Aston Martin is in talks with Daimler AG over a potential partnership that would see the British luxury carmaker design and build a new Maybach ultraluxury sedan for the German automaker, Europe press reports said.
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Our friends at Aston Martin are happy to point out that the 6.0-liter V12 engine used in its sports cars is related to the powerplant in its 2010 DBR1-2 Le Mans Series race car.
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General Motors Co. is recalling nearly 96,000 Cadillac CTS cars for the model years 2005 to 2007 because a mat that senses car passengers in the front seat could break and disable the front air bag. Separately, Honda Motor Co.
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BMW is ending its America's Cup team sponsorship.
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Dodge, moving to entice car shoppers as industry sales recover, plans a major marketing push early next year that will include advertising during the Super Bowl broadcast on Feb. 6, 2011.
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Honda is recalling about 10,800 Accords and Pilots in the United States for a potential front-suspension failure. The recall covers the 2010 and 2011 model years.
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Truck and engine manufacturer Navistar International Corp. said it is the subject of five lawsuits that could be granted class-action status stemming from 'design and manufacturing defects' in truck engines it made for Ford Motor Co.
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NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: This elegant Mercedes cut through a dim, dreary morning in late fall to propel me to work, even as my eyelids remained heavy.
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NEWS EDITOR GREG MIGLIORE: This elegant Mercedes cut through a dim, dreary morning in late fall to propel me to work, even as my eyelids remained heavy.
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Mercedes-Benz has revealed a facelifted version of the C-class ahead of its planned North American introduction next July.
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French car buyers are expected to flock to showrooms to take advantage of the country's scrappage scheme before it ends on Dec. 31. Renault expects orders for the market as a whole to exceed 300,000 units in December
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The attention of most of the UK was this week focused out the window - will it snow/has it snowed/how deep? And, of course, large areas, including the country's busiest airport, ground to a halt.
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Toyota expects global production to rise to at least 8m units in 2012, surpassing the mark for the first time in four years.
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Russia's car output rose 98% year on year to 1.081m units in January-November, the economic development ministry said in a report.
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Maruti Suzuki India said total production may reach 2m units a year by 2014-15, up over 66% on current levels once two new assembly plants at Manesar start work by 2012.
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Aston Martin and Daimler exploring opportunities for future extensive cooperation according to Financial Times Deutschland, citing company sources.
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Like any year in the auto industry, 2010 saw its fair share of company ups and downs, industrial comings and goings, and a fair old sprinkling of corporate drama. We covered it all on just-auto. Editor Dave Leggett sifts through the lot and picks out a few highlights from the year just gone, month by month. This is part two and covers the second half of the year.
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GM Uzbekistan, the joint venture between General Motors Uzavtoprom, is expected to invest US$136m to assemble a "business sedan" sometime between 2011 and 2013, a source in the Uzbek government told the Prime-Tass news agency.
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Fiat and its four main unions have started negotiations in Turin this morning (23 December) in a bid to kick-start stalled progress concerning the Mirafiori plant.
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Advanced manufacturing technology will offset the strong yen, enabling Toyota to continue producing vehicles in Japan, the top executive said.
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