Musk dangles track, car plant in wooing Texas lawmakersAuto News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk urged Texas lawmakers to ease restrictions on sales of the company's electric luxury cars as he floated the prospect of locating a new car factory or a test facility for his "hyperloop" mass transit concept in the state.



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Maroone to retire from AutoNation, Jackson role expandedAuto News

AutoNation's Mike Maroone will retire after 15 years as president and COO, with chairman and CEO Mike Jackson taking on the additional role of president, effective Feb. 4, 2015.



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Two Italian suppliers pick Indiana for new U.S. operationsAuto News

Two Italian auto suppliers -- OMR Automotive and Sirmax -- today picked Indiana for significant new operations, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence announced.



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FCA supplier OMR Automotive picks Indiana for N.A. headquartersAuto News

An Italian supplier to Fiat Chrysler Group and several other automakers has chosen Indiana as its North American home.



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When the Motor City becomes Startup CityAuto News

Metro Detroit, the automotive capital of the world, ironically isn't a hotbed for mobility upstarts, but several efforts are under way in the auto industry to help develop more transportation startups and improve the industry's risk tolerance.



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BMW to pitch i3 electric in Super BowlAuto News

BMW and Lexus will return to the Super Bowl after sitting on the bench for several years. BMW said today that it will pitch the i3 electric in a 60-second spot during the game's first quarter.



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GM does not have to turn over notes to ignition-flaw plaintiffs, judge rulesAuto News

A federal judge today refused to let plaintiffs' lawyers suing General Motors access notes from lawyers the company hired to prepare an internal report on the automaker's decade-long mishandling of a deadly ignition-switch flaw.



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For 4th straight year, mpg is top reason a shopper buys a vehicleAuto News

For the fourth straight year, new-vehicles buyers ranked fuel economy as the most influential factor in selecting a vehicle, JD Power and Associates said in a new report.



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Autoliv has contracts for 25 million replacement Takata airbag inflatorsAuto News

Autoliv, the world's largest supplier of automotive airbags, says it has signed contracts with several automakers to deliver up to 25 million inflators to fix potentially defective airbags produced by Takata.



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VIA Motors targets annual sales of 50,000 plug-in hybrid trucksAuto News

VIA Motors, the closely held assembler of plug-in hybrid pickups, expects to sell 50,000 vehicles per year by 2018.



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Supplier Linamar to add 1,200 jobs, invest $425 millionAuto News

Canadian supplier Linamar will add up to 1,200 jobs at a plant in Guelph, Ontario, developing fuel-efficient transmissions, with 10 percent of the new investment paid by the Canadian government.



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Toyota raises ante on hydrogen; Japan to ease fuel cell regulationAuto News

Japan will introduce self-service hydrogen filling stations and ease other regulations related to fuel cells to promote the technology, which carmakers including Toyota are using in vehicles.



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