Aston Martin and Daimler exploring opportunities for future extensive cooperation according to Financial Times Deutschland, citing company sources.
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Like any year in the auto industry, 2010 saw its fair share of company ups and downs, industrial comings and goings, and a fair old sprinkling of corporate drama. 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. This is part two and covers the second half of the year.
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GM Uzbekistan, the joint venture between General Motors Uzavtoprom, is expected to invest US$136m to assemble a "business sedan" sometime between 2011 and 2013, a source in the Uzbek government told the Prime-Tass news agency.
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Fiat and its four main unions have started negotiations in Turin this morning (23 December) in a bid to kick-start stalled progress concerning the Mirafiori plant.
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Advanced manufacturing technology will offset the strong yen, enabling Toyota to continue producing vehicles in Japan, the top executive said.
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Fiat is ratcheting up the pressure on its recalcitrant unions - and it would appear one in particular - as it looks to secure a productivity deal at its Italian Mirafiori plant.
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Mercedes-Benz has revealed a facelifted version of the C-class ahead of its planned North American introduction next July.
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Mercedes gives compact exec latest family look, stop-start boosts economy across range

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Aston Martin is in talks with Daimler over a partnership to build a new Maybach sedan that could debut at the 2011 Frankfurt auto show, press reports said.
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Aston Martin is in talks with Daimler over a partnership to build a new Maybach sedan that could debut at the 2011 Frankfurt auto show, press reports said.
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Kia wants to launch production of a new model at its plant in Slovakia in 2012. Kia's Zilina factory has an annual capacity of 300,000 cars. It builds two SUV models, the Kia Sportage and Hyundai ix35, and the Kia Cee'd compact.
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U.S. auto safety officials upgraded a probe into Ford Windstar minivans following a raft of new complaints about corrosion in the vehicles.
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This is Jeep's most popular little ute, the 2011 Patriot. This compact machine distinguishes itself from the 2010 variant by way of light visual updates and mechanical improvements.
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The Lotus ART GP2 team is pleased to announce that they have signed a deal with Jules Bianchi for the upcoming 2011 championship season.
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Despite the single-seaters would remain green-and-yellow next season, Team Lotus shows the paint scheme that it would have based its 2011 design.
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The 2011 Mercedes-Benz C-Class from the brand's best-selling model lineup receives a fresh new treatment and a little more than 2,000 new components while promising enhanced looks and superior fuel economy.
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Toyota gave a preview of the 2012 Vitz, the European and Asian version of the highly successful Yaris.
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Mercedes-Benz is looking for candidates to form four pairs of contestants that will take off from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Tampa Bay and head to the Super Bowl in Dallas as quickly as possible. In what is a world's first, the competition will be fueled by Twitter.
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The FIA is proposing to mandate plexiglass windscreens for the cockpits of formula one cars, according to an Italian report.
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A little while back, I wrote about the Three Amigos that had assailed my Land Rover Discovery. The "three amigos" is the common reference for a well known Land Rover malady in which the antilock brake system malfunctions, taking with it the traction control program along with the vehicle's downhill descent control feature.
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With the current economy the last thing you need is for your vehicle to break down. Whether your driving a reliable car or a busted up