Automotive News

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 21) - Recently rumors of impending taxes on luxury vehicles have been appearing across the Chinese media. In a report appearing the Nanfang Daily today, an anonymous official from a German luxury car manuf...

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South China Morning Post - Guangzhou Automobile (GAC) shares yesterday rose to a one-year high on the back of a rebound in sales of the cars it makes with Toyota Motor and the group's expansion plans....

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 24) - Combined yearly business returns for the hundred top performing automobile dealership networks in 2012, as listed by the China Automobile Dealers Associations, totaled 9...

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Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 24) - Chery will establish a new vehicle assembly plant in Malaysia within the next five years, which will begin operation sometime next year, autohome.com.cn reported today. ...

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Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 23) - Following news that it would enter the Thai market with the help of domestic company Charoen Pokphand, SAIC Group has announced plans to sell own brand Roewe models in t...

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Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 22) - General Motors is planning to add four new factories in China by 2015, the Nanfang Daily reported today. The manufacturer made the information public in its recently ann...

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Bloomberg News - Chinese auto dealership returns will decline as automakers add more of them, intensifying competition, Sanford C. Bernstein Ltd. said in a report. Foreign automakers are expanding ...

NDTV - Tata Motors shares fell 2.56 per cent at around noon, on reports that luxury automobiles are likely to taxed 20 per cent in China. The luxury tax is likely seen at least 1.7 to 1.8 million Yuan...

Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 22) - Geely has announced a new pure electric version of its EC7 luxury car, the Nanfang Daily reported today. The pure electric EC7 is scheduled to make its simultaneous dome...

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Gasgoo.com (Shanghai May 22) - Dongfeng Motor is aiming to export 100,000 automobiles this year, jfdaily.com reported today. The number, which was announced by Dongfeng at a recently held annual summi...

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China Daily (Seoul) - South Korea's automobile exports posted a double-digit fall last month due to less business days arising from the Lunar New Year's holiday and weak demand for locally-made cars, a government report showed Mon...

The Wall Street Journal - Japan's auto makers have been some of the most vociferous proponents of a weaker yen—calling for the U.S. dollar to appreciate to ¥100 or more. That is because t...

The Times of India (Kolkata) - Next time a new car is launched in India, the first batch of owners in Kolkata will get to drive it around the same time that customers do in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Ban...

Reuters (Frankfurt) - General Motors' loss-making European brand Opel will move production of the multi-purpose vehicle Zafira to Ruesselsheim in Germany, shoring up its headquarters as it prepares to...

Reuters (New York) - Americans are driving less than they used to because of higher gasoline prices, a weak economy and changing generational preferences, according to a report released Tuesday that f...