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News 14 Nov, 2012

The all-new Porsche Cayman will debut at the Los Angeles Motor Show

EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: There are lots of things I like about the 2012 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport SE, but the CVT would be a deal-breaker.

In this month's management briefing we take a look at the latest developments in major vehicle markets around the world. In this first instalment, we take a look at China.

Faurecia says it expects to double its share of the Chinese complete seating market, despite a slight slowdown in the country's extraordinary growth rate of late.

News 14 Nov, 2012

Vauxhall is turning up the heat on its Adam city car, with a 138bhp version and VXR model planned

Carbon fibre reinforced plastics have been drawing industry attention as their lightness and strength can help the fuel efficiency of vehicles, but the time-consuming work required to produce the materials is a drawback. Here, Matthew Beecham talked with Gary White, engineering manager, Prodrive Composites about the use of carbon fibre in vehicle manufacture.

Toyota Motor Corp. will recall 2.77 million vehicles worldwide--including 670,000

Honda Motor has unveiled the Micro Commuter prototype, a micro-sized short distance EV commuter. This vehicle was developed in consideration of the vehicle categories for micro-sized mobility products that are currently being discussed under the initiative of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism in Japan as well as for the regulations for the L7 category in Europe.

News 14 Nov, 2012

Politicians are criticising the Transit plant’s £80m loan, claiming UK taxpayers ‘subsidised job losses’

Tata Motors is planning to introduce diesel and CNG versions of its Nano. Tata Motors' passenger car business unit president Ranjit Yadav said that the Nano which was initially targeted towards two-wheeler consumers who wanted to upgrade, is gradually attracting other segments of buyers as well.

Car sales in the Brazilian auto market soared 21.1% year on year to 341,663 units in October. Volume grew 18.9% month on month.

Ford will showcase a seven-passenger vehicle aimed at young families at the Los Angeles Show later this month.

Renault may miss its target of selling 1m low-cost vehicles this year, according to Les Echos newpaper.

General Motors' Opel unit should move Mokka production to Europe from South Korea where it is currently produced if the economic crisis continues, said the company's works council chief.

General Motors and alliance partner PSA Peugeot Citroen have halted talks on a deeper tie-up because of misgivings about the French carmaker's finances and government-backed bailout, sources have said.

Tata denied a report on Wednesday that it is in talks to set up an alliance with PSA. "That is absolutely incorrect," Tata spokesman Debasis Ray told Reuters.

News 14 Nov, 2012

Ford said it would limit production of the Fiesta Metal to 1,000 cars, but more than 2,000 were sold in the end

Mercedes has almost 90,000 orders for the new-generation A class, German newspaper Die Zeit reported, citing CEO Dieter Zetsche.

News 14 Nov, 2012

The BMW i4 concept will be unveiled in Los Angeles later this month

Toyota's recall of 1.5m vehicles in Japan over a steering wheel problem is the largest ever domestic recall by any vehicle maker, company officials said.