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But there's bound to be at least one asterisk next to the entry in the record books: Acura isn't really a full-line carmaker.

"I believe there are changes to the policy coming, " said the head of China operations of one foreign carmaker, who asked not to be named.

The 89-year-old billionaire has said he is committed to the carmaker. But he said that about MGM, a film studio, shortly before selling it.

The Detroit carmaker decided to wind down Saab in early 2009 as it prepared to file for reorganisation in bankruptcy protection in the US.

APTERA is certainly not the sort of name an old-school carmaker would give to its newest creation.

The carmaker's owner is trying to finalise a financing deal with Chinese backers, but has struggled to pay workers in the interim.

He was just as bold with Volkswagen, persuading the carmaker to run ads featuring a very realistic crash in which no one was hurt.

The carmaker is almost ready to launch out a new model in September.

The struggling Detroit-based carmaker said yesterday that it was not in talks with any other company about a sale of Volvo.

Toyota, which is challenging GM as the world's largest carmaker, is often praised for the efficiency and flexibility of its workforce.

Mr Streiff called the decision by the board of Europe's second-biggest carmaker to get rid of him without warning "incomprehensible" .

Nissan can tap suppliers to Renault, a French carmaker with which it shares parts, equity and a chief executive.

Not long ago it was widely assumed that the downturn would be sharp enough to take out more than one big carmaker.

The German carmaker BMW has announced it's pulling out of the Formula One motor racing at the end of the season.

The carmaker said earlier that it had sent a technical specialist to investigate the California incident and to offer assistance.

Of course, welding Fiat, Opel, and Chrysler into a sleek global carmaker would be a huge task.

Chinese companies are also at the heart of efforts to save Saab Automobile, another Swedish carmaker, from collapse.

The carmaker is now looking at "alternative financing possibilities" , which may include an investment from the state of Qatar.

The UAW would become a major shareholder in the new Chrysler if it agreed to swap half of its debt with the carmaker into equity.

On Sunday, rival carmaker Chrysler won court approval for the sale of the bulk of its assets to a group led by the Italian carmaker Fiat.

Only 18 months ago Toyota displaced General Motors (GM), a fallen icon if ever there was one, as the world's biggest carmaker.

Analysts said the French carmaker would struggle to build its business in a competitive market.

The world's third-largest carmaker has been trying to return to making a profit for four years now, with little success.

Indeed, practically every carmaker was showing off some sort of hybrid motor.

In this respect it was an affront to the state as much as to the carmaker, whose joint-venture partners are government-owned enterprises.

Shanghai GM, GM's joint venture with Chinese carmaker SAIC Motor, says vehicle sales jumped more than 50% from a year earlier in May.

The US carmaker announced that it would halt output from Monday at an assembly plant in Louisiana due to a shortage of parts from Japan.

BYD is not the only carmaker feeling the pinch: this week Ford of the US said its July sales were down 6 per cent year on year.

In the auto sector, carmaker BMW has announced that November sales were down 26 percent compared to a year ago.

Should Proton give up and become a tiny part of a global carmaker, or should it struggle on in the hope that things will somehow improve?

Japan's second-largest carmaker said it would begin leasing the FCX Clarity to a "limited" number of consumers in California next summer.

Over the next decade, between 5 and 10 percent of the German carmaker's new offerings will be alternative-energy vehicles.

This company has already signed a deal with Chrysler to help the carmaker develop battery systems for its upcoming electric car projects.

The American carmaker General Motors has found the Chinese market to be a life-saving opportunity for the reinvention of the Buick brand.

The French government is looking into a possible Chinese role in spying on carmaker Renault SA's and Nissan's electric vehicle program.

Shares in Porsche rose after the Gulf state of Qatar agreed to take a stake in the the German carmaker.

The German carmaker is likely to cut 8, 000 jobs, but yesterday would only say it was likely to cut thousands of them, starting next year.

He said it was the simplest way to integrate the sports carmaker as VW's 10th marque.

Yes, and it still is: the Italian carmaker did not purchase GM, but a 20% stake in Chrysler, recently increased to 25%.

