Daimler AG CEO Dieter Zetsche said on Monday that he expects Mercedes-Benz to outsell premium auto brand rival BMW in China by about two to three years from now.
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BMW and its partner Brilliance Auto are building their second manufacturing plant in China, where demand for luxury sedans remains solid, a senior official at the Chinese automaker said on Monday.
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The 2009 Honda Accord is a striking 31.3 inches longer than the first Accord that Honda built in 1976. But those extra 31 inches only begin to tell the story of the Accord's march to prominence as a best-selling car in America.
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Chrysler may shift minivan production out of its Windsor, Ontario, plant, where it has built the iconic vehicles for a quarter century, and produce small Fiat models there instead. As Fiat S.p.A.
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General Motors is prepared to part with a controlling stake in Opel/Vauxhall for nothing but a pledge to invest directly in a new company formed from its European operations, the Financial Times said on Sunday, citing two people familiar with...
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General Motors is prepared to part with a controlling stake in Opel/Vauxhall for nothing but a pledge to invest directly in a new company formed from its European operations, the Financial Times said on Sunday, citing two people familiar with...
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General Motors sales chief Mark LaNeve is mounting a stout defense of the company's Buick-Pontiac-GMC brand strategy, but that may not offer much consolation to dealers.
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General Motors is prepared to part with a controlling stake in Opel/Vauxhall for nothing but a pledge to invest directly in a new company formed from its European operations, the Financial Times said on Sunday, citing two people familiar with...
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General Motors has sent out confidentiality agreements to more than six potential investors for its Opel/Vauxhall unit, CEO Fritz Henderson said.
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The Volkswagen Routan minivan, which arrived in showrooms in September, is selling so slowly that no units have rolled off the assembly line since December. VW has not decided whether to build a second-generation Routan.
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Bentley has pulled ahead the launches of its future models by six months so that the product cycle "is matched to the recovery in 2010," said Stuart McCullough, Bentley's board member for sales and marketing.
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French auto supplier Faurecia SA thinks the next generation of automotive seating could eliminate polyurethane foam.
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Bentley has pulled ahead the launches of its future models by six months so that the product cycle "is matched to the recovery in 2010," said Stuart McCullough, Bentley's board member for sales and marketing.
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Fiat may form an alliance with General Motors' core operations in Europe and Latin America, a source familiar with the matter told Automotive News on Friday.
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Toyota Motor Corp will suspend production at its Russian factory for the third time this year, the automaker said. "In (view) of unstable car market conditions...
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Bernd Pischetsrieder, ex-CEO of Volkswagen, could be a suitable head of a new Opel company independent of U.S. parent General Motors, an Opel dealer group in Germany said.
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Porsche took the wraps off its much-awaited Panamera grand tourer in Shanghai on Sunday, saying it wanted new customers in the luxury performance-car segment to expand its global sales.
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Daimler AG expects China's economic stimulus measures to give sales of luxury cars a major boost this year, making the country an increasingly crucial market as demand slumps elsewhere, a top executive said.
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Chongqing Changan Auto Co., Ford Motor's China partner, is planning acquisitions overseas as it prepares to enter Europe and North America where the industry downturn has hit hard, its chairman said on Sunday.
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