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Updates from August, 2011

  • The next generation of the Ford brand's global cars will be given a more premium appearance. The evolution of Ford kinetic design language will be shown next month at the Frankfurt motor show on the Evos concept car.
    7:00 pm on August 30, 2011
     
  • Audi will introduce four all-wheel-drive S models at the Frankfurt motor show in mid-September, all running the company's latest twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 direct-injection engine developed in partnership with Bentley.
    7:00 pm on August 30, 2011
     
  • A UAW local representative at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn Truck plant predicted today that 2,500 hourly workers in his bargaining unit would overwhelmingly approve a strike authorization as part of a two-day vote that wraps up tonight.
    5:06 pm on August 30, 2011
     
  • New-vehicle buyers with weaker credit scores are having an easier time getting credit, according to researcher Experian Automotive.
    12:02 pm on August 30, 2011
     
  • Nissan and Mitsubishi aim to jointly develop a technology that allows electric vehicle owners to power their homes from car batteries, a news report says.
    9:49 am on August 30, 2011
     
  • Chung Mong-koo, chairman of the Hyundai-Kia Motor Group, has made a record charitable donation of nearly a half-billion dollars to help the poor in South Korea, reportedly as part of the reparation gift he pledged in 2006 while embroiled in an...
    9:32 am on August 30, 2011
     
  • Cadillac is expecting the go-ahead to build a new flagship based on the same platform as the Ciel concept car. Cadillac is expecting the go-ahead to build a new flagship based on the same platform as the Ciel concept car.


    8:36 am on August 30, 2011
     
  • BMW, facing higher fuel-efficiency requirements under the Obama administration, is bringing four-cylinder engines back to the U.S. 12 years after it quit offering the slow-selling option.
    7:49 am on August 30, 2011
     
  • Fiat European sales boss Andrea Formica has left the automaker less than a year after arriving from Toyota Motor Europe to help turn around the company's struggling automotive division.
    6:42 am on August 30, 2011
     
  • Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. has placed its Lexus marketing chief in charge of the automaker's overall social media strategy.
    10:55 pm on August 29, 2011