30th awards of French « Automobile Magazine »
French Automobile Magazine presented last week their 6 awards.
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Hector Fratty
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The crisis will speed up consolidation in the supplier industry
Roland Berger and SupplierBusiness conducted a survey in December 2008, involving 150 senior executives in the global automotive supplier industry.
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Visteon and Immersion collaborate on touch-based control systems
Visteon and Immersion Technology are working jointly on the development of a touch-based or haptic control systems for automobiles. The innovative control system operates on tactile commands with the help of a human-machine interface. The interface allows drivers to interact with technologically complex cars with a minimum of distraction.
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Valeo, Hella, Koito, Visteon among the finalists of PACE awards
The Automotive News PACE Awards honor superior innovation, technological advancement and business performance among automotive suppliers. This prestigious award, now in its fifteenth year, is recognized around the world as the industry symbol of innovation.
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Koito and Denso slash net income forecast
Koito have announced revised guidance on earnings, slashing net income outlook by 71% to ¥3.4bn (US$ 37m) in the year ending March 2009. The company had earlier declared a forecast of ¥11.8bn as net income.
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White LEDs Move Forward
Scientists have been working on white LEDs for nearly 10 years. Ideally, they would like to make highly efficient, long-lived, cheap, solid-state white LEDs to compete with the incandescent light bulbs and Xenon discharge sources presently in common use, and eventually replace them.
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North American Vehicle of Year Finalists Named
This year’s nominees for 2009 North American Car of the Year are the Ford Flex crossover, Hyundai Genesis luxury sedan, and Volkswagen Jetta TDI diesel-powered compact sedan.
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Auto sales in Europe fall 26%
ACEA, the European OEM trade group, report that sales of passenger vehicles in Eastern and Western Europe plunged 26% in November from a year earlier, marking the seventh consecutive monthly decline.
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Fiat-PSA could join to be world’s No. 4 carmaker
France and Italy are reportedly considering a potential tie-up between automakers PSA/Peugeot-Citroën and Fiat.
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Fitch May Downgrade Seven Suppliers
Fitch have placed seven US auto industry suppliers on 'ratings watch' because of the threat of the potential bankruptcy filing by General Motors.
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