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How Much Auto Insurance Do You Need
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How to Save on a New Car
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How to Buy Car Insurance
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Tesla Readies New Electric Sports Car
WSJ.comTesla Motors Inc., the Silicon Valley electric car startup, said on Tuesday it would begin delivering its Model S sports car on June 22. The all-aluminum body Model S is expected to be priced starting at $57,400, giving the Palo Alto, ...
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Consumer Borrowing Rose 10.2% in March
WSJ.comAmericans are stepping up their borrowing, possibly a good sign for the economy as households become less determined to whittle debt and more willing to spend.
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Bravo To The Best!
Barrons.comThe Barron's 500 is our annual salute to companies that have done the best job of growing their businesses. In some cases, growth owes largely to timely and well-executed acquisitions. In others, impressive organic growth has been ...
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SEC Files Suit Against Third Chinese Company
WSJ.comU.S. regulators sued a Chinese commercial-vehicle company and 11 investors Wednesday over alleged stock manipulation, ratcheting up pressure on U.S.-traded Chinese firms with accounting problems or other issues.
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Google Seeks Partners for Its Autos
WSJ.comDETROIT—The leader of Google Inc.'s effort to develop self-driving cars was in the Motor City on Wednesday to send a message that the Internet company is looking for partners to bring its innovations to market within the next decade.
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Audi TTS: High Design, Best at a Standstill
WSJ.comYou wear a wristwatch with numerals written in Sanskrit. Your favorite fountain pen was once owned by Frank Lloyd Wright (it leaks). You recently moved your architectural practice from the island of Malta because it was getting too trendy.
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Analysts predict strong February car sales; Improving economy, easier credit, hot new car models to boost sales
MarketWatchSAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — With less than a day to go, February car sales appear to be cruising toward another month of solid gains, maintaining the momentum of an industry on the rebound.
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What's Holding Back Energy Innovation; Dean Kamen, Elon Musk and J. Craig Venter on how to confront an enormous challenge
WSJ.comWhy has innovation in the energy sector been so much slower than it has been in some other areas? To answer this question, Alan Murray of The Wall Street Journal sat down with three of the most-prominent innovators of our generation: ...
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Tesla Takes Luxurious Route to the Electric Car
WSJ.comPalo Alto, Calif. Jerome Guillen wants to gun a prototype Tesla Model S up a steep, twisty road on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, but a Porsche blocks his way.
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World's Best CEOs
Barrons.comAs Warren Buffett sees it, the best CEOs always think like business owners. What he means is that great leaders combine passion, commitment, creativity, and an entrepreneurial drive. That mix isn't easy to find, but Buffett definitely ...
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Inside Ford's Fight to Avoid Disaster
WSJ.comThe room looked like it belonged at some NASA facility. The walls were covered with computer printouts, each one a dark mass of data. Every few minutes, someone would enter the room with a new bundle and begin replacing old charts with new ...
Buy a Car, Get Gas Money; Deal of the Day: Free gas now comes standard with some cars. Why that may not always be the best deal.
SmartMoney.comAs anxiety over the price of regular unleaded intensifies, more dealerships are topping off deals on new cars with free gas cards. The latest ad from Seeger Toyota in St. Louis, Mo., offers "100 free gallons of gas" at $4 per gallon -- $400 ...
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Start-Up's Network Rejected; GPS Cited
WSJ.comFederal regulators said they plan to pull the plug on wireless start-up LightSquared Inc.'s proposal to build a new national wireless network after officials said there was no way to prevent the network from interfering with Global ...
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Law Tests Alabama's Appeal; Detentions of Foreign Workers Raise Concerns Over Anti-Illegal Immigrant Measure
WSJ.comLINCOLN, Ala.—This state has prided itself on its ability to attract international companies like Daimler-Benz AG, Toyota Motor Corp. and ThyssenKrupp AG. But negative publicity stemming from Alabama's new anti-illegal immigrant law ...
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In the Heart of the Rust Belt, Chinese Funds Provide the Grease
WSJ.comSAGINAW, Mich.—This struggling city, staggered by a flurry of blows during the recession, is getting a lift from an unlikely place. Nexteer Automotive, Saginaw's biggest remaining industrial employer, was on the verge of closing less ...
