. Marchionne, an Italian-born Canadian citizen, issued the apology this month to the Italian American ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Marchionne apologizes for 'wop engine' comment]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 21 May 2013 11:44:34 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Chrysler-Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne has issued a written apology to an Italian-American anti-bias organization for saying at the Detroit auto show that an Alfa Romeo needed a "wop" engine. Marchionne, an Italian-born Canadian citizen, issued the apology this month to the Italian American ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nissan plans potentially polarizing changes to top-selling Qashqai]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 14 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SUNDERLAND, England andndash; Nissan promises an innovative new look for the second-generation Qashqai compact crossover andndash; the automaker's top-selling model in Europe andndash; when the replacement debuts early next year. "There's a risk associated with changing it. We acknowledge that, but ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chevy aims new Vette at Porsche buyers]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Chevrolet says the 2014 Corvette Stingray hitting showrooms this fall is a worthy alternative to Porsche two-seaters. General Motors and Chevrolet's ad agency, Commonwealth of Detroit, are plotting an ambitious marketing strategy for one of GM's biggest launches of the year. Chevrolet will market ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Next Corolla gets CVT, 2 engine choices]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES -- The redesigned 2014 Toyota Corolla that debuts here on June 6 will have a continuously variable transmission and will be offered with a choice of two engines, company officials have told dealers. The base 1.8-liter engine will be a carryover 132-hp four-cylinder. But dealers were ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ford must switch gears, tout trucks, Mustang]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Ford-brand marketers face an interesting challenge. After spending millions of dollars over the last several years promoting a lineup of fuel-efficient small- and mid-sized cars and crossovers, two historic launches loom on Ford's near-term horizon: the next-generation F-series pickup ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Silverado hand-wringers should relax -- for now]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 09 May 2013 12:15:05 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[SAN ANTONIO -- There was hand-wringing, even some flat out panic, when General Motors unwrapped its next-generation Chevrolet Silverado in December. Many dealers, enthusiasts and writers questioned whether the pickup's design went far enough. There was also disappointment at the lack of a sexy ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reuss wants a volume rwd Chevy]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- Atop Mark Reuss' wish list for Chevrolet's lineup is a modestly priced, rear-wheel-drive sporty car to appeal to young drivers. "A really nice, light, rear-drive car that's inexpensive -- we know that rings a bell," the GM North America president told Automotive News last week. "That'd ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Toyota's car-buff president makes Lexus his pet project]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- By Akio Toyoda's own admission, his beloved Lexus luxury brand has a big problem. Unlike its German rivals, Lexus has no heritage, no narrative. Now the Toyota Motor Corp. president is investing himself personally in the brand by taking direct control of all things Lexus. His new role ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Alcoa plans to expand Tenn. plant to meet automotive demand]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 02 May 2013 10:04:21 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(Bloomberg) -- Alcoa Inc., the largest U.S. aluminum producer, will expand a plant in Tennessee to meet increasing demand for the lightweight metal in cars and trucks. Alcoa plans to spend $275 million in the next three years at its rolling mill in Alcoa, Tenn., the company said today in a ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Base '14 Vette priced at $51,995]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- General Motors has set the base price of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray coupe at $51,995, including shipping, $1,400 more than the outgoing model. The base convertible will be $56,995 with shipping, $1,240 more than its predecessor, GM said. The pricing makes good on GM's promise ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Vette's base price set at $51,995, up 3%]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:30:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- General Motors has set the base price of the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray coupe at $51,995, including destination charges, $1,400 more than the outgoing model. The base convertible will be $56,995 with destination, $1,240 more than its predecessor, GM said today . The pricing makes ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[French automakers count on luxury appeal for success in China]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[German automakers have long seen China as a key market. Now their French rivals, hit by slow sales in Europe, are playing catch up and they are counting on the popularity of France's luxury fashion brands to help them. France was the top destination for Chinese tourists and French products from ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Nissan lures Ram brand boss Diaz]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE -- The departure of Fred Diaz, head of Chrysler Group's Ram brand, to become Nissan Division's top sales executive marks the first time a Chrysler brand chief has voluntarily left for another automaker since Fiat S.p.A. took over Chrysler four years ago. Diaz, 47, was named vice president ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Bigger