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PRODUCT EYE: the Citroen C1 created by Facebook
6 June 2013
Glenn Brooks found a lot to like about the Citroën C1 Connexion, the first production car on UK roads resulting from an app created in collaboration with Facebook.
FRANCE: No respite in sight as sales continue to slide
3 June 2013
The European new car market is edging closer to a two-decade low with French and Spanish sales falling again in in May, dashing hopes of a recovery this year.
Q&A with CAP-XX: Supercapacitors for stop-start applications
3 June 2013
Australia’s CAP-XX Ltd is developing supercapacitors to provide high power support to automotive stop-start systems, protecting and extending the operating life of the car's battery in the process. Supercapacitors are lighter than a battery, can operate at low temperatures and be charged and discharged almost without limit. To find out more, Matthew Beecham talked with CAP-XX’s CEO Anthony Kongats and Pierre Mars, Vice President Applications Engineering & Quality.
FRANCE: Sources say PSA may need to sell shares
30 May 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen may have to raise funds through a share sale as it burns through cash in a weak market, sources told the Reuters news agency.
FRANCE: PSA Peugeot Citroen to meet unions on 'strategic vision'
28 May 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen is to meet its unions tomorrow (29 May) in the first of several negotiations to discuss how the automaker can remain a manufacturer, "rooted" in France.
FRANCE: No job losses in Meudon move says PSA
22 May 2013
PSA Peugeot-Citroen is stressing there will be no job losses in plans to close and move its administrative and research site near Paris.
FRANCE: PSA to trim costs and shutter R&D site
22 May 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen plans to close a research and administrative site near Paris as part of its cost-cutting plans, according to Reuters.
CHINA: Continental develops infotainment system for PSA in China
22 May 2013
Continental has developed a new Multimedia Radio Navigation (MRN) System for the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group in China.
FRANCE: CGT fires bitter parting shots as Aulnay strike ends
20 May 2013
PSA Peugeot-Citroen's factory at Aulnay is thought to be restarting work tomorrow (21 May) after a bitter four-month strike protesting against its closure next year that unions claim has cost almost 40,000 vehicles.
COMMENT: Bochum union factionism a voice from the past
17 May 2013
What are Opel's 3,000 odd workers at its Bochum plant in the heavily-industrialised region of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) thinking today?
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.
UK: Sovereign debt crises to affect Europe to 2017: LMC Automotive
10 May 2013
Ongoing sovereign debt crises across Europe are continuing to have a major impact on the Continent's automaking development, with 2007 production levels not expected to return until 2017, says analysts, LMC Automotive.
GERMANY: New car sales climb 3.8%, 11% in Spain
7 May 2013
Sales of new cars in Germany, Europe’s biggest market, grew 3.8% to 284,400 vehicles last month compared with 273,900 in April 2012. It was the first increase for six months and the biggest since December 2011 according to industry data.
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.
FRANCE: PSA Peugeot Citroen uses Poissy production to boost strike-hit Aulnay
3 May 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen says 340 staff from its Aulnay plant have temporarily transferred to the Poissy factory in a bid to boost daily production hit by strike action at the North-East Paris site.
COMMENT: Europe's capacity adjustment creaks along, but is it enough?
2 May 2013
As the middle of the year gets closer, the the European automotive marketplace isn't getting any easier. By last year, Western Europe's car market had lost 3m units since its 2007 peak (a heady 14.8m units). This year is likely to see the market decline by a further 5% or so to not much more than 11m units.
FRANCE: CGT union vows to continue Aulnay strike despite High Court PSA ruling
1 May 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen's hardline CGT union says it will continue its strike at the automaker's Aulnay plant near Paris and has promised unspecified further action in its bid to halt the factory's proposed closure.
CHINA: Dongfeng Citroën aims to sell 400,000 vehicles in 2015
1 May 2013
While PSA is experiencing troubled times in Europe, the company is expanding its overseas operations and growing its global footprint. A joint venture in China is one example. Dongfeng Citroën aims to achieve sales of 400,000 vehicles in 2015.
FRANCE: PSA unions approve Aulnay closure
30 April 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen labour unions have voted to back plans to shut the Aulnay plant and axe thousands of jobs.
FRANCE: PSA Peugeot Citroen Q1 revenue down 6.5% as Europe drags
24 April 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen has posted revenue down 6.5% to EUR13bn (US$16.9bn) for the first quarter of this year, with the automotive division sales also falling 10.3% mirroring a 10% contraction in the European market.
FRANCE: CGT union questions government inertia surrounding job cuts
24 April 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen's largest union has criticised what it claims is French government inaction as the automaker insists it will continue with plans to shutter the Aulany plant near Paris in 2014 coupled with the loss of up to 8,000 jobs.
EXCLUSIVE: DPCA to build Peugeot 301 at new Wuhan 3 plant
22 April 2013
DPCA, the Dongfeng Motor and PSA joint venture, will build the Peugeot 301 at its forthcoming Wuhan 3 plant. Ground was broken on this 150,000/annum greenfield facility in 2011, with the first cars due off the line in late 2013.
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.
SHANGHAI: PSA China sales rose 31% in Q1
22 April 2013
PSA Peugeot Citroen achieved record sales in China in the first quarter of 2013, confirming the faster growth trend seen last year.
COMMENT: Russia comes in from the cold
19 April 2013
All this week's pomp and circumstance of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's funeral has rekindled myriad memories of what it was like growing up in the 1980s in the UK - and just how much the political landscape has changed.
PRODUCT EYE: Peugeot eyes new niche with 'luxury' 208 variant
18 April 2013
The UK launch of Peugeot's 208 'hot hatch' sports variant – the 208 GTi - was accompanied, understandably, by some looking back at the brand's widely respected history in that area of the market.
RUSSIA: Kaluga region creates 12,000 new posts as auto clusters thrive
17 April 2013
Russia's influential Kaluga region says it has created 12,000 new jobs in its automotive cluster facilities, which are rapidly becoming a part of the country's employment landscape.
INTERVIEW: PCMA-Rus general manager Jean-Christophe Marchal
12 April 2013
PCMA-Rus is a joint venture between PSA Peugeot Citroen (70%) and Mitsubishi Motors (30%) in the Kaluga region of Russia, some 100 miles south west of the capital. PCMA-Rus general manager, Jean-Christophe Marchal, spoke to Simon Warburton at this week's Russian Automotive Forum in Moscow.
GERMANY: GM to invest EUR4bn in Opel through 2016
11 April 2013
General Motors is to provide Opel with EUR4bn of investment through 2016 in a sign of commitment to its European operations.
BRAZIL: Peugeot 208 narrows the new product wait gap
2 April 2013
Now Brazil is the world’s fourth largest auto market, it is no longer made to wait sometimes years for new models launched first in other markets. Case in point: the Peugeot 208 due to hit the showrooms on 13 April, just 11 months after going on sale in Europe.
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