Opel/Vauxhall has confirmed that it will build an all-new small car below the Corsa, at its Eisenach plant in the east German state of Thuringia from 2013.
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Kia is to premiere its compact, electric concept car Pop at the Paris Motor Show, the company has said.
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Authorities in Sweden are to ask an enforcement agency to consider its claim Saab still owes SEK83m (US$12m) in salary cover paid during the automaker's transition from General Motors to Spyker.
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European commercial vehicle manufacturers are developing an evaluation tool to calculate real-life CO2 emissions from trucks and buses ahead of purchase.
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European commercial vehicle manufacturers are developing an evaluation tool to calculate real-life CO2 emissions from trucks and buses ahead of purchase.
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ThyssenKrupp said it would freeze all new business with Iran with immediate effect and terminate existing contracts there as soon as possible in response to ever-harsher sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
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Malaysia's Tan Chong Motor Holdings is expanding into Vietnam with the proposed acquisition of a controlling interest in Nissan Vietnam Company.
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British car production in August was 37.3 percent higher than a year earlier, and year-to-date output was up by an annual 41.3 percent, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said on Thursday.
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Bentley's sales have plummeted as its cars aged and the economy fell into recession.
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Bentley's sales have plummeted as its cars aged and the economy fell into recession.
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Aston Martin's Vantage is sporty in basic trim, but add the 6.0-liter V12 and things start moving pretty fast. AutoWeek editors Natalie Neff and Jon Wong give us their impressions.
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Volvo and Saab, struggling to revive slumping U.S. sales, need to find distinctive design and the right price tags to win sales from luxury brands such as BMW and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz, experts say. Succeeding in the U.S.
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Volvo and Saab, struggling to revive slumping U.S. sales, need to find distinctive design and the right price tags to win sales from luxury brands such as BMW and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz, experts say. Succeeding in the U.S.
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Former GM executive Richard M. Donnelly has been named chairman of the board at heavy-duty vehicle maker Oshkosh Corp. Donnelly, 67, will assume the position on Feb. 1, 2011. He succeeds Robert Bohn, 56, who is retiring as CEO on Dec. 31.
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VW will start building a $550 million gasoline engine plant in Silao, in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, next month. The plant will be completed by 2013 and have a capacity of 330,000 engines a year.
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Mahindra and Mahindra may back Italian financier Simone Cimino's plan to build electric cars at Fiat's Termini Imerese car factory in Sicily.
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Land Rover will price its Range Rover Evoque starting at 30,000 pounds (about $40,000) in the UK. Land Rover issued more information about the two-door Evoque ahead of the model's public debut at the Paris auto show later this month.
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Early U.S. sales for Ford Motor Co.'s Fiesta show that consumers are buying higher-end versions of the new small car, boosting the automaker's profit on sales in a traditionally low-margin segment, company officials said.
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Renault and Nissan will jointly develop a platform for at least 10 models to reduce its suppliers and lower procurement costs by about one-third, the Nikkei business daily said.
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Early U.S. sales for Ford Motor Co.'s Fiesta show that consumers are buying higher-end versions of the new small car, boosting the automaker's profit on sales in a traditionally low-margin segment, company officials said.
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