Burning cars, blockaded trains, strewn debris, the full fury of Belgium's unions was unleashed this week as the enormous impact of Ford's drastic axing of its Genk plant became clear.
A few years ago, if you would have asked us about 500-hp city cars, we would have said, and#8220;Awesome, but never going to happen.and#8221; We were proven wrong with last year's
The 1940 Ford Coupe will join Ford's group of officially licensed steel-reproduction car bodies. It's available for ordering now, along with the
You hear a lot about the global alignment of car models under the One Ford philosophy of shared platforms. But what about light trucks? Having recently driven and been impressed by the latest Ranger pick-up, Glenn Brooks suspects there is a lot more to come from its T6 architecture.
Parts supplier American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings reported a surprise quarterly loss, hurt by restructuring and debt refinancing costs. American Axle reported a net loss of $8.2 million, or 11 cents per share, compared with a profit of $22.
Buying a new car should be an exciting experience, and today's dealer lots are packed full of quality vehicles offering a wider range of features than ever before.
While car sales across Europe are suffering, Tata Motors' utility vehicle and luxury SUV unit Land Rover has reported a 46% hike in global sales this year.
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The Skoda Octavia has been spied almost completely undisguised, ahead of its November reveal
Automakers and politicians are lining up to potentially challenge the EUR7bn (US$9bn) put up by the French government as a guarantee for PSA Peugeot Citroen's banking arm.
As you'd expect, our coverage of Ford's major restructuring announcements dominated the news on just-auto.com this week, and print and electronic coverage nationwide and in Belgium.
Renault, reporting its Q3 results, expects the total European market to be down by 8% this year from earlier forecasts of a decline of between 3-4%, with the French market declining by at least 13% from earlier estimates that it would be 10% down on the year.
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Next Corvette will get a uprated 449bhp 6.2-litre LT1 V8 engine
Fiat is struggling to balance the demands of unions worried about Italian jobs and factories with the task of reassuring investors it is tackling profit-sapping excess production capacity.
Net profit at Russian automaker AvtoVAZ more than halved to RUB1.2bn in January-September from RUB2.5bn in the same period of 2011, executive vice-president for finance and corporate development Oleg Lobanov said.
"There is a chance, that Peugeot may not exist any more in the future, if no solution is found." Those were the stark words of Frost & Sullivan senior consultant Nicolas Meilhan following news, earlier this week, that the French government had guaranteed the automaker's finance arm support of EUR7m in new bonds.
Chery Auto has announced the first model for its forthcoming Brazilian assembly plant. The Celer, a new name for an existing model, will enter production at the new factory in Jacareí, São Paulo, from late 2013.
Ford of Europe said it would add new engines and increase staff at its Bridgend, Wales, plant despite coming under a barrage of fire from UK unions following its decision to drastically end British vehicle production and associated stamping and tooling operations.
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