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German automaker and one of the world's largest vehicle manufacturers, producing cars under brands including VW, Audi, Porsche, and Skoda.
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Kia sold 76,850 cars in Britain from January to August, 776 more than BMW, to take second place behind Volkswagen on SMMT figures. That lead is under a tenth of Kia's average month in Britain, close enough for the order to change by December.
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Gucci is making its newest $1,000 sneakers in China at a factory it picked for technological know-how, ending a 105-year Italian tradition. Chinese supplier capability has already cut into German carmakers' sales in China and now reaches a European luxury house, so far through a single shoe.
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Overseas revenue added about $6.9bn while Greater China shed roughly $10.8bn, so the group shrank even as exports grew a third, and Citi's 41.2 billion yuan full-year figure now needs a second half 2.35 times the first.
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Amazon said it will add $1.9bn to its Delivery Service Partner programme in 2027 and expects a national average of nearly $24 an hour. The DSPs are the employers, and the release leaves each of them to decide how the money is spent.
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Volvo Car's plan leans on the SPA3 architecture, parts bought in China and shared components across models. A Seeking Alpha analyst says promotional pricing in the market threatens the volume those savings assume.
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A production ID. Buzz crossed 92 countries in 445 days on its factory tires, and TUV Nord measured its battery afterwards at 95.75 percent state of health. Fleet buyers now have one real number, from one van.
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Fortune's fourth Europe 500 counts a record $15.5 trillion of combined revenue at a 6.5% margin, down from 7.1% two years ago, with two fifths of the profit sitting in 105 finance companies. Part of this year's rebound came from oil.
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US EV deliveries have fallen for three straight quarters since the $7,500 credit lapsed in September 2025. Most of the nameplates dropped this year were assembled outside the US, and each quarterly decline is smaller than the last.
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Chinese carmakers shipped more than 6.2 million cars in eight months while sales at home fell 25.6% in August. The EU duty covers battery electrics only. BYD's Hungarian plant reaches mass production this quarter.
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Kirk Ludwig's paper in Synthese treats a company's beliefs as a pattern of commitments made by people in official roles, and it lands negligence on whoever held the duty to check the facts before the company acted.
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The 4,000 redundancies fund £15bn to £18bn of product investment over five years, and the smaller volume base underneath them loads about a third more of that spend onto every car JLR sells.
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N+ hung a licensed Volkswagen badge on a $4,000 e-bike and called the result the world's safest, but the battery packs never made it to IFA, so the glasses, camera and handlebar screen the claim rests on were described rather than ridden.
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Germany now imports more from China than it exports in the very categories it used to own. Its incumbents are answering with cheaper goods made in China, while 71,000 job reductions sit on the books.
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GE Vernova fell about half as much on gaining the same finance chief. The gap traces to what each company could publish: GE Vernova had dates, a retiring incumbent and an advisory overlap, while Rivian had only a search.
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Management and the workforce reportedly agree on the numbers already, so the September 4 vote on 100,000 job losses and up to four plant closures asks a narrower question: whether a board where labour holds half the seats can deliver them.
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EU electric vehicle sales rose 40.5% in the first half of 2026. On the published forecasts, Chinese brands are collecting most of that growth in Western Europe.
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Torsten Slok says the second China shock lands in EVs, chips and high-tech rather than cheap goods. Import barriers hold the US price line; they do nothing for what American firms earn abroad.
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Chinese carmakers say circuit boards and ceramic capacitors are 20% to 30% short and more than three times last year's price. Geely says that halts assembly rather than just costing more.
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Shares are down more than 55% this year, the EV charge is worth over a third of the five-year model budget, and the CEO's answer to analysts is still that these things take time.
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