Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn and other captains of Germany's automotive industry will gather in Berlin Wednesday to try to rally support for a transatlantic free trade deal that faces potential collapse.
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28 Jan, 2015
Virtual Renault Alpine sports car appears in Playstation game, plus real-life version hints at brand's return
Desperate for more SUV building space at its Alabama assembly plant, Mercedes is contracting out build of its now China-only R-Class to AM General of Hummer fame.
Desperate for more SUV building space at its Alabama assembly plant, Mercedes is contracting out build of its now China-only R-class to AM General of Hummer fame.
Mercedes-Benz plans to shift production of the R-class crossover from its Alabama plant to contract manufacturer AM General in Indiana this summer. The German automaker said it needed to free up space in its assembly operations near Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Fluid management TI Automotive has agreed to be acquired by private investor Bain Capital in a deal that should be completed by mid-2015.
Global fuel systems supplier TI Automotive, after months of wrangling and speculation, said today it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Bain Capital LLC. The deal is valued at $2.4 billion, sources told Bloomberg.
Speaking from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Marie-Françoise Damesin, Executive Vice-President of both Alliance and Renault Human Resources, has highlighted three "very important reasons" why women are essential to the automotive industry.
With the Defender in its final year of production, Tata Motors' Land Rover has built a replica of the production line used to manufacture the first models in 1948.
Aston Martin's main financial backer has pledged to provide cash for a refreshed model lineup that the supercar maker plans to reveal at the Geneva auto show in March.
Isuzu Motors is building an INR30bn (US$488m) factory in Sricity, Andhra Pradesh.
Volkswagen in China has reportedly agreed to set 'sensible' sales targets for its Chinese dealers who are suffering a drop in profitability in China's slowing vehicle market.
New vehicle sales are expected to increase 12.9% year over year to 1.14m units in January 2015, resulting in an estimated 16.5m seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR), according to Kelley Blue Book, which is also expecting a slight slowdown due to the east coast blizzards that hit this week.
Kia's 2015 Super Bowl commercial will star Pierce Brosnan parodying his role as James Bond.
The European Union's Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc has called for a standardised EU-wide road pricing system.
Great Wall has said that its operating profit margin slipped to 14.8% in 2014 from 17% a year earlier.
Toyota is reportedly planning to revise how it compensates factory workers in order to reward performance and encourage young talent.
Nissan is reportedly planning to double the size of its Datsun brand India dealership network by 2016.
Owners of the Hoegh Osaka carship say most of the vehicles on board the vessel are able to be driven off, with relatively few damaged by water ingestion.
Maruti Suzuki's third fiscal quarter sales rose 12.4% to 323,911 vehicles. Exports grew 43.8% to 28,709 units. But the company missed analysts' profit expectations.
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