EUROPE: W. Europe car sales up 16.5% in October [includes audio]
Car sales in Western Europe grew by 16.5% year-on-year in October according to data released by analysts at JD Power who also told just-auto today that the outlook for 2010 is for a market drop of 10%.
CANADA: Magna books surprise Q3 profit, returns to core business (REG)
Magna International has reported a surprise third quarter operating income of US$81m, net income of $51m and earnings per share of $0.45, increases of $193m, $266m and $2.38, respectively, year on year, benfiting from cost cutting an restructuring started last year as the credit crisis hit the auto sector. Total sales fell 16% to $4.7bn.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: GM and that U-turn
Thanks, GM. Months and months of coverage, analysis and speculation and what happens at the board meeting Tuesday night? "Tell you what, boys, why don't we just keep Opel and restructure it ourselves?"
Chrysler presentations
4th November 2009 18:48
Is Chrysler really going to fly in partnership with Fiat? It is perhaps coming off a low base where it has been stuck with the wrong products at the wrong time - and a poor image (read more >>
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Batteries at heart of electric drive strategies
FRANCE: Renault-Nissan alliance inks government battery JV
A letter of intent has been signed in Flins between the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the French Atomic
Energy Commission (CEA) and the French Strategic Investment Fund (FSI) to set-up a joint venture
company that would develop and manufacture batteries for electric vehicles, under the patronage of
Christian Estrosi, the French Minister for Industry.
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