Audi will decide next year whether to start producing vehicles in Brazil again, following rival BMW's plans for a new plant and word that Japanese brands Acura and Infiniti are on the way.
General Motors South Africa (GMSA) assembly workers spent the first two weeks of December undergoing training at the Eastcape Training Centre (ETC) in Port Elizabeth.
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The 2013 Dakar Rally will include five teams of disabled veterans in its 575-entry roster. An organization called
Jaguar said it will not build the hybrid C-X75 supercar, citing global economic pressures. The British luxury brand announced in May last year it would build 250 units of the two-seat car that would sell at prices up to 900,000 pounds ($1.5 million).
Ford is putting the equivalent of 10 years and 150,000 miles of wear and tear on hybrid vehicle batteries using a new lab test that takes less than a year to complete.
Britain's largest union is welcoming the intervention of London Mayor, Boris Johnson, in support of its campaign to keep production of the UK capital's black cab in domestic hands.
Porsche will shore up its industry-leading profit margins by cutting the number of labor hours required to produce a vehicle.
Toyota may delay the addition of the fourth production line at its Tianjin plant as the sales decline in China is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
Honda will recall 871,000 cars in the US and export markets because they could roll away even after removal of the ignition key. The recall affects 807,000 cars in the US and 64,000 elsewhere, mostly Canada and Mexico.
For the first time ever, total new vehicle sales in Australia exceeded 1m by the end of November, according to official VFACTS data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI).
Honda, which long resisted making diesel engines, plans to introduce a range of small capacity turbodiesel engines based on the new 1.6-litre i-DTEC unit which will become available in the Civic at the start of 2013.
France's moderate CFE-CGC union says it "deplores" Renault's decision to postpone the next round of its series of labour negotiations saying the manufacturer is "playing for time."
Great Wall Motor has met with the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) as well as government officials with a view to setting up a vehicle factory in the country.
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