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<title>Q &#x26; A: Vertigo in Vehicles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Is reading in a moving car bad for your health?    
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<title>City&#x2019;s &#x2018;Gas Squad&#x2019; Keeps the Pumps Honest</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Skyrocketing gas prices have inspectors working overtime this summer to police the city’s more than 1,000 gas stations, marinas and fuel trucks.    
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<title>Moving In Together to Get a Handle on Traffic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the first time, New Jersey’s three major traffic agencies are monitoring traffic under the same roof.    
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<title>Executive Pursuits: A Spa Treatment to Clean the Car and Energize the Driver</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Auto spas promise to give the kind of complete body-to-soul makeover ordinarily associated with upscale health resorts.    
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<title>Toyota Scales Back Production of Big Vehicles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Toyota acknowledged that, like its rival automakers in Detroit, it misjudged the drastic swing in the American market away from larger vehicles.    
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<title>Sports of The Times: Petty Welcomes Investor Into the Family Business</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Richard Petty is one of the great sporting icons, a man who transformed his business, and one who takes over an event just by being there.    
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<title>Designing Cars for Low-Carbon Chic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Automakers and designers are mapping out a new generation of lighter, sleeker vehicles that could give a radical new look to urban streets.    
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<title>A Road Rally for the Rich and Richer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The transcontinental jaunt known as the Bullrun allows participants to revive the notion of driving muscle cars across America like bats out of hell, for a $20,000 entry fee.    
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<title>California Moves to Curb Bad Habits of Motorists</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The California car has long been a second home, but new laws are chipping away at that way of life.    
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<title>Europeans Reconsider Biofuel Goal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[European officials proposed scaling back drastically on their goal of increasing Europe’s use of biofuels, a major about-face on a central environmental and energy issue.    
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<title>Vital Signs: Safety: Laws Reduce Drunken-Driving Deaths</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two federal policies have significantly reduced drunken-driving deaths, a new study finds.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/automobiles/collectibles/06EGO.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Auto Ego: Out of Africa, to Brooklyn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Geoffrey Good has not seen Africa in nearly 10 years, but the continent is never far from mind when driving his vintage Land Rover.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/automobiles/06TROOPER.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Technology: But Can You Call It a Woody?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Robert Beam had an idea, and now he has an Isuzu Trooper that runs on wood chips. Really.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/06/automobiles/06GREASE.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Greentech: Towns Grease the Wheels to Save Fuel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some local agencies are turning to used vegetable oil to run their vehicles.    
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<title>At $100 for Tank of Gas, Some Choke on &#x2018;Fill It&#x2019;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Owners of large vehicles have hit an uncomfortable price milestone and are cutting back on recreational driving.    
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<title>He&#x2019;s Not the Usual Oil Lobbyist</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After agents from the Illinois Department of Revenue knocked on his door, David Wetzel set out to change the rules for drivers who run their cars on waste vegetable oil.    
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<title>Formula One&#x2019;s Hamilton Faces Criticism</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Halfway through his second year in Formula One, Lewis Hamilton faced a critical test at the British Grand Prix.    
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<title>American Energy Policy, Asleep at the Spigot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Americans have seen the current oil crisis coming for 30 years. But analysts say chances to head it off were ignored, missed or blocked.    
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<title>Talking Business: Costly Toys, or a New Era for Drivers?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The chief backer of the Tesla Roadster, the first-ever all-electric sports car with a base price of $109,000, believes that the age of the electric car has dawned.    
