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Michigan, its fate yoked to that of carmakers, must observe its own dismal calendar.

I think it's a little disconcerting that so much of the hiring seems to be driven by carmakers.

In 2006 BMW was one of the fastest-improving European carmakers, and Efficient Dynamics may push it to the top of the league in 2008.

He said the two carmakers would be restructured, turned into smaller, but stronger firms.

Acura has only five models which, considering the model lineup of the other carmakers, is nothing but just a drop in the bucket.

Andwhile banks or carmakers can be too big to fail, "the days of every country in Europe having their own national airline are gone. "

"Chinese carmakers are trying to move up the value chain and the brand-positioning chain, " says Michael Dunne, of JD Power, a consultancy.

Ford was the only one of Detroit's three carmakers to avoid a government bail-out during the depths of the 2008-09 recession.

"We are one of the last western carmakers available for a Chinese company to invest in so there was a lot of interest, " he said.

The two German carmakers were due to meet on Monday to work out the financial details of a tie-up, but the meeting got cancelled.

This carry trade, as it is called, has cheapened Japan's currency, much to the chagrin of American carmakers and European policymakers.

With lower sales and higher costs, carmakers will have to raise prices, the last thing they need at a time of weak demand.

Mr Ghosn says it would be "very abnormal if at least one, if not more than one" of the Chinese carmakers did not emerge as a global player.

But he cautioned that the European market remained intensely competitive as governments continued to support national champion carmakers.

There's just a limit to the extent to which the carmakers can scale up tech employment.

Analysts and industry insiders used to say that it would take Chinese carmakers a generation to reach globally competitive status.

Like carmakers, they are trying to combine internal-combustion engines and electric motors to save fuel.

Carmakers were beginning to worry about interrupted supplies of electrical components from Asia slowing production lines.

Mazda has always been one of the more individual big carmakers, with emphasis placed on design and engineering innovation.

Where Rolls-Royce is leading, other British luxury carmakers seem to be following.

Maybe carmakers should start making the tools necessary to break their cars open in an accident. The Jaguar Jaws of Life, anyone?

But while carmakers continue to extract as much efficiency out of their cars, we hope aesthetics don't get laid completely by the wayside.

Intellectual property issues have been a key stumbling block in Chinese carmakers' quest to expand in the west.

Ties between the carmakers have deteriorated to the point that executives are said to no longer be speaking to each other.

It will then scale up to larger cells and, in around six years' time, it hopes to be producing batteries powerful enough for carmakers.

Tyres are made of a combination of natural and synthetic rubber to provide the grip and endurance required by carmakers.

Right now, only partly due to the recession, carmakers still have the capacity to make 20m more vehicles a year than anyone can buy.

Some of this will come from a euro 6 billion pot at the European Investment Bank (EIB) to help carmakers meet environmental targets.

Are Chinese carmakers trying to do too much, too soon?

Ford escaped the fate of the other two Detroit carmakers by tapping credit markets just before they began to freeze over.

It marks the first major tie-up between carmakers to be concluded since the global car industry entered its worst crisis in several decades.

Tight credit conditions have added to the woes of U. S. carmakers, as some consumers have been unable to get loans to purchase vehicles.

Carmakers acknowledge that this means they are being forced to use lower quality materials and spend less time on testing.

Many of these people used to come from carmakers or other industrial firms.

Industry consultants use a multiplier effect of at least four when calculating carmakers' impact on related businesses.

Goodyear replaced 23 of its 24 senior managers in two years as it shifted from selling tyres to carmakers to selling them to motorists.

Three people involved in, or briefed on, the sale say Volvo has drawn tentative interest from at least three Chinese carmakers.

One representative questioned whether the agency had become too close to the carmakers.

Investors worried that higher borrowing costs could make carmakers, insurers and energy companies the next victims of the credit crisis.

Carmakers already take engine noises seriously enough to use acoustic engineers to tune exhaust pipes, especially for high-performance cars.

Chrysler - the weakest of the "Big Three" carmakers - is closing all of its U. S. assembly plants for a month, beginning next week.

But in its haste it has vilified creditors and ridden roughshod over their legitimate claims over the carmakers' assets.

Like other German carmakers, though, Porsche has been a reluctant convert to hybrid technology.

This alone has made it a favourite among hybrid carmakers such as Honda and Toyota.

No wonder that all the big carmakers are fighting like rats in a sack to win the largest piece of the action.

The big question is whether any of these new business models can turn a profit for the carmakers.

Carmakers, some of whom would be bankrupt if Mr Obama was not pumping them full of taxpayers' money, meekly applauded.

