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Hyundai Motor launches new global luxury brand Genesis

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Hyundai Motor is launching an all-new global luxury brand—Genesis—as a stand-alone brand that operates alongside the company’s popular Hyundai marque. To develop a distinctive and differentiated design for the new Genesis brand vehicles, Hyundai Motor has created a Prestige Design Division.

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Volkswagen Group and Tata Motors Ltd. to explore strategic alliance for joint development projects; ŠKODA to lead

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Matthias Müller, CEO of Volkswagen AG, Bernhard Maier, CEO of ŠKODA Auto and Günter Butschek, CEO and Managing Director of Tata Motors Ltd., Under the terms of the memorandum, the Volkswagen Group and Tata Motors will explore possibilities for a strategic partnership in India. billion in 2015-16.

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Volkswagen launches new luxury flagship Phideon at Geneva; plug-in hybrid drive planned; first VW brand car based on MLB

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Volkswagen unveiled the new Volkswagen Phideon luxury sedan ahead of the Geneva International Motor Show 2016. The future of Volkswagen’s premium segment will go into production in China initially for the China market in the third quarter of 2016.

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ZF and start-up Levant Power partnering on first fully active, regenerative suspension for automobiles

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Fluid is re-routed from the shock through the valve, where our proprietary integrated hydraulic motor can either extract power or perform work on the fluid. The very compact unit consists of its own control unit, an electric motor and an electrohydraulic gear pump (Gerotor).

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Total new car sales in Europe drop 2% in July; SUV sales up 12.5%

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This slowdown is partly due to July 2016 having two fewer working days compared to July 2015. in July 2016. Infiniti posted the highest percentage increase (+233%) and was followed by Rolls-Royce, Bentley, Land Rover and Jaguar. Overall registrations for the month totalled 836,431 units, down from 853,701 units in July 2015.

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Volkswagen Group appoints new heads of Global R&D, Group Design, Group Product and Modular Toolkit Strategy

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The number of top managers reporting directly to the CEO has been almost halved, and new appointments to several posts will take effect in the first quarter of 2016. He was appointed Board Member for Engineering at Bentley in 2003 before taking over as Managing Director of the German Association of the Automotive Industry in 2012.

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Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

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for 2016, followed by the Model X. The only upgrade is the Plaid version that features even faster acceleration from three motors, producing sub-two second 0-60 runs. Volkswagen Group (which includes VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley in the U.S.) The Model S is the best-selling plug-in car in the U.S.