GM Uzbekistan, a joint venture of US automaker GM and Uzbek automaker Uzavtoprom, plans to produce 220,000 vehicles in 2010, up 7.3% on the year, a spokesperson for Uzavtoprom has told Prime-Tass.
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Hyundai Motor Co said Wednesday it will recall a total of 47,300 vehicles of its Sonata sedan in South Korea and the United States next month due to a door-locks problem.
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Volkswagen has launched the Polo in India as its first small car offering in the country.
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Toyota will not reverse plans to end production at its former joint venture plant with General Motors in Fremont, California, despite a suggestion that doing so might give the embattled carmaker a lift in a big market, a top US executive told lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
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Renault in Russia will start selling its Sandero hatchbacks assembled at Moscow plant Avtoframos from March 1.
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The final details of the UK government's GBP230 million ultra-low carbon car incentive programme were announced today.
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Ford is ramping up its electric vehicle development with its inclusion in the colognE-mobil project being tested in the north west German city.
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SENIOR WEB REPORTER GREG MIGLIORE: I had a very enjoyable lap to and from work in this speedster. It looks great, and I like the headlights and the lines on the hood. The car has an aggressive stance that seems to be wide yet sleek. Full story…
The Pendragon share price doesn't know where to go. It was 2p this time last year when most of the punters were gambling that it would go bust. It shot up to 20p when the bankers came up with the loans that kept the show on the road. By the mid-summer - when the market was beginning to rake through the ashes of the economy looking for recovery plays, Britain's biggest car retail group rattled up to 44p.
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UK-based Body-in-White and stampings supplier Stadco is to shut its Coventry facility with the loss of 165 jobs.
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The reclusive Akio Toyoda is taking the rare step of waving the family flag, as the scion to Toyota Motor Corp.and#8217;s founding dynasty tries to steer the worldand#8217;s largest car company out of a spiraling safety crisis.
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Dana Holding Corporation on Wednesday reported a net loss of $431m for full year 2009, an improvement of $291m compared to the 2008 result, after excluding a one-time gain of $754m in 2008 recognised in connection with the application of fresh start accounting. The result included Q4 after tax charges of $153m related to the planned sale of the structural products business to Metalsa.
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Honda is bringing a three-wheel, one-person battery-electric concept to the Geneva auto show. It's called the 3R-C, and it's Honda's vision of what a green urban commuter car could look like.
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The reclusive Akio Toyoda took the rare step of waving the family flag, as the scion to Toyota Motor Corp.'s founding dynasty tries to steer the world's largest car company out of a spiraling safety crisis.
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With congressional hearings scheduled well into next month, a lot more certainly will be said about Toyota's spate of recalls and how NHTSA handled the investigations. When it's all done, though, what will it mean to the automotive enthusiast?
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The grilling that US lawmakers had indicated they would give top Toyota executives, starting with the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing yesterday, played out last night - on primetime news broadcasts.
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Plans by Chinese engineering company Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery to acquire General Motor's Hummer unit appear to have hit the buffers.
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Plans by Chinese engineering company Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery to acquire General Motor's Hummer unit appear to have hit the buffers.
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South Korean carmaker Kia Motors Corp. will boost car production in Slovakia by 40 percent this year, driven mainly by rising demand in the SUV market, the company's Slovak unit said on Wednesday.
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