A farwell and a look back at my years at Automotive NewsAuto News

Thirty two years ago today, I walked in the door at Crain Communications as a newly hired reporter for a startup publication called Crain's Detroit Business.

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Ford Fusions, Mercury Milans under U.S. investigation for potential brake problemAuto News

U.S. safety regulators are investigating Ford Motor Co.'s Fusion and Mercury Milan sedans from the 2009 to 2011 model years for brakes that may fail in certain conditions.

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Glass-canopy roof, 1,000 hp, and refundable deposit moneyAuto News

For shoppers worried that the Lucid Air will be more like elusive vaporware, the electric-car startup Lucid Motors is offering a no-risk purchase plan: fully refundable deposits.

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Panasonic to invest more than $256 million in Tesla's U.S. plant for solar cellsAuto News

Panasonic plans to invest more than $256 million in a New York production facility of Elon Musk's Tesla Motors to make photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, deepening a partnership of the two companies.

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Researchers map rough road to reducing vehicle weightAuto News

Plastics have seen increased opportunities to get onto North American-made cars and trucks as automakers work to improve their fleets' fuel economy.

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Nine vehicles Americans loved or hated in 2016Auto News

Bloomberg crunched sales data through November to see which models posted the biggest demand spikes and swoons . These are the vehicles that show us the future -- and soon-to-be past -- of the car business.

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Why a tariff on Mexican auto imports could backfireAuto News

Many, if not most, economists agree that the benefits of tariffs, no matter how well-intentioned, are temporary, if not illusory.

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Day of reckoning for auto productionAuto News

Automakers are on pace to build more new cars and light trucks in North America this year than ever before, but efforts to reduce bloated inventories could lead to North America's first production decline since the Great Recession in 2017.

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BEST PRACTICES: Dealership's multilingual staff caters to hearing-impairedAuto News

Michigan dealer John Fox has identified employees who can converse in more than a dozen languages, including American Sign Language, to translate vehicle and other purchases for consumers who speak little or no English or are hearing impaired.

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How Cummins is tackling health-care costsAuto News

Diesel-maker Cummins Inc. is trying a new approach to tackle one of the business world's knottiest problems - the skyrocketing cost of U.S. health care.

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'Held hostage': Dealer's battle with software giants escalatesAuto News

Tennessee dealer Mitch Walters has taken his gripes with the data security policies of major software providers CDK Global and Reynolds and Reynolds directly to the National Automobile Dealers Association.

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FCA bedeviled again by shiftersAuto News

For the second time in less than 18 months, federal safety regulators are investigating why drivers of some Fiat Chrysler vehicles are having problems getting their cars to get into or stay in park.

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VW closer to resolution on 3.0-liter diesel claimsAuto News

Volkswagen AG took more big steps to atone for its emissions cheating scandal last week, reaching separate agreements to resolve regulators' claims related to noncompliant 3.

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FCA's Pacifica becomes minivan of the futureAuto News

A key piece of Fiat Chrysler's fuel economy regulatory strategy in the United States, and a place to showcase the automaker's leading-edge technology, is surprisingly large and built in Canada.

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Sales races to watch in the final stretchAuto News

Yes, 2016 will go down as another big year for the U.S. auto industry. The question is whether it will go down as another record year.

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Tesla: Superchargers aren't parking lotsAuto News

Tesla Motors is following up on its promise to make drivers pay if they leave vehicles at a Supercharger station long after they are fully charged.

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Agreements reached in dispute on open recallsAuto News

In the ongoing dispute over how dealerships can advertise and sell used vehicles which have open recalls, particularly certified used vehicles, the FTC closed consent agreements with General Motors and two large dealership groups.

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Honda basks in glow from its Clarity Fuel CellAuto News

Honda's third-generation hydrogen-powered car will likely earn the brand kudos and attention for being bigger and more capable than the competing Toyota Mirai. But Honda's bigger challenge lies outside its fuel-cell comfort zone.

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Mobileye's Gat sees self-driving as a moonshotAuto News

Mobileye's Itay Gat says developing self-driving cars is the automotive equivalent of putting a man on the moon. Be he expects fully autonomous vehicles to be a reality within five years.

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V2V finally on its way, but is it too late?Auto News

The promise of vehicle-to-vehicle communications is clouded by concerns that technological development soon will shift away from radio-based technology and toward 5G cellular networks.

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