C-class line to challenge BMW 3 series]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mercedes-Benz will add a convertible and diesel- and hybrid-powered sedans to its C-class lineup after the car is redesigned next year. The current C class is offered only as a sedan and coupe and only with gasoline engines. On its rival 3 series, BMW offers coupe, convertible, station wagon, ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Danny Glover's new role: Nissan's celebrity nemesis]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE, Tennessee, USA -- When Hollywood star Danny Glover recently wrapped up shooting his latest movie in Charlotte, North Carolina, he hopped on a plane and flew to Mississippi to be a nuisance to Nissan Motor Co. Glover, famous from movie and TV roles in the Lethal Weapon series, Witness, "Lonesome Dove" and others, has decided to devote his spare time to organizing Nissan's U.S. assembly plants for the United Auto Workers, starting with its factory in Canton, Mississippi. That's not something Nissan wants. Glover doesn't care. It has become his mission. Moreover, the movie star's mission represents a departure for the UAW as it tries for the third time to organize Nissan in the United States. This time, instead of going straight to the workers itself, the UAW is relying on a partnership between Glover and a network of social activist college students -- working with local community groups -- to raise union interest among workers. "This is something I feel very strongly about," Glover said during a recent visit to Nashville, home of Nissan's sales, marketing and manufacturing headquarters for the Americas region. "The whole civil rights history of that region of Mississippi is very important to me. To me, this union organizing drive is a part of that history." Glover describes himself as a lifelong union activist, following in the footsteps of his father, who remained active in the postal workers' union until his death at age 82. Danny Glover's own off-screen resume includes helping labor drives for the United Farm Workers, textile workers and the food and hotel services union Unite Here. Three years ago, while participating in a Service Employees International Union protest at the Maryland offices of France's food services giant Sodexo, Glover was arrested and taken away in handcuffs. Helping the UAW is not strange for Glover. But relying on a Hollywood star to organize an auto plant qualifies as unusual for the union. For the Nissan campaign, Glover is not merely lending his name to posters or giving his famous face to photo ops. He is traveling the country to spark student rallies against Nissan's nonunionism. In January, he joined the UAW at a press conference during the Detroit auto show. He says he was approached to help organize Nissan's Mississippi workers by UAW International President Bob King after the two of them participated in a civil rights memorial presentation together there last year. "I heard about some things going on at Nissan that I didn't like," Glover told Automotive News , without specifying what they were. "As a young kid, I remembered that area around Jackson, Mississippi, as being central to the civil rights movement, and I wanted to be involved." Pro-union organizers argue that Nissan has taken steps to make workers shun information about unionizing. A Nissan spokesman has said that the company prohibits all types of soliciting, whether union-related or not, in the plants. In late March, Glover accompanied a group of Mississippi college students to Nashville to help enlist college students there as Nissan-organizing volunteers. Wearing brown corduroys, a sport coat and a baseball cap, Glover sat silently on an auditorium stage at a student rally at Tennessee State University. After a parade of Nissan workers, union organizers and student volunteers told the audience about the importance of unionizing Nissan's U.S. operations, Glover rose and took the microphone. "It's going to take all of us to help them," he told the audience, referring to the approximately 10,000 hourly workers at Nissan's assembly plants in Canton and Smyrna, Tenn. "They have the right to have a union negotiate for them. I'm proud of these young students." Until now, bringing labor union representation to workers at Nissan -- or any other non-Detroit 3 automaker in the United States for that matter -- has been a fruitless mission. Nissan workers have built cars and trucks in the United States for 30 years without union representation. Since the Japanese auto industry began manufacturing here in 1982, the UAW has been unable to organize workers at any plant that was not affiliated with the Detroit 3. Over those three decades, as first Honda and then Nissan, Toyota, Subaru, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Hyundai, Kia and most recently Volkswagen launched more than a dozen nonunion assembly and engine plants, the UAW has requested only two worker elections at any of them. Both votes were at Nissan's Smyrna plant, and Smyrna workers rejected UAW representation both times -- the second time, 12 years ago, by a wider margin than the first. While Glover talked with college students in Nashville, Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn was speaking with reporters at the New York auto show. Responding to questions about the UAW organizing drive in Mississippi, Ghosn said only that it was not Nissan's first organizing campaign and probably would not be the last and that workers would decide for themselves whether to unionize. But this campaign, with Glover's high-profile involvement, represents a change in strategy for the UAW. This time, the union is organizing from the outside, approaching community and church leaders around Mississippi and the rest of the South with a message about civil rights. Glover has also been reaching out to college students in Atlanta and Washington, D.C. At the center of the organizing effort is a college student group called the Mississippi Student Justice Alliance. That group of about 200 students has been using Facebook, Twitter, college Web sites and public rallies to enlist student volunteers from other colleges under the banner of "Concerned Students for a Better Nissan." On the topic