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'Marriage' is, to anyone used to touring car assembly plants regularly, a familiar term, describing the joining of painted and trimmed body to powertrain.
NSK is expressing its "sincere regret" at activities related to automotive bearings sales and has agreed pay the European Commission (EC) EUR62.4m (US$86m) in fines.
SKF Group says it has reached a settlement with the European Commission putting an end to the investigation regarding supply of bearings to the European automotive manufacturing industry.
European Commission authorities have found two European companies (SKF and Schaeffler) and four Japanese companies (JTEKT, NSK, NFC and NTN with its French subsidiary NTN-SNR), operated a cartel in the market for automotive bearings and have imposed fines totalling nearly EUR953m (US$1.3bn).
Data released by the SMMT shows that UK car production output in the first two months of the year was 1.4% under the same period last year.
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General Motors says that its new modular 'Ecotec' architecture will streamline its powertrain portfolio for future models, to reduce manufacturing complexity and improve its customer offering.
Speaking to just-auto.com at the media launch of the new F-TYPE Coupé in Barcelona and Lleida, Jaguar's global brand director Steven de Ploey says he wants 90 percent of sales to be conquests.
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen will cut the size of its executive pension packages, a French daily reported, months after public criticism forced former CEO Philippe Varin to turn down his pension.
Russian politicians are backing the emergence of a greater emphasis on the commercial sector as one factor to address domestic automotive sales which dropped 6% last year.
German supplier Schaeffler took a 380 million euro ($526 million) provision after being fined in a European Union antitrust probe.
As expected earlier this week, the US Department of Justice has now confirmed a US$1.2bn settlement with Toyota that ends a four-year criminal probe over accusations that it misled authorities over unintended acceleration in Toyota cars and subsequent recalls.
The Volvo Group says it has taken an important strategic step with the introduction of a UD bus range developed specifically for emerging markets.
Continental has started production and distribution of radial truck tyres in the Indian market.
BMW CFO Friedrich Eichiner said any worsening of the crisis between Ukraine and Russia would jeopardize the company's outlook.
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"Within a few decades, the urge to travel at high speed has led man to develop the locomotive, the automobile, the airplane, and the rocket.
There was a certain frisson to this year's Russian Automotive Forum (RAF) organised by Adam Smith Conferences in Moscow for the most obvious of reasons.