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Bentley Continental GT
Automotive
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Bentley Continental GT To Summit Pikes Peak

Bentley Motors is all set to return to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with the Continental GT. Well, of course, it’s going there with a purpose, as the company aims to capture the production car record with the car. Joining forces with Bentley is…

Renault Kwid
Automotive
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Renault Kwid To Cost More From April Onwards

Renault announced a price increase on the Kwid range by upto 3 per cent. The revised prices will be effective April 2019. The company has said that the price increase is on the account of rising input costs. The rest of the range remains unaffected as far the…

porche
Automotive
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Porsche to hike Taycan output

Porsche AG will increase production of the Taycan after more than 20,000 potential buyers registered to purchase the brand’s first electric car, matching the entire annual output initially earmarked for the four-door sedan. “The overwhelming interest in the…

Karma
Automotive
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Karma queues up 3 vehicles for Shanghai auto show

Karma Automotive is prepping three vehicles — a concept car developed with Italian design house Pininfarina, the next-generation Revero electric car and the Karma Vision concept – that it hopes will propel the brand in a new direction. They will debut next…

hyundai
Automotive
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Hyundai Korea’s employees to be more casual at office

Jeans and T-shirts will be allowed at Hyundai Motor offices from March 4 as the auto group’s heir apparent Chung Eui-sun looks for new ways to give the automaker a younger, trendier feel. On Monday morning, Hyundai Motor employees at its headquarters in…

hyundai factory
Automotive
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Hyundai Motor raided as defect cover-up investigated

Prosecutors raided the main office of Hyundai Motor and its smaller affiliate Kia Motors on Wednesday as part of a probe into allegations that the company tried to conceal defects in some of its vehicle lineups. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office…

rolls royce
Automotive
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Rolls-Royce agrees to follow Korea’s lemon law

Rolls-Royce announced Wednesday it will follow Korea’s voluntary lemon law for automakers, making it the first foreign luxury brand to accept the newly introduced regulation. Korea’s revised automobile management law, enacted last month, forces complying…

vinfast lux
Automotive
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VinFast to test its first car for safety in Europe next month

VinFast, Vietnam’s first indigenous car manufacturer, plans to test its first vehicle for safety parameters in Europe on March 6. According to company executives, the vehicle will be tested for international standards to ensure its highest safety. This…

KFit
Food
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Hyundai may promote its Nexo with bottled water

Hyundai Motor is considering releasing a range of bottled water inspired by its hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle Nexo, the company confirmed Monday. The automaker is hoping to use the Nexo-branded water to market its Nexo sport-utility vehicle (SUV) as pure and…

hyundai factory
Automotive
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Hyundai to focus on customization

The chief of Hyundai Motor’s financial affiliates outlined the units’ digital strategy and future vision at IBM’s largest annual conference that ran through Friday in San Francisco. Chung Tae-yong, who heads Hyundai Card, Hyundai Capital and Hyundai…

Electric Car recharging
Automotive
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2018 sales of EV doubled in Korea

Hyundai Motor Executive Vice Chairman Chung Eui-sun laid out a plan to develop 44 electric vehicle models (EVs) and sell 1.67 million of the cars by 2025 during his New Year’s message held at the beginning of this year. The goal was a dramatic increase on the…

honda factory
Automotive
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U.S. agency submits auto tariff probe report to White House

The U.S. Commerce Department sent a report on Sunday to U.S. President Donald Trump that could unleash steep tariffs on imported cars and auto parts, provoking a sharp backlash from the industry even before it is unveiled, the agency confirmed. Late on…

hyundai factory
Automotive
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Renault Korea still at odds with union

Renault Samsung Motors and its labor union once again failed to reach a consensus on 2018 wages after negotiations fell through for a 14th time on Tuesday. Renault Samsung is the only domestic automaker that has still not clinched a wage deal for last year. A…

thaco car factory
Automotive
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Vietnamese car maker plans private share issue

Truong Hai Auto Corporation (THACO) is planning to issue more than 30.3 million shares to a strategic shareholder. The company is currently collecting shareholders’ opinions on a draft resolution to authorize a private placement worth an estimated total of…

mercedes benz
Automotive
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Mercedes back in No. 4 spot on E-class sales in Korea

Mercedes-Benz outsold local carmakers in Korea to finish fourth in domestic sales in January, industry data showed Monday. The Korean unit of the German automaker sold 5,796 vehicles last month, equal to 4 percent of the total 114,632 vehicles. The sum places…

hyundai factory
Automotive
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Korea automobile production falls for 3rd year in 2018

Korea’s auto production tumbled for a third consecutive year in 2018 amid weaker domestic and global demand, data showed Sunday. According to the data by the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA), Korea produced 4.03 million vehicles last year,…