Two Renault executives fired on suspicion of leaking information about the carmaker's electric vehicle program have vowed to fight their dismissals.
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Volvo Cars chief executive Stefan Jacoby said he expects the company to grow sales this year with new models putting the company on the offensive rather than the defensive.
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Daihatsu will stop sales of new vehicles in Europe. The company said the strong yen has made exporting vehicles to Europe from Japan too unprofitable.
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Ford Otomotiv plans to raise production in Turkey by 6% to 256,000 vehicles this year as it targets a 15.2% market share in the country this year.
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Light vehicle production bounced back strongly in 2010 according to data exclusively provided by JD Power Automotive Forecasting to just-auto.
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As Brazil's auto industry broke more production and sales records month after month in 2010, the country was also the fourth largest global market after last year's data was tallied up. The 3.52m autos (cars plus light and heavy commercials) sold last year were an indisputable demonstration of strength.
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It's always a bit of a worry to be sitting at a restaurant table, chewing a celery stick and minding your own business, when the chairman and chief executive of General Motors sits down opposite.
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Volvo Cars, owned by Chinese group Geely Automobile, has no plans to bring out a low-cost model specifically for the Chinese market, CEO Stefan Jacoby told an Austrian newspaper.
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Porsche may launch production in North America and China as part of a plan to double annual global sales to 200,000 units, CEO Matthias Mueller said.
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Porsche may launch production in North America and China as part of a plan to double annual global sales to 200,000 units, CEO Matthias Mueller said.
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Ford Otomotiv, the Turkish unit of Ford , plans to raise production by 6 percent to 256,000 vehicles this year, the company said on its web site on Monday. Ford Otomotiv targets 15.
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McLaren Automotive has picked former Audi sales executive Greg Levine to oversee the global launch and marketing of its first high-performance road car, the 600hp MP4-12C.
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Lincoln vehicles will be dramatically different from Ford brand products, Ford Motor Co. executives said last week.
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Mid-South Bureau Chief Lindsay Chappell reviews some of what he liked and didn't like at the 2011 Detroit auto show.
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Richard Canny, the North America chief of Norwegian electric car maker Think, is resigning effective Jan. 31. 'It's time for me to move on to a new adventure and challenge,' Canny said.
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With a lack of production capacity restraining its steady sales growth, Hyundai is considering construction of a second U.S. vehicle assembly plant.
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With U.S. gasoline prices poised to revisit the $4-plus per gallon peak hit in 2008 just before the recession, sales of new smaller cars introduced since then would seem assured.
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Get ready for a bloody battle in the small-car segment. Compacts and subcompacts grabbed the spotlight at the Detroit auto show.
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Brimming with confidence after launching 16 new or revamped 2011 vehicles, CEO Sergio Marchionne served notice here last week that the Chrysler-Fiat alliance has more product surprises in store.
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French state prosecutors launched an inquiry into industrial espionage at Renault on Friday after the carmaker filed a legal complaint alleging information was passed to a foreign power.
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