By the late 1930s Opel was the largest carmaker in Europe and GM was established as a global automotive giant.

The board of the German carmaker Volkswagen is meeting today to discuss a merger with the sports car manufacture Porsche.

You could say that rather than running a carmaker, Mr Wagoner has been operating a giant value-destruction machine at full tilt.

Martin Winterkorn, VW's chief executive, said Europe's top-selling carmaker could be hit by supply shortages in the next few weeks.

The carmaker sacked three senior executives earlier this year, claiming they had sold information about the company's electric-car business.

This recession is no exception, prompting the carmaker to open new stores and launch new models.

Mr Ford began a "back-to-basics" campaign to return the carmaker to its roots as a mass producer.

This cute, bulb-shaped compact from Fiat is one of the bonuses of the Italian carmaker's role in rescuing Chrysler.

When MG Rover, another carmaker, closed down in 2005, 90% of its employees found work.

The Chinese carmaker would have struggled for years on its own to set up a dealer network and meet US consumers' expectations.

Japanese carmaker Toyota has announced that it will suspend sales in the US of one of its luxury vehicles.

Sberbank intends to make Opel's technology available to its client, GAZ, Russia's second-biggest indigenous carmaker.

Toyota's handling of the problem is a story of how a long-trusted carmaker lost sight of one of its bedrock principles.

Audi today released pricing for its 2009 model-year Q7 TDI SUV, the German carmaker's first clean diesel vehicle for the U. S. market.

US government officials have acknowledged that they have so far found no fault with the carmaker's electronic throttle controls.

A Toyota spokesman said that the carmaker is close to announcing a solution for cars in the United States.

The boss of DaimlerChrysler was forced to admit on September 19th that his efforts to turn the American carmaker around had stalled.

The notion of an emerging-market carmaker making a play for GM or a portion of its assets and technology is not out of the question.

Furthermore, the General will be totally cutting its financial backing for the Swedish carmaker by the close of 2009.

The German carmaker's financial services division already has a UK arm but until now this has only offered car finance and leasing products.

In the past decade Toyota has raised capacity by half to 10m units a year, overtaking General Motors as the world's largest carmaker.

This is a group where prosperity seems to be rapidly expanding, so there is a chance to become its preferred carmaker.

The risk to the firm's reputation would be huge as the carmaker is loss-making and has struggled in recent decades.

However, the sale is awaiting a final decision from Ford Motor, the US carmaker which has a right of first refusal on the name.

Europe's second largest carmaker will complete a feasibility study on production of the vehicles by the end of the year.

In the US, Nissan recently became the first non-US carmaker to qualify for a Department of Energy grant for clean-car technology.

However, the carmaker did not confirm these reports, but said that a four-door variant of the car is a possibility.

Toyota's dash to become the biggest carmaker may have had unfortunate consequences.

The debate over strategy marks the first major test for the biggest acquisition yet of an overseas brand by a Chinese carmaker.

The U. S. government poured $50 billion of taxpayer money into the carmaker and emerged with a 61 percent stake.

The Italian carmaker Ferrari is recalling all of its 458 models following reports of a number of fires in the luxury vehicle.

The German carmaker holds its dealers to the same customer-satisfaction standards on new and used vehicles.

Yet arguably it is bankerly skills that are most needed to get JLR, Britain's biggest indigenous carmaker, through the next month or so.

Japan's biggest carmaker Toyota has forecast its first annual loss in 71 years due to plummeting sales and a surge in the value of the yen.

The world's third-largest carmaker has been trying to cut its way to profit for four years, with little success.

The carmaker's breakneck growth has allowed defects to come into both its manufacturing and its communication with customers.

The carmaker is focusing on its Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC brands as it works to recover from bankruptcy.

It was unveiled in China at the Shanghai Auto Show in April and the British carmaker designated only five to be sold in China.

Soon after the Court's decision Fiat sealed its alliance with Chrysler, in which it is buying most of the Detroit carmaker's assets.

