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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Senate panel plans Dec. 3 hearing on NHTSA nominee RosekindAuto News

A U.S. Senate panel will hold a hearing next week to consider the nomination of Mark Rosekind, a human fatigue and pilot-alertness expert, to become the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.



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Chrysler says airbag recall to start earlier than plannedAuto News

Chrysler Group will send recall notifications to owners of vehicles equipped with potentially defective Takata airbags nearly two weeks earlier than planned, the company said late Wednesday.



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Tony Johnson, backer of Saleen and major suppliers, dies at 74Auto News

Tony Johnson, co-founder of Hidden Creek Industries, a private company that acquired, sold and backed some of the auto industry's biggest suppliers and boutique car builders, died Nov. 16. He was 74.



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Feds Order Full Takata Airbag Recall (11/26/14)

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UAW members rally in Toledo to keep Wrangler output; city urged to buy landAuto News

UAW members rallied before Toledo's city council Tuesday asking the city to approve the purchase of industrial land needed for the potential expansion of the assembly plant that makes the hot-selling Jeep Wrangler.



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Toyota brings active safety to masses in 2015Auto News

Toyota will step closer to autonomously driving cars next year when it begins to deploy a range of advanced active-safety systems across its mass-market lineup.



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Delphi's Korean partner complicating sale of thermal unitAuto News

Delphi Automotive's sale of its air conditioning business is being complicated by potential problems with one of its South Korean joint venture partners, three people familiar with the deal said.



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