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Honda Plots Acura Sales Rebound
WSJ.comHonda Motor Co., aiming to reverse a sales decline, on Monday introduced two new entry-level Acura models and outlined plans for a high-end sports car.
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Tesla unveils its Model X; Commentary: Despite gushing reviews, the market ain’t buying it
MarketWatchSAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tesla has finally pulled the wraps off its mysterious Model X. It was a meticulously engineered promotional campaign. After teasing the public for months with glimpses of a svelte silhouette, we finally got to ...
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The Fiat 500C Can't Fail
WSJ.comHere are some interesting things about the Fiat 500 that don't really matter: The little biscotti are not selling as well as Fiat North America—a division of Il Chryslerino—had planned. The 500 will probably finish out the year with ...
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Chrysler Plans New Hiring, Starting With Illinois Plant
WSJ.comChrysler Group LLC will announce next week it will add more than 1,600 production workers at an Illinois assembly plant, signaling the start of a hiring blitz that promises to add thousands of workers to the auto maker's plants over ...
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Porsche's Magnificent First Stab at the New 911
WSJ.comPorsche's approach to the 911 is "perfect, rinse, repeat"—which is to say, introduce a new edition of its famous sports car, and over the years of the product cycle squeeze more and more bloody glamouring intoxicants out of ...
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Faster, Thinner, Smarter
Barrons.comSic transit gloria mundi. Three years ago the hottest product at the annual Consumer Electronics Show was Palm's much-hyped iPhone challenger known as the Pre. Today neither the Pre nor Palm exists, after the company was acquired by ...
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Tesla CEO Says New Models, Loans On Track
WSJ.comTesla Motors Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Elon Musk said Thursday his luxury electric car company is in compliance with terms of its loans from the federal government, and on schedule to launch two new models by the end of next year.
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Beijing Launches Its Own GPS Rival
WSJ.comBEIJING—China has begun operating a homegrown satellite-navigation service that is designed to provide an alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System and, according to defense experts, could help the Chinese military identify, track ...
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Cost-Cutting Done (a Little More) Right
WSJ.comThe founder of IKEA—purveyor of flat-pack furniture and other torments—once said that design without a price is meaningless. If that principle ever got a little hazy for Volkswagen of America, the Phaeton sedan brought it back into laser ...
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The Content Provider; A hunk of America, a dash of Italy and a lingering hint of Germany combine nicely—for under $50,000, says Dan Neil.
WSJ.comChrysler's Global Melange Yields True Luxury The 2012 Chrysler 300C Luxury Series is 'a weird and wonderful mutant of the Fiat and Chrysler merger, says Mr. Neil.
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Avon Needs More Than Lipstick
Barrons.comReview | Preview GM Still Looks Good for Patient Investors Nice Surprise From Seaspan Those who invested in Avon Products when Barron's recommended shares of the door-to-door cosmetics seller in the spring of 2009 ("Time to Make Up ...
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New Steel Rolled Out for Cars; Lighter, Pliable Fare Counters Rival Products Aimed at Meeting Fuel-Efficiency and Design Demands
WSJ.comDETROIT—To understand what the steel industry is up against in dominating the car market, consider seven cubes displayed by German auto-parts giant ZF Friedrichshafen AG at the Detroit auto show, which ended Sunday. Each cube represented a ...
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GM, Teijin Set Carbon-Fiber Venture; Agree to Develop Lighter Parts, Which Would Reduce Vehicle Weight 20% and Improve Fuel Economy
WSJ.comGeneral Motors Co. and Tokyo-based Teijin Ltd. on Thursday disclosed plans to jointly develop lightweight automobile components using an advanced carbon-fiber materials process.
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BMW, Daimler to Ramp Up Vehicle Production in U.S.
WSJ.comFRANKFURT—BMW AG and Daimler AG will expand U.S. production as the two German auto makers boost their presence in the growing North American market and look to reduce exposure to swings in the value of the euro.
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Car Makers' U-Turn Steers Job Gains
WSJ.comBig auto makers and their suppliers are spending billions to expand and retool U.S. factories, pushing heartland states to jockey to land new auto jobs.