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<title>Taking Teenagers Out for a (Supervised) Spin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Safe-driving programs offer instruction for young drivers well beyond what most parents are capable of providing.    
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/automobiles/13INSPECT.html?partner=rssnyt&#x26;emc=rss">
<title>Motoring: Demystifying the Dreaded End-of-Lease Inspection</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The inspection at the end of a car lease does not have to be a mystery. Many manufacturers try to make it easy for lessees to understand.    
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<title>FORD CENTENNIAL: Model T prepares to celebrate 100 years</title>
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<description><![CDATA[By now, hundreds of passionate Model T owners and their families will have descended upon the quaint town of Richmond, Ind., with its 39,000 or so residents, white picket fences and friendly flag-decorated porches, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the car that, quite seriously, changed the world.]]></description>
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<title>FORD CENTENNIAL: Amid fond looks at its past, Ford begins hard look at the future</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Most family histories are full of ups and downs, tales of both tragedy and triumph. For the Fords of Ford Motor Co., there will surely be some of both this week.]]></description>
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<title>MARK PHELAN: GM develops brands&#x27; images</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chevrolet is high volume; Cadillac is high luxury. But what about General Motors' other brands? Despite the emphasis on the Big C's in the money-saving plan unveiled this week, there is, in fact, a strategy to make GM's other brands contribute to the bottom line.]]></description>
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<title>HERBRUCK POULTRY RANCH: Company to spend $13 million to expand organic egg operation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you've ever eaten an Egg McMuffin, chances are you've had eggs from the Herbruck family farm in Saranac. And as the 50-year-old Herbruck Poultry Ranch Inc. spends $13 million to expand its organic egg operation by 300,000 hens this year, the chances that eggs you buy come from the Herbruck farm will become even greater.]]></description>
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<title>MARK PHELAN: Ford&#x27;s European hits are models of success</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It began simply enough, the turnaround of Ford Motor Co.'s European business. Ford of Europe asked its customers what they liked about its cars and how to make them better.]]></description>
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<title>THE VEHICLE LINEUP: European models that may make it here</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Compact sedan, hatchback and wagon.]]></description>
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<title>Legacy of Model T still apparent today</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Edsel B. Ford II, a great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford and a member of the Board of Directors at Ford Motor Co., reflects on the significance of the Model T.]]></description>
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<title>Business events down the road</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Management briefing seminars:]]></description>
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<title>FOOL&#x27;S TAKE: Carmaker sales clobbered in June</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Car sales in June hit their lowest level in more than a decade. General Motors Corp., for example, saw its U.S. sales drop by 18.5%. That's one reason behind the company's recent announcement that it is cutting workers, production and its entire dividend.]]></description>
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<title>Auto news in brief: Vehicle prices drop</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Maybe this automotive recession is at least helping consumers. The average price of a new vehicle sold in May and June of this year dropped back to prices not seen since 2004.]]></description>
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<title>REVVED UP: What&#x27;s hot and what&#x27;s not in autos</title>
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<description><![CDATA[General Motors Corp., likely Republican presidential candidate John McCain and more make this week's list.]]></description>
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<title>CANDIDATE&#x27;S VISIT WITH GM: McCain talks tough about auto industry, fuel economy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GOP presidential candidate McCain told an audience of more than 500 GM workers that he would let each state determine its own fuel efficiency standards -- a position the auto industry says adds unneeded costs and kills jobs.]]></description>
