Well, that was unexpected. Normally, the last thing safe, conservative, can we even say staid, German politicians do is pitch head first into domestic wage negotiations, preferring to stay grandly above the fray until the dust settles.
Mahindra & Mahindra has resumed full production at its Nashik after a fire broke out at the plant's Scorpio multipurpose vehicle unit earlier this week. The company has since produced 200 units of the Scorpio and Xylo models.
Toyota Motor plans to boost supplies of its Prius hybrid in the US as demand exceeds the initial target of 220,000 vehicles for 2012.
Honda's US unit has won an appeal against a US$10,000 small claims court award to Civic hybrid owner Heather Peters.
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The past few days have seen all sorts of rumours and supposed leaks from plant managers, union officials and senior executives at Opel and PSA. What should we believe?
Most popular news article this week: an interview with Nady Boules, director of General Motors' electrical and control integration research skunkworks. He told how the automaker sees the pathway, timeframe and costs in moving through semi- to fully autonomous driving - the automaker has begun road testing prototype Cadillacs capable of semi-autonomous driving. GM calls the system 'Super Cruise'.
Germany's finance minister has conceded the country can afford "some wage increases" as more than half a million metalworkers continued their huge warning strikes this week.
Ford has started volume production of EcoBoost engines at its new factory in Craiova, Romania.
Volkswagen Group said global deliveries rose 6 percent in April and 8.9 percent in the first four months, but warned that it expects growth to slow down for the rest of the year due to the European market slump.
Volkswagen Group said global deliveries rose 6 percent in April and 8.9 percent in the first four months, but warned that it expects growth to slow down for the rest of the year due to the European market slump. U.S.
Volkswagen Group said global deliveries rose 6 percent in April and 8.9 percent in the first four months, but warned that it expects growth to slow down for the rest of the year due to the European market slump.
Nissan's profit jumped 33% year on year in the last quarter of its fiscal year to 31 March, 2012 and the carmaker predicted a 28% rise for the year ahead, driven by strong sales and the global launches of 10 new models.
Volkswagen group delivered 2.89m vehicles to customers in the first four months of this year, up 8.6% year on year, and outperforming a global market that rose by 6%.
Jaguar Land Rover will spend an additional 1 billion pounds with UK suppliers over the next four years as demand for Evoque SUV grows.
Magna has posted first quarter sales of US$7.7bn - an increase of 7% from the same period of 2011 - but has also unveiled complete assembly sales down 11% to almost US$600m.
Ford's head of manufacturing in Europe, Mike Flewitt, has left after just five months in the job. His successor is Jeff Wood, who had been director of manufacturing for Ford's North America vehicle assembly operations.
Opel will build the Citroen C5 successor as part of the U.S. automaker's new alliance with PSA/Peugeot-Citroen, according to an official at the French company.
The pump that drives the McLaren MP4-12C's hydraulic suspension system powers up a little too loudly for a few seconds every time you come to a stop.
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