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Audi CEO: Auto industry faces tougher year in 2012

Ingolstadt, GERMANY (Reuters) - The automotive industry faces a tougher year in 2012 than it has done this year, Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler told Reuters in an interview for release on Sunday. "But this should not be a reason [...]

Posted On : Dec, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Electric vehicles are charging up the automotive industry

Next time you're filling up the cavernous fuel tank of the gas-gulping family jalopy, imagine getting 230 miles per gallon. Better yet, how about never buying another gallon of gas? After years of hope and hype, electron-powered driving fin [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Meltdown in global car industry

General Motors lost another $15.5 billion (7.8 billion pounds), BMW warned on profits and Nissan earnings missed expectations by a wide margin; the meltdown in the global car industry claimed more victims on Friday. General Motors lost ano [...]

Posted On : Aug, 02 2008 | Comments : 0

The Age of the SUV is Over--But Will the American Auto Indus...

It's no surprise that at a time of $3.50 gas, sales of small cars would rise, sales of trucks and SUVs would slump. And yet these market forces have been curiously slow to appear. No more. Last month sales of compact and subcompact cars [...]

Posted On : May, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

Auto: Industry bound to rebound, analysts say

Automotive industry analysts say business is on the upswing, but right now it sure doesn't seem that way. Kristin Dziczek and Bernard Swiecki, researchers with the Ann Arbor-based Center for Automotive Research, this week told the Tri-Cou [...]

Posted On : Mar, 28 2008 | Comments : 0

Brazil tops five million hybrid cars: auto industry

More than five million vehicles and almost nine in ten new vehicles in Brazil now run on both gasoline and ethanol derived from sugar cane, the car manufacturing association Anfavea said Monday. Anfavea president Jackson Schneider told r [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

Car industry turns to outsiders

in his former job, Bob Nardelli steered retailer Home Depot as it doubled sales. Alan Mulally revived Boeing Co.'s commercial airliner business.Now, the car industry outsiders find themselves at the wheel of two of Detroit's once-dominant B [...]