GM laid off workers at a Kansas car assembly plant for two weeks to perform plant upgrades.
Tenneco Automotive India plans to spend about US$20m to expand in the lucrative Indian market in three to five years, its local chief said.
Indonesia's largest vehicle manufacturer, PT Daihatsu Astra Motor, is building a second plant in Indonesia, in Karawang - some 70km (40 miles) east of Jakarta.
Despite announcing an alliance at the end of 2009, Suzuki and Volkswagen appear to have fallen out, ending plans to get the tie-up working.
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Carl-Peter Forster has resigned from his position as Tata Motors CEO because of ''unavoidable personal circumstances,'' the automaker said in a statement today.
Former General Motors Europe boss Carl-Peter Forster resigned today as CEO of India's Tata Motors because of ''unavoidable personal circumstances." Forster leaves after 18 months at Tata, which owns the Jaguar and Land Rover brands.
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Tata Motors said Carl-Peter Forster "has ceased to be the group CEO and MD, with immediate effect, due to his unavoidable personal circumstances".
New vehicle sales in the Philippines declined by 5.4% to 11,558 units in August, from 12,217 units a year earlier, according to member data released by the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc (CAMPI).
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BMW AG expects growth to slow but does not see a new recession, and believes that measures it took after the last industry crisis mean it is well-placed to deal with dampened car demand, its finance chief said on Friday.
Marurti Suzuki (MSIL) is eyeing Gujarat as one of the states in which it might locate a 1m-unit car manufacturing factory.
Saab's owner Swedish Automobile saw its shares plunge in the first day of trading since it sought protection from creditors.
Saab's main union has held off calling for immediate bankruptcy of the automaker, giving at least the weekend for the manufacturer to come up with a solution to its present crisis.
Sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) in Russia increased 48% year on year to 1.686m units in January-August, the automobile manufacturers committee of the Association of European Businesses (AEB) said.
General Motors and its joint ventures in China said domestic vehicle sales rose 13.4% year on year to 205,885 units, setting a new record for the month.
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