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Reports in Japan this week suggested that Toyota and Suzuki are in talks to collaborate in the manufacture of compact and small cars for emerging markets, including India and South-east Asia.

The EU is seeking sweeping powers over national car regulations, aiming to prevent a repeat of VW's emissions rigging.

Forecasts for the 2016 Brazilian domestic market (both light and heavy vehicles) are discouraging. In a year in which the domestic auto industry will have been established 60 years, all data, regardless of source, remains negative.

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New vehicle sales in southeast Asia's six largest markets expanded by 4.4% to 858,872 units in the fourth quarter of 2015, compared with 822,888 units in the same period of last year, according to compiled exclusively for just-auto by AsiaMotorBusiness.com.

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Fiat Chrysler's fourth-quarter profit margin shrank after the company took a $903 million charge to adjust its production capacity in North America.

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FCA today said its adjusted earnings rose 39 percent to 1.64 billion euros, or $1.78 billion, in the fourth quarter on continued record sales of its Jeep brand. The company said it posted fourth-quarter revenues of $33.

Honda Motor set a global production record of 4,543,838 vehicles in calendar 2015, up 0.7% year on year.

As reported by just-auto last week, PSA's DS premium brand has now officially opened a DS Store in Iran's capital, Tehran.

Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has found a way to cut borrowing costs at the company by gaining full access to Chrysler's cash stockpile of about $13 billion, two years after Fiat merged with the U.S. carmaker.

Toyota stayed the world's top-selling automaker for the fourth straight year and was the only company to deliver more than 10 million vehicles as Volkswagen fell back amid its emissions scandal.

PSA Peugeot Citroen is declining to confirm reports it could hold an exceptional Supervisory Board meeting today (27 January) ahead of Iranian President, Hassan Rohani's visit to Paris tomorrow, which could spark the establishment of a joint venture in the country.

Bosch is carrying out an internal probe to investigate whether any of its staff were involved in Volkswagen's rigging of emissions tests, the supplier's CEO, Volkmar Denner, said.

Toyota has issued 2015 sales figures that show it sold 10.15m units in the year, 0.8% below the previous year's total, but ahead of Volkswagen Group in second place.

Toyota said it was considering buying out the rest of minivehicle maker Daihatsu, a $3.2 billion deal at current market prices, but denied a report that it was in partnership talks with Daihatsu rival Suzuki.