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General Motors Recalls 316000 Vehicles Because of Malfunctioning Headlights
General Motors Co will recall 316,357 SUVs and sedans, mainly in North America, because the low-beam headlights can stop working, the company said on Monday.
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Mercedes Performance Car Sales May Double Through 2017
Daimler's Mercedes-AMG performance cars division aims to more than double vehicle sales over the next three years as it pushes expansion into compact cars, a senior executive said.
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Honda's F1 Return Ridden With Troubles?
McLaren's first proper test with new engine partner Honda ended on Wednesday with the Formula One team completing only a handful of laps over two days in Abu Dhabi due to electrical problems.
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Toyota Motor Corp to Recall 57,000 Cars Globally For Dangerous Takata Airbags
Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall 57,000 vehicles globally to replace potentially deadly air bags made by Takata Corp, in a sign that the safety crisis surrounding the Japanese auto parts maker is far from contained.
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MINI To Limit Lineup to 5 Models In The Future
Germany's BMW plans to confine offerings of its Mini brand to five models over the long term, the luxury carmaker's management board member Peter Schwarzenbauer said on Wednesday.
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F1: Another Hamilton - Rosberg Duel in 2015?
Niki Lauda expects Nico Rosberg to recover from the blow of losing his Formula One title duel with Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton by coming back even more determined next year.
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Honda Admits Under-Reporting Accidents
Honda Motor Co failed to notify U.S. safety regulators of 1,729 claims of injuries and deaths related to accidents in its vehicles since 2003, the automaker acknowledged on Monday.
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Automakers to Enforce Measures to Secure Data Generated by Cars
Some cybersecurity experts are calling for more scrutiny of the ways hackers could access onboard vehicle computer systems, which manage everything from engines and brakes to air conditioning and windshield wipers.
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Will Having the Driver Do Less Prevent Accidents?
With driver error blamed for over 90 percent of road accidents, the thinking is it would be better to have them do less of the driving.
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Maybach to Make a Comeback Via Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Daimler on Tuesday said it will launch new top end versions of its Mercedes-Benz S-Class, including a sports utility vehicle and a high-end luxury limousine adorned with the Maybach brand.
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Toyota Asks Daihatsu To Help in India
Toyota Motor Corp is struggling to crack the affordable end of India's car market and has called on mini-car affiliate Daihatsu for help.
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Airbag Maker Asked Technicians to Hide Test Results
Takata Corp, the Japanese auto parts maker at the centre of a global vehicle recall, ordered its technicians to destroy results of tests on some of its air bags after finding cracks in air bag inflators.
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Apex Auto Industry Body Defends Maruti & Datsun Against NCAP Results
India's auto industry body defended domestic manufacturers' safety record on Tuesday, after an international safety watchdog said cars made by Maruti Suzuki and Nissan Motor had failed an independent crash test.
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Indian Roads to Get Safer; Deaths to go Down by 1/5th Every Year
India has the world's deadliest roads, the result of a flood of untrained drivers, inadequate law enforcement, badly maintained highways and cars that fail modern crash tests.
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Fiat Chrysler to Spin Off Ferrari; List 10% Stake
Fiat Chrysler said on Wednesday it would spin off luxury carmaker Ferrari and list a 10 percent stake on the market as it seeks to raise funding for its ambitious 48-billion euro ($61 billion) growth plan.
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Diesel Deregulation: Return of Private Retailers & a Price War?
India's scrapping of diesel price controls opens the door for private sector refiners to return to a domestic retail market from which they have been excluded for years because they could not compete with state firms.
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F1: Freak Contamination Lead to Rosberg's Singapore Retirement
Nico Rosberg's retirement from Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix was caused by a freak contamination of his steering column electronics by a substance used by Mercedes in their pre-event servicing, the team said on Friday.
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Google, Mercedes, & Audi to Start Testing Self-Driving Cars on Public Roads
Google Inc got permits for testing 25 adapted Toyota Motor Corp Lexus SUVs, and two permits each went to Daimler AG's Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen AG's Audi, said Bernard Soriano of the California Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Decision on Diesel Deregulation After State Polls
India will decide on whether to end government control of diesel pricing after elections in two states next month, an oil ministry source said. India currently controls prices with subsidies under a scheme originally intended to help the poor and rein in inflation.
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Nissan's Electric Car Hopes Fading Away?
Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn is preparing to cut battery manufacturing, people familiar with the matter said, in a new reversal on electric cars that has reopened deep divisions with alliance partner Renault.
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