Schaeffler estimated the future wrongly when acquiring Continental, owner Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler told German magazine Der Spiegel.
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Volkswagen group's Skoda brand expects to gain market share this year, Fred Kappler, board member in charge of sales and marketing, said.
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Germany doesn't want to own a slice of Opel but might help it survive, chancellor Angela Merkel has said.
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Mitsubishi Motors (MMC) on Monday it would suspend output at three Japanese plants for four to eight days in April.
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Daimler has welcomed Aabar Investments of Abu Dhabi as a major investor and said it was increasing its share capital by about 10% with exclusion of subscription rights of existing shareholders.
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The Chinese central government is encouraging further consolidation in the country's automotive sector in an effort to encourage efficiency and product quality, according to a paper released by the State Council.
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The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has told US auto supplier ArvinMeritor it has fallen below NYSE's continued listing standard related to total market capitalisation and stockholders' equity.
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Valeo on Monday said chairman and chief executive officerThierry Morin had departed "as a result of strategic differences and the will of the board to change the group's governance structure".
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Road wheels have been constantly re-invented to the point where the main development trends are moving beyond bigger, lighter and brighter wheels toward scale and flexibility in design. Matthew Beecham rolls out just-auto's latest review of road wheels.
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British van maker LDV has warned that it will have to call in administrators within days if it does not get a loan from the taxpayer, but the government stuck to its view that its Russian parent should bail it out.
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France's Renault opposes the idea of issuing new AvtoVAZ shares because the move would dilute its 25 percent stake in the struggling Russian carmaker, Renault's regional chief said on Friday.
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German Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Saturday he was talking to potential investors in General Motors' Opel unit, rejecting a media report saying there were no serious bidders yet.
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Bondholders holding some $27 billion of General Motors debt on Sunday sent a letter to the White House task force overseeing the bailout of the auto industry to register concern with the lack of progress in GM's debt-restructuring talks.
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Volkswagen's Czech brand Skoda said it has postponed its plans to enter the ASEAN market, which includes Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines and has annual sales of about 1.8 million vehicles.
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Daimler will raise 1.95 billion euros ($2.67 billion) in fresh capital through the sale of a 9.1 percent stake to Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments PJSC the two companies said on Sunday. Some 96.
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The future of Jeep in a 40-mpg world may lie in a pint-sized off-road vehicle already plying the back roads of Europe. The vehicle is called the Fiat Panda Cross and is available only in a 1.3-liter diesel version that gets nearly 40 mpg.
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Analysts today said Daimler's move to raise billions of euros in fresh capital shows how badly European automakers need cash in the current weak economic climate. Daimler said on Sunday it will raise 1.95 billion euros ($2.
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Here are profiles of six of the 25 finalists in the 2009 Automotive News PACE Awards.
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For more almost two decades, Ken Zangara was a good soldier for Chrysler. For many years he was the largest Dodge dealer in New Mexico, and he served a term as chairman of the Dodge National Dealer Council.
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In a dismal year when industry sales slumped 18 percent, only a few dealership groups managed to boost revenues. According to Automotive News' annual survey of the nation's top 125 dealership groups, just 16 increased overall revenue in 2008.
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