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In U.S., a Cheaper Labor Pool; Caterpillar, in Canadian Lockout, Cites Sharply Lower Costs South of the Border
WSJ.comTrying to persuade locked-out workers in Canada to accept a sharp cut in pay, Caterpillar Inc. is citing lower wages elsewhere. But instead of pointing to the usual models of cheap and pliant labor, such as China or Mexico, it is using a ...
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Advertisers Practice for Super Bowl; Hoping to Prevent Commercials From Backfiring, More Marketers Test Spots Before Focus Groups
WSJ.comSpotlights shine particularly bright on ads during the Super Bowl—and not always in a good way, as Groupon Inc. found out a year ago. With social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook making it even easier for complaints about ads to go ...
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Honda Revs Up Outside Japan
WSJ.comHonda Motor Co. plans to shift a major chunk of its manufacturing to North America over the next two years, bulking up production capacity in the region by as much as 40% to combat a strengthening yen that has made Japanese cars too ...
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Mini's Hot Coupe: Drive It—If Your Pal Buys One
WSJ.comBMW's Mini division is the goose that laid the golden egg, and since that glorious day in 2001 when the first Mini Cooper debuted, the Bavarians have been force-feeding the goose farm hormones. Mini Convertible, Mini Clubman, Mini ...
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Jeep's Great Big Beast of Solid Grace
WSJ.comHand me Melville's condor quill and Vesuvius as an inkpot. The 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is one very angry whale. Horsepower addicts will want to know: Is this, the Chrysler SRT division's riff on Jeep's midsize SUV, fast? ...
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Barron's 2012 Roundtable, Part Two -- Smart Choices for Tough Times
Barrons.comBarron's 2012 Roundtable Part 1 Barron's 2012 Roundtable Part 3 The fat years are over, as if you couldn't tell. The lean years -- the emaciated years -- have arrived with a vengeance, as some kind of cosmic payback for the ...
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The Long Road Back to Competition
WSJ.comIn the wake of the government's bailout of GM and Chrysler, we've had a traffic jam of books with titles like "Sixty to Zero," "Crash Course" and "The End of Detroit," subjecting U.S. auto makers to a ...
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Hyundai, Your Accent Has a Pleasing Ring to It
WSJ.comImagine hearing a scream and looking out a fifth-story window to witness, helplessly, a mugging on the street below. That's how I felt last week driving the 2012 Hyundai Accent Five-Door, the Korean company's freshly redesigned ...
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BMW Shows Off Electric Concept Cars
WSJ.comFRANKFURT—BMW AG on Friday presented two concept cars for the first generation of electric vehicles to be launched under its new sub-brand i starting in 2013, and said it will invest in a company named Parkatmyhouse, which offers a service ...
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Chrysler's Plans for Jeep Lift Toledo
WSJ.comTOLEDO, Ohio—Cutbacks at Chrysler Group LLC's massive assembly plant helped push up the area's high unemployment and home foreclosure rates. But on Wednesday, this gritty riverside city got a shot in the arm with news that the ...
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GM Signs Google Apps Pact, in Initial Step Toward Cloud
WSJ.comGoogle Inc. has signed a deal to provide email and online-collaboration software to more than 100,000 employees at General Motors Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.
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A Next-Generation Audi; Not since the Cord 810 has a car so invoked the insouciant futurism of '30s Streamline Moderne, says Journal car columnist Dan Neil Meet the 2012 Audi A7.
WSJ.comThe Audi A7 is handsomely proportioned, with a short front overhang, steeply raked windshield and an arrogantly low roofline that lands in that warp-speed fastback. Car columnist Dan Neil recently gave it a spin.
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AOL Plays Mobile Catch-Up; Company Ramps Up Production of Applications in Bid to Gain Ad-Market Share
WSJ.comIf there's one market where AOL Inc.'s share of advertising is smaller than the traditional Web market, it is mobile. Now AOL is trying to fix that.
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Big Brands Like Facebook, But They Don't Like to Pay
WSJ.comEverybody wants to be liked. The question for Facebook Inc. is how much advertisers are willing to pay for the opportunity. The centerpiece of Ford Motor Co.'s online campaign for the 2012 Focus was a free Facebook page hosted by an ...
