In a push to expand its electric vehicle fleet, Hertz Corp. will start offering an electric version of the Smart ForTwo in three major cities. Hertz says the ForTwo will be available starting Dec.
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Vehicle sales are rebounding and so are automaker demands for price cuts from suppliers. In a note last week from JPMorgan Chase and Co., analysts said executives with supplier Johnson Controls Inc.
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The Chevy Camaro leads the Ford Mustang in the sales race, Nissan's next Sentra will look more like the Altima, and the Honda CR-Z is in line for a turbocharged engine.
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Ford expects to sell enough Focus compact cars in Europe to reach full capacity next year at a German factory making the new model, helping the automaker stem a decline in market share in the region. The car, already in production in the U.S.
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All those aging cars on the roads have been good for dealers' service-and-parts business this year. Next year, vehicle sales will get a boost.
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Although car ads have long been a staple of the Super Bowl -- the premier U.S. TV broadcast that commands as much as $3 million per ad -- 2011 is shaping up to be the biggest auto-ad showdown in recent memory.
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Sales of new passenger cars in New Zealand were up 30.8% year on year in November 2009 with commercials 20.6% up over the same period. Year to date the total market is up 14.5% with passenger cars 14% ahead and commercials 16.4%.
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First examples of all-new Focus start rolling off Ford’s production line in Saarlouis, Germany.
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Geely, local supplier Zhejiang Linmin and PSA supplier unit Faurecia are to form a joint venture and establish a global industrial zone in China.
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Ford is increasingly using electric steering in its models not just to enhance driving comfort and improve fuel economy, but also to allow driver-friendly features such as parallel parking assist, writes Matthew Beecham. Electric steering technology could act as catalyst for a number of other driver-enhanced features.
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President Barack Obama is touting a free-trade agreement between the United States and South Korea that includes new provisions for automobile imports.
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DETROIT -- UAW President Bob King held a demonstration today at the Hyundai America Technical Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., to protest treatment of temporary workers at Hyundai operations in South Korea.
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The assembly line at Hyundai Motor's Ulsan plant occupied by striking temporary workers remained idle for the 22nd day on Monday despite the company's attempts to resume operations.
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Russia's project to give an old Chrysler a new life has come to an end, according to media reports.
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Korea's additional concession in automobile trade regulations in its free trade agreement with the US is expected to have a limited impact on domestic carmakers, industry sources told the Korea Herald.
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Volkswagen will take on an additional 50,000 workers worldwide, taking its global workforce to around 450,000 in the medium term, the company's personnel director Horst Neumann told the German financial daily Handelsblatt.
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