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According to Global 200: The World’s Best Corporate Reputations List, compiled by US-based Reputation Institute, India automaker , Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) has earned the status of being the fourth most reputed auto company in the world … Export figures of 2008-09 are a testimony to India’s growing status as big trade mart for the automobile industry . As per the data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, the passenger car sales in the overseas …

In the firm’s annual ” Car Wars” report, it pointed out that the Toyota rate of new-model replacement had fallen behind the industry’s average in North America. Because of that, the report said, Toyota could only be expected to gain a …. instead that the automaker that was synonymous with quality for nearly three decades will be spending more time convincing consumers in the U.S. that it isn’t actually a part of the American auto industry that ran off the road in 2009. …

The gains obtained by every major automaker except for Ford has helped in lifting the total US industry sales by 5 percent to as high as 1.56 million comprising of cars and light trucks according to the data compiled by Bloomberg. … Toyota for its part was able to sell 269023 cars and light trucks last May, a record that month fired up by a tripling of sales for the Prius gasoline-electric hybrid car . The Prius was able to sell 20000 units in a single month for the …

Automakers expressed their dissent to the idea of comparing them to tobacco executives. They noted that the auto industry has spent billions to improve the fuel efficiency of vehicles and does not oppose achievable increases. … “Faced with evidence that the globe is warming, is the current method of regulating the fuel economy of vehicles the most effective way to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, from cars and trucks ?” he further shares. …

This is the reason why industry observers predict that by 2010-2012 Swedish flex-fuel and other ‘green’ car sales could nearly quadruple. Automakers are now going “green” and they will be greener in the near future. … Green car owners are also given privileges to enjoy. As a fact, Swedes pay no parking or congestion charges to drive flex-fuel, biogas, hybrid or small cars emitting less than 120 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer. Swedes also get a significant tax …

This could also force the automaker to produce smaller and lighter cars or make hybrid counterparts of the production models. Eventually, GM is expected to drop some of its inefficient market segments and models. … They said it is “very aggressive” and noted that it is twice the increase that the president has implemented last March, when the administration reformed and increased corporate average fuel economy rules for light trucks , which includes SUVs. …

But late in 2008, the United Auto Workers union gave up a provision known as the jobs bank, in which automakers had to pay laid-off workers even if their plants were closed. Now, workers have to take jobs at other … Ford is also cautious about weaker demand for cars and trucks at home. It cut its forecast for total U.S. sales to between 11.5 million and 12 million on Friday. Earlier, it had predicted sales of up to 12.5 million. Ford also held its third-quarter …

Tom G. says: July 26, 2010 at 11:26 am. According to EcoMotors: “At EcoMotors International…”One of our goals is to demonstrate, in 2010, the automobile industry’s first 5-passenger car capable of 100 mpg on the EPA highway cycle.” … Such vehicles offer the potential of becoming world cars with scale beyond anything the automotive world has thus far witnessed. Sure that’s not as simple as the big profit margins automakers have gotten used to from trucks and SUVs, …

Honda, as well as Toyota and Volkswagen, is gearing up to build hybrids and all-electric cars , such as this 2011 CR-Z Hybrid sports coupe, whether anyone is going to buy them or not. Text Size Choose text size … In less than two years’ time, North American automakers will have to conform to a corporate fuel economy fleet average of 7.06 L/100 km (33.3 mpg) for cars , and 9.26 L (25.4 mpg) for trucks for its 2012 models. But the real challenge comes in 2016. …

USA Today explains that the move is shocking because hybrids “cost automakers a lot more to manufacture than conventional gas engines. Hybrid vehicles almost always sell for thousands more than their mundane everyday counterparts. … Latest Auto News: Breaking car news about the cars and trucks you drive; Green Driving: Hybrids, Electrics, Hydrogen Cars , and other news about efforts to green-up the industry that brought you smog; Car Culture: Oddities, trivia and pop …