About 30,000 South African auto industry employees began returning to work today after the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa accepted a wage offer from companies to end a monthlong strike.
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7 Oct, 2013
MINI previews new British bulldog ad campaign, confirms 18 November launch date
A delay in implementing new European Commission (EC) CO2 emissions targets could be the result of a meeting next Monday (14 October) of environment ministers in Luxembourg.
Within 48 hours of each other, Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen announced new car plant investments in Brazil. The two automakers, together with VW unit Audi (which made a separate announcement in September) will invest about the same amount each: BRL500m/US$230m each, totalling BRL1.52bn/US$690m.
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation said on Monday it had started selling new vehicles in Myanmar several months after it began service operations.
Bridgestone has been given the go-ahead for a new tyre manufacturing plant in Turkey.
Sorting through the cable listings, trying to pick out which of the six million events to watch in the winter Olympics this February, you can be forgiven if you find the sheer volume overwhelming.
The 2015, or 2014.5 depending on who you ask, Ford Mustang will go on sale next April, on the car's 50th anniversary.
The Volkswagen Group has been included in the new "Global Compact 100" stock index, an index produced by the UN.
Aston Martin will end production of its Cygnet minicar following poor sales of the Toyota iQ-based model.
Opel will launch a SUV-styled version of its Adam minicar, a person familiar with the project told Automotive News Europe.
Twenty months ago, Alicia Boler-Davis was an assembly plant manager at General Motors. Today, the 44-year-old is one of the company's top 20 executives, reporting straight to CEO Dan Akerson.
Aston Martin says it is dropping the Cygnet minicar, which is based on the Toyota iQ, after the model fell well short of expected sales.
Twenty months ago, Alicia Boler-Davis was an assembly plant manager at General Motors. Today, the 44-year-old is one of the company's top 20 executives, reporting straight to CEO Dan Akerson.
Hertz Global Holdings has too many vehicles and will gradually reduce its fleet over the next six months.
In 2007, the auto industry's last good year before the recession, General Motors outsold Ford Motor Co. in the United States by more than 105,000 units a month on average. In the past 12 months, the gap has narrowed to fewer than 25,000.
Sales of five of the six players in this arena -- the Infiniti FX/QX70, Acura ZDX, Toyota Venza, Honda Crosstour, BMW X6 and BMW 5-series GT -- plummeted in September.
This summer, Fiat dealers finally got a second nameplate, the 500L, to sell. Despite high hopes, the new car has failed to boost the brand's U.S. sales.
DETROIT -- The redesigned 2014 Cadillac CTS sedan began arriving in showrooms last week with a relatively strong residual value, which should help General Motors offer a competitive lease to offset a big price hike.
Park Place Lexus Plano went on a hiring spree this year, creating and filling 100 positions.
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