In this interview, Matthew Beecham talked with Peter Weyand, engineering manager ignition, Europe, Delphi, and Claver Joseph, IAM vehicle electronics product manager, Delphi about the company's ignition system products and innovations. We also talked with Delphi's Paul Martindale, active safety product line architect, about keyless entry system trends.
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Lexus is launching two voluntary recalls in the UK, affecting its IS, GS and RX models.
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Porsche has had customer commitments for all 500 of its 911 GT2 RS model being built.
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European union representatives have accused Opel of not giving any chance or support to a potential investor for its doomed plant at Antwerp.
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General Motors is to plough US$37m into its Lansing Delta Township assembly plant, with the money earmarked for tooling and equipment to enhance the plant's manufacturing capabilities.
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Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA is to conduct a voluntary safety recall involving around 740,000 vehicles.
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Russian truck maker Kamaz has opened an assembly facility in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk.
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Fiat SpA expects full year earnings to be at least EUR2bn (US$2.8bn) compared with a previous estimate of EUR1.2bn. The revised figure follows an improved third quarter trading profit of EUR586m beating the EUR409m estimate of analysts thanks to improved sales of Iveco trucks and Case New Holland tractors.
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Toyota Motor Corp., the world's largest carmaker, said on Thursday it would begin making its flagship Prius hybrid sedan in Thailand, marking the first mass production of the model outside Japan.
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Deliveries of VW’s all-new people carrier start in November, priced from £22,980.
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Renault’s refreshed Laguna range priced from £17,795 to £24,145.
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Fiat raised its 2010 forecasts after quarterly profit beat analysts' estimates on sales of Iveco trucks and Case New Holland tractors. Full-year earnings before interest, taxes and one-time items will be at least 2 billion euros ($2.
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Fiat raised its 2010 forecasts after quarterly profit beat analysts' estimates on sales of Iveco trucks and Case New Holland tractors. Full-year earnings before interest, taxes and one-time items will be at least 2 billion euros ($2.
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All 500 examples of Porsche’s most powerful road-going sports car are sold.
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Q7 SUV gets new entry-level 3.0-litre TDI diesel engine to cut emissions and fuel consumption.
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Cifunsa Diesel is to supply iron block castings to Ford for its 4.6L, 5.4L and 6.8L gasoline-powered V8 engines.
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Fujitsu Semiconductor America today (21 October) introduced the Fujitsu MB86R11 2D/3D Graphics System-on-a-Chip (SoC) with an integrated GDC and GPU.
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Toyota will recall 1.53 million vehicles globally to fix a brake-related problem that may cause fluid leaks. Toyota will repair 599,029 cars in Japan and 740,000 units in the United States.
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Toyota Motor Corp. will repair about 1.53 million Avalons and other vehicles globally for problems with the brake master cylinder seal and fuel pump wiring, with most of those to be recalled in the United States and Japan.
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GM will export Chevrolet cars from China to Latin America, becoming the first international brand to use its China operations to tap growth in emerging markets. Shanghai GM started to export the Chevrolet New Sail to Chile.
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