Avis Budget Group today announced that it has teamed up with TransCore and Highway Toll Administration (HTA) to supply eZGo Anywhere™ wireless toll collection transponders for its car and truck rental fleet of vehicles to serve customers of Avis Rent

The Texas Transportation Commission will hear an estimated price tag for meeting Texas' transportation needs in the coming two decades from the citizens' panel charged with developing the needs assessment for pavement and bridge maintenance, urban mobility and rural mobility

A research report on attitudes and concerns on the environment conducted in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties is being released by Gilleard Market Research. It shows, among other findings, that global warming is considered a very dangerous threat

Automakers soon might have to resort to Chapter 11 bankruptcy after Senate Republicans blocked a $14 billion bailout package. The bailout was expected to provide some relief to the ailing Big Three auto companies. Millions of automotive jobs are now

www.DrivingSales.com, the original best practice community for automotive industry professionals, today announced its next innovation idea sharing contest: "What would you do as the Car Czar?" The contest is open for industry professionals to submit ideas that would solve the

Norwegian electric car maker Think has said it is talking with the government to escape its "urgent financial distress."

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South Korean automakers expect both domestic sales and exports to fall next year as the global downturn spreads.

Chinese-owned South Korean sport utility vehicle maker Ssangyong Motor on Tuesday said it would stop production for two weeks from tomorrow (16 December) after sales fell.

China's vehicle output last month was 8.704m and sales volume 8.6298m units, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said.

Volkswagen has denied local media reports it would stop production in China for a month to reduce swelling inventory.

Russian car output rose 18% year on year to 1,385,571 units in January-November.

Bosch on Tuesday said it would temporarily stop producing automotive components in India to avoid stockpiling.

Subaru maker Fuji Heavy Industries on Tuesday said it would withdraw from the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) at the end of the 2008 season, citing a "dramatically changed" business environment.

Mitsubishi Motors Europe president and CEO Tim Tozer is leaving after four years to become CEO of Netherlands-based Autobinck Holding, a vehicle distributor and retailer based in The Hague founded in 1907.

Seat will reduce will production at its Martorell plant in the first half next year as sales fall and the outlook remains uncertain.

Amid all the cutback gloom, some good news - a key supplier is to build a new parts plant in China.

New car sales in the UK may not recover for five years, Toyota GB managing director Miguel Fonseca has warned.

Toyota Motor has put on ice a joint venture with Isuzu Motors that was developing a 1.6-litre aluminium diesel engine for vehicles sold in Europe.

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