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<title>Continental fights bid of smaller Schaeffler</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A surprise takeover bid this week between two German auto suppliers -- with powerhouse Continental AG as the target and the much smaller Schaeffler Group as the buyer -- has all the makings of the next corporate battle, one that stands to ripple throughout the industry, down to the total of 1,800 people that the companies employ in metro Detroit.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Michigan's congressional Democrats are pushing for $4 billion in aid to the U.S. auto industry as part of a second economic stimulus bill, one that Sen. Barack Obama endorsed to UAW workers Friday.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- After years of complaints that Washington cared little about its woes, Detroit's auto industry has become a frequent backdrop for John McCain and Barack Obama to pitch their economic plans.]]></description>
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<title>Auto suppliers to hold breath for rest of &#x27;08</title>
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<description><![CDATA[It has been a summer of plummeting expectations for auto suppliers. Week after week, analysts have lowered all sorts of expectations -- for stock price, earnings and overall ratings -- for many local suppliers, often to the drumbeat of new production cuts that automakers have announced for their truck lineups. All the while, supplier stocks have plummeted.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Shares of General Motors Corp. rose for a third straight day on Thursday as the market showed confidence that the automaker's latest restructuring plan -- aimed at generating $15 billion in cash through 2009 -- could stave off the possibility of bankruptcy.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Starbucks Coffee Co. plans to close three of its Detroit locations and another 15 in Michigan as part of its plans to close 600 stores nationwide. In Detroit, Starbucks will shutter sites in the Buhl Building, Millender Center and on Jefferson Avenue at East Grand Boulevard, the company said Thursday, listing all 600 stores slated for closure by March on its Web site.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Johnson Controls Inc., which makes building and automotive systems, said Thursday its fiscal third-quarter profit rose 11% on a jump in sales at its building efficiency division.]]></description>
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<title>GM, Ford, Nissan set aside hybrids so New York&#x27;s yellow taxis can go green</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Three major auto manufacturers are promising to reserve 300 new hybrid vehicles each month exclusively for New York as it replaces its entire fleet of yellow cabs.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. auto regulators are delaying by three months a tougher vehicle roof-strength standard to prevent highway deaths, after some lawmakers and safety advocates sought more changes.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Two General Motors Corp. Michigan assembly plants could feel the pinch of further production cuts soon but one could get more work, according to one automotive forecast that seeks to interpret GM's announcement this week that it will slash 300,000 units of truck production by the end of 2009.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Troubled General Motors Corp. has notified two racetracks that run NASCAR events that their current contracts will not be renewed as part of an overall $10 billion cost-cutting program.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE — Johnson Controls says its third-quarter profit rose 11% on a jump in sales at its building efficiency division.]]></description>
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<title>PHELAN&#x27;S CORNER: Hybrid line is growing family at Saturn</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Saturn will drop its Green Line badge with the 2009 model year, though the General Motors brand will introduce a growing family of the hybrid gasoline-electric models for which it created the Green Line name.]]></description>
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<title>Ford shows shape matters when it comes to saving fuel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ford Motor Co. on Wednesday showed off the aerodynamic qualities of its boxy new 2009 Flex, which was designed to let wind sail with ease over its bumper, hood and pillars -- despite its square shape -- in an effort to improve fuel economy.]]></description>
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<title>Fint car shows celebrate 100 years of GM</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Flint is to host numerous activities this weekend relating to the 100th anniversary of General Motors Corp.]]></description>
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<title>Auto news in brief: Strike at Johnson Controls</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Johnson Controls Inc. workers at a plant in Tennessee that supplies seats and consoles for General Motors Corp.'s Chevrolet Traverse began striking Wednesday.]]></description>
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<title>Shell-shocked GM retirees react: &#x27;This is a knife stab in the back&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After years of getting generous coverage, retirees from salaried jobs at General Motors Corp. reacted angrily Tuesday to the announcement that GM was ending their health benefits.]]></description>
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<title>$15-BILLION BRIDGE TO 2010: GM lays out cuts for long haul, waiting for revived economy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Trying to build a financial bridge to 2010, General Motors Corp. will cut salaried jobs, executive pay, salaried retiree health care and 150,000 additional units of annual truck production.]]></description>
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<title>

