Standing next to the Jaguar XKR in person may cause nervous pangs in the stomachs of drivers before they're even seated on board. Like any gorgeous landscape, sculpture or famous building, photographs simply don't do this machine justice. It's a piece of styling work that needs to be seen in person-- and when it is, its visual punch is stunning, infectious and almost nerve-wracking.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will pay affiliate Tesla Motors Inc. about $60 million to develop batteries, motors and other parts for an electric-drive vehicle the companies are collaborating on.
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Toyota Motor Corp. set out to audit suppliers in North America following its biggest recall crisis and discovered testing of components wasn't as rigorous as it expected.
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Steven Rattner, the former head of the U.S. auto task force, is close to settling with the Securities and Exchange Commission over charges he took part in a pay-to-play pension scheme, media reports said today.
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Kathleen Ligocki, a former Ford Motor Co. executive who later led supplier Tower Automotive Inc., is now CEO of a green-vehicle startup. Ligocki, 54, replaces interim CEO Ray Lane at the newly renamed Next Autoworks Co. Lane remains chairman.
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BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer says there is significant room for growth in the U.S. luxury segment but the premium market won't return to the 2 million-unit level until 2013 or 2014.
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BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer says there is significant room for growth in the U.S. luxury segment but the premium market won't return to the 2 million-unit level until 2013 or 2014.
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Shares of General Motors Co. are likely to be priced between $20 and $25 in the initial public offering by the automaker in November, Chairman Ed Whitacre said today. "It's a little too early to say, but it is going to be somewhere in the $20 range..
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Despite limited availability for the Volt plug-in sedan, Chevrolet is launching an aggressive mass-marketing campaign for the vehicle this month, Tony DiSalle, Volt product marketing director, said today.
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General Motors Co. nearly doubled its advertising spending in the first half of this year, leading a rebounding auto industry's marketing push, ad-monitoring company Nielsen Co. said.
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Honda took home the Greenest Automaker title for the fifth year in a row from the Union of Concerned Scientists last week. The company narrowly beat Toyota and Hyundai for the top spot.
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Buick is cloning real-world roads so they can be used to virtual test cars.
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Marvelous as it is a setting for car shows, Riverside Park in Ypsilanti, Mich., does present a risk: The park is built in the floodplain of the Huron River.
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Three Toyota models with electronic throttle control systems have had at least four times the rate of unintended acceleration complaints as the same models without the systems -- suggesting anew the possibility of electronic safety defects, a study...
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In News Brake: Fiestas lead the way at SEMA, NASCAR plans to honor five, and we take a closer look at teen-driver safety . . . But Wait, There's More!
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Porsche forecast its first profit in three years in 2011 on sales of the Panamera sedan and as costs linked to a merger with Volkswagen AG decline.
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Toyota Motor Corp. is not interested in bidding for the Sicilian car production plant that Italy's Fiat S.p.A. plans to shut by year-end 2011, a Toyota spokeswoman and an Italian government adviser said on Wednesday.
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The US government expects to meet its late-year deadline for determining whether throttles or other electronic systems could be linked to unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles, a senior safety investigator said.
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Daimler is recalling 9,201 Mercedes-Benz Vito and Viano van models in China, state news agency Xinhua reported.
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