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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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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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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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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Hispania Racing Team on Tuesday did not reveal the identity of its race drivers for this weekend's Japanese grand prix.
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Sunday's incident at Kansas Speedway between Kyle Busch and David Reutimann highlighted the problem of having a playoff system, which involves drivers not in the playoff.
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Tony Kanaan and his IndyCar team Andretti Autosport will have to resort to Plan B as they were told that they are losing the financial backing of long-time partner 7-Eleven.
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Twenty-five-year-old Dutch GP2 driver Giedo van der Garde is hoping to make his formula one race debut in 2011.
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Twenty-seven-year-old Leon Haslam has been confirmed by BMW as team mate to Aussie Troy Corser for the 2011 of the World Superbike Championship, after finishing second in the 2010 Championship. In fact, Haslam has been released from his contract with Suzuki Alstare and will be testing the S 1000 RR bikes in the coming weeks.
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The celebrations for Jaguar's 75th anniversary took an unexpected turn at this year's Mondial de l'automobile in Paris, where we attended the unveiling of the stunning C-X75 prototype. Highlighting Jaguar's future, the event also had us looking back on the brand's history by way of various anecdotes, revised and compiled here by Auto123, that have marked the past years.
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