        Aston Martin, Maserati coupes two sides of the same envy-inducing coin</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A pair of evenly matched super-luxury sports cars have distinctly different personalities.
                        
                    
                    
                        The Aston Martin V8 Vantage and the Maserati GranTurismo S are beautiful, irrelevant cars -- an evenly matched set of luxury-performance cuff links.]]></description>
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        State considers pay-as-you-drive auto insurance</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A plan that charges motorists based on miles driven could cut fuel use, pollution and traffic as well as lower premiums, say backers. Opponents worry about privacy issues.
                        
                    
                    
                        An alliance of insurance companies and environmentalists wants to bring a new kind of mileage-based auto insurance to California and charge motorists only for the number of miles actually driven.]]></description>
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        GM to sell assets, borrow money and cut jobs to raise up to $15 billion</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The cash-strapped automaker, facing bankruptcy rumors, says it will also suspend its dividend to increase liquidity. It expects to post a large loss in the 2nd quarter.
                        
                    
                    
                        Short on cash and facing bankruptcy rumors, General Motors Corp. said Tuesday that it would suspend its dividend, sell assets worth as much as $4 billion, borrow an additional $2 billion to $3 billion and lay off salaried workers, among other steps.]]></description>
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        Why is there traffic in Los Angeles? People and jobs are concentrated in different areas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Also: Updates on Metro's proposed sales tax hike for mass transit.
                        
                    
                    
                        Someone recently asked me a simple question: Why is there traffic?]]></description>
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        Car rental companies caught short as demand for smaller vehicles soars</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The industry's economic model gets turned on its head as more customers reject gas-guzzlers.
                        
                    
                    
                        David Sikorski went to a Hertz in Austin, Texas, last month to rent a car for a business trip to Dallas. He'd booked a fuel-efficient mid-size sedan, hoping to keep expenses down on the 400-mile round trip.]]></description>
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        Gas-guzzling SUVs and light trucks become an obstacle for marketers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Detroit and ad agencies are trying to come up with ways to pare down inventories of the now-unpopular vehicles.
                        
                    
                    
                        It's the ultimate marketing challenge: Persuading people to buy something that they don't seem to want anymore.]]></description>
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        The Alfa Romeo MiTo finally lives up to the fantasy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where are the hot-cool small cars, the drive-all-night cars, the panties-on-the-mirror cars? Where they've always been: In Europe. Here's a look at two of them: The Alfa Romeo MiTo and the   Fiat 500  .]]></description>
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        Fiat 500: Budget-wise and Mini-splendored</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Europe's Car of the Year is fun to own and drive -- not least because of its fuel economy.
                        
