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Nissan's chief executive said its production is almost back to normal after disruptions stemming from the March earthquake and forecast the auto maker's sales this year would be significantly higher than in 2010.
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Toyota Motor's India unit said it will introduce its Etios Liva small car on June 27.
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Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche said the sputtering U.S. economic recovery is the largest potential risk to the global auto industry's strong outlook for this year.
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ING Groep, the bailed-out Dutch financial giant, confirmed reports that is looking to sell its European car-leasing unit.
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Italy's Ducati Motor Holding said it expects sales of its motorcycles in India to more than double this year thanks to rising demand for premium vehicles.
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General Motors is making a big bet on pricing its smallest car, the subcompact Chevrolet Sonic, at a level comparable to well-established imports.
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Ford is spending $1 billion to develop seven all-new or significantly upgraded vehicles that its Lincoln brand will roll out over the next four years.
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Porsche Automobil said the company's plan to merge with Volkswagen still stands despite the remaining obstacles and voiced optimism that the related tax issues can be resolved in the foreseeable future.
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Workers at a Maruti Suzuki car factory late Thursday withdrew a strike which lasted for nearly two weeks and halted production and caused a revenue loss of 4.2 billion rupees ($94 million).
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Toyota Motor's president said the company's domestic and overseas plants will return to full output in July, suggesting that the auto maker is nearing an end to the disruptions caused by the March 11 earthquake.
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The new Disney-Pixar film "Cars 2" began as a story about U.S. race car Lightning McQueen competing in Europe and Asia, but developed into a spy tale starring a sleek British agent car named Finn McMissile took over. While the character is fun to watch, car people may go mad trying to pin down McMissile's make and model.
Full-size spare tires have become increasingly rare over the past couple of decades, but today many cars have no spare at all.
Mini has released official photos and pricing for the 2012 Mini Coupe slated to go on sale this fall. The new photos follow stylized images of prototypes released two weeks ago.
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Honda on Wednesday told its U.S. dealers it is starting a new incentive policy aimed at convincing customers to purchase cars even if the models they are seeking are out of stock.
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Mary Barra has two tough assignments: supercharging new development stalled during its restructuring and tackling the auto maker's plodding corporate culture.
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The stubbornly strong yen and production disruptions after the March 11 earthquake will slash Honda's profit by more than half this fiscal year, putting the brakes on a solid recovery in recent years.
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Avis Budget Group is acquiring Avis Europe for about $1 billion, a deal that could leave the fate of Avis Budget's bid for Dollar Thrifty in doubt.
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Auto makers could cut vehicle emissions by 40% and boost fuel-efficiency by 2020 through improving the internal combustion engine rather than rolling out fleets of electric cars, a new study argues.
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Retail sales dropped for the first time in 11 months in May, as Americans cut back on big-ticket items. Sales excluding cars rose 0.3%. Separately, wholesale prices moderated.
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In his new book, former Chrysler and GM executive Bob Lutz discusses Japan's advantage over U.S. car makers and how Cadillac lost its shine.
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Auto makers are fighting a California emissions proposal that could effectively require they sell hundreds of thousands of electric or other zero-emissions cars nationwide by 2025.
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Toyota expects its annual profit to drop 31% as a strong yen cut into its overseas profits and production felt the lingering impact of the earthquake.
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Now that Ford has escaped the grip of recession and projects a doubling of sales by mid-decade, the second largest U.S. auto maker is making a revival of its ailing Lincoln luxury brand its top priority.
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The United Auto Workers union is open to discussing the wider use of profit-sharing plans instead of fixed pay increases for its members, a key shift as the union nears contract talks with Detroit auto makers.
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Mitsubishi Motors said its profit would rise 28% this fiscal year, becoming the first Japanese car maker to predict profit growth since the March 11 earthquake despite the disruption to production and the strength of the yen.
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Saab owner Spyker Cars signed a $351.5 million rescue package with two Chinese firms that effectively would transfer control of the Swedish auto maker to the Chinese companies.
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Chrysler for the first time Friday confirmed an IPO won't be pursued if its major shareholder, Fiat, reaches deals to acquire shares held by the U.S. auto maker's two minority shareholders.
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Ford and Mazda are in talks to dissolve a joint production venture in Michigan, where the Mazda 6 and Ford Mustang are made, as sluggish sales have the plant operating at less than half capacity.
After years of selling vanity plates as a modest sideline—charging as little as $5—states think there's more money to be made in whatever drives people to buy them.
Ford's newest F-150s pack more power in a smaller engine. The market: pickup buyers with bass boats and ATVs who are looking for fuel efficiency.
What does it take to inspire people and defeat a bean-counting corporate bureaucracy? An autocrat in the boardroom with an allergy to consensus, says former Chrysler and GM executive Bob Lutz.
Resale and trade-in values for late-model cars have been rising, leaving informed new-car shoppers an unusual opportunity to take advantage of a record peak in used-car prices.
This weekend at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Audis of Germany will battle the Peugeots of France in what has become the most intense global staredown in car racing.
The U.S. government is raising the pressure on auto makers to minimize distracting gadgetry in new cars, even as consumers clamor for more tools to help them stay connected to online media on the road.
Auto makers are reinventing small, fuel-efficient cars for American drivers, just in time for another bout of angst caused by gasoline prices of $4 a gallon and up in many cities and forecasts that oil prices will rebound from their recent dip.
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