The carmaker had hoped to sign a deal by mid-July, but the failure to reach a deal so far could delay this target by several weeks.

The Justice Department has agreed not to prosecute the carmaker's Chinese subsidiary subject to fulfilment of various conditions.

LESS than two years ago Toyota swept past an ailing General Motors (GM) to become the world's biggest carmaker.

Carmaker Fiat's plans to abandon its plant in Sicily next year have led to expressions of interest from China's Taihe and Chery.

The SUV's interior will also be given a full upgrade courtesy of the carmaker's own customizer VW Individual.

The world's biggest carmaker said yesterday that it would pay the fine "to avoid a protracted dispute and possible litigation. "

GM, China's second-biggest carmaker, reported $400m of equity income from its Chinese joint ventures in the first quarter of this year.

One French carmaker recently asked for outside help to devise a plan to secure liquidity in the event of a euro-zone break-up.

Thirty years ago he was a vocal proponent of the carmaker's campaign to secure a package of loan guarantees from Congress.

Auto-safety experts agree that you should follow your carmaker's recommendation for air pressure, not the tire manufacturer's.

The world's largest carmaker is reported to be developing a neodymium-free electric motor for its expanding range of hybrid cars.

Electronics makers Hitachi and NEC Corp. , and carmaker Nissan all ended the year with a loss.

The German carmaker's annual profit fell by 65% , hurt in part by a drop in demand for its Mercedes marque .

As a worker in his early 30s at a major carmaker, Mr. Horie won praise for his design work on advanced biofuel systems.

Europe's biggest carmaker Volkswagen said it was considering cooperating with Chinese company BYD on hybrid or electric cars.

The carmaker's stockmarket value is now around $700m, which represents less than 1% of Toyota's.

The carmaker announced an overhaul of its ethics controls and pledged to "foster a culture of openness and honesty" .

Europe's best big carmaker is taking aim at the heart of the American market for the first time in over 20 years.

So the electronic controlled test system is the necessary device for the carmaker and reparative factory to test and adjust the injector.

The Italian carmaker has offered to supply Chrysler with fuel-efficient engines and small-car platforms in exchange for a 35% stake.

Every carmaker claims to be focusing on profitable growth rather than market share.

Now, the carmaker's U. S. chief John Krafcik has hinted at the launch of a brand new luxury sub-brand.

The Detroit carmaker's finances remain on shaky ground, with a credit rating deep in junk territory.

Honda, another carmaker, is about to launch an advertising campaign on Disney's ABC Kids channel.

The Sunderland factory of Nissan, a Japanese carmaker, is the most efficient in Europe and exports 80% of its output.

The US carmaker later gave its Swedish affiliate about $500m in cash and assets to prepare it for life as a spun-off company.

Five years ago BYD bought a state-owned carmaker to help make the transition.

Crucially , the sports carmaker Porsche would so continue to operate as an independent brand.

They backed off after the carmaker pointed out that the two brands sold more vehicles in North America than Volkswagen and Audi combined.

And Volvo, the Swedish carmaker, was working with a 10-day supply left of Japanese-built navigation and climate control systems.

A senior executive of Volkswagen, the market leading carmaker in Europe and China, voiced similar concerns.

The American government still holds a majority stake in the carmaker, but could start selling the shares later this year.

Another European carmaker seems less likely, though media reports suggest Fiat could be interested.

The price will not include the battery, however, which drivers will lease separately from the carmaker.

German luxury carmaker Porsche has said it has already beaten its annual record for most cars sold.

One exception to the small car trend is the Hyundai Equus, the largest and most luxurious car yet from the Korean carmaker.

South Korea's second largest carmaker, Kia, reported a loss for the second quarter in a row, hit by the high won.

However, the carmaker said that the discussion is at an "early stage" .

GM sold Saab in early 2010 as part of a drive to rationalise its brands but Spyker has struggled to keep the carmaker going.

The carmaker increased the horsepower and conducted a campaign promoting the vehicle as "quick, roomy, and economical. "

Toyota recalled seven million vehicles in the United States last year, and it was the only major carmaker whose sales here declined.

Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of Renault, says the French carmaker is investing nearly all its money in emerging markets currently.

But the French state still has extensive holdings in industrial companies, ranging from carmaker Renault to France Telecom and Air France.

Finally, VW will buy a small stake in Porsche AG, the carmaker owned by the holding. This will release cash to Porsche SE.

The Japanese carmaker separates product development, product planning and marketing from auto sales.

asked Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired magazine, at a brain-storming session organised by Audi, a carmaker.

But after a difficult start, Tata Motors is now India's second-biggest carmaker by sales.

The X5 Security is built completely in-house at BMW and is available directly through the carmaker's dealerships.

The move is the clearest sign that China's biggest carmaker plans to develop its own-brand vehicles.

While working at a small carmaker involved with converting war surplus, Ferrari took up racing.

And a big reason why the German carmaker is doing so well: China's buying.

The US Supreme Court Tuesday rejected a plea to block the sale of assets of the bankrupt carmaker Chrysler at $2b to the Italian firm Fiat.

Lee Yoo-il, former court-appointed manager for Ssangyong, was named as the carmaker's chief executive.

The carmaker later recalled millions more vehicles to replace gas pedals that it said could stick.

In addition to the $15. 4bn of loans already received, part of this would be retired in exchange for half the carmaker's equity.

When Toyota officially passed GM as the world's largest carmaker in 2008, the Toyota Tundra won Motor Trend's Truck of the Year.

The Japanese carmaker offers employees such benefits as full medical, dental, and retirement plans.

General Motors stock tumbled more than 20 percent after analysts downgraded the top American carmaker.

"Volkswagen is aiming to double its US sales. It wants to be the number one carmaker by 2018. "

And they like to talk big -- at last month's Detroit Auto Show, BYD Auto reiterated its ambition to be the world's biggest carmaker by 2025.

The carmaker planned to invest 5 billion yuan ($735 million) in a second factory complex in Xi'an with the same capacity.

When Rover went into administration in 2005, two Chinese companies fought hardest to buy the assets of the struggling British carmaker.

Another of the sacked three launched a lawsuit against the carmaker.

The carmaker plans to do this by offering company stock in exchange for twenty-seven billion dollars in G.

Signs have also emerged that the carmaker has become irritated by Berlin's heavy-handed negotiating tactics in recent weeks.

Jean-Marc Gales, who currently heads the carmaker's two brands, will now also run its marketing and product operations.

Now, as global marketing chief for Ford, he is hoping to push America's second-biggest carmaker to the leading edge of online advertising.

Today, bold moves and shrewd negotiations have made the carmaker not just viable, but profitable.

The carmaker repeated its view that the affected vehicles met legal safety standards.

Currently, Lexus is the only carmaker that is already implementing the technology in its cars, namely the 2010 Lexus RX model.

Honda confirmed yesterday that workers at a factory that supplies the Japanese carmaker had gone on strike.

Rather than collapse outright, a carmaker could file for bankruptcy protection.

The bonuses are paid out yearly to each carmaker's German workers as a percentage of group profits.

Morgan, postponed the sale of twelve billion dollars in bonds for the carmaker Chrysler.

The Swedish carmaker, currently under reorganization, aims to win court approval for an extended period of creditor protection on May 20.

In October GM became the first carmaker to sell more than 2m vehicles in a year in China.

VW wants to capture a lead in electric cars and other new technologies as it aims to become the industry's largest carmaker by 2018.

Today, Wal-Mart is America's largest employer, Toyota is the world's largest carmaker and GM is expected to file for bankruptcy.

If the Porsche merger goes according to plan, a resurgent VW could soon be challenging Toyota for the title of the world's biggest carmaker.

The alliance of the two companies will have global sales totalling half a million more than the No. 1 carmaker Toyota.

The carmaker reported first-quarter net income of $865 million this year, helped by higher production and smaller discounts.

US carmaker Ford's threats to close down factories in Michigan prompt the state to offer huge subsidies.

It is still early days in the quest for global power of the Chinese carmaker.

