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Daimler agreed with DAPD agency to provide news to Mercedes-Benz cars

August 7, 2012 | 11:19pm CEToriginal
Multimedia system Comand will thus be extended with service News on Board. Co-operation in 22 countries, a subcontractor in the Czech Republic, text and video news...
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New car sales in Czech Rep down by 7.9% in July, LCV sales by 24.7%

August 7, 2012 | 02:52am CEToriginal
The decline was mitigated by Hyundai, Citroen and Fiat brands. Registrations of trucks fell by 36.2%. The influence of outages and problems of the central register...
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Magna won another contract to manufacture hybrid tailgate, to place production in Czech Rep

August 6, 2012 | 03:12am CEToriginal
The contract for a BMW electric vehicle, the experience from the Skoda Roomster Scout, location, other investments, customers and projects...
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Seat STK Service: Technical inspection and emissions for free while car preparation at authorized service shop

August 5, 2012 | 11:28pm CEToriginal
Seat thus follows the Audi brand, which has been offering Audi STK Service since October 2011. The service is designed for owners of older cars...
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Toyota Motor recalls 1.5 million cars

August 3, 2012 | 03:44am CEToriginal
The corrective action applies to Europe, too. The reason, affected Toyota and Lexus models, years of production...
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dTest: AAA Auto breaks law when offering financing of used cars

August 2, 2012 | 12:29am CEToriginal
Providing pre-contractual information in advance, contribution to holiday or cash when taking a credit, the opinion of MPO, the reaction of AAA Auto...
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Volkswagen introduced alternative spare parts series and fixed repair prices for older cars in Czech Rep

August 1, 2012 | 04:19am CEToriginal
VW thus follows the Seat brand, which has been offering Economy parts already. Cheaper maintenance and repairs, the current offer of Economy parts…
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Daimler recalls 7,200 buses for repairs

August 1, 2012 | 04:04am CEToriginal
It has probably been the first reported recall action on buses in recent years. The reason, the affected Mercedes-Benz and Setra models, sales in 2011...
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Mercedes-Benz received over 1,400 orders for passenger cars in Czech Rep in H1

July 31, 2012 | 03:51am CEToriginal
Sales in June, registrations, interest in convertibles and new A-Class and B-Class models, special offer of 4x4 free of charge...
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Nissan agreed with Renault on use of its training centre in Prague, Czech Rep

July 30, 2012 | 06:08am CEToriginal
After Poland it is further decentralization of training of dealer network in Central Europe. The cooperation has so far concerned service, Nissan is considering...
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Volkswagen asked Fiat chief to leave head of ACEA

July 30, 2012 | 05:58am CEToriginal
The reason is Sergio Marchionne’s statement that Volkswagen had ruthless pricing strategy. EC response...
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Czech registry includes 500,000 errors about car owners

July 27, 2012 | 06:02am CEToriginal
Other problems include faulty license plates and duplicate VIN codes. The database functionality, the political level...
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Demand for new Mercedes-Benz A-Class surpassed expectations, production to run in third place

July 25, 2012 | 12:02am CEToriginal
Daimler has agreed with contract manufacturer Valmet Automotive. Production volume, number of orders, timing, an important contract for Valmet...
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Toyota to cooperate with PSA in sale and development of commercial vehicles in Europe

July 24, 2012 | 02:29am CEToriginal
The affected models and plants, ending sales of the Toyota Hiace, limitation of cooperation of PSA and Fiat, production volumes...
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Czech Registry of vehicles did not work on Monday again, connection to database of wanted cars failed

July 24, 2012 | 02:11am CEToriginal
The culprit of failure has not been found yet, the affected authorities do not claim responsibility for it. The situation in Prague, where most of company cars are registered...
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dTest: Car dealers liable for rolled back odometer

July 23, 2012 | 04:11am CEToriginal
Rolling back the odometer when selling a used car can be classified as a criminal act of fraud or harm to a consumer, according to the magazine. Defence options...
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Pekny (SDA, Kia): Problems with Czech vehicle register could be international disgrace

July 19, 2012 | 04:27am CEToriginal
Availability of the July statistics, tracking of registrations on a weekly basis, reporting to parent automakers, data for ACEA, deferred consumption...
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Anthony James Denny left the post of AAA Auto’s head

July 17, 2012 | 01:29am CEToriginal
He was replaced by Karolina Topolova in the post of CEO. The planned expansion in CEE in 2012-2013...
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Car prices dropped m/m in Czech Rep in June

July 16, 2012 | 03:05am CEToriginal
New cars became cheaper by more than 1%, used ones only slightly. Prices of spare parts and servicing stagnated...
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Czech Rep does not eventually plan to return to original vehicle register

July 12, 2012 | 11:51pm CEToriginal
Even though the new system is slower and loses the data. Possible penalties for the company ATS-Telcom, benevolence of the police towards drivers...
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EC plans more frequent technical inspections of older cars

July 12, 2012 | 11:36pm CEToriginal
The new law aims to reduce injuries and deaths due to technical defects. New rules for vehicle testing stations (MOT)...
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Volkswagen increased sales of VW, Audi and Seat cars in Czech Rep in H1 by 3.2%

July 12, 2012 | 04:29am CEToriginal
Registrations went up more. Results of individual brands, the current dealer network, the term of renaming Import Volkswagen Group...
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Czech Rep planning to return to original vehicle register because of continuing problems

July 12, 2012 | 04:04am CEToriginal
The deadline for the supply company ATS-Telcom, the term of a possible return to the original registry, financial losses of carriers...
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Toyota changed segmentation of Extracare extended warranty in Czech Rep and Slovakia

July 11, 2012 | 06:31am CEToriginal
At the same time the company began offering it for cars imported from abroad. A price reduction for smaller models, 17% discount when buying a new car, the partner, assistance service included...
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New Czech registry of vehicles encountered problems during first two days after startup

July 11, 2012 | 05:59am CEToriginal
In many places it did not work or it was impossible to print technical certificates. Requests for damages, jumbled data due to database transfer...
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