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BY KEITH NUTHALL

BRITISH dealers of Vauxhall and Opel cars can draw comfort from a European Commission pledge to prevent the planned Magna International and Sberbank takeover of Opel/Vauxhall being framed to close UK plants ahead of those in Germany. Speaking to the European Parliament, European Union (EU) competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said that the German government’s offer of Euro 4.5 billion to the planned New Opel company owned by Magna/Sberbank must not have strings.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) has announced it is lending Euro 100 million to Volkswagen India Private Ltd, a subsidiary of Germany’s Volkswagen Group, to part-finance expansion of its new car manufacturing facility in the western India state of Maharashtra.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MATERIALS recycling companies can tap a major Euro 3.2 billion programme of European Union (EU) environmental research spending that was been launched last week (13-7).

At a ceremony in Brussels involving more than 800 senior researchers and industrialists, the European Commission unveiled three private-public partnerships funding R&D projects across Europe.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A DEAL has been struck by MEPs and European Union (EU) ministers imposing mandatory tyre labelling across the EU, promoting fuel-efficient, wet gripping and low noise tyres. It will force the public classification and labelling of tyres from a top-ranking green ‘A’ class to the worst red ‘G’ class.…

BY SHABTAI GOLD

THE CREW over at Top Gear, the BBC petrol-lovers show, recently declared that the Switzerland part of the Alpine mountain range has some of the best roads in the world for driving. But they were in top sports cars, costing a fortune and hardly designed for bringing farmers’ produce to the supermarkets.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ENVIRONMENTAL report has shown which Europe-based auto-manufacturers must make the most extensive changes to their models and ranges to comply with oncoming 2015 European Union (EU) CO2 emissions standards. Europe’s Transport and Environment (T&E) group has released statistics showing Mazda faces a significant investment bill – maybe forcing up prices: it needs to improve its the emissions of its models by 21% to reach the 2015 mandatory target of an 130 g/km average for all cars made by a manufacturer in Europe.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

TOYOTA Motor Corp is to release an ultra-efficient and reasonably priced hybrid car worldwide in 2011, with the British market a top target for sales.

The compact hybrid will have a fuel-efficiency of 40 kilometres per litre – making it the best-performing mass-produced hybrid in the world – with a price tag of Yen 1.5 million (GBPounds 9,622) in Japan.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA and KARRYN MILLER

AUTOMOBILE executives in South Korea and India are busy analysing the detail of a freshly inked Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) between the South Korean and Indian governments. The initial impact remains unclear but it is likely that early beneficiaries will be South Korean-owned auto plants in India who will be able to import some key parts more cheaply, because of some handy duty cuts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THERE is much work required by the United States government and the European Union (EU) to disarm trade barriers impeding EU auto exports, a new European Commission report has claimed.

The EU executive highlights three particular grumbles with existing US legislation, it claims gives American (and Canadian) automakers unfair advantages over European rivals.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London; RUSSELL BERMAN, in Washington DC; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; BY WANG FANGQING, in Shanghai; EMMA JACKSON, in Ottawa; KARRYN MILLER; and KEITH NUTHALL

THE AUTOMOBILE sector maybe one of the most globally integrated manufacturing industries on the planet, but national governments (or continental bodies in Europe) still hold sway regarding regulation.…