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Toyota South Africa will look to increase the local content of the vehicles it produces and its Durban plant, Johan van Zyl, president and CEO, said at the opening of a new parts distribution warehouse in Ekurhuleni.
VW, Opel and Ford all suffered as new-car registrations in Germany fell 11 percent in September.
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Honda of the UK Manufacturing (HUM) said it would not build the next generation Jazz (Fit) from 2014 "to benefit from production economies of scale and fully [use] Honda's global production resources".
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Canada's Magna International plans to buy Ixetic Verwaltungs GmbH, a German maker of automotive vacuum, engine and transmission pumps, for about 308 million euros ($397 million).
Magna International is likely to lose production work with Mini as parent BMW looks to concentrate output of new-generation Minis in the UK and the Netherlands.
VW Group may face a strike at its Bratislava plant after offering employees half the pay increase demanded by the factory's unions.
Magna International is likely to lose some future production work with Mini as parent BMW looks to concentrate output of new-generation Minis in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
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Robert Kubica has taken yet another step on his long road back to formula one, by winning the Citta di Bassano rally in northern Italy.
"I still have a long road in front of me," the former BMW and Renault driver said afterwards.
"But this shows the road is not as long as we thought," added Kubica, referring to his extended recovery from an horror rally crash in early 2011.
The main problem for the 27-year-old now is the mobility of his right arm.
Turning a steering wheel inside the narrow confines of a single seater is currently not possible for Kubica.
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| Robert Kubica's Subaru for the Rally Citta di Bassano. (Photo: First motorsport) |
But his arm surgeon Igor Rossello is confident.
"Currently, we estimate his recovery at 50 per cent," he told the Polish source
Gwizdek24.
"I assume that we will make it back to 75 to 80 per cent, which would be quite sufficient to drive a formula one car," added Rossello. "I have spoken with his manager Daniele Morelli, who is as excited about his progress as I am. I am convinced that it (returning to F1) is possible, although the recovery can often take many months and years."
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