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GENEVA PREVIEW: Updated global debuts list [Honda CR-V diesel & Morgan Aero Coupe added]
7 February 2012
An updated version of just-auto's list of world premiere concepts and production models due to take a bow at the Geneva motor show's 6 March press day.
UK: Jaguar Land Rover hiring 133 apprentices
2 February 2012
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) will recruit 133 apprentices in 2012, its largest intake ever. Its programme, this year searching for both advanced and higher apprentices launches on Monday 6 February coinciding with National Apprenticeship Week here in the UK.
GENEVA PREVIEW: Updated global debuts list
30 January 2012
An updated version of just-auto's list of world premiere concepts and production models due to take their bows at the Geneva motor show's 6 March press day.
GERMANY: Opel appoints new communications director
26 January 2012
Johan Willems joins the Opel management board next week as head of communications for Opel/Vauxhall, taking over from Susanne Wegerhoff who has decided to leave the company, Opel said in statement.
UK: Chevrolet Volt ‘will be in short supply'
26 January 2012
Chevrolet UK has been contacted by 2,500 people "who said they want to talk to us about the Volt," managing director Mark Terry said, adding that he expects there to be more customers than cars, certainly for the foreseeable future.
ANALYSIS: European sales down, VW remains top brand
20 January 2012
The Volkswagen Golf remained Europe’s best-selling car in 2011, despite a drop in sales of 1.6% in 2011 compared to 2010, analysts JATO Dynamics said. The VW Polo retained second place for December and for the year, with sales up 2.9% and 0.5% respectively, while Ford’s Fiesta held third place both in December and for the year.
UK: UK car output up 6% in 2011
19 January 2012
The SMMT says that UK car manufacturing rose 5.8% to 1,343,810 in 2011 and ended the year with a 1.6% rise in December. The total for the year was boosted by strong exports.
UK: Vauxhall accounts for 60% of LCV production
19 January 2012
General Motor's two English assembly plants accounted for 60% of the country's total light commercial vehicle production, the automaker said.
UK: Popular Astra wagon hikes plant line rate
19 January 2012
High demand for the Opel/Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer [wagon] helped General Motors' Ellesmere Port plant to record line rates of 47 units per hour from July 2011, the automaker said.
PRODUCT EYE: Kia Optima 1.7
18 January 2012
How's this for a summary of the old-shape Optima: "the last time Kia had a vehicle in the D segment it was one that, pragmatically, had no credibility whatsoever". So says the company's head of UK media relations.
UK: Government and industry join on hydrogen fuel cell project
18 January 2012
A claimed ground breaking project to ensure the UK is well positioned for the commercial roll-out of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles has been launched, business minister Mark Prisk announced on Wednesday (18 January).
GENEVA PREVIEW: Updated global debuts list [triple-turbo BMW added]
16 January 2012
An updated version of just-auto's list of world premiere concepts and production models due to take their bows at the Geneva motor show's 6 March press day.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Detroit, sunny Detroit
13 January 2012
Triple-D week for me, this, first time in Detroit, first time at the Detroit show, first time on Delta. Despite the dire predictions of certain sages I know, it was all good.
GENEVA PREVIEW: Updated global debuts list [Peugeot 208 added]
11 January 2012
Some additions to just-auto's list of world premiere concepts and production models due to take their bows at the Geneva motor show in March.
DETROIT SHOW: Buick Encore previews Opel Mokka
11 January 2012
General Motors' Buick division has revealed the Encore SUV at the Detroit auto show. The little SUV is not only an additional model but previews a Chevrolet to come, as well as the new Opel and Vauxhall Mokka.
GENEVA PREVIEW: Opel Mokka world premiere
11 January 2012
Opel has released the first images and details of the Opel Mokka. The new vehicle, which will also be sold in the UK with Vauxhall badges, is a, small, five-seat SUV. There will be a version to come for Chevrolet Europe, while the new Buick Encore is another close relative.
DETROIT SHOW: Global debuts list
10 January 2012
Our complete list of concept and production vehicle global premieres which were revealed at the North American International Auto Show.
DETROIT INTERVIEW: General Motors determined to rescue Opel
9 January 2012
General Motors has no plans to give up on unprofitable Opel or axe the UK-only Vauxhall brand, international operations head Tim Lee said in a wide-ranging interview on the sidelines of the Detroit show on Monday.
December 2011 management briefing: Review of 2011 (part 1)
20 December 2011
Like any year in the auto industry, 2011 saw its fair share of company ups and downs, industrial comings and goings, and a fair old sprinkling of corporate drama. Added to the mix this year were devastating natural disasters. We covered it all on just-auto. Editor Dave Leggett sifts through the lot and picks out a few highlights from the year just gone, month by month. Part one covers the first half of the year.
UK: Renault to reorganise UK business
19 December 2011
Renault says it is to restructure its business in the UK, dropping a number of models and reducing its dealer network by around one third over the next 12 months.
PRODUCT EYE: Toyota manufacturing chief on updated Avensis
19 December 2011
So you're the world's most famously sensible car company. You've also had one hell of an annus horriblus, a year in fact that could have dealt a killer blow to car companies with a lesser cash pile than Toyota's. Your president has publicly shed tears over the deaths of people for whom a supposedly faulty throttle design was blamed. Now you just want 2011 to be over.
GERMANY: Opel slows Ampera awaiting US battery verdict
15 December 2011
Opel will postpone customer deliveries of its plug-in hybrid Ampera in Europe for an unspecified period of time, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing the automaker.
UK: Duncan Aldred takes on chairman and MD role at Vauxhall Motors
12 December 2011
Current Vauxhall Motors managing director Duncan Aldred is also to take on the role of chairman from 1 January, 2012, replacing Bill Parfitt, who becomes director, government affairs and public policy from the same date.
THE WEEK THAT WAS: Is Saab finally toast?
9 December 2011
Although we have been here before, and the phoenix has climbed back up before the fire turned it to ashes, I have a feeling Saab may have entered the Last Chance Saloon this week.
UK: Vauxhall boosts local purchasing
9 December 2011
Vauxhall has boosted its UK supply chain and has awarded contracts to domestic suppliers worth over EUR230m over the past 18 months.
INTERVIEW: Vauxhall MD Duncan Aldred
7 December 2011
General Motors' European operations have hit a setback with the realisation that it will not hit breakeven this year after all. Next year's market environment is looking tough, too. However, Vauxhall MD Duncan Aldred tells just-auto that a wave of new product will help to transform the brand in Britain over the next few years.
UK: Vauxhall Ampera launch ‘on track’ for May first deliveries
1 December 2011
General Motors Europe's UK unit Vauxhall has insisted the launch of the Ampera, its version of the Chevrolet Volt, is on track and order books will open soon with first deliveries scheduled to start in May 2012.
US: Chevrolet Volt tops Consumer Reports survey
1 December 2011
The US$40,000 Chevrolet Volt is now the top-scoring model in Consumer Reports' latest annual owner satisfaction survey.
AUSTRALIA: Nissan MD reveals RHD plans for next Altima
30 November 2011
Nissan Australia CEO and MD Dan Thompson has revealed plans for the next Altima - currently a US-built model sold mostly in NAFTA markets - to be offered 'down under', according to local publication GoAutoNews. This means that the car will be built for the first time with right-hand drive, making it potentially a global model.
GERMANY: Opel expected to delay Ampera launch
29 November 2011
Opel and its sister company Vauxhall are expected to delay the introduction of the Ampera extended-range hybrid car in the wake of battery fires after crash tests in the US.
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