Toyota, continuing to flex its post-earthquake manufacturing muscle this year, plans to invest about $80 million to expand its Huntsville, Ala., engine plant to build more V-6 engines for the United States.
Referring to Austria's Wörthersee as "Lake Wörthersee" is akin to calling the massive collection of saline water in the middle of Utah "Lake Great Salt Lake," "see" being German for "lake."
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Billionaire Warren Buffett sought to buy Residential Capital from Ally Financial before the government-owned company put the home lender in bankruptcy, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Brazil is considering measures to facilitate new car loans and bolster local automakers, newspapers reported today, after slowing vehicle sales pushed auto inventories to their highest levels since the 2008 financial crisis.
Facebook may only have itself to blame for why General Motors rained on its IPO parade this week.
The high quality of cars manufactured in Gliwice and the commitment of the factory's staff helped it win the nod as one of two GM Europe plants to build the next Astra from 2015, General Motors Manufacturing Poland's Andrzej Korpak was quoted as saying by Polish News Bulletin.
Toyota Motor plans to expand power generation capacity at its plants in Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, in a bid to cope with possible electricity shortages this summer, company sources have said.
BMW's UK managing director says he believes Greece will stay in the Euro currency as the the South East Europe country's woes continue to create huge bow waves of economic uncertainty for automakers.
Toyota will boost the output of V6 engines at its US plant in Alabama by 2.5 times.
Though Mitsubishi officially calls this Pikes Peak Hill Climb car the i-MiEV Evolution, we've taken to referring to this electro-monster the Zebulon Evo.
Cash rich van maker GAZ Group is planning a 16bn rouble spend on investment projects over the next 18 months.
Subaru maker Fuji Heavy Industries said it would increase production capacity at its Lafayette, Indiana, plant by 15% due to growing demand for the Outback crossover vehicle and Legacy car.
Federal safety regulators are investigating a Texas garage fire that destroyed a Fisker Karma, a $103,000 plug-in electric vehicle.
BMW UK says the flexibility of its British workforce in a challenging economic climate led it to sink GBP500m (US$791m) into future Mini investment.
The Dacia Dokker and Dokker Van have had their global debuts at the Casablanca motor show. Each will be built alongside the related Lodgy minivan at Renault's new Tangiers plant.
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