                    
                    Where are the hot-cool small cars, the drive-all-night cars, the panties-on-the-mirror cars? Where they've always been: In Europe. Here's a look at two of them: The Fiat 500 and the   Alfa Romeo MiTo  .]]></description>
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        Toyota to build Prius in U.S., scale back truck production</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Corp. will start producing the Prius in the U.S. for the first time as the Japanese automaker adjusts its U.S. manufacturing operations to meet demand for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles.]]></description>
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        Commuters spend less on food, movies and clothes because of gasoline costs, survey finds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Almost half of Americans who drive to work are spending less on dining out, going to the movies or buying clothes because of higher gasoline costs, according to a survey by CareerBuilder, the largest U.S. jobs website.]]></description>
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<title>THE WEEK THAT WAS: Eye on the biggies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Not a good week for Toyota which dropped the ball a bit in Europe in the first half. Nor BMW which the analysts are eyeing as its financial targets look a little elusive.]]></description>
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<title>BRAZIL: New Toyota won&#x27;t be entry level</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a terse 80-word statement, Toyota recently announced the acquisition of land to build a new manufacturing plant in Sorocaba, just 55 miles west of São Paulo City, where a compact model will go into production from 2011 as 2,500 people build 150,000 units a year.]]></description>
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<title>BELGIUM: Toyota Europe H1 sales off 7%</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Toyota Motor Europe (TME) sales fell 7% in the first half of the year to 617,356 though the passenger car market was up 4%, driven primarily by strong-growing markets in the east. Its president is optimistic new models will soon reverse the trend.]]></description>
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<title>SOUTH AFRICA: First Renaults to be made locally</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Renault-brand vehicle is to be manufactured in South Africa for the first time alongside a recently introduced Nissan half-ton pickup truck.]]></description>
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<title>US: Hydrogen take-up requires massive government subsidies - NRC</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A transition to hydrogen vehicles could greatly reduce US oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Research Council (NRC), but making hydrogen vehicles competitive in the automotive market will not be easy.]]></description>
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<title>UK: &#x22;Proactive&#x22; BMW struggling to hit targets - analyst</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BMW is struggling to hit financial targets set by its own 'number ONE' strategy which calls for a return on sales of 8 to 10% by 2012, an investors note said this week.]]></description>
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<title>INDIA: BMW boosts target, eyes hybrid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BMW has launched new 5-series variants, boosted its sales targets and may introduce a hybrid model within the next two years.]]></description>
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<title>INDIA: Volkswagen outlines Jetta plans</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Volkswagen India this week launched its locally assembled Jetta in Mumbai, promising an expanded range including the Beetle, light commercials and an unnamed small car.]]></description>
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<title>BRITISH SHOW: Hyundai readies eco sub brand</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hyundai is joining the expanding group of  manufacturers offering eco sub brands when it launches its European i-Blue series at the London motor show next week.]]></description>
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<title>SOUTH KOREA: GM Daewoo output disrupted by tyre stoppage</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GM Daewoo has said it has halted production after tyre supplies stopped.]]></description>
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<title>UK: Portugal is &#x27;greenie&#x27; of the year so far</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Portugal led Europe for low-CO2-emitting cars in the first three months of 2008, new analysis showed.]]></description>
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<title>FRANCE: Journalist charged in Renault &#x27;spying case&#x27;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A French journalist has been charged for publishing photographs in a magazine of a new Renault car model after the automaker filed suit for industrial espionage, a judicial source told AFP.]]></description>
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<title>IN DEPTH: Increasing Schaeffler hold on Conti unstoppable - analyst</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Though Continental has rejected the takeover bid launched by bearing manufacturer Schaeffler, with Continental CEO Manfred Wennemer describing the takeover attempt as "unlawful" and "highly opportunistic" and the offer of EUR69.37 per share far too low, there is no way to stop Schaeffler buying shares on the open market or doing deals with major institutional shareholders to increase influence, a Global Insight research note said on Wednesday.]]></description>
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<title>GERMANY: Honey, I shrink-wrapped the Fiesta factory</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ford has wrapped part of its Cologne Fiesta plant with about 3,000 metres of specially designed mesh to celebrate the redesigned line's start of production.]]></description>
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<title>US: GM sets sales records in Africa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With sales tanking and liquidity issues at home in the US, General Motors has been talking up its sales in other regions of the world.]]></description>
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<title>UK: VW stays top in slowing Europe</title>
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<description><![CDATA[After strong sales at the start of the year, European results for June continued the recent slowdown with a year on year drop of 8.2% to 1,389,418 units, according to Jato Dynamics.]]></description>
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<title>INDIA: Audi expands range</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Audi has launched the A4 sedan in Mumbai last week, increasing the company's model tally to five, after the A6, A8, TT and Q7 already on sale, and also announced the arrival of the R8 sports car later this year.]]></description>
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<title>UK: British diesels power Ford Europe success</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ford's record European sales are being powered by its new efficient engines - made here in the UK.]]></description>
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<title>UK: Mini exports past 1m</title>
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<description><![CDATA[BMW's Mini plant on the outskirts of Oxford, England, has now built over 1m cars for export.]]></description>
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<title>CHINA: Brilliance ships first cars to Germany</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Brilliance Auto has said it has shipped its first BS6 mid-sized sedans to Germany.]]></description>
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<title>Comment on Mergers Redux by Andrew Charles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the years since I wrote this, there have been a number of changes, some minor, and others quite major. Going down the list:

DaimlerChrysler de-merged into Daimler AG and Chrysler LLC, and sold its stake in Mitsubishi.
Daimler AG retains its truck and bus brands (including Mitsubishi Fuso), and Mercedes-Benz and smart in the car group. A cross-licensing agreement with Jaguar covers the use of the Daimler name.

Chrysler LLC retains the active Dodge, Jeep and Chrysler brands, and has re-affirmed its ownership of the defunct Willys brand.

Hyundai has kept out of the merger game since acquiring Kia, but has added a new brand in the Korean domestic market with its Genesis luxury sedan (in other markets sold as a Hyundai).

Fiat has ended its alliance with GM after extracting a hefty divorce settlement. The company's subsequent success makes this one of GM management's worst decisions in recent years. After dropping Autobianchi, last seen in the Italian domestic market, Fiat is said to be exploring a new low-cost brand. Maserati, formerly owned by Ferrari, is now allied with the group's main auto operation, now known as Fiat Group Automobiles.

Ford has unwound several key acquisitions in the last few years, first selling Aston Martin Lagonda to an Anglo-Arab investment syndicate, and most recently Jaguar Land Rover to Indian automaker Tata Motors. Rumors persist that Ford is either interested in selling Volvo, or has been approached by other automakers seeking a luxury acquisition, but the company is far more integrated into the Ford organization, with common powertrains and platforms underlying every model.

