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Amid US trade tensionss President Trump continues to mull tariffs on car imports, China may be the answer for Japanese carmaker
...“The court would not want to be seen as making changes due to international pressure,” said Hideaki Kawasaki, professor at Kwansei Gakuin University Law School....
...But The stock has fallen 15 per cent from its high in late October after merger talks between Sprint and rival T-Mobile USA broke down at the eleventh hour last year, leading to concerns about the standalone...
...with the motor....
...The bullet train stoppage marked the culmination of months of public admissions by some of Japan’s greatest names — including Nissan Motor, Subaru, Toray Industries, Kobe Steel and Mitsubishi Materials —...
...General Motors said in January that it would invest at least $1bn in US factories, and create or retain about 7,000 jobs....
...Industry heavyweights included General Motors chief executive Mary Barra....
...match sailing at this level has become a high-tech enterprise as teams with budgets of around £100m battle for engineering advantage by applying techniques developed in areas like aviation and Formula One motor...
...Such worries have also plagued subprime motor lender Santander Consumer. The listed lenders all make the same noises about high underwriting standards and avoiding the worst credit risks....
...“With SoftBank’s $100bn technology vision fund, most of that would have been invested in the USA anyway,” Jefferies analyst Atul Goyal said in a note to clients....
...Kia Motors relies on the US for 39 per cent of its sales and has a 31 per cent correlation....
...Sterling’s slide wrecks GM hopes of European profits General Motors predicted this week that it will miss its goal of returning to profit in Europe for another year, because of the impact on sterling of...
...The move quickly spurred market speculation that Mr Son would revive talks for a merger between SoftBank-owned Sprint and rival T-Mobile USA....
...Mitsubishi Motors has seen daily vehicle orders in Japan halve since the carmaker admitted last week that it had exaggerated fuel economy data, underscoring the sales damage from a scandal that its president...
...Much of the wing and fuselage of the Boeing 777 and 787 is manufactured at a cluster of plants on Nagoya Bay, belonging to Mitsubishi, Kawasaki and Fuji Heavy Industries....
...Hagens Berman, a Seattle-based law firm known for its class action lawsuits against Toyota, General Motors and Volkswagen, brought a suit in New Jersey which claims that Mercedes models powered by BlueTEC...
Mazda and Honda could not meet performance standards
Greater efforts are needed to force meaningful changes in the carbon footprint of car use
...But a shift towards digital, connected and autonomous technology in the auto business is forcing companies to think beyond motor shows, print space and TV ads....
...Facebook has signed up brands including Priceline, BMW’s Mini USA and Nestlé’s Butterfinger, promising that “priming” viewers online before showing them TV commercials would make them more likely to buy...
...The strategy was a critical part of VW’s efforts to overtake Japan’s Toyota and General Motors of the US to become the world’s biggest carmaker by sales....
Shares in sector slide as Germany calls for probe into whether ‘defeat devices’ used on other brands
...General Motors on Wednesday announced plans to lay off 2,000 workers at two US plants, blaming fluctuating consumer demand....
...Barney Ales, source for much of Motown: The Sound of Young America, was one of the company’s corps of white employees....
...He also said that, unlike rivals including General Motors’ Opel unit and the Renault-Nissan alliance, Toyota had had no stoppages at its St Petersburg plant....
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