China based Yanfeng Visteon's subsidiary, Yanfeng USA Automotive Trim Systems will build a new $45m worth vehicle parts manufacturing and sequencing facility in the Kansas City area, Missouri. The 258,000sqft facility is expected to start ...
General Motors has unveiled a plan to invest EUR230m in the next three to four years for the construction of new testing facilities at its European Product Development Center in Rüsselsheim, Germany. The investment is a part of the ...
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Muscle car is a term used to refer to a variety of high-performance automobiles. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines muscle cars as "any of a group of American-made 2-door sports coupes with powerful engines designed for high-performance ...
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Supercar is a term used most often to describe an expensive high end car. It has been defined specifically as "a very expensive, fast or powerful car". Stated in more general terms: "it must be very fast, with sporting handling to match", ...
The financially strapped Peugeot Citroen group (PSA) views its alliance with General Motors as a must if it’s to survive long term and become a global player. Speaking to the media at last week’s launch of the Peugeot 2008 SUV ...
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Designed specifically to appeal to Chinese men born in the 1980s, the Nissan Friend-ME is a four-seat four-door design concept shown at the Shanghai auto show. With a PureDrive hybrid drivetrain, and based on "an existing Nissan sedan ...
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Fuyao Glass, one of the world’s largest makers of glass used in automobiles, gained 3% on Friday at the Shanghai Stock Exchange after the company said net profit in the first three months of the year climbed by 11% to 391.9 million ...
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As Opel continues to face losses, the European arm of General Motors has approved the closure of a German plant, at the cost of more than 3000 workers. Reuters reports Opel‘s decision to cease production at its 50-year-old Bochum ...
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Wearing Victorian number plates on its tailgate, the Holden VF Commodore SS V ute has been caught testing at the famous Nurburgring circuit, in Germany. Only a month out from its official Australian launch, the Holden VF Commodore ...
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Any parent will tell you that one of the scariest times of their life is when they first hand the car keys over to their teen, but some automakers are offering a way for parents to monitor and place limits on their teen's driving behaviors. ...
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Sigma Designs, a provider of System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions for home entertainment, connectivity and converging multimedia delivery, today announced its Z-Wave Next Gen portfolio featuring a new family of 500-Series chips. Building on the ...
US automaker General Motors (GM) has started the production of electric motors for the new Chevrolet Spark electric vehicle (EV) at its Baltimore Operations facility in White Marsh, Maryland. The new Spark EV will be GM's first vehicle ...
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Silicon Labs is sampling a digital radio-on-a-chip which supports FD, HD Radio and DAB/DAB+. James Stansberry, vp and GM of Silicon Labs' broadcast products group told the Globalpress Summit meeting in Sant Cruz yesterday that the chip ...
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Two of the automotive industry’s fiercest rivals, Ford and General Motors, will collaborate on new nine- and 10-speed automatic transmissions for their next-generation vehicles. Designed for both front- and rear-wheel-drive ...
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Tesco is “misleading” consumers over its scrapping of a pledge to only rear poultry on soya feed that’s free of genetic modification (GM), say campaigners. Tesco’s Tim Smith said it was important to be upfront ...
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