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China Debuts a Drone at Robotics Show
WSJ.comChina made its debut this week at the world's largest robotics trade show when a Shenzhen-based firm showcased its F50, a small drone with a high-definition video camera that a company brochure billed as a tool for monitoring protests, ...
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Italy's Multicultural Motorcycle; From the nation of lean, chattery bikes comes a big, American-style power cruiser—that's still a Ducati
WSJ.comAll technology is idiomatic. A German Leica camera has a feel and operation utterly different than a Japanese-designed Canon's, for instance. An LG front-loading washer doesn't beep or buzz when the cycle is over; it plays a ...
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Honda's Sporty New Civic, Heavy on the 'Ick'
WSJ.comAnd just like that, a giant stumbles. The redesigned 2012 Honda Civic—one of the most successful cars in U.S. auto history, a nameplate burnished with the grateful tears of generations of Americans—is a dud. A sham. A shud. Massive fail, ...
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Alfa Romeo Delays U.S. Launches
WSJ.comFRANKFURT—Alfa Romeo, the sports car brand of the Fiat SpA group, has postponed the launch of three new models by almost two years, including the Giulia sedan which was to help mark its return to the United States, according to a ...
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The Evolution of the Supercar; Ron Dennis and his team at McLaren Automotive are pushing at the frontiers of performance technology
WSJ.comImagine the scenario. You are driving home, the back route, it's late, dark and you are a long way from the nearest town when a warning light flashes up on the dashboard of your car and the engine grinds to a halt. What do you do? ...
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Antilock Brakes Aren't Just for Four Wheels
WSJ.comMotorcycle makers and federal highway-safety regulators are taking a harder look at whether advanced safety technology can help reduce fatal accidents and injuries for those who ride.
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China's Driving Ambition; China is reshaping the global motor industry. Just how will the established players cope?
WSJ.comThe question of how the burgeoning Chinese motor industry integrates with the rest of the world is a complex and often controversial one. Chinese brands are struggling to make their mark in the West, while Western car makers don't yet ...
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Ford SUV Marks New World Car Strategy
WSJ.comFord Motor Co. this week lifts the veil on a new sport-utility vehicle that illustrates how much Chief Executive Alan Mulally has changed the way the auto maker now looks at developing and making cars.
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Life Lessons From the Car Guy; What does it take to inspire people and defeat a bean-counting corporate bureaucracy? An autocrat in the boardroom with an allergy to consensus, says former Chrysler and GM executive Bob Lutz.
WSJ.comOne of my favorite anecdotes about the long postwar decline of General Motors came from a senior executive in the advertising agency that served Cadillac back in the 1950s and '60s. At the time, Jim Roche was head of the division. It ...
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Sept. 19 - 23; This Week: Fed Twists, Stocks Dive, H-P Taps a CEO
WSJ.comU.S. The Federal Reserve launched a more aggressive package of measures than expected as the global economy drew closer to another recession. Fresh data pointed to a decline in manufacturing activity in both China, a critical engine of the ...
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Navistar Profit Jumps 72%
WSJ.comNavistar International Corp. expects profit to improve significantly in the second half of its fiscal year as the commercial-truck and engine maker moves beyond start-up expenses for new models.
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Playing All the Angles
Barrons.comThere's no telling what might come from a fender bender. After his Chevy Suburban got dinged at the local Starbucks, Chip Reed noticed that the insurance company rep wrote up the claim using software from an outfit called Solera ...
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Saab Halts Production Again
WSJ.comProduction at Saab Automobile was halted for a third consecutive day Thursday and owner Spyker Cars NV warned of continued delays as it works out new contracts with suppliers, raising fresh fears about the future of the Swedish car maker.
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Nissan GT-R: A 'Halo Car' With Devil's Horns
WSJ.comIf you were to ask me for my top three supercars, I'd likely rattle off the usual, swarthy suspects from the Italians: Lamborghini, Ferrari, Pagani. The British McLaren also comes to mind, as does the Porsche GT2 RS, the Koenigsegg, ...
