German car dealers worried about declining return on the service

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Following the expiry of the scrapping of Germany are car dealers and repair shops before ONCE difficult year. Source: Reuters
DUSSELDORF. The paragraph on the German market will decline, according to President Robert Rademacher, ZDK from 3.8 million to 2.7 until 2,8 million cars. It would be an increase of approximately ten percent below the long-term [...]

Opel presents a long awaited plan for the future

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

FRANKFURT (Dow Jones) – The struggling car manufacturer Opel has presented its long-awaited plan for the future. Save the one hand, the rigorous and massive investment in new products and markets of the other group wants the tradition back to winning ways. (Photo: ddp)

To survive, the volume manufacturers, especially for difficult market conditions in [...]

UPDATE: Opel plans to invest in the next few years, EUR 11 billion

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

By Nico Schmidt
DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

FRANKFURT (Dow Jones) – The struggling automaker Opel will heavily in new products and markets to invest. Within five years is to be renewed, the vehicle range of 11 billion EUR, as Nick Reilly, the new CEO of the Rüsselsheim Traditional company, on Tuesday at the launch of [...]

Toyota Prius return calls possible worldwide

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Toyota Prius is possible to model global recall because of problems with the brakes. That says that the news agency Reuters quoted sources in Japan.
Toyota will not comment on the message, but says it will clear very quickly what happened to the Prius is about to happen. The expectation is that Toyota [...]

Toyota struggling with the pedal debacle

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Apparently there are also problems with European Toyota models. Source: Reuters
HB BERLIN. The Japanese car maker Toyota in Germany also gets problems with his new Prius. It had received customer complaints about the brakes of the latest hybrid vehicle model, told the Frankfurter Rundschau on Saturday. This was confirmed by Toyota Germany. Also, some drivers [...]