While that collaboration is long over, the image of a rugged-vehicle maker has endured.
The volumes would bring some relief to its parent, India's biggest vehicle maker Tata Motors Ltd.
The numbers have triggered claims from GM's rival Volkswagen that it was in fact the world's biggest vehicle maker.
Hero Honda, the world's largest two-wheel-vehicle maker, estimates that 30 million to 40 million people join India's middle class annually.
For decades Tata Motors has been India's largest commercial vehicle maker--the Tata logo appears on buses, dump trucks, ambulances and cement mixers.
Toyota reclaimed its title as the world's top vehicle maker in January, after Japanese production was hit by natural disasters in 2011.
The decision on whether or not to include sales figures from these partners or subsidiaries would depend on how involved the vehicle maker was in their operations.
Among individual stocks, Japanese vehicle maker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. jumped more than 16 percent after raising its group net profit forecast for the year ending March 2013, Kyodo News reported.
BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle maker backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, plans to locate the U.S. headquarters of three separate operating divisions in Los Angeles, according to an announcement on the Web site of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC).
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Shares of the electric vehicle battery maker A123 Systems are trading lower after the company this morning reduced its full year guidance.
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One such firm, Joyce-Loebl, a defence and vehicle instrument-maker, has spun off 45 new firms in half a century.
Geely said earlier this year it planned to enter the electric vehicle business with Kandi Technologies Group, a Chinese maker of small vehicles including go-karts.
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The US government will drop an investigation into the Ford Explorer requested by tyre maker Firestone over a series of fatal accidents involving the vehicle.
Chief Executive Dan Akerson said the auto maker was mulling a contingency plan to move workers and possibly vehicle production from South Korea if tensions there continue to escalate.
GM's international chief, Tim Lee, said the auto maker isn't ignoring the slowdown but it has no plans to delay vehicle projects, seeing new models as helping to battle back.
KARLSBAD, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harman, the global market leader in high-end Infotainment and Audio Systems, is working together with Nokia, the pioneer in mobile telecommunications and the world's leading maker of mobile devices, to develop technology which seamlessly integrates smartphones into in-vehicle infotainment systems.
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In contrast, Porsche is in line for a bumper year, after the German luxury-car maker sold its entire annual 25, 000 production run of its new sport-utility vehicle before they were released to dealers.
The maker of battery-powered Model S sedans has a goal of becoming profitable this quarter, with vehicle deliveries forecast to rise to a record 20, 000 units this year.
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