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Italian Government Upset Alfa Romeo ‘Milano’ Will Be Built in Poland

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Assembly is slated to take place at the Tychy plant in Poland. That’d be like Ford or General Motors producing something called “The Detroit” and then having it built somewhere in Mexico. "A A car called Milano cannot be produced in Poland. Typically, it has been invoked against food products, for example U.S.-made

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GM to invest $341M in plant in Poland for new mid-size diesel engine

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General Motors will build its new generation midsize diesel engine family at the GM Manufacturing Poland plant in Tychy. Start of production of the all-aluminum 1.6-liter The maximum annual production capacity will be 200,000 units. The GM Manufacturing Poland plants in Gliwice and Tychy employ 3,500 people.

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Fiat Powertrain Acquiring GMs Share of Poland 1.3L Diesel Engine JV

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Fiat Powertrain Technologies (FPT) and General Motors (GM) have signed a preliminary share transfer agreement for FPT to acquire GM’s 50% share in FIAT-GM Powertrain Polska, an engine manufacturing joint venture in the special economic zone of Bielsko- Biala, Poland. The plant will continue to produce the 1.3-liter

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Ford announces new battery production facility JV with LG

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Ford has announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with LG and KOÇ Holdings to construct a battery production facility in Ankara, Turkey. While Ford has outlined a massive electric production overhaul in North America , it has yet to do so in Europe. What do you think of the article?

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Stellantis Investors Fume Over CEO Pay Amid Job Cuts, Plant Closures, Supplier Strife

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Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares’ pay increase has annoyed a subset of shareholders as the automaker positions itself for more layoffs and attempts to shift the production of electric vehicles to countries where labor is cheaper. In the U.S.,

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Eight new EV brands you’ve never hears of – and they don’t come from China

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Ceer is being run by American Jim De Luca, a long-time General Motors executive who was CEO of the Vietnamese start-up VinFast and deputy CEO of its parent VinGroup until taking up his new post last May. SEV backing and production is initially coming from China, but there are plans to set up local manufacturing in Mexico.

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Scotiabank forecasts 4% growth in global auto market in 2015 to 74M units, led by China

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Asia now consumes more than 30 million barrels of oil per day—roughly the same as all of the Americas—but its oil production stands at roughly 9 million barrels per day, the report notes, leaving the region dependent on external sources for more than 70% of its petroleum—triple the import level of the Americas.

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