Financial institutions and carmakers have been bailed out in both America and Europe.

Among those expected to be most affected are retailers, who have been slashing profit forecasts, and the already beleaguered carmakers.

The carmakers would have no choice but to try to sell Americans cars developed for Europe and Asia.

The terms of the bridging loans amount to a gun at the heads of the two carmakers and their stakeholders.

Multinational carmakers in China said they were ready to introduce the new engines from next month.

But the carmakers have been completely taken by surprise by the meltdown in the housing market and, above all, by the soaring cost of fuel.

The cross-shareholdings have been unwound: Deutsche Bank, for instance, no longer owns chunks of insurers, carmakers or sugar processors.

Russia's once febrile car market is cooling in a development that could hurt struggling global carmakers in an already difficult year.

Yet the crisis has instilled a sense of urgency among carmakers to become more international, often with cross-border alliances.

One path-changing accident would be the bankruptcy of one of the large US carmakers.

For the German premium carmakers this is a clear sign that the worst may be over and that sales should start growing again.

Just as other Detroit carmakers are clamoring for more federal loans, Ford has managed to reduce its debt by almost $10 billion.

For months, troubled western carmakers have been hoping for a Chinese white knight to take failing brands off their hands.

Nine carmakers, he says, are considering licensing the system, but interest extends beyond the automotive industry.

Another year of that trend could have the two carmakers swapping places, according to the data, says IHS.

Most Chinese carmakers are years behind their western counterparts in terms of quality, technology and service.

Most Western carmakers are producing small, inexpensive vehicles that have been influenced by the Nano.

The growing confidence of Chinese carmakers had led to one unexpected shift in the focus of the Shanghai show, analysts said.

"This has provided a new opportunity for carmakers like GM, " he said.

Of course, at some point Chinese and overseas carmakers operating in China will attempt to export their way out of their problems.

Tuesday, the carmakers reported sales in November that were down as much as 47 percent from a year ago.

It will be easy to feel sorry for the world's carmakers in 2011.

Analysts say that alternative fuel technology could allow Chinese carmakers to leapfrog the internal combustion generation altogether.

Last month Toyota joined the ranks of UK carmakers warning of cuts in talks with its staff at its UK car plant at Burnaston near Derby.

In a country in which carmakers are establishing themselves and fighting foreign brands for market share, SAIC touts its British ties.

In October, the US company named Geely, one of China's largest privately owned carmakers, as the preferred bidder for Volvo.

Although recalls are a routine matter for carmakers, taking cars off the market is not.

Carmakers and microchip companies that have set up elsewhere in Kyushu cannot be persuaded to come.

California's attempts to make cars less polluting had been bitterly resisted by both carmakers and President George Bush.

Steel mills have cut production by up to 20 per cent in response to weak demand from Chinese carmakers and the construction industry.

In an attempt to help the domestic carmakers, in late 2002 the government slapped a 25% duty on imported used cars.

Previously, carmakers' advertising emphasized an emotional attachment to a particular model.

Combining the German carmakers wouldn't harm competition, the European Commission said in a statement today.

Partly, this is the result of a desire by carmakers to create electric vehicles that match the standards of petrol-driven ones.

Toyota and other carmakers are closing on Thursdays and Fridays, instead of weekends, to try to help balance power demand.

The White House denied any attempt by Mr. Bush to link aid for carmakers to passage of the free trade deal.

And that has excitement rising over the potential return of carmakers absent this year, reports the Detroit News.

Mr O'Neill is right to give credit to leading western multinationals, notably carmakers, for spotting the potential early.

Were the German government even to consider taking a stake in Opel, other German carmakers would cry foul.

Sectoral subsidies, particularly to carmakers, have often come with pressure to ensure that any job cuts take place abroad, not at home.

For the first, the state must use "all means necessary" to preserve key industries: ie, give carmakers billions of euros.

Some of the tricks being used by carmakers to make electric vehicles go farther on a single charge are being copied by aviators.

When it comes to South Korea, American carmakers and ranchers are demanding that the White House win broader market access for them.

When it comes to South Korea, American carmakers and ranchers are demanding that the White House win broader market access for them.

Nor should the positive impact on carmakers in both America and Europe of a radically slimmed down GM be underestimated.

Chinese carmakers have been repeatedly accused of copying popular models from international competitors.

Carmakers that only weeks ago cut shifts and working hours are now thought to be considering recalling workers.

Emerging markets have become a huge driver of growth for carmakers over the past two years, with China leading the way.

Train drivers, postmen , teachers, university lecturers, town-hall employees, carmakers, oil workers, supermarket cashiers took part.

