SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) sold its one millionth vehicle this year in China for the fourth consecutive year. It is the earliest the General Motors China joint venture has reached the milestone.
Volvo Car's product line will see major upgrades in 2013. Development projects have included work by technical consultants employed on temporary contracts. Following completion, the company will phase out 300-400 consultancy contracts during the remainder of 2012. The number will reduce to 800-900.
SKF has broken ground for a new regional distribution centre located in the WaiGaoQiao Free Trade Zone in the northeast part of Shanghai.
Mazda and Honda are among a number of major Japanese firms halting production in China as angry protests escalate over a territorial dispute between Asia's two biggest economies.
Though company officials have been shy of confirming the move, Kerala has emerged as an unlikely contender along with frontrunner Gujarat for an engine manufacturing plant that Volkswagen plans to set up soon, a local paper said.
The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) is concentrating on negotiations with Ford as its lead company of the Detroit Three as it aims to agree a deal that will set the outlines for similar agreements with General Motors and Chrysler and avoid its first strike against a US-based automaker in 16 years.
If you had to choose one of the many Chinese brands which should by now be reaching manufacturing, marketing and sales maturity, which would it be? For me, the sophistication of how it communicates with the media is one of the reasons why I find Great Wall especially intriguing.
Car sales in Spain fell dramatically in the first two weeks of September following a hike in value-added tax, car retailers association Ganvam said.
Kia Motors' vice chairman said on Monday its expects to meet this year's sales target of 2.71m vehicles despite recent partial stoppages at South Korean plants, saying it will try to make up lost production with extra work.
The U.S. said today it had launched a new trade case against Chinese auto and auto-part export subsidies that threaten jobs in Ohio and other states key to the outcome of this year's presidential election. The U.S.
Tata Motors said global vehicle sales rose 13 percent in August from a year earlier, with sales at its Jaguar Land Rover unit rising 13 percent, less than in previous months, to 24,060.
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17 Sep, 2012
Styling tweaks and new exterior colours for the Toyota Yaris Trend
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17 Sep, 2012
The facelifted Mercedes E-Class has been spied ahead of its arrival in the UK early next year
With growth of 130% year on year, sales of Mexican-made cars exceeded the ceiling set by the Brazilian government. The full 2012 year volume was US$1.45bn but by the end of July it had already reached $1.74bn.
A diplomatic dispute between China and Japan is threatening to put a sizeable dent in sales of Japanese brand cars in China as anti-Japanese sentiment in the country rises.
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17 Sep, 2012
First official pictures of the LF-CC concept, which previews the next-generation Lexus IS
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17 Sep, 2012
Citroen has confirmed that the electric DS3 Electrum will debut at the Paris Motor Show
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