A cost cutter takes over VW brand
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FRANKFURT Volkswagen, plucking a fallen star from a rival carmaker, announced Wednesday that Wolfgang Bernhard, a former DaimlerChrysler executive known for his cost-cutting skills and new-product flair, would take over its ailing flagship car brand.
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Rolls-Royce, the luxury motor company owned by German car maker BMW, is planning to launch a series of Rolls-Royce cars which will be cheaper and smaller than the flagship Phantom model.
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German car giant Volkswagen complained that cut-throat competition, high oil prices and the weak dollar had nearly halved its earnings so far this year.
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Volkswagen  posted a nearly 50 percent gain in nine-month operating profit thanks to resurgent earnings at its core VW brand after the world's fourth largest carmaker cut thousands of job cuts last year.
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Dieter Zetsche's DaimlerChrysler opens the door to divestiture.
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FRANKFURT Germany, with its high costs, reluctant consumers and restive auto workers, has become a major drag on the country&#39;s two largest car manufacturers, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen, both of which reported mixed earnings on Thursday.
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BERLIN Volkswagen says its full-year net profit fell 31 percent in 2004. The German automaker fought headwinds from the weak dollar and sluggish consumer spending in Germany.
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With its key product line in deep trouble, the carmaker has been forced take some dramatic action to salvage its turnaround plan
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Facing continued top-line weakness, the company may have to cut costs.
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Top automaker reports biggest annual loss in car-making history.
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From a $1.4 million Italian sports car to a turbocharged $400,000 Mercedes, these top-of-the-line wheels deliver performance and prestige.
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Volkswagen is moving its North American headquarters out of the Detroit area - the nation's automotive capital - to the suburbs of the nation's capital and will cut 400 jobs in the process, the German automaker said yesterday.
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DaimlerChrysler's DCXGn.DE Chrysler   Group has decided against a cooperation deal with German car   maker Volkswagen VOWG.DE to produce a new sub-compact car, a   German magazine said on Saturday.
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Labour conflict looks set to boil over in the German automobile sector in the coming weeks as car makers such as Volkswagen and Opel seek to impose rigorous belt-tightening measures as an answer to chronically weak demand.
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LONDON, November 2  - The German automotive giant, Volkswagen AG (VOW.ETR), continued its negotiations with the labour union today on its planned labour cost reductions.
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The German car maker - losing market share fast in recent months - hits back with models to enable it to compete in new markets.
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The world premiere of the Mercedes Sports Tourer models is the latest step in a lengthy process that has transformed the German car maker from a producer of selective luxury models, to one which competes in all market segments.