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PSA - 200 Aulnay Workers Protest and Disrupt Production
PSA - 200 Aulnay Workers Protest and Disrupt Production

29 Jan 2013, 08:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation in Europe is becoming increasingly tense, and after Ford encountered some problems and production setbacks due to protests, PSA has not been spared. Now, 200 workers from their Aulnay ...

 
Genk Protest Ends - Ford Resumes Production
Genk Protest Ends - Ford Resumes Production

24 Jan 2013, 08:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation at Ford's plant in Genk, Belgium, where production had been stopped due to workers blocking and cutting the supply of parts, as well as disrupting the plant in other ways. Up unti...

 
Renault Denies French Plant Closing Rumors
Renault Denies French Plant Closing Rumors

23 Jan 2013, 13:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With everything that`s been going on in the European automotive industry recently, especially in France, it was only natural that tension would start to build within Renault, as it has been doing wi...

 
GM May Close Opel's Bochum Plant By the End of 2014, Not 2016
GM May Close Opel's Bochum Plant By the End of 2014, Not 2016

22 Jan 2013, 13:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation over at GM's European arm, Opel, seems to be really bleak. The American giant is now pressuring Opel to speed up the application of cost-cutting measures, and this may bring about...

 
Jaguar Begins Production of XF in India
Jaguar Begins Production of XF in India

22 Jan 2013, 12:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In an effort to be able to offer Indian customers the XF at lower prices, Jaguar has just announced the start of local production for the 5-Series-rivalling sedan. Thanks to lower taxes and the vari...

 
Ford Production in Genk Still Stopped Due to Protests
Ford Production in Genk Still Stopped Due to Protests

20 Jan 2013, 12:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ford has already announced that it will be closing down its Genk plant, in Belgium, the historic home of all big Europe-bound Fords, like the Sierra, Scorpio and Mondeo, and moving production to Spa...

 
Proton Wants to Make 500,000 Cars Per Year by 2018
Proton Wants to Make 500,000 Cars Per Year by 2018

17 Jan 2013, 14:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea /  Malaysian automaker Proton, a brand owned by the same people who are in control at Lotus, DRB Hicom, has announced that it wants to more than triple their current annual output of 150,000 car...

 
GM Ponders Facebook Return With a Twist
GM Ponders Facebook Return With a Twist

17 Jan 2013, 14:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea /  You may remember that General Motors decided to not use Facebook any more, in any official form or shape, as they considered it not worthy of their time - they have not run any ads on the webs...

 
Renault to Cut 7,500 Jobs in France by 2016
Renault to Cut 7,500 Jobs in France by 2016

17 Jan 2013, 11:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault has recently announced that it too will be joining the club of European automakers desperate to make ends meet, in these times of economic turmoil. Following the model set by PSA and Opel, R...

 
PSA - Aulnay Workers Protest Layoffs and Stop Production
PSA - Aulnay Workers Protest Layoffs and Stop Production

17 Jan 2013, 10:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ever since PSA announced it would be closing down the Aulnay plant, in France, there has been an air of unrest floating around the factory ever since. There have been many strikes at the plant since...

 
VW Not Threatened by Europe Overcapacity - Will Keep Plants Open
VW Not Threatened by Europe Overcapacity - Will Keep Plants Open

15 Jan 2013, 13:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volkswagen, one of the European automakers least-affected by the economic downturn the Old Continent is facing, has announced that it will not be closing down any of its factories, despite the fact ...

 
Marchionne Says Fiat and Chrysler Will Merge in the Future
Marchionne Says Fiat and Chrysler Will Merge in the Future

15 Jan 2013, 12:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fiat is slowly buying more and more of the Chrysler group’s shares, and will, eventually end up owning the whole company, if things progress in the same fashion. The merger has already been pr...

 
Land Rover to Add 800 UK Jobs
Land Rover to Add 800 UK Jobs

14 Jan 2013, 11:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Jaguar-Land Rover group as just announced that it will be adding some 800 new jobs, at their manufacturing plant, in Solihull, Birmingham, in the UK. Strangely, this is the exact number of jobs ...

 
Ford to Hire 2,200 New Workers in US
Ford to Hire 2,200 New Workers in US

11 Jan 2013, 11:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the situation of the European branch of Ford is dramatic, their American operation is doing very well, and we even reported that they are working over the maximum capacity. This is why Ford ha...

 
BMW Expects Record Sales in 2013
BMW Expects Record Sales in 2013

10 Jan 2013, 14:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The BMW group (which includes MINI and Rolls-Royce) has announced that it expects 2013 to be an excellent sales year, and they reckon it will continue the upward trend which was very obvious in 2012...

 
Russian Output Increase May Not Be Wise - Automakers Still Push
Russian Output Increase May Not Be Wise - Automakers Still Push

10 Jan 2013, 10:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The European automotive production sector is crashing down, and it is doing it in a brutal manner. Factories are being closed down, workers sent home, production output is being reduced, automakers ...

 
Chinese City Qingdao to Give Saab $307 Million Boost
Chinese City Qingdao to Give Saab $307 Million Boost

9 Jan 2013, 08:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ever since National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB, or NEVS, took control of Saab, things have gotten extremely quiet, and aside from the auctioning off of some leftover cars they had, there have been n...

 
Fiat Interested in Increasing Chrysler Stake to 65%
Fiat Interested in Increasing Chrysler Stake to 65%

7 Jan 2013, 11:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat-Chrysler group is now a single entity we have all-but gotten used to. The two companies are mutually helping each other, and so far pretty much all of their collaborative efforts have been ...

 
Canada to Invest $254 Million to Create More Auto Industry Jobs
Canada to Invest $254 Million to Create More Auto Industry Jobs

7 Jan 2013, 09:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, has just announced that the government will be investing some C$250 in the country’s automotive sector, in order to increase the number of manufac...

 
How Dacia Became Renault’s Cash Cow
How Dacia Became Renault’s Cash Cow

7 Jan 2013, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Dacia, a brand which just over a decade ago was still building a mildly-modernized version of the old Renault 12, has become a real cash cow for its current owners, Renault. The Romanian brand alrea...