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Move Over, Mini
Barrons.comThe Fiat 500 won't fit in a backpack, but it will squeeze into just about any Manhattan parking spot. In urban America, that's likely to be the main selling point for a surprisingly peppy car, one that marks the return of ...
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The Beetle Mans Up
WSJ.comI walk up to this car and the memories just pour into my head like grain from a silo: The faded Polaroid of my brother James, in a Mickey Mouse T-shirt, looking forlorn beside a '67 Beetle, his first car, after hitting his first tree; ...
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Honda Plans Mexico Plant
WSJ.comDETROIT– Honda Motor Co. said Friday it will build a second assembly plant in Mexico to make subcompact cars, following an industry trend to develop a low-cost export base in the region.
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The Power List; The top business leaders in Asia making headlines last week in select global and regional media. Powered by Dow Jones Factiva and edited for relevance and clarity.
WSJ.comStuart Gulliver Chief Executive , HSBC Holdings Capital One Financial said it would buy HSBC's U.S. credit-card business. Toshio Nishizawa
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BMW 1M: Miniature, Mighty and Miles of Fun; A bratty little barrel-racer of a car, with a spirit that seems to want to bite through the bit, the 1M Coupe is quick, playful, aggressive and laugh-out-loud fun to drive
WSJ.comTypically, car makers will choose a special color for the introduction of a special vehicle, known in the biz as the "launch color." In the case of the 1M Coupe—the Motorsports division variant of BMW's beastly looking ...
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The Power List; The top business leaders in Asia making headlines last week in select global and regional media. Powered by Dow Jones Factiva and edited for relevance and clarity.
WSJ.comOsamu Suzuki Chairman, Chief Executive, Suzuki Motor Suzuki asked Volkswagen to retract a claim that the Japanese car maker violated terms of their partnership agreement, accusing the statement of damaging its reputation.
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GM Talks Take Center Stage
WSJ.comGeneral Motors Co. said the auto maker and the United Auto Workers union plan to return to the bargaining table Friday morning after the parties failed to reach an agreement on a new contract one day after the original deadline expired.
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The Power List; The top business leaders in Asia making headlines last week in select global and regional media. Powered by Dow Jones Factiva and edited for relevance and clarity.
WSJ.comAkio Toyoda President, Toyota Motor Mr. Toyoda told shareholders he expects the auto maker's production to recover in July. Mukesh Ambani Chairman, Reliance Industries
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Oshkosh Labors Under Army Truck Contract
WSJ.comThe successful drive by Oshkosh Corp. to win a $3 billion U.S. military truck order in 2009 has sent the company's earnings into reverse and made it harder to fend off its largest shareholder, activist investor Carl Icahn.
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Lambo's Latest Rambo Has a Heart
WSJ.comROME—This being a Latin country, we begin in media res: Somewhere between Turn Soratti and Turn Roma on the Autodromo Vallelunga, a charming little racetrack/killing field where Lamborghini has chosen to stage the media premiere of its new ...
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The Power List; The top business leaders in Asia making headlines last week in select global and regional media. Powered by Dow Jones Factiva and edited for relevance and clarity.
WSJ.comOsamu Suzuki Chairman, Chief Executive , Suzuki Motor Suzuki Motor wasn't able to develop the synergies it expected from its alliance with Volkswagen, Mr. Suzuki said.
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Otis Shifts Work Closer to Home
WSJ.comGlobalization has come full circle at Otis Elevator Co. The U.S. manufacturer, whose elevators zip up and down structures as diverse as the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower, is moving production from its factory in Nogales, Mexico, ...
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And the Rest of the Winners Are... From computing systems to wireless, the most innovative technologies by category
WSJ.comThe Innovation Awards judges chose winners in 16 categories this year. Here's a look at the winning entries. Computing Systems and Storage
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H-P Looks to Kitchens, Cars; Electronics Maker Wants to License webOS Software to Appliance, Auto Firms
WSJ.comHewlett-Packard Co. wants to persuade appliance and car manufacturers to use its webOS operating system in their products. But the software's late arrival to the market and relatively small footprint are prompting companies to pause ...
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Good for GM, Good for China; How did General Motors, a company not known for nimble adaptation, find success in the Chinese market?
