Mitsubishi Motors Thailand has repositioned its line-up ahead of expected tougher competition in the market later this year.
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Dany Bahar has left Ferrari to join Lotus Group as its new Chief Executive Officer.
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Ford India on Thursday said its factory near Chennai is close to ready for volume production of a new small car after work to double its capacity and become a strategic production hub rather than focused solely on models for India.
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Mercedes-Benz Japan has become the first foreign automaker to launch a petrol-electric hybrid in the country after rolling out the S-Class hybrid sedan.
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Belgium's largest car distributor D'Ieteren has revised up its full-year forecast after a far better than expected performance in the first half.
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US union workers are confident Barack Obama would restrict tyre imports from China, as a 15-day countdown began for the president to make his decision in the closely watched case.
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Opel's top labour leader has threatened that the workforce would not help to reduce US$1.2bn in costs if GM in Detroit retains control of Opel.
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New car registrations in Germany were up 28% in August in the rush to buy ahead of the ending of the hugely successful scrappage scheme.
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Ford chief executive Alan Mulally has received a huge vote of confidence from Ford chairman and founding family member Bill Ford Jr.
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Iveco's Brazilian unit has unveiled a prototype of its new electric Daily, a model destined to be the first zero emission light commercial vehicle produced in Latin America.
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Brazil's top international automakers are likely to report a drop in car sales on Friday due to lower exports but domestic market expectations are still good.
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China's Dong Feng Motor is to invest US$250m in a Turkish plant with an annual capacity of 52,000 units a year according to Turkey's government investment agency.
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Chrysler Group is to increase production of the just-updated Dodge Caliber hatchback by 10,000 units this year in response to increased demand for smaller, fuel-efficient models.
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Hayes Lemmerz International has reached an agreement with its lenders and unsecured creditors on the terms of a plan of reorganisation. The wheelmaker said bankruptcy court had approved the company's disclosure statement incorporating the terms of the agreement.
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General Motors expects the governments of Spain, UK and Poland to provide about EUR1bn (US$1.4bn) in aid to help restructure Opel-Vauxhall operations, a person familiar with the matter has told Dow Jones.
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A Seoul-based private equity group has said that it is considering buying a stake in troubled carmaker Ssangyong.
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Talk of 1,000 jobs being created at BMW's UK Mini plant in Oxfordshire is premature as no final decisions have been made, a spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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