Hyundai To Restart Plant April 14

Hyundai To Restart Plant April 14

Hyundai Motor, Czech plant plans to restart on April 14 after a three-week production outage as part of efforts to fight the coronavirus, becoming the first of the three major carmakers in the central European country to resume work. The...
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Automakers Resort To Online Sales, Marketing

Automakers Resort To Online Sales, Marketing

Automakers and dealers across the World are adopting online marketing and sales as part of measures to remain in business.  Indeed, automobile companies such as  Hyundai Motor India, MG Motor and Mercedes-Benz are turning to online portals to boost s...
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Hyundai to establish Mobility Global Innovation Centre in Singapore

Hyundai to establish Mobility Global Innovation Centre in Singapore

Foremost South Korean auto firm, Hyundai is to establish Mobility Global Innovation Centre (HMGIC) in Singapore with support from Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB).  The lab is focussing on exploring ideas to revolutionize R&D process, busine...
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Kia Motors Delivers 8,583 Units In March

Kia Motors Delivers 8,583 Units In March

For the month of March 2020, Kia Motors India on Wednesday announced that the company  sold 8,583 units.  Last month, the company sold 7,466 units of e Seltos and 1,117 units of Carnival MPV, the company said in a statement....
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Toyota Seeks $9b Credit Line From Two Banks

Toyota Seeks $9b Credit Line From Two Banks

Toyota Motor Corp. is seeking a 1 trillion yen ($9 billion) line of credit from Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. and MUFG Bank Ltd as the Coronavirus pandemic is intensifying across the world. Agency reports indicates that  although Japan’s biggest automak...
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Volkswagen: Car Market To Recover In Summer

Volkswagen: Car Market To Recover In Summer

Volkswagen expects the car market in Germany to recover in the summer after the auto maker was forced to suspend output due to the coronavirus pandemic.. “We assume that Germany will return to normal in the summer,” Juergen Stackmann, management...
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Kia Appoints New President

Kia Appoints New President

The South Korean carmaker, Kia Motors Corporation on Friday appointed Ho-sung Song as the President of the organisation. Song who was earlier heading Global Operations Division will now spearhead the advancement of ‘Plan S’, the company’s mid- to long-te...
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Suzuki Halts Operations

Suzuki Halts Operations

India’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki has shut down all its operations including production in Gurugram and Manesar until further notice.  In a statement, the company explained that R&D Centre at Rohtak will also remain closed, adding that prod...
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EU Auto Industry Faces Crisis

EU Auto Industry Faces Crisis

The effect of the coronavirus on society and the global economy is unprecedented, with grave consequences for the automobile industry. Indeed, most of the members of the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) have already announced temporary c...
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Japanese Automakers Close More Plants In Europe

Japanese Automakers Close More Plants In Europe

Japanese automakers to temporarily close more vehicle plants in Europe and Asia as the spread of the coronavirus prompts countries to instruct non-essential businesses to suspend operations. A growing number of global automakers have been shuttering plants in ...
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Stallion Motors – Hyundai To Unveil Nigeria’s first Electrical Car

Stallion Motors – Hyundai To Unveil Nigeria’s first Electrical Car

By Moses Ebosele, ebosele@hotmail.com — Nigeria is set to join the rest of the World in embracing electric cars before the end of 2020 courtesy Stallion Motors, Nigeria’s leading auto assembler and franchisee of nine Global brands includ...
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Hyundai Receives 14,000 Bookings For New Creta SUV

Hyundai Receives 14,000 Bookings For New Creta SUV

Hyundai Motor has unveiled the new Creta SUV for the India market. The automaker disclosed on Monay that it has received more than 14,000 bookings for the new Creta in less than 15 days.  According to Hyundai, 50 percent of the bookings...
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BMW Declares $115.4b In 2019

BMW Declares $115.4b In 2019

BMW on Thursday reported a 29-percent drop in profits in 2019, blaming heavy legal costs and high investments in a challenging economic environment. Despite record revenues of 104 billion euros ($115.4 billion), driven by strong sales of its highest-end models...
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Dana Motors Displays  Made-In-Nigeria Kia, DFM Models In Abuja

Dana Motors Displays Made-In-Nigeria Kia, DFM Models In Abuja

Dana Motors, a leading auto company in Nigeria participated in the recently held media parade organized by the National Automotive Design and Development Council [NADDC] in Abuja.  A prelude to the eventful Argungu Motor rally, the all-new 2020 Kia and...
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