SENIOR EDITOR FOR NEWS BOB GRITZINGER: This particular test car is done up in diesel billboard trim, but otherwise, you'd probably never know this is a diesel.
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Hyundai named Michael O'Brien vice president of product and corporate planning--an influential position that has been vacant since John Krafcik became CEO in late 2008, the company announced on Tuesday.
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Driver assistance technologies are evolving rapidly. Just looking back three years alone at what was predicted in terms of the application of camera-based technologies, a lot has changed. Matthew Beecham talked with Akira Kondo, general manager of Denso Corp's driving assistance and safety engineering department and Yoshihiko Teguri, chief engineer of Denso Corp's information and safety systems research and development department about the company's driver assistance systems.
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Ford Europe will launch its updated Mondeo at the 2010 Moscow motor show on 25 August. The model is built in Russia and also in China as well as Germany.
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Research firm Datamonitor says that it expects the share of low-emission 'green' vehicles in use in Europe to rise from 2.3% in 2009 to 3.2% by 2015.
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Lotus Cars Ltd. is poised to tap former General Motors Co. product guru Bob Lutz and retired BMW executive Tom Purves to advise the British niche carmaker on a five-year turnaround plan.
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Russian carmaker AvtoVAZ may end up managing eight component producers included in the Samara-based SOK Group, Russian business dailies Vedomosti and Kommersant reported on Tuesday.
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Toyota Motor Europe wants its new UK-made Auris hybrid to help it pass Fiat to takeover as Europe's low-CO2 champion.
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Toyota Motor Europe wants its new UK-made Auris hybrid to help it pass Fiat to takeover as Europe's low-CO2 champion.
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Ford is to hire an additional 230 workers at its Russian plant to handle increased demand for its vehicles according to a report by the business daily Vedomosti.
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100 smart electric cars will be handed over to drivers as part of the UK's biggest electric drive trial.
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Nissan is said to invest US$20m in its Indonesian assembly plant to double production capacity for the growing local market.
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Mercedes-Benz is to launch factory certified used cars in India to widen its customer base.
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Toyota will provide Subaru-maker Fuji Heavy Industries with small cars, as part of a broader product collaboration strategy between the two companies.
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Tata Motors is to seek approval from its shareholders for a capital increase that could see the automaker raise Rs47bn (US$1bn).
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Volkswagen's single-cab pick-up spied undisguised. DSG gearbox expected as an option.
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Toyota GB says it has achieved 95% of its recall target in just three months following its highly publicised accelerator issues.
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China's Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, which is buying Ford Motor's Volvo car unit for a reported US$1.8bn, has said it aims to sell 150,000 Volvo cars annually in China by 2015.
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Ibiza gets extra kit inspired by Colombian pop sensation.
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