Germany: New passenger vehicle sales fall 20% in December
Sales in Germany plunged 20% year-on-year in December to 243,000 units. Full-year 2007 figures dropped as well, falling 9% from 3.46 in 2006 to 3,15 million units,
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Lane Departure Warning on the BMW 5 series
Earlier in the year Lane departure Warning advocates got a boost with a camera-based system used in BMW 5 series, with many such systems now hitting
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France: Renault Group sales up 2.2% in 2007
Renault Group has announced that its global sales during 2007 grew 2.2% year-on-year, with 2,487,453 units sold. The return to growth was driven by a 13.4% increase
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Safety linked with Camera CMOS
CMOS technology used to make most of the world’s semiconductors in being used to bring vision to automotive application.
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Seat could build cars in South America
Seat could build cars in South America, says CEO Erich Schmitt. “For interesting markets like South America it is worth considering localized production,” Schmitt
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Tata close to buy Jaguar
Ford Motor today told Jaguar and Land Rover workers that it is in "focused negotiations" to sell the brands to India's Tata Motors.
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VW Mexico plant plans a record for 2008
MEXICO CITY -- Volkswagen AG’s Mexico unit expects to produce a record volume of about 450,000 vehicles at its Puebla assembly plant in 2008.
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US automotive sales in 2007 are the lowest since 1998
Full-year 2007 light vehicle sales should be about 16.1 million:
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Chevrolet Tahoe the winner of Driverless cars
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, GM presented a Chevrolet Tahoe, driverless car designed to navigate it using radar, laser and camera systems.
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Automotive Lighting awards Best Suppliers of 2007
A.L. management team has invited 4 suppliers to the headquarters in Reutlingen, near Stuttgart to reward them for their contribution to the "AL" success.
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