Ford brings new F-150 pickup to dealers, consumers for test drivesAuto News

Ford is demonstrating the capabilities of its redesigned, aluminum-bodied 2015 F-150 pickup to dealership sales personnel and consumers.



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Tesla's Musk will speak at Automotive News World CongressAuto News

Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., will be a featured speaker at the Automotive News World Congress in January.



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Cadillac prepares dealers for a joltAuto News

New Cadillac boss Johan de Nysschen's philosophy of creating some scarcity for a product that often has been the focus of discount sales will come as a blow to some U.S. dealers.



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Buyers snap up pricier modelsAuto News

U.S. consumers are willingly paying more than ever for new vehicles, enticed by low interest rates, cheap leases and ubiquitous six-year loans that keep monthly payments affordable while the total price tag rises by thousands of dollars.



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NADA tells Nissan to butt out of dealer surveysAuto News

The National Automobile Dealers Association has rapped Nissan's knuckles for "actions by some Nissan representatives" to boost scores in a survey of dealer attitudes toward automakers.



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2015 Mustang's interior design inspired by airplane cockpitsAuto News

Interiors have never been one of the Ford Mustang's selling points over the years. That's about to change with the airplane-inspired cockpits in the 2015 models that will go on sale next month.



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Japan's keiretsu suppliers at risk in a new realityAuto News

Japanese suppliers are struggling to adjust to a new business reality that threatens to undermine the country's keiretsu system of tightknit cooperation between carmakers and their favorite-son suppliers.



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No '15 Evora as Lotus works on 'smart' airbagsAuto News

Lotus, which is laying off about one quarter of its global staff, will skip the 2015 model year of its only street-legal car sold in the United States, the Evora two-seater.



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UAW-Lear fight shows 2-tier's gripAuto News

The UAW this summer vowed again to end the practice of paying workers in the same plant different wages for the same work.



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With new GLA, Mercedes will push GLK upmarketAuto News

Mercedes-Benz will follow the rollout of its GLA compact crossover by bumping up the next-generation GLK -- its first entry-level crossover -- to a larger size and a higher price.



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Mazda design chief insists no new RX without rotary engineAuto News

Ikuo Maeda, Mazda Motor Corp.'s global design chief, who designed the RX-8 sports car and whose father penned the RX-7, wants to resurrect the signature RX series.



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