Meanwhile, its increasingly rampant Japanese rival, Toyota, was making plans to overtake GM as the world's biggest carmaker by 2008.

Toyota, Japan's biggest carmaker, exemplifies the cult of the engineer.

Mr Lam also warned that Maruti, India's biggest carmaker, was facing production constraints.

Carlos Ghosn, a French-Brazilian, has done something similar at Nissan, a Japanese carmaker.

Porsche, a carmaker controlled by the Pië ch and Porsche families, also had to be bailed out after a bid to buy Volkswagen backfired.

The deal will follow talks between Geely and Ford in the US carmaker's Michigan headquarters held last Friday.

Volvo, which is bigger and healthier than its Swedish rival, may be sold to Geely, China's biggest privately owned carmaker.

Since May 17, workers struck at three Chinese plants that make transmissions, exhausts and locks for Honda, the Japanese carmaker.

By last year, the company was China's fastest-growing carmaker and had taken first place in the Chinese market for compact cars.

Tom Graham recently joined KPMG management assurance services after 10 years working in finance with Land Rover, the carmaker.

Carmaker are introducing the most advanced technologies into their day-to-day operations.

VW entered China more than 30 years ago, for instance, sowing the seeds for today's market dominance by the multi-branded carmaker.

The Japanese carmaker had just opened a new plant in China, and the company bet that Yao fans would soon become Corolla fans.

Ford, the second-largest US carmaker, still makes most of its sales and profits in the US and Europe.

The world's largest carmaker is developing a neodymium-free electric motor for its expanding range of hybrid cars.

Porsche SE paced advancing shares as Credit Suisse Group AG recommended the carmaker.

Meanwhile, carmaker Hyundai has warmed its corporate hands on Detroit's bonfire.

It means the US Treasury can begin selling part of the stake it took after a $50bn bailout of the carmaker.

It is a mid-sized carmaker with a tarnished brand that loses money.

Volkswagen, the country's leading carmaker, wants to be the world's biggest by 2018. It is a realistic ambition.

Its takeover of Chrysler, an American carmaker, is one reason to worry.

Selling cars to the bicycling masses of China is a prospect to make any carmaker salivate .

Autoworkers walked off the job at Chrysler plants. Talks broke off between the carmaker and the union.

Chinese carmaker stocks rose on speculation the outlook for sales has improved.

BYD, the Chinese carmaker, plans to begin selling electric and hybrid cars in Europe next year, its chairman and founder said.

Shortages of parts led to a big drop in sales and profit for Toyota, the world's top selling carmaker.

The carmaker also said it would likely be selling more than half its cars outside Europe by 2015.

On the demand side, the carmaker sells at premium prices to the world's fastest-growing big economy and to simply its biggest.

Geely referred questions to Freeman Shen, the Swedish carmaker's new head of China operations.

"We are latecomers, " Stefan Jacoby, the carmaker's chief executive, told the Financial Times.

One day, you read an interesting newspaper article about the vehicle producer CARMAKER.

Only Toyota, the world's biggest carmaker, appears in the top 10, at number six. Many groups have acquired leading brands.

The Shenzhen-based carmaker announced Wednesday its first quarter net profits dropped 84. 35 percent on an annual basis to 266 million yuan.

THIS week's target, on 's Consumer Rights Day, was PSA Peugeot Citroen, a French carmaker.

Although analysts don't expect BYD managers to receive prison time, there is financial risk for the carmaker.

Before we go -- we told you last month that the carmaker Chrysler was for sale.

According to people familiar with the situation, the Stuttgart-based German-American carmaker is weighing this all- share option.

At the UK headquarters of carmaker BMW, smokers have a designated area at the side of the building where they can get their fix.

The future of automotive mobility is a question that has always captivated the mind of the carmaker and the driver alike.

The largest American carmaker General Motors says it's cutting 10, 000 jobs or roughly one in seven of its workforce.

Dutch luxury carmaker Spyker Cars SPYKR. AS is among possible buyers, but GM executives have said that hurdles to close a deal are high.

