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Feb
25th

GENEVA PREVIEW: Qoros to show SUV model

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Qoros is to show its latest model - the Qoros 3 City SUV - at the Geneva Motor Show next week.
Feb
25th

US: Cooper Tire records 93% rise in 2014 net income

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Cooper Tire has posted 2014 net income of US$214m compared with US$111m the previous year.
Feb
25th

JAPAN: BASF and Toda Kogyo establish ‘BASF Toda Battery Materials’

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BASF and Toda Kogyo formally established 'BASF Toda Battery Materials' with the closing of their joint venture agreement announced in October 2014. The new company will provide cathode active materials (CAM) for lithium-ion batteries in Japan.
Feb
25th

GERMANY: Volkswagen shows off new Touran ahead of Geneva

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Volkswagen has unveiled its new Touran with the redesigned MPV shown to media at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg, not far from its production site.
Feb
25th

US: Volkswagen Chattanooga expansion underway

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Volkswagen says construction is underway at the Chattanooga manufacturing facility in preparation for production of a new midsize SUV.
Feb
25th

Aston says Vulcan supercar will cost $2.79 million

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Aston Martin said its 800-plus-hp Vulcan will cost 1.8 million pounds ($2.79 million) in the company's UK home market. Aston said the carbon fiber supercar is powered by the most potent iteration to date of the company's naturally aspirated, 7.
Feb
25th

Daimler labor chief queries pace of U.S. expansion on weak euro

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Daimler's plans to expand production in the United States should be recalibrated if the euro remains weak against the dollar, the automaker's top labor chief, Michael Brecht, said.
Feb
25th

Valeo sees further profit gain after beating 2014 goal

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Valeo is targeting a further boost in profitability this year after exceeding its 2014 goals on strong demand for emissions-cutting technologies and intuitive driving systems. The company's operating profit margin rose to 7.
Feb
25th

Jaguar Land Rover ‘is indeed looking’ at N.A. plant, Tata says

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Jaguar Land Rover is "indeed looking at North America as a location for another plant," said the chairman emeritus of owner Tata. His statement marks official confirmation of the British luxury maker's factory hunt.
Feb
25th

JPMorgan says U.S. examining racial disparities on car loans

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JPMorgan Chase, the largest US bank, said it's in talks with the Department of Justice about possible racial disparities in markups that auto dealers charged on loans.
Feb
24th

Tata plans image lift for ultracheap Nano

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Tata Motors, producer of the car conceived as the world's cheapest, is rethinking the 'cheap' part of it.
Feb
24th

Group 1 director resigns citing Buffett-Van Tuyl deal

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Group 1 Automotive board member Beryl Raff has resigned, citing a potential conflict of interest related to her employer, Berkshire Hathaway, and its pending purchase of the Van Tuyl dealership group. Raff gave up her seat on Feb.
Feb
24th

Auto loan securitization probed by U.S., states

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The Justice Department and state authorities are looking into the securitization of auto loans for possible fraud as part of an effort to seek out emerging areas of abuse, Acting Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates said.
Feb
24th

Cooper Standard pares Q4 losses to $12.8 million

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Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc., facing foreign currency issues and soft sales on key programs in North America, said it lost $12.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2014. That was an improvement over the $20.
Feb
24th

Faurecia N.A. boss Heneka to retire March 1; Stidham named new president

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Mike Heneka, who led an immense expansion effort in the US as president of Faurecia North America, will retire on March 1, the seating and emissions systems supplier said today.
Feb
24th

Buick cracks top 10 on Consumer Reports report card; Acura, Mercedes, Infiniti drop

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Buick climbed into the Top 10 while Acura, Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz fell hard in the latest report card on reliability and performance from Consumer Reports. Lexus finished No. 1 for the third straight year, ahead of a rising Mazda.
Feb
24th

US: Cooper Standard posts Q4 revenue down 3% to US$768m

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Cooper Standard has reported revenue of US$768m for the fourth quarter of 2014, compared to US$794m in the same quarter of the previous year, with the company attributing the decline primarily to unfavourable foreign exchange of US$31.5m.
Feb
24th

ITALY: Sogefi posts full-year net result down 83% to EUR3.6m

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Sogefi has reported a consolidated full-year net result down 83% to EUR3.6m (US$4.1m) compared to EUR21.1m in 2013 and has decided not to distribute a dividend in order to reduce debt of EUR304.3m.
Feb
24th

Dealertrack reports revenue gains for Q4, all of 2014

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Dealertrack Technologies, which supplies a wide variety of auto dealership retail software and services, said it posted revenue gains across the board during the fourth quarter of 2014 -- including organic growth of more than 20 percent.
Feb
24th

Audi’s future revealed with Prologue Avant concept car

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Audi Prologue Avant concept front
News 24 Feb, 2015

Latest pictures and details on the Audi Prologue Avant concept, set to appear at the Geneva Motor Show

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