Ford Australia took the wraps off the new Fiesta XR4 at the Melbourne International Motor Show today, confirming its mid-year arrival.  The XR4 is known as a Fiesta ST in other parts of the world but badged as XR4 in Australia to make it part of the “XR family”.
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The Melbourne International Motor Show is always an important event for Peugeot and this year the show has been chosen for the sales launch of the all new 207 hatch and the debut of the 207CC and 207GTi.

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Melbourne In another success for smart, the smart fortwo has celebrated its best ever annual sales, according to industry figures released today.
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Stuttgart – The new smart fortwo will celebrate its US premiere at next month’s North American International Auto Show, to be held in Detroit (January 7 to 21, 2007).
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Ford’s small car darling, Fiesta, has been making giant size inroads into the competitive light vehicle segment during 2006.
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The start of series production of the new MINI also signals the start of a new production network for MINI comprising three BMW Group manufacturing facilities in the UK. The MINI production triangle in the UK with its plants at Hams Hall, Oxford and Swindon has received substantial investment of nearly £200 million to build the new model and to increase MINI production capacity by 20 percent up to 240,000 units a year in the medium-term. The new production triangle employs in total 6,350 associates, a number set to increase by 450 to 6,800 in the medium-term as production nears the maximum capacity of 240,000 MINIs per annum. 
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Today BMW Mini launched their all new Mini Mark II. After building 800,000 Mark I examples, the entire car has been redesigned, yet MINI retains and authentically updates its key characteristics: cheeky, sporty performance, instantly recognisable style and go-kart handling.
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Wolfsburg/Berlin, July 13, 2006 Volkswagen AG has joined the Clean Energy Partnership. The world’s most versatile hydrogen demonstration project for emissionfree mobility with two service stations in Berlin thus welcomes a further partner and now includes 11 companies and 17 hydrogen vehicles.
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Suzuki Motor Corporation has announced plans to further expand the scope of their business with respected manufacturer Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
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For the seventh consecutive year (fiscal April 05- March 06), Suzuki Motor Corporation has recorded an increase in net sales, to achieve an impressive result of 2,746,453 million yen (approx $32.8 billion AUD).
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