Renault will eventually be able to produce 350,000 low cost vehicles per year at the plant it is building in Tangiers, in Morocco, an executive said.
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Lots of readers this week for our very own Rob Golding's view of the future tenure of a certain well known automaker's CFO. If you missed it, here 'tis.
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Mazda on Friday built its 900,000th MX-5 Miata, raising the bar on its Guinness World Record for best-selling two-seat sports car.
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Mitsubishi will build the Outlander Sport crossover (RVR in Japan, ASX in Europe) will at its US plant in Normal, Illinois, from mid-2012.
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BMW has refuted claims it could lease, not sell its Megacity Vehicle ahead of further details being revealed of the electric sub-brand on 21 February.
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Our long-term fleet recently welcomed a new member, a burgundy-and-chrome leviathan otherwise known as the Infiniti QX56. Full story…
TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said today it will invest $100 million to build the Outlander Sport crossover at its Normal, Ill., plant starting in the summer of 2012.
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For some time, the flat wiper blade has dominated the market driven by the need for improved product quality, comfort and aesthetics. Matthew Beecham reports on the implications for the aftermarket.
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Ally Financial Inc, the auto and mortgage lender majority-owned by the U.S. government, has selected four U.S. banks to lead a planned initial public offering, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Volkswagen has issued official photographs of the facelifted Tiguan. The pics follow the compact SUV's premature unveiling on VW's own German sales Web site on Friday.
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Lotus Engineering has hired two new managers to help strengthen its market presence in China and Europe as the company enjoys a third successive year of growth, it says.
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Yaris hybrid and seven-seater Prius+ lined up for world premiere next month.
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Yaris hybrid and seven-seater Prius lined up for world premiere next month.

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The lawyer of one of three former Renault executives fired on suspicion of industrial espionage has called on France's justice minister to reveal the exact nature of the carmaker's allegations.
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New car registrations in the UK fell by 11.5% to 128,811 units in January in line with the SMMT's forecast and, in part it said, reflected the loss of the scrappage incentive scheme (SIS).
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Exports from Ford's UK-based engine and parts manufacturing operations have grown by over a third in the last 12 months to keep up with increasing demand in Russia, Australia and the Far East.
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VW’s Tiguan small SUV gets a fresh look inside and out, debuts at Geneva Motor Show.

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BMW expects to achieve double-digit growth in China to help fuel record sales this year.
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There would have been some popping of champagne corks at Honda HQ in Tokyo today after earlier reports were confirmed that the Fit - which most outside Japan and North America know as the Jazz - had toppled the Toyota Prius from 19 months at the top of the Japanese sales charts.
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The Honda Fit [aka Jazz] subcompact has toppled the Toyota Prius to top of the sales rankings in Japan for the first time in more than three years.
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