China's largest auto group in terms of sales, and the other with FAW Group Corp.
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The next-best long pick was mega car dealership United Auto Group, headed by racecar great Roger Penske.
The auto parts group is now 65% aftermarket, but Bossidy wants to see that percentage grow to 80%by the year 2000.
After its bankruptcy sale to Chinese auto supplier Wanxiang Group, battery-maker A123 Systems Inc. was required to change its name as part of its agreement.
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"The text of the Clean Air Act makes plain that Congress intended it as a measure to 'clean' the air of pollutants, not to alter the overall composition of the Earth's atmosphere, " argues the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, an auto industry lobbying group, in a brief.
But at the New York International Auto Show Wednesday, group chief Jonathan Browning said the primary reason for setting the goals was to alter the mindset in an organization that was underperforming in the region.
According to a New York Times report from findings from one consumer group, auto insurance rates were 68% lower for a married woman with a college degree, a professional job and who owned a home, when compared to a single woman, with a high-school diploma who rented her home in a moderate income area.
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He also likes Norwegian conglomerate Orkla Group and Brisa Auto-Estradas de Portugal, a toll-road operator.
Last month lithium-ion battery firm, A123 was sold to Wanxiang Group, an auto-parts conglomerate controlled by billionaire Lu Guanqiu.
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The largest single industrial use for platinum group metals is auto catalysts.
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People inside and outside the company seem gingerly accepting of Pacific Century, a venture of the city of Beijing's investment arm and a closely held Beijing auto parts company called Tempo Group.
Anand Mahindra, its boss, is now forming a group of small Indian auto-component manufacturers to challenge multinationals such as Delphi.
"What we are seeing now is demand shrinkage, " said Vishnu Mathur, director general at the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, an industry lobby group which announces monthly auto sales data.
Automakers exported more than 1.56 million U.S.-built vehicles to more than 200 countries in 2011, according to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, a trade group representing 12 major auto companies.
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Each time Rep. Michele Bachmann insinuates falsehoods into her arguments, as she did earlier this month on the "Today Show" by suggesting HPV vaccinations cause mental retardation, I think: A group of people on auto-pilot in Minnesota did this to us.
Platinum group metals, used for auto catalysts, also tumbled on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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It compared the 1, 100 clients who had taken out an auto lease in the past with a control group of 14, 000 other members.
The deal with Wanxiang Group, one of the largest auto components makers in China, is still preliminary and subject to numerous conditions, including approval by the Chinese government.
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Meanwhile, Chrysler Group's U.S. auto sales rose 20% in April as the auto maker saw particular strength in its namesake brand.
Mr Agnelli had adopted a strategy of nursing Fiat's core car business back to health, but the group remains under pressure to put the auto unit up for sale.
Looking toward the other side of the world, Winmill said he is not concerned about lost auto production out of Japan and the impact on platinum group metal usage.
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The Democrats' announcement essentially hijacked a press conference 30 minutes later, held by a bipartisan group of senators from states with a heavy auto presence of U.S. auto manufacturing facilities.
For instance, the email program lacks the ability to create local folders or rules for auto-sorting messages, and it doesn't allow group addressing.
With us now is Jeb Conrad, head of the Greater Kokomo Economic Development Alliance, Chris Rohaly, founding partner of Green Alternatives, but he's also holding down a job in the auto industry, and Kirk Daniels, owner of Freedom Financial Group, a local investment firm.
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Regarding the platinum metals group, the occasional sparks of positive news from the auto industry is underpinning those prices.
Last month, Chrysler Group LLC unveiled its 2014 Jeep Cherokee at the New York Auto Show that goes on sale late this year.
DaimlerChrysler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche , under enormous pressure in Germany to spin off the money-losing Chrysler Group, says all options for the U.S. auto making arm are now on the table.
Lu Guanqiu chairs the Hangzhou-based Wanxiang Group, a conglomerate with interests in real estate, finance and auto parts manufacturing.
An early flagship of the Tata Group conglomerate, it now shares a place alongside bigger steel, auto and outsourcing companies.
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