Renault expects the European car market to fall 10% next year, chief operating officer Patrick Pelata said.
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Opel chief Nick Reilly says the company plans to generate an operating profit margin of 4-5% within four years.
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Ford is moving closer to a sale of its Swedish Volvo unit to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.
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Kieran Cahill has been appointed the new manager of Ford's Bridgend petrol engine manufacturing facility following Graham Edwards' return to the Dagenham diesel factory.
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Vehicle production in the UK rose 12.5% in November to 122,134 units, the first rise since September 2008. Car production was up 15.7% to 112,948 units, boosted by the recently extended scrappage scheme but commercial output slipped 16.2% to 9,186 vehicles.
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Egypt has invited India's Tata Motors to build a local factory to make the Nano, the world's cheapest car for the domestic market and sales elsewhere, the Mint newspaper reported.
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The head of Japan's automakers' lobby has said he feared the US market would remain weak and would not reach total sales of 11m vehicles next year.
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The United Auto Workers' top leaders have proposed Bob King to succeed Ron Gettelfinger as president, and asked members to confirm his nomination at the union's convention in June.
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Beijing Auto said on Friday it will immediately start integrating its newly acquired technology from GM's Saab unit into its vehicles. China's fifth-largest automaker plans to start production of its Saab-based own brand of cars as soon as 2011.
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Beijing Auto said on Friday it will immediately start integrating its newly acquired technology from GM's Saab unit into its vehicles. China's fifth-largest automaker plans to start production of its Saab-based own brand of cars as soon as 2011.
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Beijing Auto said on Friday it will immediately start integrating its newly acquired technology from GM's Saab unit into its vehicles. China's fifth-largest automaker plans to start production of its Saab-based own brand of cars as soon as 2011.
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Volkswagen is linking the salaries of its top managers to customer and employee satisfaction, its head of labour relations has said.
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Italy's new car market could sink 16% to 1.8m vehicles next year if Rome scraps trade-in incentives, foreign car makers' association Unrae has said.
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Helped by scrappage incentives, British car production rose 15.7% in November, the first rise since September 2008. Oroduction is still well below previous levels and 2010 is set to be another tough year with considerable uncertainty, the SMMT said.
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Helped by scrappage incentives, British car production rose 15.7% in November, the first rise since September 2008. Oroduction is still well below previous levels and 2010 is set to be another tough year with considerable uncertainty, the SMMT said.
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Regional Development Agency One North East and Nissan Motor have entered the next phase of their partnership on the development of zero emission mobility in north east England, home to the automaker's Sunderland plant.
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Indebted German automotive supplier Continental AG is expected to sign a key 2.5 billion euro ($3.60 billion) loan extension on Friday, which would allow a planned capital increase to go ahead, bankers said on Friday.
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Renault expects the European car market to fall 10% in 2010, COO Patrick Pelata said. He said Renault's full-year revenue at Renault is likely to be 17-18 percent below 2007.
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Renault expects the European car market to fall 10% in 2010, Chief Operating Officer Patrick Pelata said. He made the forecast as he said Renault's full-year revenue at Renault is likely to be 17-18 percent below 2007.
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