New car sales in Bulgaria fell 35.5% year-on-year for the first eight months of 2010.
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All 70,000 workers currently on strike in South Africa's automotive industry could return to work within 48 hours if union leaders accept an offer made by employers today (15 September).
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Denso Corp., the Toyota-affiliated parts supplier, plans to invest $35.5 million to build its first technical center in India to tailor products to the country's booming market.
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Ford Motor Co. expects its sales in China to outpace growth in Chinese car market this year as it expands its dealer network, the company's local sales chief said today. Ford, which competes with Toyota Motor Corp.
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Over a year ago, the Colombian ministry of commerce and industry published a new regulation requiring all imported brake pads to have the Icontec seal which stands for the Colombian Technical Standards Institute; the national agency responsible for technical standardisation.
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Renault has opened a new 330 hectare test centre in Titu, Romania, built midway between the Dacia plant in Pitesti and the Renault Technologie Roumanie (RTR) engineering centre in Bucharest.
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Renault is remaining coy surrounding reports it could dispose of its 20% stake in Volvo Trucks.
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Italian stock-market regulator Consob wants Fiat to provide more information about its debt when the company's shareholders meet tomorrow to approve a plan to separate truckmaking and agricultural units from the auto business, a newspaper said.
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EDITOR WES RAYNAL: This is a much more refined Grand Cherokee, and that's the thing that sticks out most to me. It's quieter (way quieter, in fact), smoother and drives more carlike--if that's your thing, you'll love this.
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Hyundai Motor Co., which has more than doubled U.S. sales in the past decade, plans to invest about $150 million to expand its North American headquarters in California.
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Mahindra and Mahindra, the preferred bidder for Ssangyong, said the South Korean automaker may introduce as many as three models within four years in a bid to return to profit.
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General Motors, now managed by former telecommunications and technology executives, is putting greater emphasis on selling OnStar to consumers.
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General Motors will spend up to US$500m to build a new assembly line for its next-generation Ecotec four-cylinder engine at its Spring Hill, Tennessee, manufacturing complex, and recall about 400 laid-off workers to make the engines, a source told a local paper.
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The Nikkei stock average today jumped 2.3 percent to a one-month closing high after Japan intervened to weaken the yen, boosting shares of Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other exporters.
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Rally star and DC Shoes purveyor Ken Block has delivered another piece of wild driving with his latest Gymkhana video--this time carving up the high-banked track at France's Linas at l'Autodrome.
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Magna is expected to launch full production at a car parts plant in St Petersburg on 21 October, city governor Valentina Matviyenko said.
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The Russian government has decided to continue the 'cash-for-clunkers' programme in 2011 and to allocate RUB14bn for it, prime minister Vladimir Putin said at a United Russia party conference.
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Axeon, a UK-based supplier of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, power tool and mobility applications, says it has raised GBP5m of new equity to support the next development phase of the business.
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Tata Motors Group global sales, comprising of Tata, Tata Daewoo and Hispano Carrocera commercial vehicles, Tata passenger vehicles and distributed brands in India plus Jaguar and Land Rover, were rose 29% last month to 85,114 units. Cumulative fiscal year sales (April to August) were up 42% to 424,938.
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