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Fuji Heavy Industries has started production of the Subaru XV crossover SUV at Tan Chong Motor Assemblies in Malaysia.

Nissan's senior vice president for supply chain management and chairman of Africa Middle East and India region, Trevor Mann has been appointed executive vice president and chairman of the management committee for the Africa Middle East India and Europe.

Europe's Competition Commission has asked France to clarify its position with regard to the US$15.2bn refinancing deal with PSA Peugeot Citroen's banks backed by a US$9bn guarantee, raising the possibility the move constitutes a form of State aid.

Like any year in the auto industry, 2012 saw its fair share of company ups and downs, industrial comings and goings, and a fair old sprinkling of corporate drama. It was also a year of economic uncertainty hovering over automotive markets. We covered it all on just-auto. Editor Dave Leggett sifts through the lot and picks out a few highlights from the year just gone, month by month. Part one covers the first half of the year, part two the second. This is part two (July-December).

In light of automotive production growth in the North America, Toyoda Gosei is establishing a new plant for automotive interior and exterior components in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.

Denso says it has developed the world's first integrated, in-vehicle wireless cell phone charger, in collaboration with Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS).

Capitalizing on the popularity of car commercials, the advertising competition known as the One Show will make an appearance during the

Motor City Blogman: It’s Almost Over, Though It’s Never Really Over, as GM Buys Treasury Shares

To free-marketers and Republicans, it will be $12 billion forever lost to a failed American automaker.

To free-marketers and Republicans, it will be $12 billion forever lost to a failed American automaker. To Democrats and President Obama, it was a necessary move, a last-ditch attempt not just to save the American auto industry, but perhaps to save American industry, and what’s left of the labor movement, in general.

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French Economic Redevelopment Minister, Arnaud Montebourg, has welcomed this week's agreement between Renault and Algeria to produce vehicles, while also seeking to reassure unions of continued domestic work.

Asking George Barris about how he built the

The Walter P. Chrysler Museum may be

The car review is our bread and butter here at Autoweek. And we reviewed hundreds of cars and trucks in 2012. Here, in no particular order, are the top car reviews that you voted on, with your mouse clicks, in 2012.

Nissan Executive Vice President Colin Dodge, head of global operations in the Americas, Europe and emerging markets, is lightening his workload, partly so he can focus more on the United States.

Nissan Executive Vice President Colin Dodge, head of global operations in the Americas, Europe and emerging markets, is lightening his workload, partly so he can focus more on the United States.

A senior Wanxiang Group executive stressed A123 Systems, at the center of an American political storm after the Chinese firm won an auction for the electric car battery maker, would operate as an American company.

just-auto is taking the customary seasonal holiday and today's daily newsletter will be the last one for a short while as the office shuts down for the annual Christmas and New Year celebrations.

The EU is challenging the terms of a French government-backed rescue for PSA/Peugeot-Citroen's financing arm, a French newspaper reported.

Team principal Stefano Domenicali announced a few changes in the organization of Scuderia Ferrari, and also looked ahead to next season of the Formula 1 World Championship.

In a recent interview posted on Ferrari's web site, Domenicali said: “For a few months now, we have been working on a programme of reorganization along with the introduction of new methodologies, especially concerning the wind tunnel.”

“As you know, we are rebuilding the Maranello facility which will be closed until August. Until then, we will use the Toyota wind tunnel in Cologne. We have also adopted a better method of splitting up the work between those who run the wind tunnel and those who should concentrate more on the creative side of the job. This year, we saw that when we do too many things at the same time, maybe we are not efficient enough,” the Italian added.

The 2013 car will be powered by the existing 2.4-litre, normally aspirated V8 engine while the 2014 challenger will be completely different, and be powered by the new 1.6-litre turbo V6 motor.

“We have decided to have two coordinators: Simone Resta, an engineer who has developed his career in Maranello and is very effective, will work on the 2013 car and Fabio Montecchi, will deal with the one for the following year. But Nikolas Tombazis continues as chief designer, ” said Domenicali.

The team principal added: “We will need to try and push the technical regulations to the very limit, while maintaining our strong points from this year, or improving them still further, because the others will not be twiddling their thumbs, but not by almost brushing against illegality, as happened in 2009 with the double diffuser. However, we need to adopt a different, more creative approach.”

The Toyota Furia, which is hailed by the automaker as an ''exciting new sedan concept,'' will make its global debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on January 14th, 2013.

Other than the following video, no further information was made public, so we'll have to wait until the big event (broadcast live through http://new.livestream.com/toyota) to learn more about this car.