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Luxury, sports cars in Detroit spotlight as sales boom Luxury and sports cars will be in the spotlight when the Detroit auto show opens Monday amid booming sales and renewed optimism as the US economy rebounds from a deep downturn.

14 January 2013

Toyota says to sell 9.7 mn vehicles this year, up 22% Toyota said Wednesday that it expects to sell 9.7 million vehicles globally this year, up 22 percent from 2011 as Japan's biggest automaker accelerates a recovery after last year's natural disasters.

27 December 2012

Mitsubishi expands oil leak recall to 1.7 mn vehicles Mitsubishi Motors on Wednesday widened a recall over an oil leak issue on vehicles sold in Japan to about 1.7 million vehicles, prompting a rebuke from the country's transport ministry.

21 December 2012

Japan auto giants to halve Chinese output: report Japan's top three carmakers will halve production in China following a sales slump there sparked by a backlash over a territorial row between Tokyo and Beijing.

08 October 2012

Luxury car sales drag in US: Lexus Sales of luxury cars across the United States have not kept pace with non-luxury vehicles but Lexus still expects to hit its target this year.

27 September 2012

Toyota, Nissan cut China output over island row Japanese auto giants Toyota and Nissan are reducing production in China because demand for Japanese cars has been hit by a bitter row over disputed islands.

26 September 2012

Japan auto giants scale back China production Japan's big three automakers shuttered some or all of their factory operations in China on Tuesday amid escalating anti-Japan protests centred on a bitter territorial dispute between the Asian giants.

18 September 2012

Obama to launch China WTO action on autos President Barack Obama will launch a new WTO enforcement action against Chinese auto subsidies Monday, countering his Republican foe Mitt Romney's accusations that he is too timid towards Beijing.

17 September 2012