toyota Motor Sales eported 17.2%increase in its November 2012 sales to 161,695 units,compared to the same period in 2011. The Toyota Division's sales rose by 17.3%to 138,976 units in November 2012,compared to the same period last year. ...
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Italian carmaker Fiat will halt the production of cars at its Pomigliano plant for two weeks this autumn due to weak demand. Because of the weak demand, more European carmakers are trying take steps to cope up with five years of declining ...
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Nissan Motor will increase the presence of its luxury car division Infiniti in China by building two new models in the country starting in 2014. Nissan's Chinese joint venture company, Dongfeng Motor (DFL) will build the two new models at ...
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Engine downsizing is poised to have a major impact on gasoline engines and suppliers with complete powertrain development and benchmarking capabilities for this will gain significance, according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan. The ...
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PTI reported that the country’s largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India a 12.45% increase in its total sales at 1,03,200 units in November. The company in a statement said that the company had sold 91,772 units in the same month last ...
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Ford sales in China increased 35% to 59,570 vehicles in September 2012, compared to the same period in 2011. Ford China's passenger car sales, including vehicles produced at Changan Ford Mazda Automobile and imported Ford Edge SUVs, ...
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Japanese carmaker Nissan has recorded 4.845 million units in global sales in the fiscal year 2011, up 15.8% from last year's 4.185 million units, as demand for its vehicles outperformed the total auto industry which increased 4.2%. Nissan ...
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Automotive batteries supplier,Johnson Controls is planning to invest $200m in building an automotive battery manufacturing plant in Tianjin, China. The company is expecting final approval for the project, following the approval, ...
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Japanese automaker Toyota Motor’s (TMC) global hybrid vehicles sales have reached four million units until April 2012, starting from its first gas-electric car launched in 1997. The company is currently selling 18 type of hybrid ...
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Hyundai Asia Resources Inc, the official distributor of Hyundai vehicles in the country, said that sales in the first 10 months grew 13% YoY, driven by a strong turnover in the passenger car category. Hari said in a report that it sold ...
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IANS quoted TATA Steel Processing and Distribution Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of TATA Steel, said that the current slowdown in the country’s automotive sector would lead to a less than 25% sales growth this fiscal. The company, ...
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Automotive ICs have remained a bright spot for the industry and should be almost a$20bn market this year,says IC Insights. One of the silver linings to the automotive downturn in 2008 was that it initiated a massive and perhaps long ...
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Taiwan’s hand tool industry is pursuing sustainable development for the next decade after surging between the 1970s and 1990s and maturing in the 2000s. Matt Yang, project manager of the Office to Revitalize Traditional Industries at ...
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A diesel engine (also known as a compression-ignition engine) is an internal combustion engine that uses the heat of compression to initiate ignition to burn the fuel, which is injected into the combustion chamber. This is in contrast to ...
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Manufacturing in the New York region unexpectedly expanded in November, as measures of shipments and the employee workweek improved. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index rose to 0.6, the first positive reading ...
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