On Tuesday, Ford Motor Company said that its US March sales were up 6 percent, the best results since May 2007, with cars even with year-ago levels, utilities up 14 percent and trucks up 6 percent. Chrysler Group extended its streak of ...
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Ford could face a class-action lawsuit over claims of unintended acceleration in its vehicles after a complaint was filed in the US federal court on Thursday. Bloomberg reports the plaintiffs – representing owners of Ford Motor ...
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The Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG has been unveiled at the 2013 New York auto show. The high-performance compact 'four-door coupe' becomes the flagship model in the recently launched Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class line-up, and offers a sedan-based ...
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The Dodge Charger could be introduced to Australia from the beginning of 2014 if the business case that is currently under assessment stacks up. Chrysler Group senior vice president of design Ralph Gilles told CarAdvice at the New York ...
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The next-generation Subaru WRX is less than a year away from being shown in production form, after this design concept was revealed at the 2013 New York auto show. Although Subaru was tight-lipped about specification details and timing, ...
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A new derivative of the Jaguar F-Type will launch every 12 to 18 months over the supercharged sports car's lifecycle as the British marque aims to replicate the 'obsessive' nature of Porsche with its 911. In an open discussion with a ...
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Bentley is on the cusp of approving it luxury SUV to go on-sale in 2015, and according to sales and marketing member of the board Kevin Rose a plug-in hybrid version is a definite. "We'll probably bring an SUV to market, and that may be ...
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The chief engineer of the all-new 991-generation Porsche 911 GT3 has confirmed that producing a hardcore, GT3-style version of the mid-engined Cayman is "under discussion". Speaking at the official public reveal of the 911 GT3, Andreas ...
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Australia-based Alloy Steel International, Inc. has announced that its Australian subsidiary, Alloy Steel Australia (Int) Pty Ltd (AYSI), has signed a five-year framework contract with Australian miner BHP Billiton Iron Ore Pty Ltd (BHPBIO) ...
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Volkswagen's design chief says he is currently in the process of reinventing the Volkswagen Scirocco, and claims that an entirely new body style is not out of the question for the upcoming fourth-generation model. Speaking at the New York ...
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Speaking At Baosteel’s 2012 Achievements Report Meeting, He Wenbo, the general manager of Shanghai-based Chinese steelmaker Baoshan Iron and Steel Co. Ltd (Baosteel), stated that in 2013 the company’s capacity utilization rate ...
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Brazil's national statistics agency, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatistica (IBGE), has reported that Brazilian industrial production fell 2.5 percent month on month in February this year, virtually eliminating the ...
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A hybrid version of the next-generation Mercedes-Benz C-Class was confirmed last month, however the boss of the company's US operations has now revealed exclusively to CarAdvice that the petrol-electric model will offer plug-in charging ...
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On April 2, Chongqing Iron and Steel (Group) Co. announced that in March this year its subsidiary Chongqing-based Chinese steelmaker Chongqing Iron and Steel Co. (Chongqing Steel) produced 534,200 mt of finished steel, up 30.45 percent year ...
Australia-based miner Condor Blanco Mines Limited has announced that it has commenced production at its Marianas iron ore tailings project in the city of Copiàpo in Chile. The company has begun processing and stockpiling an initial ...