The White House's terms were put before carmakers late on Thursday and agreed in late-night discussions.

The debate about whether or not to bail out the Big Three carmakers has been mischaracterised.

The loans would have an interest rate of at least 5 pct but could rise to 10 pct if the carmakers default, officials said.

Carmakers have responded by seeking to persuade buyers that brand-name dealerships are a cut above the rest.

But Germany, home of carmakers which produce thirstier models, has not introduced any emissions restrictions.

When carmakers reached capacity limits at home, they used cash piles to make poor acquisitions abroad (Daimler and Chrysler; BMW and Rover).

But he expects carmakers to intensify collaborations across borders, which would mutually benefit Chinese and foreign and manufacturers.

The company has slashed its overall labor costs per worker to less than $50 per hour, which is on par with Japanese carmakers.

But although Russia's car market will eventually recover, the same cannot confidently be said of its native carmakers.

The struggling carmakers also had other complaints for the president, of course.

Large American aid to ailing carmakers is discomfiting European governments that are under pressure to follow suit.

Ever since, carmakers have been placing their low-emission bets more on plug-in hybrids, clean diesels or pure electric vehicles.

On top of that, the Japanese carmakers are also piling into the Chinese market.

Among the first to sense trouble are carmakers, since consumers can easily delay purchases.

The road ahead for GM and the other American carmakers is still potholed and slippery.

Japanese-Brazilians have been integral in helping carmakers and other Japanese manufacturers regain pole position overseas.

Several carmakers, including General Motors and Ford Motor, have already stepped up production to replenish depleted inventories.

By selling their stakes back to the Japanese firms, the American carmakers raised a total of $770m of badly needed liquidity.

Several carmakers and component suppliers are interested in hub motors. Michelin, for one, is developing a system it calls the Active Wheel.

As they do, carmakers and dealers are seizing on a rare positive indicator: the used-car market is reviving.

HIS company is among the smallest of the global volume carmakers.

Belatedly, carmakers have begun to take flex-fuel vehicles more seriously.

If so, it is unclear whether further concession from unions, if they are needed at the two carmakers, would be easier or harder to extract.

Such grievances highlight what experts say is Japanese carmakers' slowness to promote Chinese employees to management positions.

Delphi must also maintain the timeliness and quality of supplies indiscriminately to the other domestic carmakers, at market prices.

Even at current levels, it would take a brave investor to jump aboard the Japanese carmakers.

Toyota Motors, like carmakers worldwide, is topping up the tank from state coffers.

For other carmakers the troubles of these weaker firms will come as welcome news.

Oil firms, carmakers, power generators, nervous of being outmanoeuvred, are jacking up their investments in renewables and biofuels.

It is not hard to understand why multinational carmakers are so excited about the Chinese market.

Chinese carmakers have been on the prowl all year for distressed Western car assets, but few deals have been concluded.

In effect, the deal announced on December 19th is just one step short of the bankruptcy the carmakers have long insisted is not an option.

The bosses of America's Big Three carmakers returned to Washington to request emergency funding from Congress.

I would expect in most regions carmakers are either slowing production or looking at slowing production.

The new cars were made by an eclectic group of carmakers.

To this end, it pushes foreign carmakers, among others, into unhappy partnerships with Chinese state-owned firms.

The carmakers' problems are typical of the difficulties being thrown up by the shortage of air freight.

Until recently many Chinese carmakers built thinly disguised copies of vehicles made by Volkswagen, General Motors and Toyota.

Already many carmakers including France's Renault and Peugeot have started to pay some workers less in return for fewer hours.

On Tuesday, the first day of the Shanghai auto show, luxury carmakers encountered revved-up interest as their vehicles were snapped up.

But to get that loan, the carmakers must issue a security interest in all property the funds are used to purchase or acquire.

So will the short-term dissonance in consumer demand and government-mandated supply resolve in favor of the carmakers?

No wonder the big carmakers are finding their once- ubiquitous small family saloons are becoming an endangered species .

A number of competitive, independent domestic carmakers have also established a foothold.

Mister Paulson said Chinese government aid for state-owned companies, like oil companies and carmakers, will end up hurting China's economy.

I would expect in most regions carmakers are slowing production or looking at slowing production.

In that case, expect America's carmakers, and their powerful unions, to push for more market-distorting inducements from Washington, DC.

Carmakers and other manufacturers will no longer extend credit (see article) and loans will become elusive and expensive.

Carmakers, for instance, are roughly halving production, with consequences for makers of steel, chips and chemicals.

Japanese carmakers Nissan and Suzuki are considering joint production in Russia and Brazil to expand their ties in emerging markets.

