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			<title><![CDATA[Tempted to go after the board? Better to just sell.]]></title>
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			<author>(Christine Tierney)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[With U.S. auto stocks now trading at a fraction of their peak levels, many frustrated shareholders are questioning what the boards of these companies are doing. Shareholders are increasingly seeking accountability from directors, citing precedents set earlier in the decade following the catastrophic]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ominous signs for European autos as economy teeters]]></title>
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			<author>(Neil Winton)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[European car sales are sliding as buyers retreat, fearing an economic downturn. Manufacturers are cancelling new cars, while the collapse in Britain's currency is wiping out any gains made by the dollar's recovery.


Sales in Western Europe dived 18 percent in August, led by Britain's 18.6]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 7:38 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Fiesta, Ford's first world car, debuts in Europe]]></title>
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			<author>(Neil Winton)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[SIENNA, Italy - The little Fiesta is Ford's first new world car and it is starting to appear on Europe's roads now.

Americans will be able to buy this fuel-miser in 2010, via a factory in Mexico, and you can tell how important the vehicle is to Ford because it invokes the memory of the sacred]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Democrat: 100-mpg cars within two years possible]]></title>
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			<author>(David Shepardson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner gave a speech Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Denver in which he touted automakers' efforts to produce rechargeable vehicles that run largely on electricity.

"If we actually got ourselves off foreign oil, we can make our country safer. We'll]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ford's hydrogen fuel cell vehicles keep on keeping on]]></title>
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			<author>(Bryce G. Hoffman)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Ford announced this week that its first-generation Focus Fuel Cell vehicles have performed "better than expected" in their real world trials - so much better, in fact, that the automaker is keeping them in the field for another 24 months.


Powered by hydrogen, these cars of the future have]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 6:33 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[White House names acting NHTSA administrator]]></title>
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			<author>(David Shepardson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[ The White House announced this afternoon that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's chief of staff, David Kelly, will serve as the acting administrator for the final months of the Bush Administration. Many had expected the deputy NHTSA adminstrator, James Ports, to get the nod.

In]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Toyota exec urges car companies to play the sympathy card]]></title>
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			<author>(Bryce G. Hoffman)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Last week in Traverse City, I had a chance to sit down with Steve St. Angelo, Toyota's head of engineering and manufacturing for North America and the head of the automaker's Kentucky assembly plant.

St. Angelo surprised me with the revelation that he used to be a newsboy for - you guessed it -]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:31 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GM's Wagoner: No plans to retire anytime soon]]></title>
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			<author>(David Shepardson)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[General Motors Corp. chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner said in a  a televised interview with PBS' Charlie Rose aired Monday that he has no immediate plans to retire.

"I'm planning on staying around and working with our team and driving us into our next 100 years," said Wagoner, who has been in the]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:51 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ford's Fields fires back on gas prices]]></title>
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			<author>(Bryce G. Hoffman)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Ford Americas President Mark Fields fired back this week against criticism that American automakers did not do enough to anticipate the recent rocket-like rise in gasoline prices.

A couple of days after Dura Automotive Systems CEO Tim Leuliette - the industry's most vocal critic of itself -]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 6:05 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[BMW facing more write-offs after U.S. leasing debacle]]></title>
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			<author>(Neil Winton)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[German luxury car manufacturer BMW might have to write off up to another $1.4 billion by the first quarter of 2009 because of problems with its U.S. leasing portfolio.

The world's most successful premium carmaker, which has said it is switching its sales efforts way from the U.S., reported second]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:40 PM</pubDate>
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