Peugeot is planning to shut down and sell off a 30-year-old French plant while vowing to save its more than 600-strong workforce. The Financial Times reports that PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe's second-biggest car maker by sales, plans to ...
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Speculation is rife that Ford Australia is set to announce today the closure of its Broadmeadows and Geelong production plants. The local car maker issued a statement at 9:15am today alerting the media to a press conference at 10:45am, in ...
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Ford Australia has confirmed it will end local vehicle production in October 2016, signalling the death of the Ford Falcon and Territory and the loss of 1200 Victorian jobs. Ford Australia president and CEO Bob Graziano said rapidly ...
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New Chinese automotive brand Qoros has announced it will introduce a cloud-based infotainment service as standard equipment on all its future models. Dubbed 'QorosQloud', and developed in collaboration with Microsoft, the system allows ...
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Holden managing director Mike Devereux has responded to this morning's announcement that Ford will close its Australian manufacturing operations, saying that he "truthfully believe[s] that not only can auto making in this country survive, ...
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Three new brands — Chamois Butt'r, Wilderness Trail Bikes and LegLube — have added SmartEtailing's Buy Local Now referral feature to their websites. The announcement brings the count to 18 for brands participating in the Buy ...
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This weekend's USA Cycling professional road and time trial championships are being held, for the first time in the event's 28-year history, in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after many years in Greenville, South Carolina. And Chattanooga's ...
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Not long after Specialized unveiled its new wind tunnel, employees at Giant challenged the fellow Californian brand to a duel: Giant's Propel SL Advanced o versus the Specialized Venge S-Works Di2 in a head-to-head battle to determine, once ...
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SRAM is introducing an upgraded version of its mountain bike trigger shifters for three of its parts groups, and is trickling down its Type 2 anti-chain slap feature to its X7-level rear derailleur. The company said all the updated parts ...
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The League of American Bicyclists' Women Bike program recently awarded $7,500 in grants to organizations in four cities in an effort to engage more women of all ages and from all backgrounds in cycling. "We know new ideas and initiatives ...
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The US natural gas vehicle market needs federal and state tax incentives if it is to grow appreciably in the next 10 years, an analyst with Barclays said Friday. "If the state is willing to give you $20,000 for an NGV, the economics would ...
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Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler has shared intelligence on its fuel-efficient petrol engines with Ford in exchange for intimate information on the blue oval’s highly awarded three-cylinder EcoBoost powerplant. Automotive News ...
Mercedes-Benz will introduce new Quick Response (QR) code stickers on its vehicles from this year, in a bid to speed up the rescue of car crash victims. To be fitted to each vehicle’s fuel tank flap and opposite side B-pillar, the ...
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The boss of Tesla has revealed plans for an affordable compact electric vehicle that is set to go on sale early in the second half of the decade. Fresh from the announcement that the company had paid back its US government loan in full, ...
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A video showing the Toyota FT-HT Yuejia concept has been released, highlighting the MPV’s flexibility and giving us our first look at its interior. Releasedmore than a month after the Toyota FT-HT Yuejia concept car debuted at the ...
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