INDIAN AUTO MAKER Tata Motors’ newest acquisitions, Jaguar and Land Rover, appear to be doing more harm than good for the company right now.
Despite strong sales of Tata products in India, the two British marques have been hit hard by the economic downturn and are spreading red ink over Tata’s books.

Tata’s end of financial year results, [...]

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Sales figures for Japan have just been released for the month of February and the news is not good. Overall figures for the month are down 32.4 percent on last year with only 218,212 new cars, buses and trucks sold.

All car makers suffered from the drop with market leader Toyota among those hit hardest. Toyota sales [...]

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Thankfully some companies are able to report a little bit of good news for their end-of-year figures for 2008. Suzuki Motor Corporation is one of them and has achieved a record global production result for the 2008 calendar year with 2,623,788 units.

Production in factories outside of Japan stood at 1,405,553 units, up two percent on 2007’s [...]

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Rolls-Royce has announced that it enjoyed strong demand for its product during 2008, so much so, that it recorded a 20 percent increase in sales over 2007 (1,212 sales compared to 1,010 in 2007). This performance was the fifth consecutive annual sales increase for the super luxury manufacturer.

As you would expect with a product as [...]

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