Bernie Ecclestone on Saturday cast doubt on the health of formula one's new American team for 2010. "No," he told the British broadcaster BBC in interview from Singapore when asked if he thinks 28 cars will really be ready to watch the five lights go out in Bahrain next March.
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The wheels of speculation regarding the futures of Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso continue to spin in Singapore. Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali, who has Raikkonen under contract for 2010, on Friday admitted that "the situation has changed ... in the last couple of days". At the same time, Alonso revealed that he has made his mind up about his plans for next year, while the Raikkonen camp admitted that contracts can be broken.
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Rolf, Russia's largest foreign car dealer, has sold 40 percent of its Mitsubishi car distribution business to Mitsubishi Corporation.
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US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg has said that the US and China do not want a dispute over tyres to spark a broader trade war.
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Italy's new car market is set to post a modest gain in September according to industry sources.
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It looks like big changes ahead for Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).
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Latest turbo-charged V8 flagship caught testing undisguised.
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The Korea Development Bank (KDB) and General Motors expect to complete negotiations over whether to provide a new emergency loan for GM's struggling Korean unit in mid-October when the automaker's CEO Fritz Henderson is scheduled to visit Korea, industry sources have said.
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Six hundred workers at the Opel plant at Figueruelas near Zaragoza in Spain will be laid off temporarily in November because of a fall in demand, General Motors Europe said on Friday.
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Consultants at Deloitte have called for an extension to the UK's scrappage incentive and warned that the scheme could end next week as the existing funding budget is exhausted.
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September's US new vehicle sales (including fleet sales) are projected by Edmunds to reach 742,000 units, a 22.9% decrease on the same month last year.
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Ford plans to sell Volvo Cars are progressing, CEO Alan Mulally said on Friday on the sidelines of a car plant ground-breaking event in China.
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The German government has defended controversial state aid to car maker Opel after a series of complaints from other EU administrations, saying Germany would bear the brunt of European job losses.
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General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson thinks the US new car market will see a modest recovery in 2010 with sales of 11.5m to 12m vehicles.
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Chrysler Group is about to re-employ an unspecified number of salaried workers and ask current workers to put in overtime to get new models on sale by mid-2011, sources told a US newspaper.
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Evidence of the fragile state of Eastern Europe's road freight transportation sector has been provided by analysis of trailer demand carried out by UK-based consulting firm, CLEAR.
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Troubled AvtoVAZ expects to post a net loss of 35 billion roubles in 2009.
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UK car production fell 31.5% in August from year-ago levels, SMMT data showed.
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