OCTOBER 12, 2016

Valeo Chases Brass Ring of Future Mobility

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The company has spent the past few years aggressively stretching its product portfolio into the most desirable, revenue-rich segments of electrification, connectivity and autonomous driving technology.

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Mobility's Impact on Car Sales? BMW Shows Vision for Future Motorcycle, A Look at Toyota's New Plug-In

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Tesla? Nissan? Credit Policymakers for New EV Boom

Score a big assist to Volkswagen. Its emissions-cheating scandal may have put the fork in diesel engines and helped speed up the march to battery-electrics.

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Toyota: HQ, Scion Transitions Going Well

Toyota expects to have about 1,000 employees in temporary office space in Texas by the end of this year.

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Japanese Suppliers’ Outlook Dims

Since January, the Japanese currency rose nearly 20% against the U.S. dollar, cutting into profit margins on exports to North America, still one of the largest markets for cars built in Japan.

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Ford Canada May Face Union Pushback Over 2-Tier Wage

There are signs union members at Ford – where more than 40% of the workers are new hires paid lower, second-tier wages – will make an issue of the 10-year grow-in period contained in the pattern agreement Unifor has signed with GM and FCA.

U.K. Report: Mustang Depreciation Lowest in Class

Cap Hpi, an industry residual-values analyst, claims the muscle car holds on to 99.5% of its new-ticket price within a 1-year threshold.

GM Buys Into China Car-Sharing, Invests in App Specialist

The automaker, which already operates the Detroit-based Maven car-sharing service, isn't saying how much it is investing in the company that developed Feezu, a Chinese car-rental and -sharing app.

Nissan to Unleash High-Powered Nismo in Australia

The ʾ17 Nissan GT-R Nismo features a version of the VR38DETT engine making 591 hp and 481 lb-ft. of torque, and uses the same pair of high-flow, large-diameter turbochargers as the GT-R Nismo GT3 race car.

Hyundai, Union Reach Tentative Settlement on Wages

The agreement, if it clears a second ratification vote by almost 50,000 union members, would end strikes held since July 19 that have cut Hyundai production by 131,851 vehicles worth more than 2.9 trillion won.

French State Fund Vows to Retain PSA Stake for Long Term

Martin Vial, who heads the government's APE investment fund, says the agency does not wish to "destabilize" the structure of a shareholder base that includes the Peugeot family and Chinese automaker Dongfeng.

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