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FROM THE DETROIT NEWS: Toyota Motor Corp. turned over to Congress today a 3 1/2 -year-old memo written by employees in Japan raising questions about the company’s safety record.
The Oct. 3, 2006, memo was requested by Rep. Ed Towns, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after it was first published by the Los Angeles Times.
“If senior Toyota officials ignored important safety concerns raised by their own employees, it calls into question Toyota’s corporate priorities and its commitment to safety,” Towns wrote Monday to Toyota’s North American chief Yoshimi Inaba, giving them a noon deadline today to turn over the memo. MORE»
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FROM BUSINESS WEEK: Fiat SpA, the Italian carmaker that helped Chrysler Group LLC emerge from bankruptcy, may wait to turn around the U.S. business before deciding on a share sale or spinoff for its automotive division.
The Italian company’s stock has risen 19 percent this month on speculation that Chief Executive Officer Sergio Marchionne may carve out Fiat’s biggest unit as a new company. Fiat executives have so far sent mixed signals about whether an initial public offering of the division will take place. MORE»
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 Mercedes GP team boss Ross Brawn displays his OBE. Photo AP FROM THE PRESS ASSOCIATION: Motor racing boss Ross Brawn vowed to fight “tooth and claw and nail” during the imminent Formula One championship as he was awarded an OBE by the Queen.
Brawn, 55, team principal of Mercedes GP is in final preparations for the start of the season that begins on Sunday with the Bahrain grand prix.
But he was at Buckingham Palace to receive the OBE for winning both the drivers’ and constructors’ titles last year with his team Brawn GP, and for his outstanding contribution to motor sports over a career spanning more than 30 years. MORE»
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 FROM REUTERS: Toyota said on Tuesday it would fix all Tundra pickups sold in the United States for the 2000 to 2003 model years to address a risk that part of the truck’s frame could corrode, causing spare tires or even the gas tank to drop to the road.
In November, Toyota Motor Corp had recalled 110,000 Tundras sold in 20 cold-weather states, saying exposure to heavy road salt could cause the corrosion. Toyota spokesman Brian Lyons was unable to say how many additional vehicles would be covered by the additional repairs. MORE»
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FROM REUTERS: German luxury carmaker Audi contributed the bulk of Volkswagen’s cash and earnings in 2009 and forecast better results this year as it launches a dozen new models, including the A1 subcompact.
Although BMW has yet to publish its accounts, it is almost certain that Audi surpassed its Bavarian rival, Daimler’s Mercedes-Benz and even future sibling Porsche as the most profitable premium carmaker in the world — underlining its importance to parent VW. MORE»
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FROM AUTOMOBILE MAG: Tradition holds that BMW vehicles are either rear- or all-wheel-drive, but that mantra seems to be shifting. Executives have confirmed that the company is developing a small car to slot underneath the 1-series, and it will be front-wheel-drive.
Rumors suggesting a baby Bimmer, riding upon the same platform as the next-generation Mini, have been floating for some time now, but chairman Norbert Reithofer told Autocar the company actually is working on such a model. MORE»
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 FROM FOX SPORTS: British motor racing legend Sir Stirling Moss was recovering in the hospital Monday after he was nearly killed falling down an elevator shaft at home.
Moss tumbled 30 feet and broke both his ankles, suffering four broken bones, gashes and four chipped vertebrae.
He underwent surgery to have pins and plates attached to his shattered bones after the fall from the third floor of his up-market pad in London’s Mayfair on Saturday. MORE»
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FROM DETROIT FREE PRESS: Chevrolet is GM’s best-selling brand, the engine that drives the automaker’s U.S. operations, with 1.3 million sales in 2009. Opel, too, is vital to GM.
It’s GM’s No. 1 brand in the important European market, with 1.2 million sales last year. That makes Opel GM’s second-biggest brand worldwide by a wide margin. It exceeded Buick, Cadillac and GMC’s combined U.S. sales by more than 2 1/2 -to-1 last year.
Opel is the yin to Chevy’s yang. The brands are vitally complementary as GM shapes its new global strategy. Neither is complete — or able to compete with global automakers like Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen — without the other. MORE»
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 Virgin Racing's new F1 car for the 2010 Formula One season FROM BBC NEWS: It used to cost up to $400m (£266m; 292m euros) to set up and run a F1 team – a financial fact, which has created almost an oligopoly of three or four teams at the front of the grid. MORE»
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 FROM THE DETROIT NEWS: Chrysler Group LLC will start production of the final run of 500 Dodge Vipers on March 29 and wind up the year with the launch of the tiny Fiat 500, leaked production schedule dates show.
Chrysler officials would not verify the dates that appeared on a third-party Web site devoted to Chrysler matters. But company and union officials confirmed some of the dates including the launch of the iconic sports car, the all-new Jeep Cherokee and a family of rear-drive sedans. MORE»
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