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Once again, most of the North American auto business has shut down between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Factories and offices are closed, and assembly lines have stopped. But don’t think for a minute that this industry is closed.
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Dec 28 2009
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Robert Davis, Mazda’s top product-development executive in North America, wants to give stop-start a jump-start. He says U.S. testing regulations prevent automakers from introducing fuel-saving technologies to this market.
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Dec 28 2009
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The economic upheaval of 2009 confounded expectations and left crystal balls fogged up. Here are 10 automotive-related predictions, usually from supposed experts, that didn’t come true.
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Dec 28 2009
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Five on each side — here are our picks for hits and misses of 2009.
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Dec 28 2009
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Ford had three and Toyota and Honda each had two of the top 10 vehicles sold under the cash for clunkers program in 2009.
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Dec 28 2009
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When consumers think hybrid, they think the Toyota Prius. That’s because the Prius, with the highest miles per gallon of any vehicle retailed in the United States, sold 127,907 cars through November — more than all other hybrids combined.
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Dec 28 2009
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Notable automotive social-media gambits in 2009
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Dec 28 2009
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It was supposed to be the decade of prosperity. At the turn of 2000, the Dow had just soared past 11,000 — fresh off a 21 percent rise in less than one year.
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Dec 28 2009
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More than six months after Chrysler and General Motors began dumping dealerships, many surviving dealers anticipate a tough time keeping millions of those dealerships’ orphaned customers in the family.
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Dec 28 2009
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From the wholesale rejection of dealers to secretly taped board meetings, there were plenty of blunders in 2009.
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Dec 28 2009