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Toyota and Suzuki lay out details of collaboration

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Toyota Motor Corporation and Suzuki Motor Corporation have agreed to begin considering concrete collaboration in new fields. Toyota and Suzuki have been considering the concrete details of such collaboration since having concluded a memorandum of understanding toward business partnership in February 2017. Earlier post.).

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Suzuki joins Automotive Grade Linux

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Suzuki is joining The Linux Foundation and Automotive Grade Linux. Suzuki is the ninth automaker to join AGL and joins Toyota and Mazda as a Platinum member. —Hisanori Takashiba, Executive General Manager of Research & Development at Suzuki Motor Corporation.

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London police trialing Suzuki Burgman fuel cell scooters; first trial outside of Japan

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The London Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has begun a trial to test Suzuki Burgman hydrogen-powered scooters. The MPS is the only organization outside of Japan that Suzuki has approached to undertake such a trial. The trial is being run at no cost to the Met, with the loan of the vehicles from Suzuki Motor Corporation.

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Can small car segment bounce back by 2026? Trends suggest otherwise

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Maruti Suzuki claims that the small car segment in India will revive itself in another two years. Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest manufacturer of small cars and hatchbacks, thinks the segment will revive as soon as by 2026. The recent decline of small cars also reflects on Maruti Suzuki’s overall sales in recent times.

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Junkyard Find: 1992 Geo Metro 4-door hatchback

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Not the Subaru Justy , not the Toyota Tercel , not the Hyundai Excel and not the Suzuki Swift. The Metro was based on the second-generation Suzuki Cultus, and it was the successor to the 1985-1988 Chevrolet Sprint (which was based on the first -generation Cultus). You could buy versions of this car all the way through 2017 in Pakistan.

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Demand for battery electric vehicles in Europe doubles in July; growth driven by Tesla and Renault

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Even if they still makeup a comparatively marginal part of the overall market, electric vehicles are definitely becoming the industry’s bright spot during these challenging times. However, the increase seen in July 2018 was still lower than the 35%, 18% and 12% increases seen in July 2018, July 2017 and July 2016, respectively.

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JATO: new car average CO2 emissions highest in Europe since 2014; slow EV uptake insufficient to counter fewer diesels and more SUVs

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g/km higher than in 2018, the delta was lower than the difference between the 2017 and 2018 results—where the growth was 2.4 This was in part caused by marked changes in attitude and regulations around the use of diesel fuels which has had the unintended consequence of pushing people to drive higher-CO 2 -emitting gasoline vehicles.

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