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Last updated: 07 Oct, 2009  
 Automobiles


General Motors to cut about 9,000 jobs in Europe
DPA | 26 Nov, 2009
General Motors is to reduce its Opel workforce in Europe by about 9,000, the US car company's new chief executive for Europe, Nick Reilly, said Wednesday in Germany on a tour to meet political and labour leaders.
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Losses mount at Porsche before absorption into Volkswagen
DPA | 26 Nov, 2009
The parent company of German sports-car maker Porsche declared a massive loss Wednesday, but it said the manufacture of its iconic cars was still profitable.
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Tata pledge: Won't allow Midlands to decline like Detroit
Dipankar De Sarkar | 26 Nov, 2009
Tata Motors chief Ravi Kant has said green technologies being embraced by Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) can help a key British manufacturing region avoid the fate of Detroit - home of the declining American auto industry.
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TVS Motors launches India's first auto-clutch bike
SME Times News Bureau | 26 Nov, 2009
Two-wheeler maker TVS Motor launched India's first auto-clutch bike "Jive" priced at Rs.41,000, and an automatic scooter "Wego" in Chennai Wednesday.
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Fiat India to roll out CNG-run car next year
SME Times News Bureau | 18 Nov, 2009
Fiat India plans to launch its first compressed natural gas (CNG)-run car for the domestic market in the April-June quarter of 2010, a top company official said in Kolkata on Tuesday.
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New small car won't impact our image, says Hyundai
SME Times News Bureau | 18 Nov, 2009
The new small car being developed by Hyundai Motor in South Korea on a Rs.800-crore investment will not impact the group's image adversely, say officials of the company's Indian subsidiary.
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Jaguar Land Rover gets 170-mn pound loan from GE Capital
IANS | 17 Nov, 2009
GE Capital Monday signed an agreement with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), the UK-based subsidiary of India's Tata Motors, to provide a working capital facility of up to 170 million pounds (over Rs.1,300 crore) for a five-year term.
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Passenger car sales grow 34 percent, highest in two years
SME Times News Bureau | 11 Nov, 2009
The festive season gave an impetus to passenger car sales, which grew almost 34 percent in October from the like period last year, a rate of increase not seen in over two years, according to data published on Wednesday.
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Govt mulls special package for engineering sector
SME Times News Bureau | 11 Nov, 2009
The government is considering a special package for the crisis-hit engineering sector, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya M. Scindia said in New Delhi on Tuesday.
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GM U-turn shocks Berlin and Moscow, angers workers
DPA | 05 Nov, 2009
German leaders were left licking their wounds on Wednesday after the U-turn by General Motors (GM) over the sale of its ailing subsidiary Opel triggered "shock and annoyance", as well as concern amongst staff across Europe.
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