Dacia has said that its sales rose by 20.5% to more than 300,000 vehicles in 2009.
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Nissan Motor sales in China last year rose 48% to a record 518,968 passenger vehicles, the automaker said in a statement.
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Toyota's US unit on Thursday said its new plant in Blue Springs, Mississippi, would be used to build the Prius hybrid, currently imported from Japan, although timing depended on how quickly the depressed US market recovered.
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Sales of new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles (LCVs) in Russia fell 49% in 2009 to 1.47m cars, according to data released by the Association of European Businesses (AEB).
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Local firm GB Auto said on Thursday it had started an exclusive agreement to import and sell Mazda-branded vehicles in Egypt.
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Car makers in November 2009 slowed the decline in Czech industrial output to the slowest rate since the global economic crisis hit a year ago, official data showed on Thursday.
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Continental in the US says it is raising its profile in one of the fastest-growing sports segments, with the announcement of its official sponsorship of Major League Soccer (MLS).
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Roger Penske, chairman of the second largest US auto dealer company, Penske Group, and a recent bidder for General Motors' Saturn unit, is considering buying GM, Chrysler and Ford dealerships but said the Detroit three and their retailers needed stronger support from finance partners.
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Full year 2009 vehicle sales by Hong Kong listed Geely Automobile Holdings rose 59% to 325,413 units, China's largest privately owned automaker said in a statement on Thursday.
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Nissan North America (NNA) is predicting electric vehicles will account for 10% of its global sales by 2020.
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Renault on Thursday reported 2009 sales dropped 3.1% year on year to 2.3m vehicles.
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The Italian government is considering a new incentive scheme to support the Italian car market amid fears that it would see a big fall without them, an analyst told just-auto today.
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GAZ Group is looking for a foreign partner to help it overhaul production and boost sales said the Russian carmaker's president Bo Andersson.
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Toyota has established a division to speed development of next generation batteries.
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GM Daewoo, the South Korea-based unit of General Motors, expects to return to profitability in 2010, company president and chief executive Mike Arcamone told the Reuters News Agency.
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Car sales in Russia will remain flat this year after halving in 2009, according to the Association of European Businesses (AEB) even though the government's new scrappage incentive is due to kick-in during March.
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For the past ten years, just-auto has reported on the novel innovations emanating from Johnson Controls, one of the world's largest manufacturers of cockpit systems, including instrument panels and clusters, information displays and body controllers, among other technologies. Matthew Beecham talked with Thomas Beer, senior product business manager, global product centre cockpit systems, Johnson Controls and Gert-Dieter Tuzar, principal designer HMI (Human Machine Interface), Johnson Controls, about meeting consumer expectations for the cockpit, the increasing use of infotainment and information assistant systems that relieve the cognitive burden on drivers and the importance of good HMI concepts.
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Höegh Autoliners, one of the world's largest operators in the rolling stock and vehicle transportation segment, has added the port of Charleston, South Carolina, to its Middle East service, and the first ship to dock will leave with US-built BMWs bound for export markets.
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