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MALAYSIA: Market competition to intensify with duty cuts – BMW
24 May 2013
The Malaysian automotive industry is expecting competition in the local market to intensify as the government reduces excise duties further to lower new car prices.
UK: Toyota overtakes BMW as world’s most valuable car brand
21 May 2013
Toyota has reasserted itself as the world’s most valuable car brand, replacing BMW, rated the top brand in the Millward Brown survey in 2010 and 2012. Toyota held the top spot in 2006-2009 and again in 2011.
PRODUCT EYE: Honda CR-Z
21 May 2013
It isn't often that a three-year old car, albeit one that was facelifted not long ago, attracts admiring glances in car parks. Glenn Brooks was surprised to learn that few people know what a Honda CR-Z is.
INDIA: Honeywell turbos fitted to Honda Amaze ('India's most fuel efficient car')
21 May 2013
Honeywell turbocharger technology developed in India is fitted to the 1.5L diesel engine in the Honda Amaze, a car described as 'India's most fuel efficient car'.
JAPAN: Honda confirms F1 return
16 May 2013
Honda will be returning to Formula One in 2015, confirming rumours which have been circulating since the Geneva show in March.
CHINA: Dongfeng takes stake in MMC partner Fujian
16 May 2013
Dongfeng Motor has taken a shareholding in MMC's joint venture partner Fujian Motor. The deal gives China's second largest OEM new access to manufacturing capacity in the country's south east.
US: Honda to make NSX in Ohio from 2015
14 May 2013
Honda's Acura unit said the new NSX hybrid supercar would be produced at a new 'Performance Manufacturing Center' in Ohio, a US$70m production facility of 184,000 sq ft to be housed inside the automaker's former North American logistics facility alongside existing R&D and production engineering operations.
FRANKFURT PREVIEW: Global debuts list [Peugeot 308 & Volvo VEA engine family added]
13 May 2013
The media days for the Frankfurt motor show are 10 & 11 September. Each time a vehicle or concept world premiere is confirmed for this biennial event, our preview list is updated.
SWITZERLAND: New regional director for Infiniti north Europe
9 May 2013
Nissan Motor's luxury brand Infiniti has appointed Steve Oliver as the new regional director for northern Europe covering the UK and Holland.
JAPAN: Toyota 2012/13 financials improve over fiscal 2012
8 May 2013
Toyota Motor Corporation boosted full fiscal year operating income from JPY355.6bn to JPY1.32 trillion, an increase of JPY965.2bn. Net income rose from JPY283.5bn to JPY962.1bn on sales up 18.7% to JPY22 trillion.
INDONESIA: Sales growth continues in April
8 May 2013
New car sales in Indonesia expanded by 17.2% to 102,079 units in April, compared with 87,079 units a year earlier, according to preliminary wholesale data released by local distributors.
UK: Mixed job news at Japanese carmakers' plants
7 May 2013
There's good news and bad news at two Japanese car plants here in England this week.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Once more to the toy shop, brothers!
3 May 2013
Those three of you who peruse every bit of just-auto's home page every day will probably already know The Editorial Team had our annual Fun Day Out this week, courtesy of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) Test Day. I've been going, on and off, sice 1987 and the agenda follows a refreshingly familar, welll-proven and immensely popular programme which I believe is unique to the UK auto industry. After earlier using other venues, the SMMT nowadays books Millbrook, the former Vauxhall Proving Ground (founded 1968), almost every importer/manufacturer shows up with the allocated six cars, caterers lay out a fine breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea - and we show up and go nuts.
US APRIL SALES: Detroit grows market share
3 May 2013
US light vehicle sales continued their upward swing in April, finishing up 8.5% year on year at 1.29m for the month. Year to date (YTD) results were 6.9% ahead of the first four months of 2012.
JAPAN: Honda to build CVT plant at Fit factory in Mexico
3 May 2013
Honda Motor said subsidiary Honda de Mexico will build a CVT automatic transmission plant alongside the car plant it is constructing in Celaya, near Guanajuato, Mexico. The complex will start Fit [Jazz] production in spring 2014.
PRODUCT EYE: Vauxhall Mokka
3 May 2013
A suitably mud-coloured Vauxhall Mokka recently turned up for review at Glenn Brooks' home. He now sees why GM's little SUV is selling up a storm in Europe.
JAPAN: 2014 Acura MDX production begins at Honda Alabama
3 May 2013
Alabama state governor Robert Bentley was a guest as 1,500 workers at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HMA) celebrated the start of production of the redesigned 2014 Acura MDX luxury SUV.
UK: Land Rover quietly building a third body shop
2 May 2013
The manager of Land Rover's Solihull body shop has told just-auto.com that the JLR division has not only just completed a second shop but that the frame of a third one is presently going up.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: The numbers are in
26 April 2013
Results season - Q1 2013, Q4/fiscal year 2012/3, etc. We disappear under a mountain of figures and you get it all neatly sliced, diced and packaged here. Enjoy.
JAPAN: Recovered Honda boosts operating profits
26 April 2013
Honda Motor boosted fourth fiscal quarter operating income to 31 March 201321.4% to JPY135.9bn yen (GBP892.4m) after car sales rose in Asia as a result of the recovery from the impact of the major previous year flooding in Thailand as well as favourable currency effects of the depreciation of the Japanese yen.
JAPAN: Production reaches four-year high
24 April 2013
Japan’s major carmakers' combined domestic output in fiscal 2012 rose 2.9% over the previous year to 9,055,373 units, passing 9m for the first time in four years.
MALAYSIA: Proton to step up collaboration, new models
23 April 2013
Malaysia’s Proton Holdings is expected to unveil new models and announce new collaborative agreements over the next year, according to local industry sources.
INDONESIA: Daihatsu delays small car production
23 April 2013
Indonesia’s largest vehicle manufacturer, Astra Daihatsu Motor, said it is delaying production of its new small car range until the government announces its long-anticipated small car policy.
SHANGHAI: Dongfeng & Kia announce Horki brand
22 April 2013
DYK, China's Dongfeng Yueda Kia joint venture, has revealed the Horki Concept-1 at the media preview day of the Shanghai motor show. The first car for this new brand will be built in one of DYK's three Yancheng plants from 2015.
INDIA: Honda to stop making Civic
22 April 2013
Falling sales have forced Honda India to pull the plug on the Civic sedan which has sold just over 50,000 cars since its launch in 2006.
SHANGHAI: Global debuts list [Final version with additional cars & updated descriptions]
22 April 2013
Details of concepts and new models which made their global debuts on Saturday 20 April at Auto Shanghai's media preview day.
US: Honda recalls 225,000 SUVs and minivans in US, Canada
22 April 2013
Honda is recalling about 225,300 SUVs and minivans in the United States and Canada to replace a part that if not operating could allow the driver to shift out of park without depressing the brake pedal.
INDIA: Honda to commence production at Rajasthan plant in new financial year
19 April 2013
Honda Cars India will start manufacturing vehicles at its new Rajasthan plant in the next financial year [starting 1 April].
INDIA: Japanese automakers seek concessions similar to those proposed for EU companies
19 April 2013
Japanese automakers want India to provide concessions like the ones it is preparing to offer European companies.
GERMANY: Honda makes gains in Europe
17 April 2013
First quarter figures for 2013 show an encouraging start to the year for Honda in Europe which said that sales grew 16.3% to 40,499 units compared to the same period last year.
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