A hike in advertising spending from carmakers highlights the resumption of new product launches this year.

Moreover, the action carmakers have taken to strengthen their balance sheets is working: most are expecting to generate cash this year.

In Guangzhou, where Japan's carmakers have arrived in force, such mutually beneficial arrangements are already taking shape.

Carmakers are the largest component of America's dwindling manufacturing base.

So, what would be an ideal scenario for Japanese carmakers?

The export collapse that first hit Toyota and other big carmakers quickly spread down the supply chain to the domestic economy.

The fortunes of companies from Detroit carmakers to Brazilian iron miners depend on spending by China's consumers and corporations.

That clearly represents a burden for carmakers, as it will increase production costs.

The disaster will primarily affect Japanese carmakers themselves, industry analysts said.

Across the world carmakers are mothballing factories and dropping shifts.

And luxury carmakers are racing to follow the money.

Volkswagen AG led carmakers lower as China said it may end tax incentives for buying passenger cars next year.

Chinese carmakers are an increasingly influential presence in the international motor industry.

The carmakers angered members of Congress last week when they turned up without a detailed plan for revitalising the car industry.

Drastic changes at American carmakers have become not only normal, but expected - even encouraged - as the economy and industry worsens.

Carmakers Renault, Nissan and Daimler said Wednesday they would swap stock and jointly develop cars, Reuters reported.

America's carmakers accept the principle, but they argue that in practice they too are a special case.

Carmakers and electronics firms in particular benefit from a weak yen, which keeps prices low for overseas customers.

Governments in all major European markets have also stepped in to help carmakers with their own scrappage schemes.

Chery and Geely, two other ambitious Chinese carmakers, have also recently delayed their planned entry to the US market.

Even as the carmakers recover, they will not resume their role as guarantors of middle-class prosperity.

For carmakers and their dealers, the benefits of the certified pre-owned trade go beyond sales volumes.

Carmakers must be superbly managed and produce desirable cars.

Other carmakers, notably Ford and the ambitious Volkswagen Group, have closed the quality gap and are offering more interesting cars.

Worst of all, the balance-sheet has a whiff of Detroit's carmakers: a shrunken business supporting gigantic welfare obligations.

Despite the challenges that wireless charging poses for both carmakers and drivers, the concept is gaining momentum.

Porsche SE and Renault SA paced advancing shares after BofA-Merrill Lynch Global Research recommended the carmakers.

The collapse of America's carmakers, meanwhile, has helped push unemployment close to 30%.

More disturbing than the red ink draining from Japan's efficient carmakers, though, are signs that worse is to come.

And even if some Japanese carmakers do qualify for loans, they are not expected to ask for them.

But the carmakers do not have to convince everyone at the outset.

America's big carmakers have also complained that the weak yen makes imported Japanese cars unfairly cheap.

More will surely come as the Big Three carmakers cut costs and possibly enter bankruptcy.

Neither are carmakers, despite their long tradition of chiselling away at product costs, immune from feature-creep.

Still, higher-end foreign carmakers like Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Lexus still dominate the list of brands Americans love.

Carmakers and other manufacturers will no longer extend credit and loans will become elusive and expensive.

It also hosts some of Germany's biggest exporters, including several large carmakers.

Nevertheless, there are plenty of big borrowers around, including carmakers and businesses bought by private-equity groups.

Its increasingly desperate management sought help from a host of other carmakers, including Fiat.

Japan's carmakers, like most of their competitors, source most of their supplies in the regions where they produce vehicles.

Magna intends to use Opel's plants to build vehicles for other carmakers (it already does this on a small scale in Austria).

Carmakers will have to produce vehicles that go eight miles farther on a gallon of petrol by 2016.

So car-sharing will stimulate short-term demand for new cars while threatening a proportion of carmakers' longer-term sales.

China requires foreign carmakers to form joint ventures with local partners, and allows carmakers to form more than one partnership.

Freed of the obligation to pay interest, the carmakers will be in a better position.

The earthquake-affected north of Japan is home is home to factories belonging to several carmakers, including Toyota.

First to go will be rules that force carmakers to seek European approval before introducing models.

Carmakers have been innovating online for nearly a decade, observes Ms Okonkwo.

Some carmakers are forming partnerships with battery-makers to ensure supplies and gain access to technology.

When drivers started to switch to smaller, more fuel efficient cars, GM and the other US carmakers were slow to follow suit.

Facing the harshest market in decades, carmakers showcased new models fuelled by alternative energy.

The bail-out currently being sought by the big US carmakers falls squarely into this category.

But the drastic cuts will force rapid changes to product line-ups for homegrown carmakers that are in deep trouble.

