JULY 11, 2017

Missile Dispute Shooting Down Hyundai, Kia in China

For the first six months of 2017 Hyundai and Kia’s combined global sales were down 8.7% from like-2016. Hyundai attributes the fall to nosediving sales in China, where combined deliveries by the Hyundai and Kia joint ventures were down 63% in June and were off 47% for the 6-month period.

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Audi Reveals New A8 Sedan, Researching Autonomous Interiors, Lucid Tests at 200-MPH+

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Audi Raises Automated-Driving Stakes With All-New A8

Hailed as the dawning of a new era for the German automaker, the new luxury sedan has been comprehensively re-engineered in a bid to more successfully challenge upmarket rivals such as the BMW 7-Series, Lexus LS and Mercedes-Benz S-Class.

Life With the Jetsons: Personal VTOL Aircraft Take Off - Well-respected players are beginning to make announcements that may suggest that we are on the cusp of a Jetsons -type air transportation system. With competition heating up, time lines have become aggressive. Uber Elevate believes it will have operational vehicles in the sky within the next five years (and most experts seem to agree.) Read more . . .

It Just Got Easier to Track Consumers’ Offline Car Dealership Visits

New technology reveals who they are and where they are shopping.

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China Vehicle Sales Up 4.5% in June

Last month's 2.17 million deliveries in the world's biggest auto market followed April and May declines of 2.2% and 0.1%, respectively, with some analysts saying the uptick resulted from deep discounts.

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U.S. House Republicans Set to Introduce Autonomous-Car Rules

A spokeswoman for the House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce subcommittee says lawmakers have held a hearing on 14 bills that, among other things, would prevent states from making their own rules for self-driving cars.

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New A8 Meant to Put Dieselgate in Audi's Rearview Mirror

Nearly two years after the emissions-test-cheating scandal broke, Audi wants the luxury sedan, which has Level 3 autonomous-vehicle technology, to refocus attention on innovation.

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