of organizing Nissan workers, the students tend to talk less about auto industry issues than about civil rights. At the helm of the Mississippi student group is Chicago native Tyson Jackson, a student of Tougaloo College near the Canton plant. Jackson says he helped launch the Nissan student drive in hopes of "capturing the spirit of other civil rights organizations, like SNCC." SNCC -- pronounced "snick" -- was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the fabled student civil rights organization of the 1960s. Jackson and his fellow students speak of organizing Nissan workers as the next step in a decades-long civil rights movement. The students have traveled as far as this year's Geneva auto show to hand out fliers. Jackson also alludes to the possibility of mobilizing a student boycott of Nissan vehicles. "We're in this to win it for Nissan," Jackson says. "If Nissan can't treat their workers right, why should we buy their products?" So far, Nissan has made little acknowledgement of either Danny Glover or the fledgling student movement that he is aiding. If the past is any indicator, the automaker may do no more than simply wait for the campaign to run out of steam. That is exactly what has happened to all other UAW organizing drives among the non-Detroit 3 automakers over the past 30 years. But until now, Hollywood has never factored into the effort.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Danny Glover's new role: Nissan's celebrity nemesis]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NASHVILLE -- When Hollywood star Danny Glover recently wrapped up shooting his latest movie in Charlotte, N.C., he hopped on a plane and flew to Mississippi to become a gadfly to Nissan Motor Co. Glover, famous from movie and TV roles in the Lethal Weapon series, Witness, "Lonesome Dove" and ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[For Cadillac, early signs of another renaissance]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT (Bloomberg) -- At his Houston Cadillac store last weekend, Carl Sewell had an unusual experience: He helped a mother secure a baby seat into a car she was considering. Young-shopper sightings were once a rarity for Sewell. "It's a pretty diverse group that's coming through the door now," ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lexus will launch hybrid SUV to rival Q3]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[COLOGNE, Germany -- Lexus plans to show a production-ready premium compact SUV to rival Audi's Q3 and BMW's X1 at next year's Geneva auto show, a company source said. The car will be sold in Europe and North America, the source added. The hybrid model, which will be based on parent company Toyota's ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GM's Alpha plan to beat the alpha dogs of luxury]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- The accolades heaped on Cadillac's ATS compact sedan owe much to the built-from-scratch rear-wheel-drive architecture on which it rides. It's code-named Alpha, and it's the same platform that underpins the next-generation 2014 Cadillac CTS that was unwrapped last week on the eve of the auto show here. The lean architecture helped Cadillac boast lightest-in-segment claims for both cars. But Alpha almost never came to be. In 2007 a debate raged within GM -- which was bleeding cash at the time -- over how to get Cadillac into the compact segment, the largest-volume slice of the luxury market. One option: Build it on GM's Delta platform, the front-wheel-drive compact architecture on which the Chevy Cruze and Volt and the Buick Verano ride. "We were going to do a front-wheel-drive Cadillac compact off of Delta because it was going to be less expensive," Doug Parks, GM's vice president of global product programs, told me at the Detroit auto show in January. "There were people in the organization saying, 'It'll be OK. We can dial it in.'" So serious were the plans that Parks, who was based in Europe at the time, found himself driving 150 mph on a test track in Spain in a 2.0-liter turbo test mule built on the Delta platform. "We actually made it pretty darn good," Parks said. "But in reality, you can't go beat BMW or Mercedes when you don't have the right weight balance and everything else." Parks calls the move to build Alpha "a huge decision point" for GM, one that turned out to be crucial for Cadillac's take-on-the-Germans strategy. "We finally just said 'That ain't good enough. We've got to do a very light, properly designed, rear-wheel-drive architecture,'" Parks said. Look for the next-gen Camaro, due in 2015, to reap the benefits and ride on the Alpha architecture, too.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why the stakes are high for Chrysler's new minivan]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:48:03 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[After way more than a year of debate back and forth, Chrysler Group has settled on a design for its next generation minivan. But in an interview with the Detroit Free Press at the New York auto show this week, Chrysler design head Ralph Gilles wouldn't disclose whether the single minivan would ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[VW says U.S. workers to decide if they wish to unionize]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:18:56 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[(Reuters) -- Workers at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will decide whether they want union representation, and the United Auto Workers is just one option for them, VW's top executive in North America said. Jonathan Browning, head of Volkswagen of America, said in an interview at the ...]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Barra remakes GM product development]]></title>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:01:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[DETROIT -- It has been just over two years since Mary Barra became the surprise pick to steer General Motors' global vehicle development, instantly rocketing her from a relative unknown to one of the industry's highest profile executives. She'll get a report card soon. Over the next 18 months, GM ...]]></description>
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