The reverberations of weakening US motor vehicle sales are being felt far beyond carmakers' assembly plants.

The project is financed by the MCE-5 DEVELOPMENT Company, by major automotive suppliers and OEMs and by license granting to carmakers.

If the downtrend persists, carmakers will find it much easier to beat their pessimistic projections.

The move comes as carmakers prepare for the launch of hybrid models in India's and China's fast- growing car markets.

Value brands are suddenly hot in the European auto industry as carmakers get serious about protecting their low-end flanks.

Unlike Western carmakers, Chinese ones compete head-on with Russia's indigenous manufacturers on price.

Unlike state-owned carmakers, most of which are backed by powerful provinces, privately owned Geely needed to find its own sponsors.

Carmakers, increasingly forced to rely on emerging markets, hope this will not come to pass.

Today, Tata has 98 firms and is one of India's biggest carmakers and IT outsourcers.

Some Chinese carmakers have made big strides in developing sales and marketing.

The network of businesses tied into the car industry means that far more jobs are at risk than those at carmakers themselves.

Wish you a booming business. Carmakers are introducing the most advanced technologies into their day-to-day operations.

Carmakers are selling models in Europe that are clean, odor-free and peppy .

Its big three carmakers - Toyota, Honda and Nissan - reported staggering falls in production.

Japan's carmakers fared rather better: Toyota outsold Ford for the first time, putting it in second place behind General Motors.

Mr Lu says that foreign carmakers will pay 50 per cent more for an important component than their Chinese competitors.

In most cases the money will go to carmakers and their suppliers. The sums are far from trivial.

But the deep cuts that America's carmakers need are unlikely to be granted.

A number of carmakers already have or are introducing automated-braking systems.

Moreover, deep changes are underway that threaten to reshuffle the pecking order among carmakers, and even create openings for upstarts.

That is one reason why the carmakers assembled in Frankfurt believe that the normal strong, cyclical rebound may not happen this time.

Toyota eased ahead of other carmakers largely because of its reputation for producing good-quality, reliable cars at reasonable prices.

China's new tax is canny. It cuts fuel use, reduces imports, benefits local carmakers and may help to improve air quality.

Four of the country's five carmakers (even Samsung had ventured into the market) went bust.

Now there has been five Japanese and one Indian carmakers have submitted the application and programming of development.

This has not only transformed the streets of Beijing, it is reshaping the business strategies of the world's biggest carmakers.

Several carmakers and component suppliers are interested in hub motors.

Even with the economy subdued, however, all three Detroit carmakers are making profits.

Instead, Beijing is pitting Ford, GM, and other big carmakers against each other in a bidding war designed transfer technology.

More established Chinese carmakers have also been developing hybrid and all-electric cars.

GM said its officials "routinely discuss issues of mutual interest" with other carmakers.

Most other major carmakers are also in the throes of designing and developing electric vehicles.

In fact, a plan to bail out the carmakers would benefit shareholders and bondholders as much as anybody else.

Diess also revealed that managers are still discussing joint purchasing in North America, where both carmakers have factories.

There are some signs, though, that the long-awaited consolidation of the Chinese carmakers could be about to begin.

Compared with the demand for $700 billion to underpin the financial system, who can complain about a mere $25 billion for carmakers?

Now, with prodding from Beijing, foreign carmakers are beginning to do more design and engineering work in China.

AMERICA'S carmakers appear to have returned from the grave.

Now there are reports that Russian carmakers are lobbying for Chery's licence to be revoked.

As domestic carmakers teeter on the break of in, the Senate begun debating whether and how to help.

Other carmakers are now offering or developing similar services, or plan to do so.

Chinese carmakers are still a generation behind the West, but catching up quickly.

Carmakers are offering discounts in Germany and other countries to boost sales, but this will probably hurt their profit margins.

JLR heads the queue for government-help to carmakers, though Tata today is meeting its immediate needs.

Chinese carmakers now account for about 28 per cent of the market, a rapid increase that has taken the industry by surprise.

Around the world, carmakers have lobbied for support (see article), and some have got it.

By pushing too fast, China's domestic carmakers are putting their current market dominance at risk.

The truck law brings up a larger issue for Mr. Robertson and other carmakers: The unpredictability of the Chinese government.

BYD, which doesn't rank among China's top ten carmakers, is displaying four models including a hybrid sedan at the Detroit motor show.

The overall industry fared much worse, with carmakers seeing their sales levels plunge an average 34% on levels just one year ago.

Meeting the so-called Muskie Law, which called for sharply lower exhaust emissions by 1975, was deemed an impossible task by most carmakers.