The light or city car segment had a modest sales increase of 3.9 percent overall in 2012 compared to 2011 with sales remaining relatively consistent across the field. For light cars under $25,000, the Holden Barina (up 50.5 percent to ...
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Despite the winter chill,the auto show season is heating up,revealing a number of exciting redesigns,new models,and refreshes coming up in 2013. We saw a few at the recent LA Auto Show and expect more to be displayed in Detroit in ...
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US carmaker Ford Motor is planning to halt the production of the Ka model cars due to lack of profit from the vehicle. Ford of Europe design boss Martin Smith was quoted by Autocar as saying that the car won't pass a US crash test, it was ...
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Tata Motors Finance Ltd. ("TMFL"), a subsidiary company of Tata Motors Ltd. ("Tata Motors"), a Tata Group company, has gone live with LeaseWave lease management software by Odessa Technologies, Inc ("Odessa"). With more than 2 million ...
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Economic Times cited the government saying that the production of passenger cars marginally declined by 1%YoY to 15.9 lakh in April to November 2012 due to factors including slow economic growth and high interest rates. Mr Praful Patel ...
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Italian carmaker Fiat is planning to invest $1.3bn in its Melfi facility in Italy to manufacture two new car models including a new Jeep and a Fiat 500X models. The investment forms part of the carmaker's plan to slash losses in Europe ...
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On the face of it the outlook in Europe for OEM automobile coatings looks grim at the moment. The region is estimated to have a 20 percent overcapacity in car manufacturing so that plant closures are seen to be sooner or later ...
Name: Jon Brilliant Age: 48 Time with company: board of directors when founded, became CFO 3 years ago. Education: Bachelor's degree in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and a graduate degree, Juris Doctor, from Duke ...
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Italian car maker Fiat is planning to completely acquire the Chrysler Group by purchasing 41.5% shares from United Auto Workers trust fund in the US. The company owns and manages the Chrysler Group with ownership of 58.5% of which it ...
As more than 12,000 unionized workers and supporters protested at the Capitol in Lansing, the Republican-led state House of Representatives gave final approval to a pair of "right-to-work" bills covering public- and private-sector unions. ...
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Vertu Constellation Blue Vertu, the leading manufacturer of luxury mobile phones, handmade in the UK, and the Italian design company Italia Independent celebrated the launch of the new collection designed with Lapo Elkann, style icon ...
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Italian carmaker Fiat is planning to invest about EUR1.2bn in its luxury car brand Maserati through 2014 to produce three new Maserati models. Being invested as part of the carmaker's aim to drive its European operations to profit,the ...
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A verbal stoush has erupted between Fiat and Nissan,with executives from both company's trading blows over the styling and functionality of their cars. The war of words started at the unveiling of the electric Fiat 500e(pictured top)at ...
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The Gaoshan population is 400.000. Most of them live in Taiwan Province. About 3,000 are scattered in the coastal area of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. A Gaoshan women living in Fujian and her beautiful dress. There are ...
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Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, a French supplier of construction materials, could give investors something to build on in the next 12 months. Its shares (ticker: SGO.France) could rally more than 20% as the company benefits from growing demand ...
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