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- Carmakers Face Tough Test as Market Flattens – Detroit Bureau: Will automakers fight off the urge to fall back into the bad habit of offering big incentives to gain sales from competitors? Find out more at TheDetroitBureau.com.
- Poland attracts U.S. investment in car industry, holds talks with Toyota: minister – Reuters: Poland has attracted a major investment in its automotive industry from the United States and it is also in talks with Toyota on a potential new project in Poland, Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday.
- Lexus CT 200h Sport added to model range – Autocar: Lexus hybrid hatchback has been updated for 2017, including the addition of two new trim levels and revised standard equipment elsewhere
- Toshiba eyes autonomous supply chain with new chips – Just-auto: Japanese household products and electronics giant Toshiba is reportedly planning to leverage its image recognition chips to enter the market for autonomous vehicles.
- Mercedes-Benz Extends Luxury Car Sales Lead in Bid to Topple BMW – Bloomberg: Luxury-car makers are racing to compete on self-driving innovations while also having to spend more on developing electric cars to meet increasingly…
- Mitsubishi restructures Indonesian distributor – Just-auto: Mitsubishi Motors is restructuring its sales operations in Indonesia.
- NextEV hypercar exposed – Autocar: Picture credit: autohome.com
- SsangYong to build first overseas assembly plant in China – Just-auto: SsangYong Motor Company has signed a letter of intent to establish its first overseas production plant, in China.
- Daimler buys site for Polish engine plant – Just-auto: Daimler has signing a property purchase agreement for the site of a new engine plant in Jawor, Poland.
- Skoda global sales up 14.4% in September – Just-auto: Skoda says its Septembersales increased 14.4%, year-on-yearto 107,100 vehicles.
- Are Volkswagen’s Electric Car Plans Overambitious, Or On The Money? – Forbes: … brand would be selling one million electric vehicles (EV) a year by 2025. … “VW’s targets for EV penetration are much more aggressive at this stage…
- VW’s Electric Redemption – Bloomberg: In an attempt to put the diesel scandal behind it, the company plans to sell as many as 3 million electric cars a year by 2025, about a quarter of the total…
- France to cut diesel/gasoline tax gap for companies’ car fleets – Reuters: French President of the COP 21 Minister for Environment, Energy and Marine Affairs Segolene Royal delivers her remarks at the ”Our Ocean” …
- Electric car sales set to pass 2m landmark globally by end of 2016 – Guardian: Cars sit at a charging station in a residential compound in central Beijing. Electric car sales are surging in China. Photograph: Sean Gallagher.
- Price hike alert: Renault Kwid prices to go up soon – Ibtimes: French carmaker Renault is set to increase the prices of its models including its popular entry-level car the Kwid in India, owing to the rising input cost.
- Toyota’s Passage to India – Bloomberg: India is home to half of the world’s 40 most-polluted cities, due in no small part to the number of vehicles already on the roads. Accommodating the…
- Seat Ibiza Cupra long-term test review: interior highlights – Autocar: It’s the little things that lift our sporty supermini’s cabin
- BRIEF-Chongqing Changan Automobile raises 2 bln yuan via private placement – Reuters: SINGAPORE, Oct 13 U.S. motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson Inc plans to boost its focus on Asia to accelerate growth by entering new countries and …