WSJ.comBy the time General Motors collapsed into government-guided bankruptcy in 2009, China was surpassing the U.S. to become the world's largest car market. And in striking contrast to the company's home market, where it had been ...
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The Porsche 911's Last Hurrah...For Now
WSJ.comThe new Porsche 911 Carrera GTS is heinously quick (4.0 seconds to 60 mph) and vulgarly fast (190 mph). It's also something of a personal fashion statement. Our test car, in "Guards" red with black-lacquer center-lock wheels, ...
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Pricier Cars Seen Selling Well in U.S.
WSJ.comThe new head of BMW AG's North American arm said he expects luxury-car sales in the U.S. will grow next year, driven by the launch of its own new 3-series models and fresh vehicles from rivals.
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A Car Company on a Roll; With the new subcompact Accent, Hyundai continues to thump much of its competition, says Dan Neil.
WSJ.comThe 2012 Hyundai Accent Five-Door is the Korean company's freshly redesigned subcompact hatchback (sedan style also available). The Accent is certainly formidable, numerically: 40-mpg highway mileage, class-leading horsepower and torque ...
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The Power List; The top business leaders in Asia making headlines last week in select global and regional media. Powered by Dow Jones Factiva and edited for relevance and clarity.
WSJ.comTakashi Yamanouchi Chief Executive, Mazda Motor Mazda and Ford Motor are discussing breaking up their 50-50 joint-production venture in the U.S., a person familiar with the matter said.
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Ford Ramps Asian Car Plans; U.S. Auto Maker Bets Small, Inexpensive Cars Will Fuel Projected 50% Gain in Global Sales by 2020
WSJ.comFord Motor Co. believes it can earn a "competitive return" in China and India even as it rolls out a string of new cars in those markets that will sell for much lower prices than the vehicles it sells in North America and Europe.
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Navistar Is a Rising Star
Barrons.comNavistar International (NAV: NYSE) By Barrington Research ($56.46, July 1, 2011) In our opinion, investors need to focus on the long-term changes at the company over the last five-plus years, which include cost reduction and strategic new ...
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WSJ.comMasayoshi Son Chairman, Chief Executive, Softbank Following rumors that Softbank might buy Tokyo Electric Power, Mr. Son told shareholders that such a deal is unlikely.
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GM's Small-Car Plan
WSJ.comORION TOWNSHIP, Mich.—President Barack Obama heralded a new trade deal with South Korea at an auto plant seen as a model for the future of U.S. small-car production.
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From Buick, an Engine Lacking Nothing but a Roar
WSJ.comThis is a story about a little engine: the 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder under the hood of the Buick Regal CXL Turbo. General Motors, with its enduring penchant for catchy trademarks, calls it an Ecotec II engine. It's made of ...
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Audi's Brilliant A7: Fastback to the Future
WSJ.comI guess the Rapture came, after all. Behold, in cloud-splitting rays of Cecil B. DeMille light, the 2012 Audi A7, and verily, I say unto you, people seem really excited about this car. I mean, wow. Folks in my hometown took one look at ...
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A Boss on the Road With a Peon's Interior
WSJ.comMustang Boss 302, get thee to a tannery. If I bought this car—and, having owned at one time a Def Leppard T-shirt, I feel sure I'm in the demographic—my first stop after the dealership would be a good upholsterer, to cover the ...
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The Power List; The top business leaders in Asia making headlines last week in select global and regional media. Powered by Dow Jones Factiva and edited for relevance and clarity.
WSJ.comRupert Murdoch Chairman, Chief Executive, News Corp. Amid a U.K. tabloid scandal, the media company also faces regulatory scrutiny in Australia over affiliate Foxtel's proposed $2.7 billion takeover of regional pay television company ...
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In BMW's Repackaged Z4, Less Is More; The sleek sports tourer has shed two cylinders from its engine and lost some horsepower—but Dan Neil says that only makes it better
WSJ.comBMW is putting less cereal in the box. One of the more thrilling chapters in package-goods history has been the recent move by merchandisers to downsize the products in the box, without changing the size of the box. A roll of Bounty paper ...
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At Least It's a Lexus; The Lexus CT200h adds luxury to the Toyota Prius hybrid powertrain, but it also adds sluggish performance and lame styling, says Dan Neil.
