Ford said on Monday it would add 7,000 new hourly and salaried jobs between this year and next in the United States.
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Details on the Ford Vertrek, the Porsche 918 RSR, the Volkswagen Passat and the Chevrolet Sonic.
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Opel is to launch in Australia next year, following hard on the heels of recent news the GM European division is to start in Israel and Chile.
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TRW Automotive Holdings on Monday announced it had secured a number of contracts for the supply of electric power steering (EPS) to domestic Chinese vehicle manufacturers, with the first launch scheduled for 2012. TRW will supply its Column Drive EPS system for multiple platforms with four domestic manufacturers initially. Production will be in Anting, China.
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Fiat will not sell its Alfa Romeo unit and plans to relaunch the brand in the United States in late 2012, top Fiat executives said.
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Chrysler Group on Monday said Fiat's ownership had increased from 20 to 25% after the US firm achieved the first of three performance-related milestones.
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Nissan promises to be back at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next year.
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The Chevrolet Volt, with its range extending petrol-electric powertrain, is, as expected, North American Car of the Year and Ford's Explorer 'truck' of the year.
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Fiat has increased its stake in Chrysler after receiving regulatory approval for an engine based on the Fiat FIRE family for manufacture in U.S., the company said in a statement .
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Porsche, back at Detroit after three years, said global sales rose by around 25% on the year to 95,000 cars in 2010, of which 25,320 cars were delivered in the US, up 29%.
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Matthias Wissmann, president of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) expects the US market to grow 11% to 12.8m light vehicles in 2011, according to a copy of his speech in Detroit.
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The Philippine vehicle market hit a new record high in 2010, with sales rising by 28.5% to 170,216 units, according to data mostly released by the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc (CAMPI).
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Vehicle sales in Vietnam fell by just under 6% to 112,796 units in 2010, compared with 119,868 units sold in the previous year, according to data released by the Vietnam Automotive manufacturers Association (VAMA).
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Mitsubishi Motors is unlikely to produce pickup trucks for Nissan at its factory in Thailand due to a lack of available capacity, a senior executive at the company told local reporters.
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The successor to the Ford Escape is on display at the Detroit auto show. Technically, it's called the Vertrek concept, but don't be fooled: This is a clear indication of the styling of Ford's next small utility vehicle.
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Daimler's Dieter Zetsche has said he was "totally aiming at topping" 2010 sales in 2011 but acknowledged repeating last year's 15.3% sales growth was "unrealistic."
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BMW sold 1,224,280 cars in 2010, a rise of 14.6% on 2009 figures. Sales of the newly introduced BMW 5 series helped boost sales as deliveries increased 22.6% year-on-year to 211,968 units in 2010.
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Nissan Motor Co. will shift production of one of its highest-volume vehicles, the Rogue crossover, from Japan to an American factory in a bid to cut its exposure to the high Japanese yen.
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