Inside Takata, tantrums, but little sense of crisis over airbag recallsAuto News

Shigehisa Takada, the third-generation head of Takata, shows little sense of the crisis engulfing the Japanese airbag maker at the center of one of the auto industry's biggest safety recalls, say people who have met him recently.



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Why Takata rescue would be costly, slowAuto News

Congressional lawmakers have suggested that rival airbag suppliers could help Takata produce enough inflators to repair 10 million U.S. vehicles recalled since 2008.



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Is NHTSA nominee up to the task?Auto News

As an expert on human fatigue, Mark Rosekind is well-suited to steer NHTSA toward the era of autonomous driving and connected-car technologies.



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Cadillac to chart new brand course in N.Y.Auto News

Uwe Ellinghaus doesn't like to see Cadillac explicitly comparing itself to German luxury competitors in its ads. But he's determined to see Cadillac adopt the marketing strategies used by those rivals, including his former employer, BMW.



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$2 gasoline in sight for some U.S. drivers as OPEC resists cutsAuto News

For the first time in five years, $2 gasoline is making a comeback in some parts of the U.S., just in time for the Christmas holiday and giving another boost to light-vehicle sales.



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Mercedes owners in China are wealthiest, study saysAuto News

Mercedes owners in China are likely successful and wealthy entrepreneurs, a brand study of eight major luxury carmakers found. China will probably overtake the U.S. as the biggest premium auto market in 2016, analysts predict.



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Fiat Chrysler to stick with Ferrari CEO Auto News

Fiat Chrysler has no plans at this stage to replace Amedeo Felisa as CEO of Ferrari, which it is preparing to spin off, FCA Chairman John Elkann said.



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Hyundai needs a design hierarchy, Schreyer says Auto News

Hyundai Motor Group President Peter Schreyer gave Kia a fresh, familywide look after being hired from Volkswagen Group in 2006. Now he's doing the same for Hyundai, for which he took design responsibility in 2012.



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In Mexico, a booming auto industry but stalled living standards for workersAuto News

Mexico's booming automobile industry is generating more export dollars than oil, building more cars than Brazil and giving a job to Esmeralda Velazquez. What it isn't doing is raising her living standards.



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BMW, Audi lead shift from mass-market to luxury car output in MexicoAuto News

Mexico's relationship with German car production began nearly 50 years ago with output of VW's mass-market Beetle. Now it's becoming a place where luxury BMW, Audi and Mercedes cars roll out of billion-dollar factories.



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Honda says defective Takata airbags in 2002 used different designAuto News

Honda said it was aware of a ruptured Takata airbag inflator in a car that was covered by a 2002 recall but the inflator design was different from one that ruptured in a 2004 accident.



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Takata recalls could shake trust in Japan auto industry, minister warnsAuto News

Takata's safety crisis linked to five fatal auto accidents threatens to shake confidence in Japanese manufacturing and the country's auto industry, the nation's transport minister said Friday.



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Audi makes revised Q3 greener Auto News

The Audi Q3 will get more efficient powertrains with technology such as the crossover's first use of fuel-saving cylinder deactivation as part of its mid-cycle refresh. Audi starts U.S. sales of the revised Q3 next year.



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Opel is succeeding in restoring poor image, exec saysAuto News

Opel is succeeding in turning around its tattered image in Germany, the brand's marketing chief Tina Mueller said.



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Toyota recalls more cars for potentially dangerous Takata airbagsAuto News

Toyota said it will recall 57,000 vehicles globally to replace potentially deadly airbags made by Takata, as a safety crisis around the Japanese supplier looks far from being contained.



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Mercedes-AMG plans line priced lower to help double volumeAuto News

Daimler performance subbrand Mercedes-AMG aims to double sales in the next three years by offering a less expensive product line -- AMG Sport -- to narrow the price gap with Mercedes cars.



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Secretive Lexus LFA workshop now makes Toyota Mirai fuel cell sedanAuto News

Toyota has struggled until now to fill the void at the secretive workshop in Japan where the Lexus LFA was assembled ever since the last $375,000 sports car rolled off a line in December 2012.



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Halla mulls buying back Visteon stake in climate control unitAuto News

Halla CEO Im Kee Young said he's still considering buying back the group's former automotive heater and air conditioner maker after a buyout fund agreed to acquire a stake in the business, Halla Visteon Climate Control.



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Toyota says RAV4 improves in key overlap front crash testAuto News

A year after Toyota's RAV4 crossover was denied an influential top safety rating, an updated design underwent new crash testing this week that engineers promise will deliver high honors and redeem the nameplate's reputation.



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Honda recalled cars with Takata airbags in 2002, documents showAuto News

Honda recalled a small number of cars equipped with Takata airbags in March 2002, two years before the first known injury that Honda and Takata have linked to a defective airbag inflator.



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