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* USA - Electric car may spark salesGROSSE POINTE WOODS,Mich,USA -The Detroit News Christine Snyder-6 July 2006: -- After 35 years working in the automobile industry, Richard Marks, president of EcoV Electric in Grosse Pointe Woods, has spent the last three and half years developing the prototype. Now his mission is to see these vehicles in production and in use... The EcoV is a low-speed, street-worthy vehicle that uses six eight-volt batteries. It is noiseless and emission-free. "For 50 cents of electricity out of a standard wall outlet, you charge it and are ready to go another 25 to 40 miles day in and day out," Marks says... (Photo: by David Coates / The Detroit News - Grosse Pointe Woods' Richard Marks and his EcoV electric vehicle won the Next Energy Innovation Award)
* USA - Detroit 3 sales plunge in June, Toyota surges
DETROIT, Mich.,USA -Reuters/Automotive News -July 5, 2006: -- U.S. sales fell for all three big American automakers in June, led by a 26 percent drop at General Motors, while Japan's Toyota Motor Corp., which was third in total sales in June in the U.S. market, posted a 14.4 percent gain...
* China - To take 2007 auto show by storm - Three carmakers have big plans for Detroit displays
YPSILANTI,Mich.,USA -The Detroit News, by John Wisely and Christine Tierney -July 05, 2006: -- Three Chinese automakers are negotiating for display space at the North American International Auto Show in January 2007 show in Detroit and hope to start shipping vehicles to the United States in two to three years, the show's organizers said recently at a planning conference... Robert Thibodeau Jr., co-chair of Auto Show, said Hunan Changfeng Motor Co. Ltd., Great Wall Motor Co. Ltd. and Hebei Zhongxing Automobile Co. Ltd. are likely to display vehicles, joining Geely Automobile, which staged the first Chinese car exhibit at a U.S. show early this year...
* UK - Despite supermini success, June car sales wobble
UK -Auto Wired -5 July 206: -- UK Registrations of new cars in June fell 3.6% to 219,497 units compared with the same month last year... It leaves the market for the year-to-date, 4.2% behind where it was last year. So far this year, 1,241,925 new cars have been registered...
* Italy - Interview with Fiat's Luca De Meo
Milan,Italy -Just-Auto (UK) -5 July 206: -- Fiat Auto has got itself back on track by returning to its roots as a mainstream manufacturer of small cars, it is now developing more ambitious plans for the C-segment with the replacement for the Stilo next year which will be called Bravo...
* France - Tough Europe market drags down Renault in H1 2006
Paris,France -Just-Auto (UK) -5 July 206: -- A drop in European sales of 7.6% dragged Renault global sales down 3.2% in the first six months of 2006, despite a 10.6% surge in markets outside the continent...
* France - PSA Group sales inch up in first half
Paris,France -Just-Auto (UK) -5 July 206: -- In the first six months of 2006, PSA Peugeot Citroën worldwide unit sales rose by 0.6% to 1,764,000 vehicles, of which 1,001,000 were Peugeot-brand models and 763,000 Citroën...
* Brazil - Sportscar maker plans UK sales
S.Paulo,Brazil -Just-Auto (UK) -6 July 206: -- Brazilian sports car maker Lobini will exhibit its H1 model for the first time in UK during the Goodwood Festival of Speed opening this week...
* Germany - VDA auto association ups 2006 sales forecast
FRANKFURT,Germany -Reuters -July 6, 2006: -- Germany's VDA automotive industry association raised its full-year forecast for domestic new car registrations on Thursday, but played down the positive effects from the rise to value-added taxes in 2007... Official data from German motor vehicles department KBA showed that new car registrations in Europe's largest car market fell 4.6 percent to 323,776 in June, bringing the half year total to 1.735 million units, or a rise of 1.4 percent...
* Germany - Mercedes Car Group unit sales rise 6.4 percent in June
FRANKFURT,Germany -Reuters -July 6, 2006: -- DaimlerChryler's Mercedes Car Group said vehicle sales grew by 6.4 percent in June to 118,800 units, powered by rising demand for its premium Mercedes-Benz brand. The core luxury marque enjoyed an 8.9-percent gain in sales to 106,200 vehicles, while its Smart brand suffered an 11.3-percent drop in sales to 12,600 cars, the company said on Thursday...
* India - GM plans to launch Spark in India in 2007
KOLKATA, India -Reuters -July 6, 2006: -- General Motors will launch the Chevrolet Spark in India in the first half of 2007 as it moves toward grabbing a 10-percent share of the fast-expanding market by 2010, said Ankush Arora, vice president of marketing and sales at General Motors India...
