19th July, 2006
Nanjing Automobile outlines CKD assembly plans for Longbridge
Nanjing Automobile will make an initial investment of £10 million in the Longbidge assembly plant it has leased from St Modwen and start production on the MG TF early next year, Nanjing Automobile president Yu Jianwei said on Monday at a briefing on the future of the MG brand acquired ......
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17th July, 2006
Ex-Hyundai chief plans auto city
BVR Subbu in talks with spares firms and overseas VCs for project in Andhra Pradesh.
Hyundai Motor India’s former president B V R Subbu is proposing to develop an ‘Automobile City’, a one-stop shop for automobile industry, with a multi-thousand crore rupee investment in Andhra Pradesh. ......
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17th July, 2006
TOYOTA F-1 CAR TO ATTEND MONTEREY HISTORIC AUTOMOBILE RACES
“In bringing the F1 car to Monterey, Toyota wants to provide an unusual and exciting opportunity for race participants and spectators to view an F1 car up close on the track and in the garage,” said Jim Farley, Toyota vice president of marketing. “Other than the recent United States Grand ......
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14th July, 2006
Making a push for alternatives to the automobile
Off-road options – not just on mountain bikes – are getting serious attention as the Cape Cod Metropolitan Planning Organization holds hearings on the Regional Transportation Plan covering the next three years.
From bicycle paths to restored rail service to good old shoe leather, ways to stimulate alternatives to autos abound.
The ......
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14th July, 2006
Car dealerships raided by IRS
The Internal Revenue Service raided two Fathers & Sons automobile dealerships and the company's headquarters yesterday, along with the owner's home in Windsor, Conn.
During the daylong action, agents from the IRS Criminal Investigation Division took away numerous cardboard boxes of documents from the company's administration building at 214 New ......
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14th July, 2006
BharatMatrimony Group ventures into Online Automobile Market
BharatMatrimony Group launches yet another portal. This time it is Automobiles. http://www.IndiaAutomobile.com claims to be the first ISO 9001:2000 certified automobile portal to be launched in the country and provides in-depth research information on car models helping customers make their buying and selling decisions faster and smarter.
Speaking on the ......
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12th July, 2006
Automobile Magazine Reports On The Next Generation Mercedes Gullwing
I ran across this story over at Jalopnik yesterday and it completely
slipped my mind, but have no fear, my Alzheimer's medication is
kicking in and I'm bringining it to you now.
In the August issue of Automobile magazine, further speculation is
added to an article first published ......
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12th July, 2006
China's Nanjing Automobile To Assemble MG-brand Cars In US
China's Nanjing Automobile Group, plans to set up a factory in Oklahoma to build MG-brand cars, marking the first Chinese attempt to assemble cars in the United States. The group acquired Britain's collapsed MG Rover last year.
The company plans to locate its headquarters in Oklahoma City with assembly and ......
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11th July, 2006
Automobile sales in Vietnam drop in first half
Automakers in Vietnam sold 15,940 vehicles in the first half of this year, down 14 percent against the same period last year, according to the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association (VAMA) on Tuesday.
However, the automakers saw month-on-month increase in sales for three straight months starting in April, VAMA said, attributing ......
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11th July, 2006
Automobile industry clocks 20 percent growth in Q1
India's automobile exports witnessed a robust 27.32 growth during the April-June quarter that saw the industry record an overall 19.96 percent rise in sales as compared to the same period last year.
'Overall the automobile industry witnessed a growth of 19.96 percent in April-June quarter as compared to the corresponding ......
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11th July, 2006
Automobile industry sees 20% growth in first quarter of 2006-07
On the domestic front, the passenger car sales rose by 23.72% during April- June 06 compared with same months last year whereas utility vehicles (UVs) sales grew at 7.81% during the same period.
The cumulative growth of overall passenger vehicles during the first quarter of 2006-07 was 20.4%.
Overall, ......
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7th July, 2006
Foreign Automobile Consortiums Profit by Cheap Cars
Even though there are no aggregate official statistics about the H1 car sales in Russia, the analysts have made their calculation already. A car market expert, Valery Tarakanov, said 398,000 new foreign-made cars (less Chevrolet Niva and Chinese cars) were sold in Russia from January to June and the market ......
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7th July, 2006
BharatMatrimony launches automobile portal
The BharatMatrimony.com group has launched IndiaAutomobile.com, a portal which helps customers in buying and selling new and pre-owned cars.
A company release said that IndiaAutomobile.com was the first ISO 9001 certified automobile portal in the country.
Besides helping customers make decisions on buying and ......
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7th July, 2006
Automobile tyres exported to Singapore, Malaysia
The Da Nang Rubber Company (DRC) has shipped eight containers of automobile tyres, worth almost US$460,000 in total, to Singapore and Malaysia since the beginning of the year.
DRC Director, Dinh Ngoc Dam, said that the exported mining trucks tyres became the first product that was successfully manufactured in Viet ......
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7th July, 2006
Brazil automobile production, sales fall in June
Brazilian automobile production fell 6.7 percent in June from the previous month and new vehicle sales declined 9.6 percent in the period, the national automakers' association said on Thursday.
Output fell to 225,800 vehicles in June, compared with 242,000 in May, the association, known as Anfavea, said. Sales in June fell ......
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5th July, 2006
Termites attack automobile-plagued tree
You may remember the problems that Baytown's grand old tree on Texas Avenue has endured - poisoning, threats from the axe, car crashes — now, we can add termites to the list. Formosan termites, which could prove to be deadly, have infested the tree and consist of workers, which are ......
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5th July, 2006
New vehicle sales retain record levels, reports Naamsa
NEW vehicle sales continued at record levels in June, logging a total of 62 701 sales, according to results released yesterday by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Associated Motor Holdings.
However, according to McCarthy Motor Holdings chairman Brand Pretorius, comparison with sales during the same month last year confirms ......
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5th July, 2006
China to take 2007 auto show by storm
Chinese carmakers hope to make a big splash at the North American International Auto Show in January after a tentative debut early this year.
Three Chinese automakers are negotiating for display space at the 2007 show in Detroit and hope to start shipping vehicles to the United States in two to ......
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2nd July, 2006
Buy Automobile with easy down-payments through the various Financing Programs of Pouliots Auto
Pouliots Auto based in Escanaba, Michigan, as well as U.S. Autos in Negaunee, Michigan, strives to make sure that every customer returns happy.
Proudly called the "Alternate Financing Specialists" http://www.upcarcredit.com/alt_finance.html, Pouliots Auto stand by their words when they say “Nobody is turned down, Nobody!" They understand that every individual’s requirement varies ......
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1st July, 2006
Posco completes new automobile steel plate line
Posco (PKX) said Friday that it has completed construction of a new automotive steel plate line, making it the world's second-largest producer of automobile steel plate in output terms after Arcelor (5786.FR).
The new continuous galvanizing line will add 400,000 tons of galvanized steel plate capacity a year for ......
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