WSJ.comThe Lexus CT200h hybrid exists for three reasons: First, Lexus as a brand enjoys enormous, even irrational goodwill among its clientele. In 2010 Lexus had the highest owner retention of any luxury brand, 62%, according to J.D. Power. This ...
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As Firms Rev Up, the Slack Tightens
WSJ.comWith demand rebounding, many U.S. companies are putting the production capacity they idled during the recession back to work. Some have reached the point where they need to invest in new plants and equipment, and hire workers, helping to ...
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U.S. Factories Buck Decline; Sector Creating More Jobs Than It's Cutting; 'Shining Star'
WSJ.comU.S. manufacturing, viewed as a lost cause by many Americans, has begun creating more jobs than it eliminates for the first time in more than a decade.
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Republicans to Introduce Energy Bills
WSJ.comTHIS WEEK Energy Bills: House Republicans plan to introduce two bills that promote domestic oil drilling. They also are expected to hold a hearing Friday on Obama administration policies they say are hampering renewable-energy projects.
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Assembled Elsewhere; To manufacture the Kindle, Amazon couldn't find enough expertise and capacity in the U.S. It headed to Taiwan.
WSJ.comReports of the death of U.S. manufacturing have been slightly exaggerated. Manufacturing still accounts for nearly one in 10 U.S. nonfarm jobs as measured by the government, and those jobs tend to pay much better than burger-flipping or ...
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Money Lessons for Every High-School Graduate
WSJ.comWhen Felipe Matos enrolled in the New York Institute of Technology to study graphic design, he never thought that degree would be the very thing that prevented him from pursuing his dream career.
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Toyota, Honda Unveil New Electric Cars
WSJ.comToyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. on Wednesday debuted their latest offerings in the increasingly competitive electric vehicle market, more than a decade after both launched electric cars that failed to catch on with U.S. car buyers.
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The Face of Green? Does a 6,000-pound, $3 million land yacht represent the vanguard of eco-conscious driving? Believe it. Dan Neil on the experimental Rolls-Royce 102EX and the intersection of high luxury and low carbon
WSJ.comLet the harrumphing begin. An electric Rolls-Royce? Ridiculous! Stupid, even. Why would anyone who could afford a Rolls-Royce Phantom—an asphalt-trenching railcar of luxury and privilege, a $400,000 automotive bugger-off to the world—care ...
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Perhaps Gasoline's Finest Hour
WSJ.comYou're a Roman senator and you're walking through the Forum. It's a cool, sunny Dies Saturni, about octava, in, let's say, Aprilis, in A.D. 125. Do you stop, look around, and muse to yourself: "This is it. This is ...
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Coming to America: European Gas Sippers; Luxury Car Makers to Launch in the U.S. Fuel-Efficient Variations of Popular Models Previously Found Only Overseas
WSJ.comEuropean luxury-car makers are going to give U.S. consumers some tastes of the forbidden fruit they have been keeping to themselves. The goodies in question are some of the more fuel-efficient variations of popular models sold in the U.S., ...
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China Spooks Auto Makers; Foreign Companies Fear New Rules on Electric Cars Will Erode Intellectual Property
WSJ.comBEIJING—China's government is considering plans that could force foreign auto makers to hand over cutting-edge electric-vehicle technology to Chinese companies in exchange for access to the nation's huge market, international auto ...
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The New Rules of Airport Delays; Pretzels, Bottled Water, Buses and A Ballpark' Holding Area Await Travelers
WSJ.comThis summer, airports and airlines say they're mission-ready, with heavily fortified defenses against tarmac delays: pretzels and water.
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Ford adds Google Maps to Sync features
MarketWatchLONDON (MarketWatch) - Ford Motor Co., not to be outdone by rival General Motors Co. in the high-tech arms race, announced Tuesday that it will use Google Maps to enhance the in-car experience for its customers.
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Luxury Cars: 11 We Drove
Barrons.comTHIS CERTAINLY HASN'T BEEN A GOOD YEAR for car sales, but compared with the annus horribilis that was 2009, it's been paradise for makers of luxury vehicles, many of which are seeing sales gains higher than the 10% average for all ...
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