GM has also unwound several equity investments, although not on the scale of Daimler and Ford. Its minor interests in and alliances with Fiat, Isuzu and Subaru have been ended, and engine development centers in Germany and Japan previously controlled by GM returned to Isuzu. Its alliance with Suzuki remains, on a smaller scale, but its equity interest has been reduced. The company is now evaluating the future of the Hummer brand, acquired from AM General, and despite denials rumors persist that other brands are also being evaluated for sale or closure (fueled by an active and even malicious campaign by disaffected members of middle management).

Phoenix Group, which acquired MG Rover, predictably imploded, with government investigations continuing at enormous expense into the reasons. Its assets have been divided among several parties, Chinese automakers SAIC Motor and NAC acquiring the main carmaking operations, and a scion of the Riley family acquiring MG Sport and Racing and the X80 project. The Rover brand, and associated trademarks, previously licensed from BMW, were then sold by the German company to Land Rover. As a result Tata Motors has acquired not only Jaguar, Land Rover and Range Rover, but also Daimler, Lanchester, Rover and Sterling. Having lost the chance to acquire Rover, SAIC established its own Roewe brand as an alternative, and subsequently acquired NAC and its NAC MG operations, including the Austin, MG, Wolseley and Austin-Healey brands. An alliance with HFI Automotive and the Healey family supports the possible revival of the latter marque.

Peugeot SA has augmented its non-equity alliances with Ford in diesel engines and Fiat in commercial vehicles. It now produces small cars in co-operation with Toyota, 4-cylinder gasoline engines in alliance with BMW, and SUVs in alliance with Mitsubishi. The Panhard et Levassor operation has since been sold to military 4×4 specialist Auverland.

Renault's most recent activity has been an alliance with Russian automaker AutoVaz, owner of the Lada brand.

German automaker Volkswagen, after acquiring a number of other companies over the years, has most recently found itself the target of long-term partner Porsche, whose founder was responsible for the original Volkswagen prior to WWII.]]></description>
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<title>Comment on Mazda Kazamai Concept to Premiere at Moscow International Automobile Salon 2008 by VW Informer</title>
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<description><![CDATA[That's a really awesome concept; but I just don't see it going into production without a lot of alterations, especially given the practical considerations of a grill-less design.

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Working with VW to spread the word about the new Tiguan. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know.]]></description>
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<title>Comment on New Ford Focus RS On Track as First Details Confirmed by Ken MacDaniel Sr</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Please bring it to the US. The Mustang GT and GT 500's are great but.................................]]></description>
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<title>Comment on Tata Motors unveils the People&#x27;s Car by D.B.Godse</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How about lowering the height of Nano and make them a double deckers so that more people could be accommodated]]></description>
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<title>Comment on Hyundai Unveils Genesis Premium Sports Sedan by Petroleum Refining</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi...Man i love reading your blog, interesting posts ! it was a great Wednesday]]></description>
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<title>Comment on GM&#x27;s 3.9 L V6 Family Grows With E85-Capable And Fuel-Saving Active Fuel Management&#x2122; Versions by John Henderson</title>
<link>http://auto-report.net/?p=164#comment-7127</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have a new 2007 chev, uplander Ls, and my fuel economy shows 15.5 litres per 100 km. This seems frozen and it doesn!t matter if it is city or highway driving.  Any idea what is wrong with my vehicle.  I am 65 years of age and I don!t drive crazy.  Thanks John Henderson]]></description>
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<title>Comment on Tata Motors unveils the People&#x27;s Car by Spare wheel</title>
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<description><![CDATA[All the big companies will make more cheap models.... something around 3500$]]></description>
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<title>Comment on Volvo ReCharge Concept:Plug-in hybrid with battery-only range of 100 km&#x2009;&#x2014;&#x2009;and Flexifuel engine for backup power by usjustice</title>
<link>http://auto-report.net/?p=517#comment-6558</link>
<description><![CDATA[www.pmlflightlink.com copied original wheel motor of US patent and manufactured in China for so many years ago, if you check their Hi-Pa drive within ep.espacenet.com has no patent. Right now, they copied once again at SAE 2004 expo is against US patents.
We contacted with Volvo and Ford since their board of directors meeting on May 12, 2004 they played double-hand strategy, try to pull us down to chapter 7, 7&11, and 13, then they can buy out on liquidation.
Pray for God's righteousness, fairness and justice to help G1 Technology Inc fighting with old foxes and blood suckers.]]></description>
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<title>Comment on GM Takes New Combustion Technology Out of the Lab and Onto the Road by Update</title>
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<description><![CDATA[GM to Use New Engines That Reduce Emissions, Foreign Oil Dependency

