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Medea Research: New car sales in Czech Rep up by 6.8% in February 2017

March 2, 2017 | 11:43pm CEToriginal
Growth was driven by Renault, Dacia, Toyota, Mercedes or VW. Developments in vans, increase in purpose registrations, results over two months...
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One manager to leave Porsche Czech Republic

March 2, 2017 | 03:14am CEToriginal
His career has been teamed exclusively with Volkswagen Group. His future direction and successor...
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IHS Markit: Sales of passenger cars and commercial vehicles in CEE to rise by 4.5% in 2017

March 2, 2017 | 02:54am CEToriginal
The results in 2016, an outlook for the world and other regions, the expected decline in North America, risks, analyst comment, the merger of IHS and Markit...
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Mitsubishi Motors to have new PR manager in Czech Rep

March 1, 2017 | 11:31pm CEToriginal
The position has been held by Pavla Drmotova for more than five years. Reasons, successor, timing...
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Bridgestone tire prices to go up in Europe

February 28, 2017 | 11:16pm CEToriginal
The brands and vehicle categories concerned, price increases, declared reasons, timing...
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Brexit: BMW apparently considering placing manufacturing of Mini EV to Germany

February 28, 2017 | 11:00pm CEToriginal
The carmaker did not comment on the information. Possible locations in continental Europe, the planned launch, talks with the British government...
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PwC, EY: Car prices in Czech Rep to increase slightly in 2017

February 28, 2017 | 10:46pm CEToriginal
Reasons, the termination of CNB interventions, the effect on prices of imported cars, following the market leader, the price level in Europe...
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SDA: 218 HEVs and 18 EVs registered in Czech Rep in January

February 28, 2017 | 10:36pm CEToriginal
The registry also newly includes 297 vehicles powered by CNG and 67 LPG vehicles. Leaders of alternative drives...
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Tatra appointed new Sales Director

February 27, 2017 | 11:56pm CEToriginal
Czech manufacturer of trucks and special vehicles occupied the position by its own manager. David Pipal...
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Car sales in Russia fell by 5% in January

February 27, 2017 | 11:51pm CEToriginal
In the second half of the month, however, sales began to recover. The results of individual brands, an outlook for 2017...
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ACEA: Car sales in EU increase by 10,2 % in January

February 27, 2017 | 11:44pm CEToriginal
The third growth in a row, the influence of the number of working days, results in individual countries, a slump in Ireland and Slovakia, sales of automakers...
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Growth of car sales in China almost stopped in January

February 27, 2017 | 11:37pm CEToriginal
Sales increased by 0.2 % only, which is the slowest growth pace for almost a year. Reasons...
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Sales of Volkswagen Group decreased by 4% in January

February 27, 2017 | 11:22pm CEToriginal
The first decline after five months of growth, reasons, demand in individual markets, increase of most brands...
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US car sales fell by 1.8% in January

February 27, 2017 | 11:05pm CEToriginal
Circumstances, results of automakers, an outlook for 2017...
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LMC Automotive: Car sales in Western Europe up by 9.5% in January

February 27, 2017 | 02:16am CEToriginal
Results in individual countries, growth in the UK, the decline in Ireland and Switzerland, an analyst comment...
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Sales of Skoda cars rose by 2.4% in January

February 27, 2017 | 02:06am CEToriginal
It was the fourteenth growth in a row. Sales in individual markets, growth in the Czech Republic, a fall in China, interest in various models, Citigo facelift...
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SDA: Registrations of new cars in Czech Rep increased by 19% in January, mainly thanks to companies

February 27, 2017 | 01:57am CEToriginal
Growth was driven by VW, Toyota, Hyundai, Mercedes, Nissan, Ford and Peugeot brands. Missing data on operating leases for consumers, a decline in trucks...
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Carlos Ghosn to step down as CEO of Nissan

February 24, 2017 | 01:39am CEToriginal
He will now reportedly focus on the full involvement of Mitsubishi Motors to Renault-Nissan alliance. Successor, timing...
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Daimler to start car production in Russia

February 24, 2017 | 01:27am CEToriginal
Partner, location, amount of investment, HR, models, annual production, timing, the first western automaker investment since the introduction of anti-Russian sanctions...
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Medea Research: Sales of new cars in Czech Rep up by 20.5% in January 2017

February 24, 2017 | 01:17am CEToriginal
Growth was driven VW, Toyota, Mercedes, Hyundai, Ford, Skoda, Peugeot and Nissan. Developments in vans, the growth of purpose registrations...
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Car sales in Germany up by 10.5% in January

February 23, 2017 | 10:51pm CEToriginal
Growth was seen also in manufacturing and export. Demand most grew for Tesla, Lexus, Jaguar, SsangYong and Alfa Romeo cars. The influence of number of working days, orders...
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Automotive Leaders Summit 2017: Conference on automotive industry in Europe to be held in Austria

February 23, 2017 | 12:08am CEToriginal
Date, program, supplier forum, speakers from Volkswagen, Jaguar Land Rover, GM, Renault, Honda, Magna, Johnson Controls, Bosch, PwC, DHL or Uber...
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Seat won contract to produce new Volkswagen Group transmission

February 22, 2017 | 11:36pm CEToriginal
Spanish automaker will manufacture it for the whole world. The parameters of the gearbox, production location, capacity, related investments, timing...
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ACEA: Car sales in EU to rise slightly in 2017

February 22, 2017 | 11:24pm CEToriginal
The pace of growth will thus slow down from 6.8% in 2016. The outlook details, comments of President of the association...
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Car of the Year 2017 in Czech Rep: SDA refused information about lack of transparency and doubts

February 22, 2017 | 11:18pm CEToriginal
Description of the process of selecting agency and the introduction of nomination fees, decreasing number of jurors, Sport-Press renaming...
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