The 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed started with a bang--and a bent Jaguar E-Type. But by the end of the weekend, the festival was being acclaimed by both fans and participants as one of the most successful runnings of the annual event so far.
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The 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed started with a bang--and a bent Jaguar E-Type. But by the end of the weekend, the festival was being acclaimed by both fans and participants as one of the most successful runnings of the annual event so far.
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McLaren Automotive has set up a North American operation and named six of the 10 dealers it will use to sell the MP4-12C sports car.
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McLaren Automotive has set up a North American operation and named six of the 10 dealers it will use to sell the MP4-12C sports car.
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Toyota Motor's Canadian unit said on Monday its June sales dropped 13.8% year on year while General Motors said Canadian sales rose 15.2%.
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Automaker moved to address the problem in August 2008 by altering the design of the valve spring and making it thicker, but the company didn't feel that a recall was necessary given the rarity of the problem at the time, a spokesman said.
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Volkswagen AG appointed Matthias Mueller, its top car-model strategist, as CEO of Porsche AG. Mueller's job is to revive Porsche's lineup of luxury vehicles ahead of the brand's integration into VW.
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Former Audi and Volkswagen product strategist must revive Porsche's lineup of luxury sport vehicles ahead of the brand's integration into VW.
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Renault is breaking away from the angular styling favored by its former design chief, Patrick Le Quement. The French company will show a concept car that highlight's the brand's more emotional design at the Paris auto show in October.
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Renault is breaking away from the angular styling favored by its former design chief, Patrick Le Quement. The French company will show a concept car that highlight's the brand's more emotional design at the Paris auto show in October.
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Nissan said its first hybrid model will nearly double the mileage of its petrol-engined equivalent, while keeping costs down with a simple, single motor system.
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Porsche will build its Cayenne SUV in India, using a plant owned by parent company Volkswagen in a move aimed at halving the import duty on the vehicle, according to media reports.
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Toyota is to invest JPY9bn (US$103m) to produce engines and transmissions for the Etios compact car in India developed for the local market.
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The Toyota Prius hybrid was Japan's best-selling car in the first six months of this year with sales of 170,426 according to figures from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association.
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Sales of new imported vehicles in Japan, including those produced at Japanese automakers' overseas plants, increased 11.7% from a year earlier to 97,282 vehicles in the first half of this year, rising for the first time in four years for the January-June period, an industry body said Tuesday.
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AvtoVAZ has said that its first half sales rose 22.7% year-on-year to 220,800 vehicles.
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Peugeot UK's managing director has told just-auto that he expects the UK car market to decline to around 1.9m units this year.
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Taganrog Automobile Plant (TagAZ) is to start production of BYD vehicles next month according to Russian press reports.
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GAZ plans to sell 50,000 light commercial vehicles (LCVs) and 10,000 medium commercial vehicles (MCVs) in Russia in 2010, the company said in a report.
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Less than a year after taking over as brand chief of sports car maker Porsche AG, Michael Macht has been reassigned because he failed to fill the big shoes of predecessor Wendelin Wiedeking.
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