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New engine to help reduce dependence on foreign oilGeneral Motors (GM) reports it is working to install a type of engine that will improve fuel efficiency by more than 15 percent and contribute to reducing U.S. foreign oil dependency. The homogenous charge compression ignition (HCCI) engine also creates less toxic emissions by burning fuel with a flameless combustion rather than using a spark plug. Today’s vehicles currently use an internal combustion engine, a model that many engineers have been trying to improve for decades without significantly increasing costs. GM officials report they are working on a production model that uses an HCCI engine, however, an exact date of availability has not been specified.]]></description>
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<title>Comment on Toyota Develops Next-generation Engine Valve Mechanism by Andrew Charles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite the implication that Toyota's Valvematic is the first such system, it is essentially the same as BMW's Valvetronic, in use for many years and recently expanded to engines used by Mini and Peugeot. The next generation engine valve mechanism must surely be direct (so-called ‘active’) valve actuation, in which individual valves are precisely and independently controlled by electro-hydraulic actuators, systems which are promised for mass-production from 2009.]]></description>
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<title>2 hot cars, if you can afford the gas</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dodge Challenger SRT-8 and Nissan GT-R show off their companies' performance skills. But are "halo cars" like these out-of-place today?]]></description>
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<title>Fear not the Ford Flex</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ford's new super-sized crossover's not too bad on gas, but it's great on space.]]></description>
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<title>GM&#x27;s strugglers: Room for hope</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some of the automaker's oldest names are on shaky ground, but one industry watcher still sees hidden value that GM would be wise to mine.]]></description>
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<title>Car thieves still love the Civic</title>
<link>http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/07/09/autos/stolen_cars/index.htm?section=money_autos</link>
<description><![CDATA[Once again, the 1995 Honda Civic was the most stolen car in America, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but auto theft appears to have declined dramatically for the fourth year in a row.]]></description>
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<title>6 things never to tell a car salesman</title>
<link>http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/07/02/autos/dont_tell_salesman/index.htm?section=money_autos</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a car-buying transaction, even the nicest, most honest car salesman has interests that are very different from yours.]]></description>
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<title>Scion tC: Honey, they shrunk the fun!</title>
<link>http://thewheeldeal.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/07/03/scion-tc-honey-they-shrunk-the-fun/?section=money_autos</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/galleries/2008/autos/0806/gallery.carbon_e7_police_car/index.html?section=money_autos">
<title>Supercar for cops</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forget about those retro-fitted Crown Victorias and Impalas. Carbon Motors hopes to build a better police cruiser for the future.]]></description>
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<title>2,000 Volkswagen jobs for Tennessee</title>
<link>http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/07/15/autos/volkswagen_tennessee.ap/index.htm?section=money_autos</link>
<description><![CDATA[Read full story for latest details.]]></description>
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<title>Auto sales plunge</title>
<link>http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/07/01/news/companies/auto_sales/index.htm?section=money_autos</link>
<description><![CDATA[June auto sales plunged, according to reports from the nation's major automakers, as Americans shunned pickups and SUVs in the face of record gas prices and growing concerns about the weak economy.]]></description>
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<title>GM shares close below key $10 mark</title>
<link>http://money.cnn.com/rssclick/2008/07/02/markets/auto_stocks.ap/index.htm?section=money_autos</link>
<description><![CDATA[Read full story for latest details.]]></description>
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