Fiat will hire Toyota Europe's Andrea Formica to head sales at its struggling four-brand automotive group, sources familiar with the matter told Automotive News Europe.
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I became one of those drivers that I find so irritating; the sort that think they're saving the planet by driving their hybrid automobiles in near sedation in order to achieve the greatest fuel efficiency. You know the type I'm talking about. They take two blocks to accelerate to 50kph because heaven forbid the gas engine may fire up and needlessly consume fossil fuel.
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Fiat will hire Toyota Europe's Andrea Formica to head sales at its struggling four-brand automotive group, sources familiar with the matter told Automotive News Europe.
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Its image still bruised by driver complaints about unintended acceleration, Toyota Division has decided to revamp its marketing message and shift the focus to safety in a big way, top executives said last week.
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Toyota's Prius hybrid was the best-selling vehicle in Japan in August for the 15th consecutive month, according to data released by the Japan Automobile Dealers Association and the Japan Mini Vehicle Association.
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Its image still bruised by driver complaints about unintended acceleration, Toyota Division has decided to revamp its marketing message and shift the focus to safety in a big way, top executives said last week. Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A.'
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Volkswagen has recruited Giovanni Perosino, a top Fiat executive, to help oversee the marketing strategy of its growing number of brands. VW aims to topple Toyota as the world's No.
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I spent the past week behind the wheel of a mythical car. No, you couldn't find The Spirit of Ecstasy or Cavallino Rampante on the hood. The car I drove was neither extremely luxurious nor extremely powerful. Decorating the front fascia was a bluish oval with two intersecting ellipses to represent a relationship of mutual trust between the customer and the product.
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During my stint in the Avalon, we made a trip north to deliver wedding supplies to the family, loading most of the items, including a suitcase, in its mammoth trunk. In fact, it swallowed up everything with room to spare.
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Guangzhou Automobile Group, China's sixth-largest automaker and the Chinese partner of Honda, Toyota and Fiat, was publicly listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 30 August, according to local media reports.
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Toyota minicar specialist unit Daihatsu Motor is to recall over 600,000 cars at home and in Europe due to indicator light covers that fade over time.
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BMW AG's namesake brand increased U.S. sales 1.6 percent in August and beat Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus as the top U.S. luxury brand for the third straight month.
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Daihatsu Motor Co., the minicar unit of Toyota Motor Corp., is recalling more than a half-million vehicles in Japan because of faulty rear indicator lamps. The recalls are another blow to Toyota, which already has recalled 12.
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Honda's shares closed higher than those of rival Toyota on Thursday for the first time since 1976, as investors anticipated faster growth in emerging markets for Japan's No. 2 automaker.
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BMW AG's namesake brand increased U.S. sales 1.6 percent in August and beat Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus as the top U.S. luxury brand for the third straight month.
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Spy shots reveal best look yet at exciting new Toyota-Subaru coupé venture
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Toyota Division sales may have fallen 34 percent in August -- and are now down 1 percent for the year to date -- but General Manager Bob Carter isn't panicking. Toyota was the No.
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Aston Martin's perplexing decision to rebadge a Toyota iQ minicar could be explained, possibly, if the car were sold only in big European cities that impose vehicle congestion charges. But the Cygnet will be sold in the United States as well.
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Paris Motor Show debut for Toyota’s Honda Jazz and Kia Venga rival.
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As a government program to replace older models with more fuel efficient vehicles ends, car sales in Japan are expected to plunge beginning this fall, according to the Japan Automobile Dealers Association.
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