With Toyota Motor's quarterly profits hit harder than expected, as a result of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami in Japan, there have been renewed calls for the government to do more to support the automaker's pledge to keep building large numbers of cars at home.
French construction material maker Compagnie de Saint-Gobain's automotive glass unit Saint-Gobain Sekurit is to build a second factory in China in the Shandong province of Qingdao, close to the group's flat glass production site.
The impact of Japan's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami two months ago continues to reverberate well beyond the country's borders as the ripple effect of supply chain challenges continue to make themselves felt.
Tata Motors-owned luxury car and SUV maker Jaguar Land Rover has launched a GBP1bn (US$1.6bn) bond to refinance its debt and for what the company describes as "general corporate purposes".
The U.S. may require annual fuel- efficiency improvements of 2 percent to 7 percent from 2017 to 2025 for cars and light trucks, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
INTERACTIVE ASSOCIATE EDITOR JAKE LINGEMAN: I walked out to the lot and wasn't sure this was our Scion. The 19-inch custom wheels, Toyo tires and carbon-fiber trim aren't things we normally find on loaner cars.
Hyundai unveils its Ford Mondeo-rivalling i40 saloon ahead of the 2011 Barcelona Motor Show.
Vehicle production at Toyota Australia's Altona (Victoria state) manufacturing plant will return to normal levels during the week commencing 6 June 2011, the automaker said on Wednesday (11 May 2011).
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Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) boosted operating profit for the fiscal year ended 31 March 2011 from JPY147.5bn to JPY468.2bn and net profit from JPY209.4bn to JPY408.1bn, on sales up just 0.2% to JPY18.993 trillion.
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New vehicle sales in Vietnam declined by 2.6% to 9,409 units in April, from 9,659 units a year earlier, according to the Vietnam Automotive Manufacturers Association.
Chinese automaker Hawtai's ambitious plans to invest in Saab are being held up by further Swedish scrutiny of the deal which could see EUR150m (US$216m) ploughed into the troubled automaker.
The White House's auto recovery office should quantify what benefits U.S. auto-manufacturing communities saw from automaker bailouts if it is to keep getting funding, the Government Accountability Office said Tuesday.
British supercar maker joins forces with Italian design house again on a new project
The recent announcement of Spyker-owned Saab's potential deal with China's Hawtai, intended to result in Saabs being made in China and a cash injection to keep the Swedish automaker up and running at home, has attracted considerable media attention in China. Here are just two items from the last couple of days on local English language websites we've seen which are worth sharing.
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Modified SLS debuts at emergency services motorshow in Germany.
Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami hammered fourth-quarter profits at Toyota Motor Corp., slashing net income 77 percent amid production stops and sliding sales.
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