Sliding rear side doors are a new feature of VW's long-overdue redesigned Sharan MPV/minivan revealed in time for this week's Geneva show.
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General Motors' announcement today that it is tripling its funding commitments to the restructuring of its European Opel/Vauxhall unit to EUR1.9bn shows it has bowed to pressure from the German government, an auto analyst said in a research note.
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The Senate Commerce Committee will consider legislation to address shortcomings in federal oversight that have surfaced with disclosure of safety defects in Toyota vehicles, committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller said today. Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller called today for legislation that would tighten the 2000 federal law requiring more sharing of safety-defect information about vehicles.
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The GM recall of about 1.3m Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 compact cars is not likely to receive nearly as much attention as the Toyota recalls because it is not unprecedented - GM recalls vehicles every year - and consumers do not expect absolute flawless perfection from their GM cars in the way that they do from Toyotas, an auto analyst said on Tuesday.
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Pitching it as a "driver's hybrid," Infiniti revealed its first-ever production hybrid, based on the M35 sedan, on Tuesday at the Geneva auto show.
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General Motors Co.'s Canadian unit is recalling over 250,000 compact cars to fix defective power steering systems that have been linked to more than a dozen crashes in North America.
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Nissan is targeting the Russian market as it looks to soak up an expected shortfall in European registrations this year.
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Cadillac Europe has revised its volume ambitions lower than in previous years as it grasps reality and adjusts to a new distribution structure for the continent.
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Toyota on Tuesday admitted it is voluntarily fixing 1.3m vehicles in North America for engine oil leaks but denied the campaign was a recall because it did not affect safety.
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Ford Motor Co. said it will produce a global performance car based on the re-engineered, restyled Focus.
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