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Ford Launches Large Recall in India
8/14/2012Ford Motor Co.'s Indian unit has begun repairing about 120,000 locally built Classic sedans and Figo hatchbacks with rear suspension and/or oil leak problems.
Luxury Cars Fare Poorly in New IIHS Crash Test
8/14/2012Only three of 11 midsize luxury and near-luxury sedans scored well on a new offset frontal barrier crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Luxury Cars Fare Poorly in New IIHS Crash Test
8/14/2012Only three of 11 midsize luxury and near-luxury sedans scored well in a severe offset frontal barrier crash test conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Fiat, UAW Trust to Bargain Hard about Chrysler Stake
8/14/2012Fiat SpA and the United Auto Workers union's retiree healthcare trust are likely to face tough negotiations about the trust's sale of its 41.5% stake in Chrysler Group LLC to the Italian carmaker, Bloomberg News reports.
Researchers Develop Super-Efficient Methane Catalyst
8/13/2012A team of researchers from the U.S., Italy and Spain say they have created a material that oxidizes methane 30 times more efficiently than existing catalysts.
GM, Korean Unions Reach Labor Pact
8/13/2012General Motors Co.'s South Korean unit has reached a tentative agreement with its unions that includes a raise in base pay and 8 million won ($5,750) in bonuses to each worker.
Honda Will Further Boost N. American Output
8/13/2012Honda Motor Co. plans to locally produce 95% of the vehicles it sells in North America within a few years, up 10 percentage points from 2011, The Wall Street Journal reports.
PSA Dismisses Report that Opel Will Make Some of its Models
8/13/2012PSA Peugeot Citroen shrugged off as "purely speculative" a report in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that General Motors Co.'s Opel unit will produce the Peugeot 508 and Citroen DS5 midsize sedans at a plant in Russelsheim, Germany.
Fisker Probes Second Karma Plug-In Hybrid Fire
8/13/2012Fisker Automotive Inc. engineers and insurance investigators are investigating why one of the company's Karma plug-in hybrid sedans caught fire on Friday in Woodside, Calif.