- Mercedes-AMG plans line priced lower to help double volume – Automotive News: Daimler performance subbrand Mercedes-AMG aims to double sales in the next three years by offering a less expensive product line — AMG Sport — to narrow the price gap with Mercedes cars.
- Toyota recalls more cars for potentially dangerous Takata airbags – Automotive News: Toyota said it will recall 57,000 vehicles globally to replace potentially deadly airbags made by Takata, as a safety crisis around the Japanese supplier looks far from being contained.
- CHINA: BorgWarner supplies advanced turbo tech to VW in China – Just-auto: BorgWarner has said that it supplies its advanced turbocharging technology for Volkswagen’s latest four-cylinder gasoline engine for the Chinese market.
- GERMANY: BMW’s MINI to cut model line-up – reports – Just-auto: BMW will reportedly reduce the number of models in the MINI line-up from eight to five in the long-term to reduce cost and complexity.
- ITALY: Ferrari spin-off to cut Fiat debt by EUR750m – Just-auto: The planned Ferrari spin-off will cut Fiat Chrysler Automobile’s net industrial debt by some EUR750m (US$936m) according to a regulatory filing.
- THAILAND: SAIC to make MG eco-cars in Thailand – Just-auto: Thailand’s SAIC Motor-CP Co Ltd, a joint venture 51%-owned by China’s SAIC Motor Corporation and 49% by the local Charoen Pokphand Group, plans to produce eco-cars at a new plant in the country.
- SINGAPORE: Continental invests US$22.84m to extend R&D centre – Just-auto: Continental has inaugurated an extension building to its research and development centre in Singapore.
- JAPAN: Toyota goes for global recall on Takata airbags – Just-auto: Toyota has said it will recall 57,000 vehicles globally to replace potentially faulty airbags made by Takata.
- JAPAN: Toyota reveals next-gen integrated safety tech; rollout from 2015 – Just-auto: Toyota has revealed some of the smart new technologies and systems it will be featuring in future models from 2015 to make driving safer. It says that these have been designed from the start to work together to help cut the number of road accidents.
- Mercedes-Benz confirms new AMG Sport line-up – Autocar: Performance-based models to be positioned beneath traditional AMG line-up as Mercedes-Benz’s performance car off-shoot targets 64,000+ sales by 2017. Mercedes-AMG has officially confirmed it will take the fight to Audi’s S Quattro, BMW’s M-Performance and Jaguar’s Sport line-ups with a new range of four-wheel-drive AMG Sport badged models.Set to go on sale in the UK early next year, the new AMG Sport models are planned to sit between the wide array of Mercedes-Benz models available with an AMG styling package and the burgeoning range of full-blown AMG models headed by the company’s new GT.
- UK: BMW urges UK auto finance sector to work “towards price transparency” – Just-auto: BMW Group in the UK has issued a warning to the motor finance sector in the UK to work on better price transparency and fairness in the light of investigations by UK regulators into practices in other industry sectors.
- CHINA: Chinese tyre industry urges government to resist US anti-dumping duties – Just-auto: The Chinese tyre industry has urged the Chinese government to take measures against the anti-dumping duties imposed on tyres imported from China after the US Department of Commerce claimed Chinese manufacturers benefited from government subsidies.
- Latest Takata Air-Bag Rupture Took Place in a Toyota – WSJ: Toyota Motor Corp. says the recent case of a Takata Corp.-made air bag inflater exploding in Japan happened in a Toyota vehicle.
- Toyota to recall more cars for dangerous Takata air bags – Reuters: Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall 57,000 vehicles globally to replace potentially deadly air bags made by Takata Corp, in a sign that the safety crisis surrounding the Japanese auto parts maker is far from contained.
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- Toyota recalls more cars for dangerous Takata air bags – Reuters: Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it would recall 57,000 vehicles globally to replace potentially deadly air bags made by Takata Corp, as a safety crisis around the Japanese auto parts maker looks far from being contained.
- Secretive Lexus LFA workshop now makes Toyota Mirai fuel cell sedan – Automotive News: Toyota has struggled until now to fill the void at the secretive workshop in Japan where the Lexus LFA was assembled ever since the last $375,000 sports car rolled off a line in December 2012.
- China a potential goldmine for US luxury carmakers – Via Google News: General Motors, the largest US automaker, already sells more cars in China each month than it does in its home market and expects that to continue. … belongs to Chrysler, with its Chinese partner Guangzhou Automobile Company.
- China’s Lifan to build car plant in Russia – Via Google News: Chinese motorcycle and automobile manufacturer Lifan lans to build a car plant in one of central Russia’s special economic zones, a governmental …
- High-Yielding General Motors Continues To Be A Deeply Discounted Stock – Via Google News: GM designs, builds and sells cars, trucks and automobile parts globally. On October 23, 2014, the company reported third quarter earnings of $0.97 …