TriMas said today that it had signed an interim deal with Ford to continue the development of a stainless steel rear underbar for the Ford Ranger one-ton pickup truck and Ranger platforms.
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Audi's A2 small car was perhaps ahead of its time in some ways. It was exceptionally light, efficient to run and came with futuristic styling.
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Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) has announced that effective January 1, 2009, Shinichi Kurihara (59) will succeed Hiroshi Harunari as President and CEO of Mitsubishi Motors North America (MMNA).
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GM has announced the European part of its biggest ever test programme for fuel cell vehicles. Nine companies will be the first to operate GM's HydroGen4 zero-emission vehicles in the Berlin area as they go about their day-to-day business: ADAC, Allianz, Coca Cola, Hilton, Linde, Schindler, Axel Springer, Total and Veolia.
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Porsche is postponing moves to buy a majority stake in Volkswagen group after a surge in VW shares and signs that the global auto industry is facing tough times.
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The auto industry needs a 40 billion euro loan package from the EU to help develop more environmentally friendly cars, the head of the UK trade body said Tuesday.
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Schaeffler Group is in talks with several parties to sell packages of 10-20 percent of shares in Continental, the German ball-bearing maker's CEO Juergen Geissinger said.
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German ball-bearings maker Schaeffler is betting a recovery in Continental's share price will avoid writedowns worth billions of euros on its holding in the company, CEO Juergen Geissinger said.
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Ford has planned for 21 days of stoppages at its Valencia, Spain, for the first half of next year due to falling demand, the company said on Tuesday.
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Toyota Motor Corp. had its top-notch credit ratings cut for the first time in a decade, hitting its shares and raising borrowing costs as an unprecedented slowdown reshapes the global auto industry.
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LOS ANGELES -- American Honda Motor Co. is bagging the flashy formal press conferences at the Detroit auto show in January. The company says it will forgo traditional product unveilings because of depressed business conditions.
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Shinichi Kurihara, who led Mitsubishi's U.S. product planning while sales rose in the late 1990s, has been tapped to run the automaker's struggling North American subsidiary.
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The union contract hailed as the deal to save Detroit automakers a year ago is in danger of coming undone in the face of the industry's push to secure the federal bailout it now sees as its best bet to survive.
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Even though they were forced to retire of the last Tall Pines Rally, the defect of all the other contenders assured Maxime and Simon Losier the first Mitsubishi Cup of the Canadian Rally Championship.
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Seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher and four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon will take part in the annual kart race organized by Ferrari's Felipe Massa.
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When the Grand Vitara was redesigned for the 2006 model year, the 4-cylinder Vitara bit the dust. Suzuki's compact SUV was left with only one engine which was shared with the old XL7. For a few years, it was sufficient. Now, as SUV owners are downsizing, 4-cylinder trucks are the new trend. Toyota's RAV4, Ford's Escape and Mazda's Tribute have all received engine upgrades for 2009, so Suzuki didn't have much choice but to follow suit. And the Grand Vitara actually gets two new engines for 2009, a four and a more-powerful six.
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