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Karlovy Vary Region proposes to alleviate conditions for operation of VTS

July 15, 2010 | 03:06am CEToriginal
Revocation of licenses would be just for recidivism, a fine to CZK 500,000 for less serious offenses. Another proposal of the Ministry of Transport...
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India expects growth in car market in two-digit pace in 2010

July 15, 2010 | 02:51am CEToriginal
Nevertheless, the association SIAM expects an increase by 12-13%, analysts by 15% at least. Trucks and buses...
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Martin Kofron to leave SkoFIN after 14 years and thereby also management of CLFA

July 14, 2010 | 04:23am CEToriginal
Kofron is a proxy and the head of SkoFIN legal department as well as the chairman of CLFA. Reasons and date of his departure…
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PGO Automobiles wants to strengthen sales in Central Europe, importer agreed with new partner

July 14, 2010 | 04:04am CEToriginal
This small-series manufacturer of retro cars takes a number of components from Czech suppliers. The previous and new partner, engines, prices, suppliers...
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EK: Buying new Peugeot, Renault, Fiat, VW and Ford cars abroad pays off

July 14, 2010 | 03:46am CEToriginal
For the most popular models of these brands the price difference between some EU member states can be even tens of percent. The average deviation, the most expensive and cheapest country...
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GM ceased production of Hummer cars, still looking for investor

July 14, 2010 | 01:25am CEToriginal
In Central Europe, there are still several stock cars. If the investor is found, a small model of Hummer H4 could get into the production…
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Expert: Future of retail car sales to be in large volumes

July 14, 2010 | 01:17am CEToriginal
Large sales volumes can only be realized by dealers with more branches and more brands. Extending service intervals, bankruptcies and acquisitions of dealers...
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Ceska sporitelna merged subsidiaries engaged in auto financing

July 14, 2010 | 12:41am CEToriginal
It is the leasing company s Autoleasing and the loan company s Autouver. Details of the merger…
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Roland Berger: Czech automotive suppliers have potential to increase by one third by 2020

July 14, 2010 | 12:23am CEToriginal
The strong growth will occur mainly in the segment of the driving gear components, while a decrease can be expected in the segment of mechanical parts. Development in navigations...
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Sales of Auto Esa up by 14% to 658 used cars in June

July 14, 2010 | 12:07am CEToriginal
This result imitates the development of the new-car market. The best-selling model is the Skoda Fabia, followed in the Top 10 by...
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Iranian government sold 18% share in carmaker Iran Khodro

July 13, 2010 | 11:56pm CEToriginal
The Government still holds a 20% share in the company, which is a partner of Renault, Peugeot and Suzuki. The structure of the consortium of investors, the transaction value...
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Mazda 50:50: One-year interest-free loan from Credium with two payments received damage liability for CZK 1 per month from July

July 13, 2010 | 11:47pm CEToriginal
This expanded menu has been prepared with Ceska pojistovna. Other conditions of this offer have been preserved…
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Peugeot to produce next model with Malaysian carmaker NAZA from H2 2011

July 13, 2010 | 11:33pm CEToriginal
It will be a sedan, which will follow the already produced Peugeot 207. Planned volume of the production...
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Pekny (SDA, Kia): Sales of cars up to 3.5 tons to rise by maximum of 5% in Czech Rep in 2010

July 13, 2010 | 04:32am CEToriginal
SDA secretary Pavel Tunkl has been still expecting an increase of 10%. View on the truck sales, prepared statistics of bodies...
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Tatra wants to expand worldwide, considering assembly plants in Eastern Europe and Asia

July 13, 2010 | 04:14am CEToriginal
The company also sees potential in Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Canada or Australia. The considered sites, the possibility of individual markets, a shift to automatic gearboxes...
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Skoda wants to achieve market share of 3% in Russia in 2010, succeeded in June already

July 13, 2010 | 04:00am CEToriginal
The entire Russian market rose by 44.8% in June, by 3% in H1. For the full year 2010, sales should grow by 15%, according to AEB. The results of the first wave of scrap bonus...
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Nissan to suspend production in Japan due to car parts’ shortage from Hitachi

July 13, 2010 | 03:51am CEToriginal
The three-day outage of the production is going to affect 15,000 vehicles. Problems of the company Hitachi, which are caused by its supplier, could hit other two Japanese carmakers...
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Prices of cars sold on Czech market dropped by 0.7% m/m in June

July 13, 2010 | 01:46am CEToriginal
While new cars became cheaper, used cars went up. Prices of spare parts have fallen, prices of service works stagnated. Detailed information...
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Prices of new cars in EU up by 1.1% in 2009, fell by 0.6% in real terms

July 13, 2010 | 01:35am CEToriginal
In the Czech Republic, nominal prices fell by 9%, the real ones by 9.4%. The drop in prices was 11% in Slovakia. Data for other EU countries, the prices of repairs, maintenance and spare parts...
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UOHS imposed fine of CZK 160,000 to Lesy CR for illegal split of contract for car purchase

July 13, 2010 | 01:25am CEToriginal
Lesy CR has defended itself by the substantial discount from the Import Volkswagen Group, but did not implement any comparison of more offers. Next steps...
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PR Attack began providing marketing and media communications for SkoFIN

July 13, 2010 | 01:07am CEToriginal
This service had been externally ensured by Bela Jaskova until the end of April. Pillars of the new communication strategy, PR Attack’s clients…
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Growth pace of car sales in China continues to slow down

July 13, 2010 | 12:51am CEToriginal
Sales in June rose the least since March 2009, by 19.4% versus 25.8% in May. Analysts' estimate for 2010...
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Production of new generation Fiat Panda to possibly begin in Italy in H2 2011

July 13, 2010 | 12:31am CEToriginal
Only 62% of worker from the Italian factory voted for the production shift from Poland, inter alia, due to restrictions of certain rights and benefits...
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Germany rejected request of Ford Motor on state aid

July 13, 2010 | 12:22am CEToriginal
After Opel it is another refusal in a short time to provide additional loan guarantees from the German government for the domestic carmaker. Reasons of the decision...
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Sales of new cars in Poland rose by 5.1% in June, fell by 6.3% in H1

July 13, 2010 | 12:16am CEToriginal
This is the second monthly increase in a row. Skoda remains the market leader, followed by Fiat, Volkswagen and Ford. Outlook for the Polish market...
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