While Lee Noble has given a strong hint that the car will be a 'natural, but even more focused' successor to his iconic M12, his new design is fresh, bold and dramatic, with a premium feel normally associated with exotica costing over £150,000.
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Mondragon Group, the world's largest workers' cooperative, has grown out of its historical Basque roots to comprise an organisation with global presence. It is also a significant player in the automotive industry components sector with cooperative firms manufacturing components, modules, machinery and tools. Oskar Goitia, MD of Mondragon's automotive division, tells just-auto editor Dave Leggett how the business is developing and staying true to its founding principles.
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Automotive engineering and technology specialist Ricardo has made three high-level appointments.
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RICHFIELD, Ohio, - OEConnection LLC, the automotive market's premier online parts and service exchange, announced today that Kia Canada will augment their existing parts distribution facilities with the creation of a virtual in-channel replacement parts warehouse using OEConnection's D2DLink web-based technology. Connecting the automaker's 166 dealership parts departments nationwide, D2DLink will enable dealership parts personnel to more efficiently source needed replacement parts.
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Despite growing global success for the domestic automotive component industry, India's second-largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, Ashok Leyland, has said components from China form an intrinsic part of its products and that the company would increase imports.
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Automotive drive systems represent a major dilemma. A hybrid such as the Lexus GS 450h combines a 300-hp gasoline engine with a 50-hp electric motor.
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German automakers will gain market share by producing more smaller vehicles, even as competition in the global auto industry intensifies, the head of Germany's VDA automotive industry association said in an interview.
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Montreal - The Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique (the Quebec association for the reduction of air pollution, or AQLPA) is extremely happy with the significant progress that will be made mid-January when the greenhouse gas emissions produced by automotive vehicles by-law comes into effect. With this announcement, the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Ms. Line Beauchamp, makes Quebec the first Canadian province to set the strictest standards in all of North America.
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Montreal - The Association québécoise de lutte contre la pollution atmosphérique (the Quebec association for the reduction of air pollution, or AQLPA) is extremely happy with the significant progress that will be made mid-January when the greenhouse gas emissions produced by automotive vehicles by-law comes into effect. With this announcement, the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, Ms. Line Beauchamp, makes Quebec the first Canadian province to set the strictest standards in all of North America.
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Moving production of the next-generation Panda to Italy would cost Fiat 300 million to 400 million euros more than keeping output of the car in Poland, industry sources told Automotive News Europe.
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Chinese investors this year launched bids on several major automotive mergers or acquisitions as Western companies sell assets to ride out the recession while Chinese companies look to raise their global profile. Earlier today, Ford Motor Co.
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Chinese investors this year launched bids on several major automotive mergers or acquisitions as Western companies sell assets to ride out the recession while Chinese companies look to raise their global profile. Earlier today, Ford Motor Co.
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Beijing Automotive Industry Holding said it paid US$200m to purchase technology from General Motors' Saab unit as the Chinese automaker speeds up development of its own vehicles.
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Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp. (BAIC), China's fifth-largest automaker, will launch an aggressive campaign to develop its brand both at home and overseas, after buying car designs from General Motors Co.s' Saab unit.
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Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp., China's fifth-largest automaker, will launch an aggressive campaign to develop its brand both at home and overseas, after buying car designs from General Motors Co.'s Saab unit.
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Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp said it paid $200 million for Saab technology, allowing the Chinese automaker to roll out Saab-based cars as soon as 2011.
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Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp said it paid $200 million for Saab technology, allowing the Chinese automaker to roll out Saab-based cars as soon as 2011.
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TRW Automotive Holdings has raised US$400m of new term loans of which $225m matures on 30 May, 2015 and $175m matures on 30 May, 2016, both subject to certain conditions. Proceeds from the new loans, together with cash on hand, were used to repay the outstanding balances of previously existing term loans, which had earlier maturities than the newly issued term loans.
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As the decade dubbed 'the noughties' bows out, Dave Leggett looks back at the last ten years and considers some of the events and trends that helped shape the automotive decade. Here are his ten.
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