Fiat's joint venture in Russia with Sollers is set to become the second-largest carmaker in that growing market.

The Treasury will sell part of its 61% stake in the carmaker.

Talks broke off between the carmaker and the union.

BMW's current production capacity, in its joint venture with Chinese carmaker Brilliance, is 41, 000 cars.

It' s prudent to have a mechanic check your alignment as your carmaker suggests.

This month Honda became the latest carmaker to announce plans to expand in Mexico, in spite of the insecurity.

The carmaker will need "new talent if it is to survive" , he thinks, but most firms have just "taken fat off the top" .

The share offering marks a key step in the transformation of Detroit's biggest carmaker over the past 18 months.

Porsche, by contrast, is a profitable carmaker.

The deal announced last week would give the -Chinese carmaker a stake in the investor consortium but no board representation at Saab.

The more brands a carmaker has, the more it must spread money around to develop vehicles and market them.

The same is true of Japan's Toyota, which is vying with General Motors for the title of world's largest carmaker.

The move would give the carmaker a full range of product offerings.

The meeting at the carmaker's customer center near its factory in Spartanburg was upbeat; sales were heading for a record that year.

No wonder the Munich carmaker is building a new plant in Shenyang, its second.

The Chinese carmaker has taken control only of intellectual property developed exclusively by Volvo.

The carmaker estimates it will have a loss in Europe for a fifth straight year in 2004.

Its 2010 sales grew by a modest 5%, compared with 22% at Nissan, which overtook Honda to become the number two Japanese carmaker.

A Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing by GM, the world's biggest carmaker, would mark the biggest industrial failure in US history.

Sat. 1, a broadcaster, is "powered by emotion" ; Audi, a carmaker, "driven by instinct. "

Toyota Motor, the world's biggest carmaker, expects to lose $5bn at the operating level this year.

The Carmaker Won Handily in Our Reader Poll , Besting Walmart , McDonald's, Lego and Amazon.

In March, the government ordered Chrysler to cut costs and form an alliance with Italian carmaker Fiat by April thirtieth.

The latest carmaker to seek a rare-earth alternative is Toyota.

The carmaker earlier repaid $7. 1bn in loans from Washington and is due to redeem $2. 1bn in preferred shares next month.

He also gave the carmaker credit for stepping up discounts and other incentives.

He now runs Chrysler, the privately held US carmaker.

Hyundai, a South Korean carmaker, has taken the hint.

The Chinese carmaker's biggest task will be the "soft" but crucial skills of running a multinational operation.

Workers at Honda Lock, wholly owned by the carmaker, began striking June 9 and suspended action June 15.

In Belgium, where the carmaker has a plant in Ghent, it will hire another 200 people.

For the first time in 77 years, General Motors can no longer describe itself yesterday as the world's biggest carmaker.

However, the Chinese carmaker declined to comment further yesterday.

Shares in the carmaker fell more than 10 per cent after its earnings statement.

SAIC purchased a 51 per cent stake in Ssangyong in 2004, the first overseas takeover by a Chinese carmaker.

Nissan will be the second Japanese carmaker to create a China-only alter ego.

Arne Lakeit, head of planning at carmaker Audi, has similar thoughts.

however, surged 3. 7 percent after the world's seventh-biggest carmaker surprised by nearly tripling its annual profit forecasts on Tuesday.

Japan's Toyota was on its way to becoming the world's biggest carmaker.

The carmaker will receive another $30 billion in state loans.

This year Toyota, now the world's biggest carmaker, is expecting to make its first loss in 70 years.

Longer term, China cannot save the US carmaker single-handedly.

But the Chinese companies are up against almost every international carmaker in their own back-yard.

In 1965, Lord Nuffield, a carmaker sponsored a project which is devoted to teaching science to young children.

VW, already the largest foreign passenger carmaker in China, gets a foothold in the other great auto growth market, India.

In 2008, it sold more cars than GM, making it the world's biggest and most profitable carmaker.

It is set to increase its 17% share in Volkswagen, Europe's biggest carmaker.

It is the fifth largest Chinese carmaker, according to official figures.