Someone in a better position than most automotive industry CEOs to know reckons it will be some time before auto makers adopt the widespread use of lightweight composite materials.
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Toyota Motor is reported to be in talking with Daimler about supplying parts and technology for hybrid vehicles.
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Automotivated, a new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, traces the evolution of clothes worn in cars--from the bulky circus-tent stuff people had to wear to keep from freezing to death in the jangly, open-topped conveyances of...
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COPY EDITOR CYNTHIA L. OROSCO: I was a bit intimidated when I walked through the garage up to this truck. It's huge, it has huge wheels and I figured it would feel huge to drive. The sheetmetal is nice, though, and I liked the rounded edges.
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News that fewer teenagers are getting driver's licenses has been greeted with consternation in some corners, but it couldn't make the insurance industry happier.
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and#8220;This is gonna be awesome!and#8221; the spiky-haired guy in the Scion video screams, epitomizing in five words the enthusiasm the youth-oriented brand has tried to stand for over its seven-year history.
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Sergio Marchionne said Fiat could increase its stake in Chrysler from the current 20 percent to 35 percent by the end of next year and that Chrysler plans to launch its public stock offering by the end of 2011.
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Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said today the Italian automaker could increase its stake in the U.S.
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In this interview, Matthew Beecham talked with Martin Kölbel, senior key account manager for Flabeg Holding GmbH about the company's rearview mirrors.
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Strong unit sales will power BMW's third-quarter results, Chief Financial Officer Friedrich Eichiner said, adding that a seasonal slowdown it was expecting was not as strong as it had forecast.
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General Motors will be 'patient' with efforts to turn around its unprofitable European unit, CEO Dan Akerson said. Akerson doesn't see a need to find a partner for Opel unit at this time.
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General Motors will be 'patient' with efforts to turn around its unprofitable European unit, CEO Dan Akerson said. Akerson doesn't see a need to find a partner for Opel unit at this time.
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General Motors Co. results "over the next several years" will determine how quickly the U.S. government bailout that saved it last year is paid back, GM CEO Dan Akerson said today.
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Russian Machines, the industrial and engineering company of Basic Element, has appointed former Magna International co-CEO Siegfried Wolf as chairman.
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Michelin plans to spend over EUR10m in the development of truck tyre retread operations in Russia over the next few years.
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SAIC Motor plans to roll out 20,000 energy-efficient vehicles in Shanghai and the Yangtse River delta area by 2012 and unload a heavy truck business.
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General Motors aims to sell at least 10 to 15 percent more vehicles in China next year, in line with the expected rate of growth in the world's biggest auto market, its China chief, Kevin Whale, said on Thursday.
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German car parts group Continental expects automobile production in Europe and the United States, its main markets, to largely stagnate next year, prompting it to step up expansion in Asia.
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Chinese carmakers and Baoshan Iron and Steel are working to cut vehicle weight by as much as 10 percent to compete with market leaders including Volkswagen.
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Great Wall Motor will begin trial sales of its pure electric cars in the country next year, its chairman said, adding he expected second half 2010 sales to rise compared with the first.
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