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  Crash Test Results Display

  10 October 2005 / 22 comments

  If you’ve noticed, vehicle safety seems to be dominating the topic of my blog posts for a while now. Car manufacturers and consumers are becoming increasingly safety-conscious, taking into account crash test results when purchasing […]

  
  

   

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  Proton tops Dealer Attitude Survey

  9 October 2005 / 22 comments

  The National Franchised Dealers Association has published the results of the latest Dealer Attitude Survey and Proton topped the charts.

  
  

   

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  GM sells Subaru shares to Toyota

  6 October 2005 / 20 comments

  General Motors is selling it’s 20% stake in Fuji Heavy Industries at significant loss at about USD$ 735 million, compared to the USD$ 1.3 billion it paid in the year 2000.

  
  

   

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  Petrol up 87% in Indonesia

  2 October 2005 / 29 comments

  Indonesia raised it’s fuel prices almost 87 percent yesterday in efforts to revive it’s economy as oil subsidies took up more than 25% of Indonesia’s yearly budget. Naturally such a ridiculously high hike in such […]

  
  

   

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  Jiangling Landwind X6 gets zero in crash test

  30 September 2005 / 64 comments

  This is the Jiangling Motors Corporation’s Landwind X6 four wheel drive which was recently shown at the Shanghai Motor Show.

  
  

   

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  Porsche shares down

  28 September 2005 / 13 comments

  Porsche shares dropped more than 10% after it announced plans to raise stakes in Volkswagen AG to 20% from the 5% it holds currently. Looks like investors are not as confident of Porsche’s plan as […]

  
  

   

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  SEAT in hot soup?

  26 September 2005 / 23 comments

  Volkswagen is in crisis lately, hit by a strong Euro and weak sales. Some of it’s measures to counter this are plans to cut down it’s workforce by almost 10,000 German jobs, which could make […]

  
  

   

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  Porsche to buy 20% stake in Volkswagen AG

  25 September 2005 / 32 comments

  Der Spiegel has reported that Porsche is preparing to purchase 20 percent of Volkswagen AG shares to become the main shareholder in the company.

  
  

   

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  Visionary Vehicles to bring Chery to USA

  22 September 2005 / 23 comments

  I previously blogged about China Pirates, where Chinese automobile makers were ripping off Japanese and other automobile manufacturers blatantly. Inside China they are virtually invulnerable. They rip off without a second thought, with the worst […]

  
  

   

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  Proton doing well in South Africa

  21 September 2005 / 41 comments

  Proton seems to be doing well in South Africa. According to a report by Business Day, sales of Proton vehicles exceeded the Imperial Group’s optimistic forecasts after the launch of the marque in South Africa […]

  
  

   

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