Toyota Motor workers did not demand a pay-scale hike this week as Japanese auto unions presented their annual wage demands amid serious deflation and severe employment conditions.
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Fisker will display the aluminium space frame underpinning its upcoming Karma premium plug-in hybrid electric vehicle at the Geneva show next month. It claims the frame "incorporates new levels of rigidity and strength that will give the [car] first world-class ride and handling characteristics".
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In today's News Brake: Opel considers a bigger hybrid, a sad day for Tesla Motors, and the future of the U.S. F1 team looks shaky . . . But Wait, There's More!
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Three employees of electric car start-up Tesla Motors died on Wednesday when their small plane crashed in a residential neighborhood in California's Silicon Valley but no one was injured on the ground, media reports said.
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Toyota Motor Corp. braced itself for further damage to its brand as a U.S. probe into power steering complaints in the Corolla heightened chances of another recall. U.S.
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The passenger car business developed positively in most of the world's markets in January according to the VDA in its latest monthly review.
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Over the past few years, Ford has overhaul its lineup of engines and transmissions. The goal: deliver the power with better fuel economy. The person leading that effort is Barb Samardzich, Ford's vice president of powertrain engineering.
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Over the past few years, Ford has overhauled its lineup of engines and transmissions. The goal: deliver the power with better fuel economy. The person leading that effort is Barb Samardzich, Ford's vice president of powertrain engineering.
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General Motors will spend about $494m and create around 550 jobs in three US plants to make 'next generation' fuel efficient Ecotec engines, the automaker announced at simultaneous events in three states on Thursday.
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Strange old mix the Daimler annual results presentation. It starts off boastful, goes on at greater length than most other people being boastful, then morphs into quite a likeable and co-operative question and answer session.
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Daimler has expanded its board of management to six members by appointing Wolfgang Bernhard to a newly created position heading Mercedes-Benz cars production and procurement as well as the Mercedes-Benz vans division he has run since early last year.
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General Motors Co. will call back 470 laid-off workers to build its next-generation Ecotec four-cylinder engine at its plant in Tonawanda, N.Y.
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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has named former BMW and Ford executive Ralf Speth CEO with overall responsibility for its operations.
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The 2011 Audi A8 is a technological juggernaut, and through its use of lightweight materials, more efficient engines and a bevy of electronic features, it sets the tone for future offerings from the luxury automaker.
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Halfords is expanding its operations into the car servicing and repair industry with the acquisition of Nationwide Autocentres, in a deal wirth £73.2m. The move creates the largest UK operator with a specialised focus on the car parts, servicing and repair market.
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SENIOR EDITOR FOR NEWS BOB GRITZINGER: Except for the extra-wide dual-wheel rear-end, this truck drives more like a lighter-duty Ram than one might expect.
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Spyker will have to raise more cash in order to make its $400-million acquisition of Sweden's Saab sustainably profitable amid gut-wrenching changes in the global automobile industry.
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