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Ford has been one of the biggest opponents of the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement negotiated and signed three years ago by the Bush administration but never approved by Congress. Full story...

The chance that 2009 and 2010 model year Cubes could leak fuel if struck from the rear at 50 miles per hour led to the recall, documents from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration show. Full story...

Italy's labor minister summoned Fiat and trade unions for talks on July 28 after the company's decision to move production of some vehicles to Serbia fueled fears for the future of its biggest Italian plant. Full story...

Fiat should keep its pledge to boost Italian car production, a newspaper cited the labor minister as saying, after the company said last week it would move production of models such as the next Multipla minivan to Serbia. Full story...

Fiat S.p.A. should keep its pledge to boost Italian car production, a newspaper cited the labor minister as saying, after the company said last week it would move production of models such as the next Multipla minivan to Serbia. Full story...

Italy's labor minister summoned Fiat and trade unions for talks on July 28 after the company's decision to move production of some vehicles to Serbia fueled fears for the future of its biggest Italian plant. Full story...

Italy's labor minister summoned Fiat and trade unions for talks on July 28 after the company's decision to move production of some vehicles to Serbia fueled fears for the future of its biggest Italian plant. Full story...

Crossovers be damned! For many Canadian shoppers, the real bang-for-the-buck champ when it comes to hauling you and yours around isn't an AWD sport ute-- but rather a minivan. Virtually unmatched where flexibility, versatility and space for the money are concerned, the family hauler Chrysler started to expand into a market that was eventually joined by automakers from around the globe. Full story...

Italy's labor minister summoned Fiat and trade unions for talks on July 28 after the company's decision to move production of some vehicles to Serbia fueled fears for the future of its biggest Italian plant. Full story...

Finland'sMarcus Gronholm could join the MINI Prodrive programme, which will probably make its debut in the World Rally Championship next season. Full story...

Fiat will build two new minivans in Serbia instead of Italy, CEO Sergio Marchionne said. Fiat could also produce in other countries four other models originally planned for Italian production including Alfa Romeo and Chrysler cars. Full story...

Austin Mini and Prodrive may officialize a WRC entry for next season, according to british magazine Autosport. Full story...

Fiat will build two new minivans in Serbia instead of Italy, CEO Sergio Marchionne said. Fiat could also produce in other countries four other models originally planned for Italian production including Alfa Romeo and Chrysler cars. Full story...

SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW), General Motors' mini commercial vehicle joint venture with SAIC and Wuling Motors, announced today in Shanghai that it is launching the Baojun brand to build and sell passenger cars in China. Full story...

Replacement for X-Type confirmed, with hi-tech aluminium platform scheduled for whole range. Full story...

Exclusive: Jaguar's 3-Series, MINI 4x4 vs Nissan Juke, Ford Focus ST is go, Inside the new C4 Full story...

EDITOR WES RAYNAL: I had a fun night in this. People stopped and took pictures of this thing at my house last night. A minivan pulled up, and a whole family got out and started snapping it with their cell phones. Full story...

Three-door Countryman due in 2012 and 4WD model will go head-to-head with Range Rover Evoque.

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To mark the beginning of new era in sustainable mobility in British Columbia, a ceremony was held Friday, July 17, when Toyota Canada delivered a Prius Plug-In Hybrid (PHV) to a group of BC testing partners. These partners include BC Institute of Technology (BCIT), BC Hydro, City of Vancouver, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and the University of Victoria's Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVic). Representatives from each organization were on hand to officially 'plug-in' to the future and deliver the Prius PHV to the province of B.C. To mark the occasion, B.C.'s Minister of State for Climate Action John Yap, Vancouver's Deputy Mayor Ellen Woodsworth, BCIT's President Don Wright, IESVic's Curran Crawford and Toyota Canada's Managing Director Stephen Beatty were on hand for the delivery at 1800 Spyglass Place in Vancouver. "Partnerships that bring the public and private sectors together to spur innovations like plug-in hybrids also bring us one step closer to a low-carbon economy in this province," said John Yap, Minister of State for Climate Action. "We expect that coupling B.C.'s clean energy resources with the cutting edge technology of plug-in hybrids will lead to a Full story...

Toyota Motor Corp. said it has a repair about 600,000 Sienna minivans recalled in the U.S. three months ago for possible corrosion in a cable that holds the spare tire. Full story...