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• VW eyeing 10 pct of Indian car market

  - 2008-08-04

  FRANKFURT AFP — Volkswagen, the biggest European car maker, is aiming to bag 10 percent of India's burgeoning market within five years, a director said Monday in the business daily Handelsblatt. "We want to move quickly in terms of volume," VW's president in India Joerg Mueller said. The...

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• Luxury car makers caught up in crisis, BMW issues profit warning

  - 2008-08-01

  FRANKFURT AFP — The German luxury car maker BMW joined rival Daimler on Friday in warning it would miss its 2008 targets, a sign that high-end manufacturers have been caught by the international financial crisis. BMW said it could not give a full-year outlook after its first-half pre-tax profit...

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• Twins tip-off police about mother's drink-driving

  - 2008-07-09

  LONDON AFP — A judge on Wednesday praised twins who reported their mother to police for drink-driving when she got into her car after drinking a bottle of wine. Emma and Helen Cox, 21, contacted police when their 43-year-old mother Tracey Cox drove the car a short distance outside...

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• Daimler picks Hungary for its next compact car plant

  - 2008-06-18

  FRANKFURT AFP — German auto giant Daimler ended several months of suspense Wednesday with a decision to build a new auto factory for small Mercedes models in Hungary. Daimler said it would invest about 800 million euros (1.2 billion dollars) in a plant in Kecskemet, 80 kilometres (50 miles)...

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• Plane makes emergency landing on busy US highway

  - 2008-06-17

  MIAMI AFP — A small aircraft made an emergency landing on a busy Florida highway, managing somehow not to clip nearby cars as it rolled to a stop, US media reported Tuesday. The plane touched down around midday on Interstate 95 in Florida's Volusia County, some 300 kilometers (180...

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• Porsche boss is best-paid in German auto sector: report

  - 2008-04-19

  BERLIN AFP — The head of German car maker Porsche, Wendelin Wiedeking, is by far the best-paid boss in the sector, with an annual salary of some 60 million euros (90 million dollars), according to the weekly AutomobilWoche. He is streets ahead of RenaultNissan's Carlos Ghosn, Ford's Alan Mullaly,...

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• German auto industry says ready for biofuel ramp-up

  - 2008-04-03

  FRANKFURT AFP — Germany's automakers association played down concerns Thursday that large numbers of cars would be incompatible with a new biofuel mix that the government wants to introduce to cut emissions. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government wants to double the proportion of biofuel in petrol to 10 percent by...

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• Japan, US and EU car manufacturing shifting to emerging nations: study

  - 2008-03-27

  OTTAWA AFP — Automobile production in Brazil, Russia, India and China will surpass that of North America, traditionally the world's largest car market, for the first time in 2008, a Canadian bank said Thursday. The falloff in North America reflects plant closures by the traditional US automakers, said the...

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• Japanese seniors offered perks to ditch car keys

  - 2008-03-19

  TOKYO AFP — Elderly people in Tokyo who surrender their driver's licences will soon enjoy perks when they go to department stores or order pizza, police said Wednesday. Tokyo police will next month launch the novel campaign in hopes of reducing the number of elderly motorists who should not...

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• Japanese carmaker celebrates landmark NASCAR win

  - 2008-03-10

  HAMPTON, Georgia AFP — A non-US automaker captured a victory in US top-level stock car racing for the first time since 1954 when Toyota driver Kyle Busch won here Sunday for the Japanese car maker. Not since Al Keller drove a Jaguar to victory lane 54 years ago at...

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