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Germany agrees CO2 car deal with EU partners-sources guardian.co.uk, UK - The target will be 65 percent of all cars from 2012, 75 percent from 2013 and 80 percent from 2014. The sources said the agreement was reached ahead of a ... |
![]() StarPhoenix | US senators 'agree' car bail-out BBC News, UK - Four US senators have reached a bipartisan agreement on a deal to help the struggling US car industry. No details have been given, but the reported deal ... Car industry bail-out vote delayed Stocks Plunge Over Car Firm Fears Car makers in trouble: will a big name go under? |
![]() Telegraph.co.uk | Blow for US car industry Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - The American car industry was dealt another body-blow last night after it emerged that US politicians were unable to agree on whether to advance a $25bn ... Video: Senate Cancels Vote on Doomed Auto Bailout Compromise in US car bail-out bid Car bosses told: Could you not have jet-pooled |
MSN Money UK | Banking baddies get help but Europe's car industry is left to languish guardian.co.uk, UK - The Opel car manufacturing plant in Eisenach, Germany. Photograph: Jens-Ulrich Koch/AFP/Getty Images Bankers are now the most hated professionals, ... The car industry Pass the plate Car firms can't be bailed out like banks: EU's Kroes EU Considers Aid for Auto Makers |
New York Times | Serbia bids farewell to Yugo car Reuters - The Yugo car dates back to 1978, and, since mass production started in 1980, nearly 800000 Yugo vehicles have rolled out of the Zastava plant, ... Yugo production grinds to a halt End Of An Era As Last Yugo Car Rolls Off Production Line EMERGING MARKETS ANALYSIS: Arrivederci Zastava – Fiat wastes no ... |
![]() Canada.com | Los Angeles Auto Show: driving the electric MINI Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - The driveline is similar but not identical to that of the Lotus Elise-based Tesla battery-electric sports car. There are 106 automotive-specific lithium-ion ... Automakers detail electric car plans at LA show LA Auto Show starts under cloud of industry crisis Carmakers charge ahead with electrics |
Sky News | Satchel saves girl hit by car The Sun, UK - LUCKY Ayse Kinsman holds up the schoolbag that saved her life — it took the full impact when she was hit by a car. The satchel was hanging over her hip as a ... Schoolgirl saved by satchel after being hit by car CAR CRASH GIRL SAVED BY THREE PACKETS OF CRISPS Bag Saves Girl's Life |
![]() Vancouver Sun | VW Jetta TDI named 'Green Car of the Year' International Herald Tribune, France - AP LOS ANGELES: Green Car Journal has named Volkswagen's 2009 Jetta TDI as the "Green Car of the Year," making it the first clean-diesel car to win the ... Volkswagen's Jetta TDI Named 2009 Green Car of the Year(R) Volkswagen diesel car wins "Green Car of the Year" Bosch Powers Volkswagen Jetta TDI Clean Diesel - 2009 Green Car of ... |
![]() Daily Mail | Drunk-drive grandmother banned after wedging her car on a flight ... Daily Mail, UK - By Daily Mail Reporter A grandmother who wedged her car on steps while trying to drive out of a school yard has been banned from driving. ... Boozy gran drove car up stone steps |
![]() BBC News | Peugeot to cut more jobs as car crisis continues Independent, UK - By Caroline Jacobs, Reuters PSA Peugeot-Citroen, Europe's second-biggest carmaker, announced a fresh wave of job cuts today as a decline in European car ... UPDATE 1-Peugeot to cut jobs, sees 2009 car sales drop France slashes auto jobs as crisis hits manufacturing Peugeot Citroen cuts 2700 jobs |