Steven Armstrong, chief operating officer of Volvo Cars, will leave the Swedish automaker to join former employer Ford Motor Co. as part of a management reshuffle under new Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby. Armstrong, 46, will return to Ford of Europe.
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Steven Armstrong, chief operating officer of Volvo Cars, will leave the Swedish automaker to join former employer Ford Motor Co. as part of a management reshuffle under new CEO Stefan Jacoby.
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Opel/Vauxhall has confirmed it had a commercial bid for its Antwerp plant but maintained it was not sufficiently supported by a business plan detailed enough.
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These days, turbochargers are seen as an integral and essential part of the automotive industry's portfolio of technologies deployed to reduce vehicle emissions and improve the industry's environmental performance and credentials. It's a growth sector and that's encouraging new entrants, just one of the findings in new research from just-auto that details developments and trends in the turbocharger market.
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GM Daewoo Auto and Technology said the Chevrolet Aveo showcased at the Paris show will be launched in South Korea during the first half of next year.
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Car sales in South Korea slowed last month by the most in almost a year as national holidays kept customers out of showrooms.
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BMW has set up an Indian finance subsidiary, in which it will invest $50 million this year.
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New car registrations in Germany fell 18% last month over September last year according to the automobile federation. However, the latest fall, the 10th in a row, was slower than the pace of recent months, when drops of around 30% were recorded.
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Market leader Maruti Suzuki India sold 108,006 vehicles in India during September, its highest-ever monthly sales following the record of 104,971 set just one month earlier.
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Opel/Vauxhall's new minicar will be a competitor to Fiat's cult hit 500, the carmaker's sales and marketing head Alain Visser said. The General Motors Co.
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Duncan Aldred may look impossibly young to be managing director of Vauxhall Motors but, after 20 years with General Motors, he is getting close to qualifying for the once traditional long-service 'carriage clock'.
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Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia (KMMG) has launched a second shift at its new West Point, Georgia, factory.
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A European automotive manufacturer is a customer for a lightweight battery pack being developed by UK-based lithium-ion energy systems supplier, Axeon, and automotive technology and systems integration provider, Ricardo.
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Here's a brief run-down of reports available in our research store that caught our eye over the past week or so...
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Tata Motors will launch the Aria, said to be the first Indian-designed, developed and built crossover, on 11 October. First shown as a concept at the Geneva motor show in 2005 and at the New Delhi show in 2006, the production Aria was finally unveiled in New Delhi last January.
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The Malaysian government will decide by the end of the yearon proposals by five foreign vehicle manufacturers to launch assembly operations in the country, according to trade and industry minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed.
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AvtoVAZ returned to profit in the first half with a net profit of 3.1 billion rubles ($102 million), a revival driven by state help and a market pick-up.
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Ford plans to dramatically reduce the number of Lincoln dealerships as part of a major overhaul of the lagging brand, with the bulk of the cuts coming from 500 stores in the nation's top 130 markets.
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Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne's latest investment freeze will again delay the launch of the third generation of Europe's biggest-selling minicar, the Panda, company sources said.
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Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne's latest investment freeze will again delay the launch of the third generation of Europe's biggest-selling minicar, the Panda, company sources said.
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