* France - Peugeot first half auto sales up, Renault sags
PARIS,France -Reuters 6 July 206: -- Worldwide sales at French carmaker PSA/Peugeot-Citroen rose 0.6 percent in the first half of the year while those at rival Renault SA fell 3.2 percent, the two companies said on Thursday, as both felt the pinch of tougher competition...
* Vietnam - Auto sales drop 22 percent in first half
HANOI,Vietnam -Reuters -7 July 206: -- Vehicle sales by 11 foreign-backed automakers in Vietnam fell 22 percent to 12,652 units in January-June from a year earlier, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers Association said on Wednesday. Car sales have been falling since January 2005, when higher consumption taxes were imposed on domestically assembled vehicles...
* USA - Chrysler sees most planned job cuts by end of 2006
Detroit,Mich.,USA -Reuters /The Detroit News -July 3, 2006: -- Chrysler Group expects to have 70 percent of its planned executive job cuts completed by the end of this year, Chief Executive Tom LaSorda said in an interview on Monday... The executive job cuts at Chrysler are part of a plan announced in January by parent company DaimlerChrysler, which aims to cut worldwide costs by $1.8 billion per year and has announced plans to cut some 6,000 positions...
* India - Honda to invest $650 million in India over 10 years
NEW DELHI,India -Reuters -5 July 2006: -- Japan's Honda Motor Co. Ltd. will invest about 30 billion rupees ($650 million) over 10 years in India and double annual car capacity by the end of 2007 to meet growing demand, its chief executive said on Monday...
* Italy - June new car registrations drop, Fiat rises
MILAN.Italy -Reuters -5 July 2006: -- Italian new car sales fell 12.6 percent in June, but Fiat outperformed the market, taking a 30.6 percent share, the Transport Ministry said on Monday. Sales totalled 206,794 for the month in Europe's third largest car market, with Fiat selling 63,238 units, up 1.7 percent...
* France - New car sales down 1.6% in first half
PARIS,France -Reuters -5 July 206: -- French new car registrations were down 1.6 percent in the first half of the year to some 1.1 million vehicles and rose 0.2 percent in the month of June, the CCFA French car industry association said on Monday...
* Germany - BMW targets 50% rise in eastern Europe vehicle sales
FRANKFURT,Germany -Reuters -5 July 2006: -- Germany's BMW, the world's biggest premium carmaker, aims to boost sales in central and eastern Europe by more than half in the coming years and is opening its own offices in the region, it said on Monday...
* Germany - VW delivers 9.6% more commercial vehicles in H1
FRANKFURT,Germany -Reuters -5 July 2006: -- Volkswagen's commercial vehicles subsidiary saw unit sales to customers rise by 9.6 percent to 214,200 in the first half of this year helped by solid demand for its LT and new Crafter, it said on Monday...
* South Korea - Exports boost June sales at automakers
SEOUL,S.Korea -Reuters -5 July 2006: -- South Korean car makers posted a combined 7.2 percent rise in June sales on Monday, driven by strong exports of small cars that consume less petrol at a time of high oil prices and new hit mid-sized models...
* Japan - Drivers shift to tiny cars to save fuel
TOKYO,Japan -Reuters -5 July 206: -- Japanese drivers shifted to tiny, fuel-efficient minicars in record numbers in June and the year to date, data showed on Monday, a trend that is a boon for the top two minivehicle brands but a profit downer for the rest...
* Japan - Toyota sets up Thai firm to support Asia production
TOKYO,Japan -Reuters -5 July 206: -- Toyota Motor Corp. said on Monday it has set up a company in Thailand to support its production operations in the region, taking over the role from its stretched Japanese headquarters...
* China - PSA's venture says H1 vehicle sales up 38%
SHANGHAI,China -Reuters -5 July 2006: -- PSA Peugeot Citroen's Chinese venture said on Monday that its vehicle sales rose 38 percent in the first half of 2006 from a year earlier, boosted by demand for new models...
* Brazil - Automobile production, sales fall in June
SAO PAULO, Brazil -Reuters -July 6, 2006: -- Brazilian automobile production fell 6.7 percent in June from the previous month and new vehicle sales declined 9.6 percent in the period, the national automakers' association said on Thursday... Output fell to 225,800 vehicles in June, compared with 242,000 in May, the association, known as Anfavea, said. Sales in June fell to 148,400 from 164,100...
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