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Vehicle sales in China grew 2.2% year on year in July to 1.28m units, state media said.

Indian car sales slid almost 16% year on year in July, their biggest drop in nearly three years, as high interest rates kept buyers out of showrooms, data showed on Wednesday.

Fuji Heavy Industries said it would unveil its Subaru XV crossover vehicle at the Frankfurt show next month.

BYD's vice president and general sales manager Xia Zhibing resigned on 5 August for personal reasons and will be replaced as general sales manager by BYD's general planning manager Hou Yan.

Seating and electronics supplier Lear said CEO Bob Rossiter, who reorganized the company after a brief Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2009, will leave the company after 40 years of service.

Scandinavian supplier association FKG says Saab cannot pay its originally-mooted suggestion of 10% to suppliers in order to start clearing some of the significant debt it owes.

In a long and distinguished career, Bob Lutz was the archetypal 'car guy' auto industry executive. He may be approaching 80 years of age and 'retired', but he is still pretty active. Straight talking Mr Lutz tells Dave Leggett that he relishes the opportunity to advise Lotus and that his time at GM taught him that you need to give designers leeway if you want to make good cars...

In this interview, Matthew Beecham talked with Robin Coppenrath, global business manager, SABIC Innovative Plastics about the use of the company's resin, STAMAX, in front-end modules. The Innovative Plastics strategic business unit of SABIC is a major supplier of engineering thermoplastics. In addition to automotive, SABIC serves the electronics, building and construction, and healthcare markets. Its product portfolio includes thermoplastic resins, coatings, specialty compounds, film and sheet.

GM CEO Dan Akerson said the company's long-term strategy includes plans to build Chevrolet cars in Europe, but he did not indicate when.

GM CEO Dan Akerson said the company's long-term strategy includes plans to build Chevrolet cars in Europe. Opel's labor union chief Klaus Franz said building Chevrolets in GM's European plants would improve capacity utilization at Opel factories.

Saab CEO Victor Muller is to meet his four unions later today (10 August) following last week's settlement of outstanding salaries to white-collar staff.

Production-ready Subaru XV crossover will debut at Frankfurt Motor Show

New vehicle sales in the Philippines fell sharply year-on-year in July, by 23% to 11,550 units, from an estimated 14,992 units in the same month a year ago. This data includes members of the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc (CAMPI), and excludes data from non-members, including Hyundai, Kia and Subaru.

CONTRIBUTING EDITOR BARRY WINFIELD : Even with a base price of about $110,000, the 2011 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is a performance bargain.

Hyundai has released a first teaser photo of the next generation i30, the C-segment hatchback making its world debut at the Frankfurt show next month.

Frankfurt debut for Suzuki's new 136bhp range-topping supermini

Volkswagen, Fiat and GM are offering cheap financing and cash rebates to woo hesitant European customers as car demand shows signs of deteriorating because of the region's debt crisis.

All-new Focus rival, designed and engineered in Europe, breaks cover in this official rendering

The Fiat-Chrysler alliance will bring a big dose of Fiat's fuel-saving technology to Chrysler's gas-guzzling lineup.

GM plans to move its struggling Opel brand more upmarket in Europe to compete with Volkswagen.