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Feb
17th

CHINA: Dongfeng January sales slip almost 20%

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Dongfeng Motor Group vehicle sales in January fell 19.46% year on year. Full story...
Feb
17th

GKN to close 2 UK parts factories

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GKN, the UK's largest auto parts supplier, will close two components factories in England. Full story...
Feb
17th

UK: No sign of European market recovery

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The European new car market is showing no signs of recovery as sales plunged 26% year on year to 954,234 units last month. Full story...
Feb
17th

Fiat 500C drops cover (and top) for Geneva show:

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To keep in step with Mini, Fiat will launch a convertible version of the 500 at the Geneva motor show. The 500C comes a couple months after Mini showed its own new convertible at the Detroit auto show. Full story...
Feb
17th

Liberty to lend Sirius $530 million, get 40% stake

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Liberty, which owns a controlling stake in satellite TV provider DirecTV Group Inc., would also receive seats on Sirius XM's board, and expects Malone and Liberty CEO Greg Maffei to join the board. Full story...
Feb
17th

GERMANY: Conti appoints temporary car tyre boss

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Continental has said that Nikolai Setzer will be taking over the temporary management of its car tyre division, in addition to the position he already holds as head of the replacement business car and light truck tyre division Europe and Africa. Full story...
Feb
17th

Penske reports quarterly loss for first time since ’98

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Penske Automotive Group Inc. posted a fourth-quarter net loss today of $510 million, the dealership group's first quarterly net loss since 1998. Most of the loss stemmed from one-time charges and adjustments. Full story...
Feb
17th

Study: Eastern Europe’s car industry will brave crisis

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The car industry in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia is expected to recover soon from the current crisis and to suffer less than producers in Western Europe, according to a study. Full story...
Feb
17th

Conti pulls out of Frankfurt IAA

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To save costs, Continental will not have an exhibition stand at the IAA in Frankfurt in September. The German supplier is the second automotive company to withdraw from Europe's biggest auto show. Full story...
Feb
17th

GERMANY: Social Democrats open to Schaeffler aid

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Germany's Social Democrat (SPD) party is open in principle to providing ball-bearing maker Schaeffler with state aid, chairman Franz Muentefering has said. Full story...
Feb
17th

Jaguar Land Rover puts cost-cutting deal to workers

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Embattled Jaguar Land Rover is close to agreeing cost-cutting measures with its workers. The British carmaker, which Ford Motor sold to Tata Motors for $2.3 billion last summer, needs to reduce costs after a steep fall in its unit sales. Full story...
Feb
17th

GERMANY: Daimler manages ’08 profit after “difficult second half”

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Daimler has posted a net profit of EUR1.4bn on full-year 2008 revenue of EUR95.9bn versus EUR4.0bn a year previously on revenue of EUR99.4bn. Full story...
Feb
17th

Renault seeks engine development partners

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Renault said it is looking for partners to share engine development costs. Renault already has partnerships with General Motors and Suzuki, which both buy Renault diesel engines. Full story...
Feb
17th

ITALY: US not protectionist – House speaker

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The United States is not protectionist and there is "no bias" against Italian auto giant Fiat's possible tie-up with Chrysler, US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said. Full story...
Feb
17th

CHINA: Hella takes over its Relay JV

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Hella has acquired all the shares of its previous Relay Joint Venture Hella Hongfa (Xiamen) Automotive Electronics Co. Ltd. (HAE) in China. Full story...
Feb
17th

CHINA: Sichuan says ‘no interest’ in Hummer

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Sichuan Auto Industry Group has said that it has no interest in buying GM's up-for-sale Hummer unit. Full story...
Feb
17th

ESTONIA: Norma puts workers on part time

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Norma is to place nearly 600 employees on part time work, and is also filing a request with the labour inspectorate to end the contracts of 52 workers. Full story...
Feb
17th

RUSSIA: Suzuki mulls plant postponement

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Suzuki plans to decide in late March whether it will delay the launch of its future car assembly plant in Russia by one year. Full story...
Feb
17th

US: GM, union, bondholders, make progress

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General Motors and the United Auto Workers union were reported to have made progress in concession talks while bondholders were offered proposals to slash GM's debt on Monday, a day ahead of the automaker's submission of a new survival plan to the US government. Full story...
Feb
17th

CHINA: BYD reports sales surge

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Chinese carmaker BYD says it sold 24,107 vehicles in January, up 80% on last year. Full story...
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