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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

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Honda Targets 90,000 HR-Vs Next Year

The Japanese automaker sees even more potential for its subcompact CUV, which debuted in the U.S. in 2015 and has become one of the best-selling models in a crowded segment.

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New Bronco Being Engineered Down Under, Mazda Finally Launches Diesel, 2016 Headed for U.S. Sales Record

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Forecast November U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Leave Potential for Record Year

November-December projections point to 2016 sales volume ending slightly above 17.4 million units, barely topping 2015’s record of 17.396 million.

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Our Design Cube illustrates important considerations when designing plastic injection molded parts. It showcases a range of available surface finishes and examples of bosses, gussets and ribs. It also demonstrates the impact on part quality of overly thick or thin sections, as well as ways to incorporate holes and their potential effect on resin flow. Get a free Design Cube today!

48V Hybrid Application First of Many for Continental, Execs Say

The German supplier says 48V electrical architectures, which increase the onboard energy available to enhance powertrain performance or power the rapidly expanding list of comfort and convenience features, should be in place on 25 million new vehicles produced annually worldwide by 2030.

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ArcelorMittal is making light of steel 
Modern steel solutions are surprisingly lightweight and flexible, offering superior stamping performance for tomorrow’s vehicles with the smallest carbon footprint and lowest cost. That’s why the most enterprising engineers are collaborating with ArcelorMittal on the design solutions of tomorrow. Discover tomorrow’s steel at  auto.arcelormittal.com/NA.

Ford Spain Photo Monitoring Tells Right From Wrong

Ford’s industry-first Vision System photographs, checks and tracks every part of each of the 400,000 cars and vans assembled and 330,000 engines built at the Valencia plant each year.

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2017 Wards 10 Best Engines: Less Is More With Four

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Judging by the 2017 Wards 10 Best Engines nominees, it’s a glorious time to drive sports cars with small displacement, high-output engines.

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Oz Group Lists Consumer Connected-Car Concerns

Australian Automobile Assn. CEO Michael Bradley says control of data generated by connected vehicles could pose privacy risks and possibly drive up running and repair costs due to curtailed competition.

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EU Official OK With U.K.'s Nissan Deal For Now

Margrethe Vestager, head of the European Union's Competition Commission, says she is withholding judgment on the automaker's assurances to the U.K. it will remain in the region despite Britons' vote to leave the common-market national coalition.

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CEO Says Honda Not Altering North American Production Plans

The Japanese automaker says it cannot change current annual output of 260,000 cars in Mexico until it hears more from U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump about his campaign pledge to scrap NAFTA, a move that could impose tariffs on Mexico-built cars sold in the U.S.

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VW Reportedly Mulling Building Own Battery Plant

Chief Executive Matthias Mueller tells a German newspaper the automaker would benefit from building up to 3 million batteries a year for the electric vehicles it plans to focus on in the wake of its diesel-emissions scandal.

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