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Importers in countries with scrap bonus established buy up cars from other importers in Europe including Czech Rep

August 11, 2009 | 01:24pm CEToriginal
It refers to Germany in the first place; smaller markets thus suffer from it. Currently, for some cars, whose waiting time was two months, customers must wait…
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US carmakers received USD 600 million from government for battery development

August 11, 2009 | 12:33pm CEToriginal
The money was received by the carmakers Ford Motor, Chrysler Group and General Motors, which will use it for planned electric cars and hybrids…
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SAP: Number of cars older than 10 years went up by 450,000 over last 3.5 years

August 11, 2009 | 11:22am CEToriginal
Renewal of car fleet in the Czech Republic is not in progress, according to SAP, whereas common renewal in EU is 8 to 10% annually. Scrap bonus should be one of measures only…
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BMW to sell Mini cars in large cities and separate showrooms only

August 10, 2009 | 10:14pm CEToriginal
After the Brno-based company Renocar another company is about to build a new Mini showroom, namely the current BMW dealer...
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Denny: AAA Auto not to open branch in Liberec this year, likely to enter Hungary again in 2010

August 10, 2009 | 09:56pm CEToriginal
The company closed two car centres in Q2—one in the Czech Republic and one in Slovakia. Considering Russia, AAA Auto…
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Ministry of Transport closed 16 stations measuring emissions in H1 due to frauds

August 10, 2009 | 08:43pm CEToriginal
Cheats occur during emission measuring more often than at vehicle testing stations. The central information system proved good but interconnection with…
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Start-stop coming into Audi cars: For models A4 and A5, for 2.0 L four-cylinders with manual transmission, no extra charge

August 10, 2009 | 07:14pm CEToriginal
A start-stop system from Audi has a starter with an operating life of 250,000 starts. By the end of this year, the starter will be available also for…
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UniCredit Leasing: Financial leasing back in game due to legislation change

August 10, 2009 | 05:01pm CEToriginal
After the company CSOB Leasing, short financial leasing is now being offered by UniCredit Leasing...
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Hyundai to increase production capacities in China

August 10, 2009 | 04:07pm CEToriginal
The company considers the construction of its third factory in the country and also thinks about a takeover of some of the local carmakers...
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Kord group including supplier of tire manufacturer Kordarna for sale

August 10, 2009 | 03:23pm CEToriginal
At the same time, the company will work on reorganization in order to get out of the bankruptcy. Over 10 investors have already expressed interest in Kordarna...
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PwC: The most favourite domestic company for Germans is newly Volkswagen

August 10, 2009 | 01:38pm CEToriginal
The carmaker degraded the competing Daimler after two years followed by Siemens and the carmakers…
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Toyota improved financial and sales forecast for this year

August 9, 2009 | 08:44pm CEToriginal
In Q2 the carmaker reported already the third operating loss in a row at revenues decline by 38%. For this whole year, Toyota plans to sell...
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Scrap bonus in the USA exploited by 185,000 people, helping mainly to Ford

August 9, 2009 | 08:17pm CEToriginal
Car sales in the USA reached this year’s maximum of 994,000 cars in July; in y/y comparison it however decreased by...
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BMW’s profit dropped by 76% along with downturn of revenues by 11% in Q2 due to low demand

August 9, 2009 | 03:55pm CEToriginal
The carmaker reacts to that by operational cuts and by leaving Formula 1 as well...
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Toyota Land Cruiser Team Edition: Stock clearance with discount of CZK 175,000

August 9, 2009 | 03:27pm CEToriginal
The offer refers to cars with the diesel engines 3.0 D-4D within the equipage Lux and Lux+ exclusively. In case of taking advantage of an offer of financing…
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Car sales in Italy, France and Spain boosted by scrap bonus in July

August 9, 2009 | 02:48pm CEToriginal
In Italy and France car sales went up y/y in July; in Spain the rate of downturn was slowed down from June’s 15.9% to…
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Sales of passenger and light utility cars decreased by 13% in January-July

August 7, 2009 | 04:40am CEToriginal
Demand for passenger cars increased by 8% in the first seven months, in July it increased by...
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Volkswagen plant in Bratislava to cease Skoda Octavia cars production next year

August 5, 2009 | 09:35pm CEToriginal
The reason is a line release for the new model range of cars, whose production will begin under brands Volkswagen, Seat a Skoda in…
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Passenger car sales in Germany increased by 29.5% in July

August 5, 2009 | 08:25pm CEToriginal
The growth is caused by the continuing government incentives in the form of scrap bonus. Sales of Skoda cars rose by...
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Fehrer acquired new orders, cannot find workers in Liberec now

August 4, 2009 | 06:01pm CEToriginal
The company has solved the lack of workers by Saturday shifts already. The new orders for seven years are from the carmakers…
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Ford to cancel 600 jobs in plant in Valencia

August 4, 2009 | 02:08pm CEToriginal
This represents 12% of all employees of the Spanish factory. At the beginning of this year, the carmaker has already reduced the production there…
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Diess: BMW and Daimler can buy up to 10% of all components together without harming the brands

August 4, 2009 | 01:17pm CEToriginal
Those can be automatic system, wheels or tyres. By the year 2012, BMW wants to lower purchasing costs by…
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Ford suspended sales of Swedish passenger car producer Volvo Car

August 4, 2009 | 12:30pm CEToriginal
The US carmaker is awaiting a result of the battle for Opel. The situation could be clearer after today’s meeting of the German government with GM’s representatives…
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Suzuki’s operating profit dropped by 80% in Q2 along with downturn of revenues by 37%

August 4, 2009 | 11:13am CEToriginal
Sales went down by 12% to 541,000 cars. However, the company partially succeeded in offsetting a steep fall of demand on developed markets by increasing sales in…
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Sales of Auto Esa up by 16% to 3,145 cars in H1

August 4, 2009 | 10:04am CEToriginal
The firm is also successful in the field of sales of additional products and car accessories while in the company’s shop and e-shop its turnover went up by…
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