The Belgium based international chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay's affiliate Inergy Automotive Systems is building new fuel systems plants in the Beijing region of China and in the Chennai region, India to supply new car assembly plants.
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General Motors plans to build redesigned Opel Astra models at its new plant in the Russian city of St Petersburg from 2010, local managing director Hans Juergen Michel told a conference.
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Nissan Motor is considering assembling alliance partner Renault's vehicles at its new plant in St Petersburg, the plant's top executive has said.
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Fiat Group Automobiles announced Thursday that it would stop car production in its Termini Imerese plant, near Palermo, Sicily, in 2011.
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Fiat plans to stop car production at one Italian plant and change to a new platform at another, its CEO told government and unions at a meeting on the impact of its deal to steer Chrysler back to health. Sergio Marchionne, who now also heads the U.S.
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It's official, Vauxhall pulls the wraps from the new Astra's interior.

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Russia's largest car maker, AvtoVAZ, could be folded into an alliance with Opel and Canada's Magna International as part of a plan to double Opel's production in five years, the head of Sberbank said.
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Russia's largest car maker, AvtoVAZ, could be folded into an alliance with Opel and Canada's Magna International as part of a plan to double Opel's production in five years, the head of Sberbank said.
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General Motors Europe 'design appearance quality' head Peter Hasselbach said the automaker's goal for the redesigned Astra's cabin "was to make the perceptual quality in the interior as great as that of the Insignia".
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Smart will put an electric Fortwo model into series production in 2010 after successful trials of the technology in London and other major UK cities.
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The Kia Motors China joint venture, Donfeng Yueda Kia, has launched the C-segment Forte (Cerato in some markets) at the Nanjing International Expo Centre.
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Fewer than 8,000 of BMW's 100,000 workers bought a BMW last year and with sales down around 14% in the first five months of the year, asking your own workers to buy the cars they design, build and sell makes sense.
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PSA Peugeot-Citroen is expanding transmission production in France.
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Renault is studying plans to carry out final assembly of cars based on its low-cost Logan platform in Venezuela beginning in 2010, through a planned partnership with Chinese automaker Great Wall.
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Renault is studying plans to carry out final assembly of cars based on its low-cost Logan platform in Venezuela beginning in 2010, through a planned partnership with Chinese automaker Great Wall.
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Renault is studying plans to carry out final assembly of cars based on its low-cost Logan platform in Venezuela beginning in 2010, through a planned partnership with Chinese automaker Great Wall.
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Chrysler will resume volume production of vehicles at seven North American assembly plants in the week beginning 29 June, the automaker announced last night.
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Belgian drugs, chemicals and plastics maker Solvay said on Thursday its automotive fuel systems affiliate Inergy would be building new factories in China and India.
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The U.S. Senate passed a scaled-back $1 billion 'cash-for-guzzlers' bill, sending it to President Barack Obama for his expected signature.
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Baard Eker, the Norwegian designer behind the unlikely bid for General Motors' Saab unit, wants to rejuvenate the "soul and spirit" of the money-losing Swedish carmaker and lead a creative revival in the auto industry.
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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