Renault is breaking away from the angular styling favored by its former design chief, Patrick Le Quement. The French company will show a concept car that highlight's the brand's more emotional design at the Paris auto show in October.
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Nissan said its first hybrid model will nearly double the mileage of its petrol-engined equivalent, while keeping costs down with a simple, single motor system.
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Porsche will build its Cayenne SUV in India, using a plant owned by parent company Volkswagen in a move aimed at halving the import duty on the vehicle, according to media reports.
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Toyota is to invest JPY9bn (US$103m) to produce engines and transmissions for the Etios compact car in India developed for the local market.
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The Toyota Prius hybrid was Japan's best-selling car in the first six months of this year with sales of 170,426 according to figures from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association.
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Sales of new imported vehicles in Japan, including those produced at Japanese automakers' overseas plants, increased 11.7% from a year earlier to 97,282 vehicles in the first half of this year, rising for the first time in four years for the January-June period, an industry body said Tuesday.
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AvtoVAZ has said that its first half sales rose 22.7% year-on-year to 220,800 vehicles.
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Peugeot UK's managing director has told just-auto that he expects the UK car market to decline to around 1.9m units this year.
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Taganrog Automobile Plant (TagAZ) is to start production of BYD vehicles next month according to Russian press reports.
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GAZ plans to sell 50,000 light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and 10,000 medium commercial vehicles (MCVs) in Russia in 2010, the company said in a report.
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Less than a year after taking over as brand chief of sports car maker Porsche AG, Michael Macht has been reassigned because he failed to fill the big shoes of predecessor Wendelin Wiedeking.
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Peugeot in the UK has launched its 'Mu' mobility rental scheme as a pilot led by two dealerships in London and Bristol. The scheme has already debuted in continental Europe and is designed to offer a flexible 'mobility solution' to urban dwellers, as well as promote the Peugeot brand and its products to potential customers.
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Spyker has poured cold water on suggestions it is to launch a road version of its GT2 model for the Chinese market
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MOSCOW (Bloomberg) -- BYD Co., the Chinese automaker partly owned by billionaire Warren Buffett, started assembling cars in Russia, BYD's local partner TagAZ said.
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Mercedes-Benz had its best June ever last month with passenger car sales up 13% year on year to 113,300 units. First half sales were up 15% to 556,700 vehicles.
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Mitsubishi has not ruled out the construction of a third factory in Thailand, although it is keeping its cards close to its chest.
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Renault is breaking away from the angular styling favored by its former design chief, Patrick Le Quement. The automaker will show a concept car that highlight's the brand's more emotional design at the Paris auto show in October.
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New-car registrations in Britain rose 10.8 percent in June to 195,226 vehicles, their 12th successive monthly increase, SMMT said on Tuesday.
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Nissan Motor Co. said it aims to nearly double the mileage on its first hybrid car developed in-house compared with the gasoline-engine version, while keeping costs down with a simple, single-motor system. Japan's No.
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Nissan Motor Co. said it aims to nearly double the mileage on its first hybrid car developed in-house compared with the gasoline-engine version, while keeping costs down with a simple, single-motor system. Japan's No.
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