February 1, Hyundai Kia announced that American sales were 80,015 vehicles in January, 2013, up 2.3% year on year on the basis of 78,211 vehicles of the same period last year. The growth rate become slower compared to the average growth ...
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Reportedly, Korea’s Hyundai Hysco and Japan’s Sumitomo Group planned to begin a trial testing run for the JV pipe project in India in February this year. They formed new company as Automotive Steel Pipe India in Tamil ...
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Toyota has claimed top spot in the US Consumer Reports’ Car Brand Perception Survey for another year, despite a 2012 dotted with recalls. Conducted by the Consumer Reports National Research Centre, the Car Brand Perception Survey is ...
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South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor has reported global sales of 412,720 units in January 2013, up by 27.8% compared to the sales of 323,022 vehicles in the same month of 2012. Company's domestic sales reached 50,211 units in the month, ...
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Russia-based Severstal, one of the world's leading vertically integrated steel and steel-related mining companies, has stated that it has signed a number of further long-term contracts with Russian and CIS-based automotive companies. So far ...
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Toyota Motor Europe will use Nokia's mapping technology in its next-generation navigation and infotainment systems. The car company will use a tailored packaging of Nokia's Here platform called Local Search for Automotive, which as the ...
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The Kia Forte was introduced in 2010 and gets a full redesign for 2014. That's one of the shortest product cycles we've seen, giving you an idea of how competitive the small car market is. We drove two early-build 2014 Fortes to get a first ...
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With an all-new Toyota Corolla launched with a $19,990 price tag, we find out which is the best entry-level small car for the money, putting the world’s best selling small car up against the Ford Focus, Hyundai i30 and Mazda3. Words: ...
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Korean Hyundai Hysco planned to raise its production of flat products including cold rolled coils and coated steel products by 13% from a year ago to 4.8 million tons in 2013. The higher production will be mainly contributed by the ...
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Describe a European luxury car with a 3.0-liter supercharged V6, all-wheel-drive, and eight-speed automatic, and one name probably comes to mind: Audi A6. But now this appealing technological combination platter also describes the Jaguar ...
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Czech TPCA vehicle factory Joint venture by Toyota and Peugeot Citroen, expressed that its automobile production declined 20% last Year in the influence of European automobile market downturn. TPCA factory has 3,000 staff and its ...
The Kia pro_cee’d GT has been revealed online ahead of the Korean hot-hatch’s world premiere at the 2013 Geneva motor show in March. The sporty three-door will debut alongside its five-door sibling – the Kia cee’d ...
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According to Japanese media reports, British investigate company LMC Automotive indicated that the market shares of Japanese cars in China ware 19% in 2012, down 4% compared to 2011. The market shares of Japanese cars hit the peak in 2008, ...
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The technological increases that smartphones and tablets are making coupled with the never ending surge in popularity of social media is beginning to show in slower to change car manufacturers. Car manufacturers like Chevrolet, BMW, ...
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It’s reported that the South Korean cold rolled (CR) steelmakers planned to raise the prices for coated steel sheets for construction by KRW100, 000/ton from February in order to reflect higher input costs. It’s known that ...
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