Nissan Motor on Tuesday confirmed its new global compact car would make its world debut at the Geneva motor show next month. The Leaf electric vehicle will also make its first European show appearance alongside the upcoming UK-built Juke crossover.
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SENIOR EDITOR FOR NEWS BOB GRITZINGER: Other than paying $1,000 for this four-speed automatic transmission over a base five-speed manual, I see nothing amiss in this and#8220;Premiumand#8221; Forester.
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Incredible new hypercar caught testing in South Africa showing new bodywork for the first time
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Toyota's UK-made, production-ready Auris hybrid will make its world debut at the Geneva auto show early next month.
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Ferrari has indicated its expected financial results for 2009, in line with Italian law.
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New car sales registrations in the European Union increased by 12.9% in January compared to the same month a year ago, according to data released by European carmakers' association ACEA.
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Volkswagen and its key workers union IG Metall announced on Tuesday they had "successfully concluded" "follow-on negotiations to the 2009 collective bargaining agreement".
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Ford Motor Co.'s India unit said on Tuesday it would launch its subcompact car in March and is expanding its dealer network in the fast-growing market.
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PSA Peugeot-Citroen is expected to start testing vehicle assembly at its new Russian joint venture plant in Kaluga next month according to Ruslan Zalivatsky, the region's economic development minister.
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Toyota has recalled 57,300 vehicles in Turkey as part of its global campaign to fix a faulty accelerator pedal.
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Turkish auto industry output rose 97.5% year on year in January to 76,565 units according to Otomotiv Sanayii Dernegi (OSD), the Turkish automotive manufacturers association. It is, however, forecasting full-year output down 15.4% to 907,395.
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Russia's Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant (UAZ) plans to resume production of the UAZ-469 sport utility vehicle (SUV) early in March, a spokesman said.
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Mexico's Metalsa and China's Fuyao Group are considering setting up vehicle components production in Russia's Kaluga region, Ruslan Zalivatsky, the region's economic development minister, told reporters.
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Biggest ever 43 car group test, Honda's new hybrid Type R, all-American muscle cars go head-to-head, Maserati GranCabrio driven,
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Ford India, preparing for the launch next month of its new [previous generation European Fiesta based] Figo, has signed up 28 new dealers which opened their doors this week.
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New entry-level 3.6-litre petrol engine joins luxury four-door range
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Nissan has the potential to double its market share in the Middle East but needs to offer more smaller and cheaper cars, Renault-Nissan president and CEO Carlos Ghosn has said.
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General Motors will talk to state and local governments to see what incentives might be available before deciding which closed US plant it will reopen, North American president Mark Reuss has said.
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ata Motors Ltd., India's largest vehicles maker, is keen to sell a stake in its financing arm, a senior official said on Tuesday. "We are looking at various options of offloading stake," Vice Chairman Ravi Kant told reporters.
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German engineering sector union IG Metall has agreed with Volkswagen AG to extend job guarantees at the carmaker's western German plants by three years until 2014, the union said on Tuesday.
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