White Plains, New York - The raison d'être of the new Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon is intimately linked to the existence of the first Cadillac SRX. Its job is in fact to lift any ambiguity created by the latter.
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Ducati has confirmed today that Nicky Hayden has signed a one-year extension to his contract to continue alongside Casey Stoner in 2010.
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Venezuela's government has met with the president of Mitsubishi Motors' local unit in an attempt to re-start operations at an assembly plant shut last month.
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Volkswagen Group of America is recalling about 43,000 VW and 10,000 Audi models to repair faulty Direct Shift Gearboxes (DSG).
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Car makers will not be granted a delay to an agreed 2011 European ban on R134a air conditioner refrigerant, European Parliament officials have said.
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Continental is to close its powertrain and interior components plant in Huntsville, Alabama, by the end of 2010 after the UAW union refused to consider wage and benefit cuts.
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Maruti Suzuki India Limited, India's largest passenger car manufacturer said on Wednesday that it expects to emerge as an even stronger company by the time the economic slowdown ends.
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The newly appointed president of Russia's largest carmaker AvtoVAZ, Igor Komarov, has said that the company's main task was to avoid operating losses.
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Data released by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) shows that the rate of decline in South Africa's vehicle market is continuing to slow.
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August saw a halt in the decline of new car registrations in Spain, according to industry data out today. It was the first month since April 2008 that new car registrations have not fallen year-on-year.
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Volvo Car's Indian unit, which only entered the market last year, expects industry sales of luxury cars to rise to about 10,000 this year from about 7,000 last year and to keep growing in double-digits for some years.
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General Motors sales in China in the first eight months of 2009 rose 49.6% year on year to 1,111,401 units.
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Senior Opel union boss Klaus Franz has dismissed a revised offer by RHJ International for the company as "a bad joke" and "an advertising ruse".
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Another link between Daimler and former partner Chrysler has been broken with the announcement that Mercedes-Benz will take over sales, marketing, distribution and service of Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner Sprinter commercial vehicles in the US.
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Tata Motors is willing to return the original site for its Nano car factory if the West Bengal state government compensates it sufficiently.
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The French government is to continue its consumer incentive scheme to trade in old cars for new into 2011, an official said yesterday.
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Did the 690,000 new vehicles put on US roads by the 'cash for clunkers' government incentive scheme boost sales in August? You bet. The industry booked its first rise in almost two years - 4.9% to 1,258,944 units, according to WardsAuto.com, which adjusts for selling days.
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Toyota's plug-in Prius hybrid will make its global debut as a 'concept' at the Frankfurt show later this month.
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The August market may have provided a bright spot in a dismal year for US vehicle sales, but whether this is the start of a positive trend or merely a temporary spike followed by a downturn, remains to be seen, according to the Society of Automotive Analysts (SAA).
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