BMW Group sold 123,276 cars in January, a record for the month and 9.9% more than the same month last year.
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PSA Peugeot Citroen and the French government have rushed to pour cold water on the possibility Paris could step in and take a stake in the stuggling automaker.
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Suzuki Motor plans to resume vehicle production in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, in May.
Tata Steels is starting a EUR2.3m facility at its Ijmuiden site in The Netherlands to develop crash-resistant steels.
Audi India's sales increased 10.5% to 737 units in January. The company aims to achieve 20% growth in 2013, and targets sales of 10,800 units.
Porsche has said that it reported record sales in China in 2012, boosted by strong sales of the Panamera and Cayenne models alongside a sales network expanded to second and third-tier cities.
BorgWarner has opened a new 86,000-square-foot (8,000-square-metre) facility in Manesar, India, near New Delhi to produce exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) coolers, tubes, valves and modules.
BMW said it aims for a third year of record sales in 2013 after January sales got off to a good start.
Honda Automobile Thailand (HATC) is to build a new car plant with an annual production capacity of 120,000 units. The factory will be located within the property that Honda recently acquired in Prachinburi Province (approximately 120km east of Bangkok).
Nissan reported a 35-percent drop in third-quarter profit after sales tumbled in China and new models trailed rivals in the United States.
The French government may buy a stake in PSA/Peugeot-Citroen if it is necessary to save the ailing automaker, a minister said. The comment came after PSA announced second-half writedowns of 4.13 billion euros ($5.
A French government minister said the state may take a stake in PSA/Peugeot-Citroen as the struggling automaker announced second-half writedowns of 4.13 billion euros ($5.53 billion).
General Motors confirmed that the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray convertible will make its world debut at the Geneva auto show on March 5.
Daimler is determined to build its Mercedes-Benz and Smart cars in half the time it took just six years ago. Back then, the average production time at the Daimler subsidiaries was 60 hours, excluding the powertrain.
The Smart ForFour will share a rear-wheel-drive platform with Renault's future Twingo, executives at Smart said.
Optimism about electric cars is fading as manufacturers scale back investment in response to weak sales. Just 8 percent of auto executives said their companies would invest in pure battery technologies over the next five years.
Optimism about electric cars is fading as manufacturers scale back investment in response to weak sales. Just 8 percent of auto executives said their companies would invest in pure battery technologies over the next five years.
Peter Brown, publisher of Automotive News, has announced his retirement effective April 30.
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