Jaguar hosted the annual kick-off party for the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance Thursday night and the cars parked outside the Beach and Tennis Club typified what the weekend is all about--automotive excess. But in a good way.
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GM's planned IPO may be 'a tad earlier than people would like,' said the former head of President Barack Obama's automotive task force.
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MAHWAH, N.J. - Jaguar celebrates its 75th anniversary today with the debut of the limited edition 2011 Jaguar XKR175 Coupe at the McCalls Motorworks Revival at the Monterey Jet Center during the Pebble Beach Automotive Weekend. This is the first appearance of the exclusive sports car in North America.
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Vehicle sales in the Philippines increased by 37.7% year-on-year in July to 15,972 units, from 71,506 units a year earlier, according to data released by the Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers in the Philippines Inc (CAMPI). The association's president, Elizabeth Lee, attributed the ongoing sales growth to a "strengthening consumer and business confidence".
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Supplier Tower Automotive LLC, in an effort to repay its U.S. and European bank debts, said today it plans to sell $450 million of 7-year debt notes.
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Automotive women struggle to balance work and home, but could some of that tension be self-imposed? That's what Francoise Colpron, national director for French supplier Valeo's North American operations, found when she talked to female managers at...
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Vietnam's new vehicle sales fell 12.9% year on year to 9,439 units in July, from 10,839 units a year earlier, according to data released by the Vietnam Automotive Manufacturers Association.
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Jerry Flint, a longtime automotive journalist and one of the industry's staunchest critics, died Aug. 7 in Hudson, N.Y., of a stroke. He was 79. Born in Detroit, Flint covered the automotive industry for 52 years.
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Reports of robust post-bankruptcy sales at General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group need an asterisk. Internal documents obtained by Automotive News show that much of the recovery at the two companies comes from sales to daily rental fleets.
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Toronto - As McLaren Automotive moves toward the launch of the MP4-12C, plans are proceeding to have Pfaff Automotive Partners represent McLaren in Canada and the Toronto area. The proposed location for the dealership is at 33 Auto Park Circle, Woodbridge, Ontario with anticipated opening in summer, 2011.
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Car sales in Western Europe fell by 18.5% in July according to data released by JD Power automotive forecasting with a host of national markets recording big falls on last year.
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The U.S. auto industry will have to prepare for a slow, grind-it-out sales recovery if a market analysis by Sean McAlinden proves correct. McAlinden, chief economist of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., said automakers kept U.S.
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General Motors has ploughed US$5m into Bright Automotive to accelerated the Indiana automaker's IDEA plug-in hybrid commercial vehicle.
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General Motors has ploughed US$5m into Bright Automotive to accelerated the Indiana automaker's IDEA plug-in hybrid commercial vehicle.
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General Motors has ploughed US$5m into Bright Automotive to accelerated the Indiana automaker's IDEA plug-in hybrid commercial vehicle.
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Safety systems specialist TRW Automotive said second quarter 2010 sales rose 24% to $3.7bn while net earnings of $227m, or $1.78 per share, compared to a net loss of $11m or ($0.11) per share. Q2 operating income was a record $322m compared with $44m a year ago.
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The Chongqing Yinxiang Group and Beijing Automotive Industry Holding (BAIC) inked a strategic cooperation agreement on Wednesday, under which the two sides would invest CNY1.5bn to construct a new minivan base in southwest China's Chongqing municipality.
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General Motors Co. said it plans to invest $5 million in electric vehicle company Bright Automotive in return for an undisclosed minority stake. Bright CEO Reuben Munger said his Anderson, Ind.
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Remember the Bugatti that sold a few months ago for somewhere between $30 million and $40 million? It is still the world's most expensive car. And now you can have a look at it at the fabulous Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, Calif.
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Chrysler Group has reiterated that it prevailed in 76 of 108 arbitration decisions with rejected dealerships after Automotive News reported that the company won 73 of 105 decisions.
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