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Tuesday, 23-May-2006 10:07:19 BST
Signs are ominous for future of Vauxhall production in UK
DESPITE the best efforts of the Government, and Chancellor Gordon Brown in particular, Vauxhall may still go ahead with closure plans for its last UK factory in Ellesmere Port.
Are petrol prices to blame for putting brakes on car sales?
SOARING petrol prices may be to blame for falling sales in the new car market after predictions of a slight recovery were dashed last month.
Why the Peugeot closure will have little impact on the UK
AS the second shift clocked on for work at the Peugeot factory in Ryton, Coventry, last week, no one had any inkling that company managers were on their way to deliver bad news.
Russia's auto sales come out of the cold
ALTHOUGH conquering the Chinese market is the achievement every car manufacturer secretly coverts, some would do well to keep their eye on another former Cold War enemy turned ally.
Toyota technology could drive ordinary engines to extinction
APART from one or two refinements, the engine that powers your car is not vastly different from the design patented by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach back in 1885.
Even if Longbridge recovers, will anyone want the cars?
MIKE Whitby, leader of Birmingham City Council, could not have put it better when he admitted: "This is a day many people thought would never come."
Chinese plan to make Rovers 'is on the brink of collapse'
THE curse on the British motor industry goes on. After winning the bidding war for the remains of MG Rover, the company's new Chinese masters are finding it hard going.
'It takes nerve to keep spending when you are losing billions'
TOYOTA is the most impatient of car manufacturers. It simply is not satisfied with second best. That's why it constantly redefines its targets and sets new standards by which it will measure success.
Weakening economy puts the skids under car manufacturers
ANY hopes that the car industry may have had of a rapid turnaround in fortunes during the last quarter of 2005 have been dashed.
Next round of bloodletting in the US could cost 30,000 jobs
Tens of thousands of redundancies, plant closures and massive cuts in production - the Americans have a new word for this kind of business strategy. It is not down-sizing anymore. In the auto industry, they are calling it right-sizing.
'It takes nerve to keep spending when you are losing billions'
TOYOTA is the most impatient of car manufacturers. It simply is not satisfied with second best. That's why it constantly redefines its targets and sets new standards by which it will measure success.
How long before the US loses its nerve and rescues car makers?
EARLIER this month, the share value of General Motors hit lows not seen since the 1980s, prompting chief executive Rick Wagoner to issue a very public assurance that the car making colossus had no intention of filing for bankruptcy.
It's the mad, mad, mad, mad world of the Bugatti Veyron
IT is not built in a factory, but in a luxury French chateau. It is more powerful than Michael Schumacher's Formula One racing car. It is years behind schedule and so expensive that only a handful will ever be built. What is it? The Bugatti Veyron.
Bumpy road ahead for VW as Bernhard seeks more savings
VOLKSWAGEN has been an economic bellwether of German industrial might for nearly 50 years.
Slim pickings for the creditors, warns MG Rover's grim reaper
CREDITORS of collapsed MG Rover are to get back a fraction of the true amount they are owed.
Toyota has accelerated into the lead in the hybrid stakes
AS the queues built up at filling stations ahead of last week's fuel protests, the head of sales and marketing at Toyota UK was probably feeling rather smug.
Nissan to keep on squeezing until the very last pip squeaks
BAD news for Nissan's hard-pressed component suppliers this month - the Japanese giant has no intention of letting up on its drive to cut costs.
The ultimate driving machine gears up to take over in Asia
DESPITE all the glossy brochures, the millions spent on television advertising and the razzmatazz of the international motor shows, there's no doubt the automobile industry is going through a torrid time at the moment.
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