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The departing executive and chief “car guy” moved design to the forefront at the struggling automaker, says David Welch

* Industry to rely mostly on engine improvements until 2015

* Industry to rely mostly on engine improvements until 2015

According to the Canadian new-car sales numbers for January, industry analyst Dennis DesRosiers has noticed a few trends.

Investigations into whatever is lurking behind Toyota’s crisis of quality have put a spotlight on all that can go wrong with auto electronics — the growing number of wires, sensors and computer chips that have profoundly changed the automobile in the last decade.

General Motors has slashed $10.7 billion from annual costs, money that it plans to use to improve marketing and cars, while boosting its chances for a 2010 profit

Last year was a tough one for automakers, with a crippling recession resulting in tanking sales. But as carmakers recover, along with other segments of the economy, they’re embracing green vehicles as the future of the flailing industry.

The commercial exchanges between Greece and Romania were estimated at EUR 1.2 bln last year, down 20 per cent over 2008, on the background of the economic and financial crisis, and this year the value could remain the same or grow slightly, the president of the Hellenic-Romanian Chamber of Trade and Industry (HRCCI), Konstantinos Tsoukalidis (photo), declared yesterday in a press conference …

Toyota Aygo to her local dealer after a terrifying drive between Folkestone and Canterbury, she told mechanics: “It was a good job my brakes worked. Otherwise I would be dead.” They laughed, she recal…

The world’s media engines are in high gear as they go after Toyota over the current spate of accelerator and braking issues. That’s to be…