U.S. light-vehicle sales, dampened by lower fleet shipments and severe winter weather across large chunks of the country, fell 3 percent in January.
Nissan Motor and Chrysler Group posted solid U.S. sales gains in January while volumes declined at GM, Ford and Toyota Motor in a month when industry sales are expected to be dampened by winter weather and lower fleet deliveries.
Mexico is poised to overtake Japan and Canada as the largest exporter of vehicles to the USA.
Ford and Renault have announced appointment of new heads for their businesses in India.
New-car sales rose 8 percent in Spain in January as government subsidies continued to boost deliveries, car manufacturers' association Anfac said.
The Zest sedan and Bolt hatchback, two new small cars from Tata Motors, will be revealed at the Delhi motor show's press preview day on 5 February.
Jobs at Opel's three factories in Eisenach, Kaiserslautern and Russelsheim will be protected until 2018 under a new agreement signed with the unions last week.
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For the three-month period ended 31 December 2013, Autoliv reported record consolidated sales of US$2.35bn from $2.05bn last year, a gain of 14.6%.
Detroit's COBO Center again played host to the North American International Auto Show, celebrating its twenty-fifth year. It was held from 13-26 of January.
Toyoda Gosei says it will broaden its business foundations in Europe with the establishment of a new company in Germany and the acquisition of assets from Meteor Gummiwerke K.H. Bädje GmbH & Co. KG (Meteor), an automotive rubber products manufacturer headquartered in Bockenem, Germany.
Denso's consolidated net sales for nine months that ended on 31 December 2013 were up 17.4% to JPY3.01tn (US$28.8bn).
The Renault-Nissan Alliance has undoubtedly been an automotive industry success story. In its fifteen years of existence, the alliance of the two has brought big benefits for both participants in terms of components procurement, scale economies and shared engineering costs.
French car sales rose 1 percent in January as the market continues to recover from a mid-2013 low.
Last week, the father-daughter team of John and Jill Glenney completed the first cross-country drive in a Tesla using the company's new network of Superchargers to refuel.
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Product is king. That fact was proved once again in Europe last year as new models such as the Dacia Sandero, Mazda CX-5 and Jaguar F-Type helped 10 of Europe's 30 leading auto brands increase year-on-year sales despite the region's weak economy.
For a glimpse of Chevrolet's future advertising direction, flip on the TV pretty much any time during the 17-day Winter Olympics starting Friday, when Chevy will dominate coverage with 11 new commercials broadcast more than 400 times.
Today is the deadline to submit a nomination for the 2014 Rising Stars.
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