Mitsubishi Motors is reported to be planning to run one its Japanese plants for more days in July than was initially planned due to better than forecast sales.
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Amid its demand to Detroit to promote fuel-efficient vehicles, the U.S. government is spending $287 million to purchase more than 17,000 cars and trucks from Detroit's three automakers -- among them two types of pickups and a minivan.
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Toyota and EDF Energy have been awarded UK government funding to support a trial of up to 20 plug in hybrid vehicles (PHVs).
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After four years of development, countless scoop photos and a grandiose unveiling atop a skyscraper in China, we finally have the key to the 2010 Porsche Panamera in hand.
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Toyota Motor Corp. small-car subsidiary Daihatsu passed BMW and Audi on its way to top honors in customer satisfaction among German car owners, according to a J.D. Power and Associates study published Wednesday.
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Toyota Motor Corp. small-car subsidiary Daihatsu passed BMW and Audi on its way to top honors in customer satisfaction among German car owners, according to a J.D. Power and Associates study published Wednesday.
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Ford, Nissan Motor and US electric vehicle start-up Tesla Motors have been granted low-cost US government loans to develop and build all-electric cars.
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Russia's largest carmaker, AvtoVAZ, may halve its work week to 20 hours from next September until February, significantly reducing the wages of its employees, a company representative told business daily Vedomosti, citing AvtoVAZ president Boris Alyoshin.
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This looks like a week in which electric cars are going to be very much in the news - in part due to government initiatives on both sides of the Atlantic. And there are plenty of announcements being made by the OEMs to coincide with that. Nissan's yesterday about manufacturing electric plug-in vehicles - not hybrids - in the US is particularly intriguing.
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GAZ Group plans to lay off around 7,000 employees at its Nizhny Novgorod region factory in July-August, Gennady Suvorov, the region's deputy governor for social policy, told Prime-Tass.
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Renault plans to spend 500m pesos (US$128m) between 2009 and 2011 to modernise its Argentine plant and launch production of a new vehicle, the company said.
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Ford Motor Company in Britain will raise car prices by an average 4 percent on July 1, it said on Wednesday, blaming sterling's 20 percent fall against the euro since 2007.
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Ford battery electric vehicle demonstrators are included in a British project that is part of the UK government's ultra-low carbon vehicle fleet announced this week.
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Schaeffler Group has denied German media reports that it is trying to stall merger talks with its much larger affiliate Continental.
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First spy shots of Mercedes' all-new BMW X5 rival
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Group 1 Automotive Inc.'s revenue growth via acquisitions has fallen to a fraction of 2006 levels, and the Hyundai franchise rights acquired this year will be the dealership group's only addition in 2009.
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French carmaker Renault will invest 500 million pesos ($128 million) between 2009 and 2011 in its Argentine unit to begin production of a new vehicle and modernize a plant, the company said on Tuesday.
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General Motors plans to complete a 20 percent cut in its white-collar work force by October.
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General Motors Corp will do the "heavy lifting" to help meet the ambitious goal set by President Barack Obama of having one million plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles on U.S. roads by 2015, a GM executive said on Tuesday.
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A U.S. bankruptcy judge has denied a request from a small group of General Motors bondholders to become an "official committee" in the bankruptcy case.
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