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Byline: Ryan Beene Audi will offer a diesel engine in its best-selling sedan, the A4, for the first time when the redesigned car hits U.S. showrooms next year. Audi of [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Mark Rose-kind's honeymoon is over. In previous congressional hearings on auto safety, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's shortcomings in major defect cases were largely cast as [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene In the background of the free-trade debate that has raged in Washington this summer, a sacred cow of U.S. auto and trade policy is under threat. The [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The auto industry's toughest crash test program could get tougher in a hurry. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has begun to subject certain vehicle models to [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has taken firm control of one of the largest and most complex recall actions in U.S. history -- orchestrating its many [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will soon have some fresh faces in key recall positions as part of an agency reorganization intended to streamline its management [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene U.S. lawmakers want to know how the auto industry plans to tackle cybersecurity threats as new vehicles become increasingly connected to the Internet. A bipartisan group of [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene As the newly appointed head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Mark Rosekind vowed in January to work closely with the auto industry to promote safety [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene It took Mario Murgado a decade to get the Audi franchise he dreamed of -- and only one year for his store to rise to the brand's [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene American Honda estimates that more than 24,000 recalled airbag modules made by Takata are scattered among thousands of salvage yards and auto recyclers across the country. The [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The auto industry is unlikely to mount a major pushback to fuel economy and tailpipe emissions rules that seek to boost new vehicles' average fuel economy to [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene It looked like a scene from a corporate focus-group meeting. In a Department of Transportation room usually reserved for press conferences, long sheets of easel paper were [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The service staffers at Santa Monica Audi are getting a high-tech hand to diagnose vexing vehicle issues. The help is coming from the Audi Robotic Telepresence, or [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi's high-end spin on mobility and car-sharing services is coming to the U.S. via two pilot programs. In Miami, Audi is preparing Audi at Home, a program [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Vinay Shahani * AGE: 41 * TITLE: Vice president, marketing, Volkswagen of America * BIG BREAK: Leaving Nissan after nearly 10 years to become VW's marketing chief [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene A redesigned Volks-wagen Beetle based on the VW Group's modular transverse matrix architecture, known as MQB, will arrive within three years, said Heinz-Jakob Neusser, VW's board member [...]

Byline: Gabe Nelson and Ryan Beene In seven years as Kia Motors Corp.'s top U.S. executive, Byung Mo Ahn never sought out the spotlight. Last week he left the stage [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Hyundai Motor Co. plans to add a twin-turbo V-6 engine to its Genesis sedan as part of a broader move toward downsized and turbocharged engines, the automaker's [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Here's Staff Reporter Ryan Beene's take on some of the show's superstars, the featured players with promise and the ones destined to wait tables for a while. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi of America CEO Scott Keogh said the high-performance RS 3 compact car and Q8 SUV will be sold in the U.S., but the Q1 small crossover [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The next crop of Volkswagens coming to the U.S. will bare their teeth and flex their muscles to convey a more aggressive design message aimed at American [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi will add two crossovers to its lineup -- one big and one small -- and Volkswagen will offer new plug-in hybrid variants of several nameplates, company [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene As U.S. auto safety regulators mull an order to speed the Takata airbag recalls, they face a vexing problem: capacity. It's unclear whether suppliers can speed production [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The former federal auto safety regulator chosen to coordinate automakers' investigation into Takata airbag explosions is no stranger to the issue of airbags endangering lives they're designed [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety added its more demanding Top Safety Pick+ rating in 2012. And every year since, the group has made the rating tougher [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Joerg Sommer, vice president of product marketing and strategy at Volkswagen of America, says the automaker will invest $10 million in EV charging infrastructure by 2016. At [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Signs of dimming prospects for major regulatory reform legislation have left some auto safety advocates wondering whether Congress has let a good safety crisis go to waste. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Three years ago, Tatiana Miller went into a Crown Burgers outlet near Salt Lake City looking for a bite to eat. That's where she ran into Stauss [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Shaun Del Grande was an early critic of the way Volkswagen doggedly pursued its goal to sell 800,000 vehicles a year in the U.S. by 2018. 'I [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene The driver of a 2002 Honda Accord who died last month in a crash involving a ruptured Takata airbag inflator hadn't been notified that his vehicle was [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene After two years of declining U.S. sales for Volkswagen, brand executives meeting with dealers at the NADA convention reaffirmed the company's goal of selling 800,000 vehicles a [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Despite few major vehicle launches coming up, Audi of America CEO Scott Keogh says the brand will post record U.S. sales for the sixth-straight year in 2015. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Volkswagen has more than just an SUV offensive in the works for the U.S. market. A new van and a high-performance Golf hatchback also could be headed [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Volkswagen of America executives told dealers to expect a small uptick in U.S. sales this year as they await the early 2017 arrival of two North America-built [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Before a friendly audience of a few thousand attendees packing a ballroom at the convention Friday, Jeb Bush said the United States is 'starved for leadership' in [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Greater availability of hot-selling crossovers will propel Audi to another record year of U.S. sales in 2015, Audi of America CEO Scott Keogh says. The biggest gains [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene For six days a week, Tom O'Keefe is a truck driver. But while he's on duty, he also gets to fire up such exotic cars as the [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene RALPH MAURO AUDI NATIONAL DEALER COUNCIL Audi's sales are growing twice as fast as luxury sales overall, profits are coming in above 3 percent of dealership sales, [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene What would happen if lenders made certain assumptions about asset values and took advantage of low interest rates to offer friendlier loan terms so borrowers could more [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene After two years of backsliding from the Volkswagen brand's goal of selling 800,000 vehicles in the U.S., returning dealers to profitability is the top priority for 2015, [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi dealers are clamoring for a range-topping Q8 SUV to take on the Range Rover and expand the automaker's red-hot crossover lineup, Audi's dealer council chairman says. [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Bill Fox takes over as chairman of the National Automobile Dealers Association at the group's convention in San Francisco as the 16,000-dealer organization is fighting for its [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Bradley Hoffman, incoming chairman of the American International Automobile Dealers Association, takes over the trade group as its top issue -- free trade -- could take center [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Think about it: An auto show is kinda like high school. You saunter down the hall and check out the new cars -- sizing up the jocks [...]

Byline: Mike Colias and Ryan Beene The global car is here. And it's not a car. It's the small crossover, and it's quickly cementing its place as the super vehicle [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene VOLKSWAGEN Waiting for the updated Passat > Detroit debuts: An SUV concept > Pipeline: Golf R and Golf SportWagen debuts, Touareg and Passat freshenings > New face: [...]

Byline: David Sedgwick and Ryan Beene Stephanie Erdman's tragic car crash starkly illustrates the biggest recall headache for dealers and automakers: old cars. On Sept. 1, 2013, Erdman was driving [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene If history is any guide, fighting the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration over recalls in court is a losing battle. Since the dawn of modern auto safety [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Bradley Hoffman, incoming chairman of the American International Automobile Dealers Association, says he plans to speak out about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's controversial positions on automotive [...]

Byline: Ryan Beene Audi is dipping its toe into car sharing, but with a premium twist. Audi has quietly begun two pilot programs in Europe -- one in Stockholm and [...]