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...Employees have started publicly campaigning to join the UAW at two plants in Alabama owned by Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai....
...In other green technology news, carmaker Jaguar Land Rover is to spend £15bn over five years to build a suite of seven electronic models in an effort to catch up with larger rivals BMW and Mercedes-Benz...
...Mercedes-Benz posted a record €14bn in profits last year — albeit mostly from selling combustion engine cars — and its share price has hardly moved....
...Mercedes-Benz, which separately owns a 15 per cent share in Kamaz, said it was looking at divesting the stake....
...But an investment in HWA, a German company that developed Mercedes-Benz cars for the DTM racing series, was just one interest that hinted at a future return to motorsport....
...Automotive companies — even premium marques such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz-owner Daimler — measure their sales in millions. JLR last year sold just 500,000 cars....
...South Korea’s second-largest imported car brand after Mercedes-Benz, BMW previously captured about a quarter of the vehicles imported to the country, by number of units....
...Since then, it has awarded licences to companies including Citymapper, the London-based app, and ViaVan, a joint venture between New York-based Via and Mercedes-Benz....
...BMW is South Korea’s second-largest imported car brand after Mercedes-Benz, accounting for about a quarter of the imported car segment....
...Mr Schot, who joined the VW Group from Mercedes-Benz Italia in 2011, was appointed an Audi board member last September....
...But the company is also expanding internationally, and last year bought a 22 per cent stake in Finland’s Valmet Automotive, which has manufactured cars for Saab, Opel, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz....
...(FT, NYT) Mercedes-Benz apologises to China German carmaker Daimler, owner of Mercedes-Benz, is the latest big western company to apologise for offending people in China after it quoted the Dalai Lama in...
...Daimler on Sunday said it sold 2.08m Mercedes-Benz cars in 2016....
...Mercedes-Benz started the year well with an 18.3 per cent increase in vehicle deliveries in January....
...The owner of Mercedes-Benz will announce a deal to partner with the service as early as Tuesday, according to people briefed on the matter, write Peter Campbell in London and James Fontanella-Khan in New...
...The VW scandal sparked global investigations that also raised questions over the emissions of diesel cars by rival brands including Renault, Opel, Fiat and Mercedes-Benz, and pushed the harmful effects of...
...The Mercedes-Benz owner, which bought MyTaxi in 2014, will own about 60 per cent of Hailo and have a controlling number of board seats following the deal....
...Finally on Friday the German authorities announced that VW, Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz division and General Motors’ Opel unit were recalling 630,000 vehicles across Europe because of concerns about excessive...
...South Korea is becoming an important market for Europe’s luxury carmakers, as the country’s rich seek to stand out from the crowd by buying imported vehicles from marques such as Audi, Mercedes-Benz and...
...The mass-market carmakers’ plight was exacerbated by premium marques such as BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz, selling more affordable models....
...Outside his office window is a large sign for a Mercedes-Benz dealership and he gestures at it as he talks of his plans for Volvo to challenge Audi, Benz and BMW....
...The alleged bribes included a Mercedes-Benz and six-figure cash payments....
...It added it would expand the investigation into 15 other carmakers including Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors of South Korea, and European brands BMW and Mercedes-Benz....
...The US regulator that exposed the VW cheating has now extended its investigation to vehicles made by companies including Chrysler, General Motors, Land Rover and Mercedes-Benz, which have denied installing...
...The scandal, the worst in VW’s history, has tarnished Germany’s reputation for quality in manufacturing and left many wondering whether the German authorities’ closeness to VW, Mercedes-Benz and BMW blinded...
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