Skoda expects to sell a record 1 million vehicles this year on surging sales in China and stable business in Europe after global volume through November reached 955,300. Year-to-date sales already have exceeded Skoda's 2013 volume.
Toyota is to triple domestic production of its recently announced Mirai fuel cell vehicle following strong demand from the corporate and public sector according to the Nikkei business daily.
Russian car sales fell 1 percent in November compared with 10 percent the month before as a state scrappage program and a rush to buy before price increases helped the country's troubled auto market.
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New Suzuki city car will be priced from £7,999 when it goes on sale in February
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Drop top Mercedes C-Class cabriolet spied sporting folding fabric roof; expected to appear in early 2016
It's taking an achingly long time, but is the European Commission (EC) finally waking up to the idea not everybody is falling over themselves to be subsumed into its gigantic superstate embrace?
Jaguar Land Rover has started building its manufacturing plant in Itatiaia, in the east of Rio de Janeiro state, as part of a spend of BRL750m/$300m and is considering a second model for the new plant after the previously announced Land Rover Discovery Sport.
Belgium's new right-of-centre government says employment is its major issue as the country's transport system ground to a strike-hit halt today (8 December) and ahead of Ford's imminent shuttering of its Genk plant in ten days.
General Motors plans to significantly strengthen its Cadillac brand in China with the introduction of nine new models over the next five years.
BYD-Daimler New Technology Company has launched its Denza electric vehicle in China, at the inauguration ceremony at the company first dealership in Shenzen.
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Nissan confirms UK battery pricing for Leaf and e-NV200 owners
VW Group is conducting a feasibility study under former Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali, who joined the company in November, on whether its Audi brand should enter Formula One to challenge rival Mercedes, a report said.
Europe's dealer network has contracted less than the market since the start of the last economic crisis, a report says. New-car registrations are 20 percent below their pre-recession peak, but the number of dealerships has fallen by 12 percent.
Honda says new models and a leaner organization will help it rebound in Europe in 2015 after seven years of falling sales.
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As the only convertible in its lineup approaches the end of its life cycle, Lexus is looking ahead to another critical step in the balancing act it's undertaking: trying to appeal to younger buyers while keeping its core customers.
Pickup trucks are still seen as a stronghold of the industry's testosterone-laden, good-old-boy past. But now, women do pickups, too. Next month Becky Blanchard will take over as director of Chrysler Group's Ram brand.
For most of the last five years, Toyota has been hampered by one problem after another: recession, safety crisis, earthquake, strong yen.
One reason auto sales in the United States still aren't quite back to the 17 million-a-year pace seen during the boom years before the recession: Many consumers haven't gotten much of a raise since then.
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