Buying a new car should be an exciting experience, and today's dealer lots are packed full of quality vehicles offering a wider range of features than ever before.
While car sales across Europe are suffering, Tata Motors' utility vehicle and luxury SUV unit Land Rover has reported a 46% hike in global sales this year.
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The Skoda Octavia has been spied almost completely undisguised, ahead of its November reveal
Automakers and politicians are lining up to potentially challenge the EUR7bn (US$9bn) put up by the French government as a guarantee for PSA Peugeot Citroen's banking arm.
As you'd expect, our coverage of Ford's major restructuring announcements dominated the news on just-auto.com this week, and print and electronic coverage nationwide and in Belgium.
Renault, reporting its Q3 results, expects the total European market to be down by 8% this year from earlier forecasts of a decline of between 3-4%, with the French market declining by at least 13% from earlier estimates that it would be 10% down on the year.
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Next Corvette will get a uprated 449bhp 6.2-litre LT1 V8 engine
Fiat is struggling to balance the demands of unions worried about Italian jobs and factories with the task of reassuring investors it is tackling profit-sapping excess production capacity.
Net profit at Russian automaker AvtoVAZ more than halved to RUB1.2bn in January-September from RUB2.5bn in the same period of 2011, executive vice-president for finance and corporate development Oleg Lobanov said.
"There is a chance, that Peugeot may not exist any more in the future, if no solution is found." Those were the stark words of Frost & Sullivan senior consultant Nicolas Meilhan following news, earlier this week, that the French government had guaranteed the automaker's finance arm support of EUR7m in new bonds.
Chery Auto has announced the first model for its forthcoming Brazilian assembly plant. The Celer, a new name for an existing model, will enter production at the new factory in Jacareí, São Paulo, from late 2013.
Ford of Europe said it would add new engines and increase staff at its Bridgend, Wales, plant despite coming under a barrage of fire from UK unions following its decision to drastically end British vehicle production and associated stamping and tooling operations.
German transmission manufacturer Getrag will establish a joint venture in China with Dongfeng Motor Corp. to supply the state-owned Chinese automaker.
There is an element of lobbying you might think in Ford announcing draconian action other than in the results season.
Free electric vehicle (EV) charging points have been made available in London for residents and businesses participating in trials to understand the impact of EV use on the electricity network.
Robert Bosch is opening an randd center and factory in Changsha, southeastern China, to produce starter motors, generators, thermal systems and wipers.
Ford and Renault have joined Volkswagen's key stakeholder, Lower Saxony, in voicing concern about a French government rescue deal for PSA/Peugeot-Citroen.
Continental will begin production of an automatic-braking and pedestrian-detection system for Mercedes early next year.
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