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Renault-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn and Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche appear equally motivated to empower women at their companies. The reasons are altruistic, but also economic. Women represent an important customer sector.Daimler estimates that in Germany 32 percent of car buyers are women. Breaking the numbers down further, Daimler said that 20 percent of the people who purchased a Mercedes-Benz or Smart model in Germany in 2014 were female and that figure was nearly double in the United States. Zetsche has even compared the growth of female car buyers to that of the growth o...
It was reported that 164.063 Mercedes vehicles were sold this April worldwide, which is more than last year's April for approximately 11%. The first four months of the year sold around 650.000 units, which is definitely a good record for the company.This April is considered to be the 38th consecutive record month for Mercedes-Benz sales. The company sales grew up to 11% thanks to strong delivers in Europe and China, which helped offset flat demand in the U.S.Ola Kaellenius, the sales chief of Mercedes sales said the company had a good start to the second quarter because...
Just as if the problems with the production haults at the Japanese plants were not enough, Toyota Motor Corp. notes a global sales decline in the first quarter of this year. Toyota's sales results fell behind Volkswagen AG's, and this disrupted the Japanese automaker's four-year reign atop vehicle industry sales charts. In the January-to-March period Toyota's worldwide deliveries dropped 2.3% to 2.46 million vehicles. In the same time Volkswagen deliveries rose 0.8% to 2.5 million. In the context of Japan's recent most devastating e...
Volkswagen's efforts to solve the emissions scandal and to overcome its consequences came to a buy-back offer of almost 500,000 diesel cars that used sophisticated software to evade U.S. emissions rules. Volkswagen AG and U.S. officials have reached a framework deal under which the automaker would offer to buy back 2.0-liter diesel vehicles sold in the U.S. that exceeded legally allowable emission levels.The cars concerned by this offer will include versions of the Jetta sedan, the Golf compact and the Audi A3 sold since 2009. At the same time it does not apply to ...
General Motors announced it has a new vice president of design. This job with global responsibilitywill be done by the Australian Mike Simcoe, 58, stationed overseas for much of his 33 years with GM. Simcoe is the first non-American to assume the mantle as GM’s global design chief.Simcoe brought a contribution to the design of many of the brand's models and has had a hand in shaping many vehicles familiar in North America. His portfolio is filled with such models as Holden SSX concept, Buick Sceptre concept, Holden Ute, Hold...
