It's hardly a big surprise that hybrid cars and electric vehicles take centre stage at the Los Angeles Motor Show which opened today.
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Despite an increasingly tumultuous US automotive market, customer satisfaction with the new-vehicle sales process has steadily increased since 2005, according to the JD Power and Associates 2008 Sales Satisfaction Index (SSI) Study released today
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Toyota has said it will stop production at all of its assembly, transmission and engine factories in the United States and Canada for two extra days next month to work down accumulated inventory.
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Jaguar dealers returned to their place atop customer satisfaction rankings released today by the market research company J.D. Power and Associates, while Asian brands continued to be at the bottom. The study, completed annually for 22 years, bases U.
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This is crunch time for the US auto industry-and with good reason. The industry is facing a crisis unmatched since the Great Depression. When crises occur, the opportunity presents itself to achieve dramatic change. We've known for years that the American industry is in desperate need of dramatic change. So far it hasn't been able to engineer it internally. Now a crisis presents an opportunity-indeed an obligation-for external forces to impose that change. By Karl Ludvigsen
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Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally said today that there is no effective way for one of the Detroit 3 to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection without crippling the domestic auto industry.
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Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally said today that there is no clean way for one of the Detroit 3 to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection without decimating the entire domestic auto industry.
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General Motors today said its German subsidiary Opel is not for sale.
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The Ford Fusion family sedan introduced for 2006 has done well, garnering awards for quality and topping the Honda Accord and the Toyota Camry in the Consumer Reports reliability index.
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Nissan has said it will launch its fully revamped Cube compact car on the global market starting with Japan next week.
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Scania has signed an agreement in principle with the government of Iraq on assembly of trucks and buses in that country. The contract includes an initial delivery of 500 vehicles, with production starting during the third quarter of 2009. Operations will take place under the aegis of Iraq's State Company for Automotive Industry.
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Quirky Cube given stylish interior, plus high sides give masses of headroom inside.
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The softening car market in Korea is causing local companies to cut prices and offer promotional gifts
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Europe will examine US measures to help troubled American automakers.
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German solar energy company SolarWorld said on Wednesday it was prepared to acquire cash-strapped carmaker Opel's plants in Germany, but analysts dismissed the plan as unrealistic.
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In July 2007, Tom LaSorda, Chrysler CEO at the time, touted a deal in which Chery Automobile would supply Chrysler with small cars for Europe and North America.
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Ford of Europe will remain profitable next year despite the "unprecedented" economic downturn, its boss said. The division's third quarter pretax profits fell to $69 million from $293 million a year ago, while new-car sales are down 2.
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Britain's hard-pressed car manufacturers are demanding access to the government funds put aside to bail out the banking sector in a bid to ride out the on-going economic crisis.
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