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Renault Clio Green NCAP Scores 62% Without a Hybrid in Sight

The Renault Clio Green NCAP result of 62% and three and a half stars, achieved with a conventional gasoline engine and no electrification, makes a pointed argument: disciplined ICE engineering is not ...
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Toyoda Gosei India Expansion Targets Maharashtra SUV Supply Chain

Toyoda Gosei’s India expansion takes its most direct form yet in Maharashtra: a new plant in Bidkin built to feed a Toyota Kirloskar factory next door. The investment of INR5.76 billion ($65 million) ...
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What Are the Most Important BMW Engine Parts?

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Chinese OEM Hybrid Sales Hit Record 12% EU Share Around Tariff Gap

Chinese OEM hybrid sales reached a record 12% share of European new passenger car registrations in August, according to Dataforce, with BYD, Chery, and their peers capturing one in three plug-in ...
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Army’s $1.2 Billion PrSM Increment 2 Contract Is Built on a Much Larger Bet

The U.S. Army’s $1.2 billion PrSM Increment 2 contract for early missile production extends a funding architecture that already committed $4.94 billion to the broader program, reframing this award as ...
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IG Metall Wage Demands Put VW’s Restructuring Crisis in Sharp Relief

The IG Metall wage demands for 2026 landed against the most hostile backdrop in decades: tens of thousands of German auto workers staged nationwide protests on September 21, pressing Volkswagen, ...
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Leapmotor Global Car Sales Leave Subaru and Mitsubishi Behind

Leapmotor global car sales hit a record 240,000 units in Q2 2026, up 84% year-over-year, surpassing Subaru’s 230,000 and Mitsubishi’s 170,000 for the first time. The milestone is less a story about ...
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Volkswagen Porsche Writedown Shatters the Group’s Safety Net

The Volkswagen Porsche writedown disclosed on September 18 is not simply an accounting event: it signals that the one division reliably subsidizing Volkswagen’s weaker brands is itself under ...
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Greenland Security Deal Redraws Arctic Command Lines Under NATO

A new Greenland security deal, set to be signed at the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, puts Denmark squarely in the position of framing a bilateral US pressure campaign as a multilateral ...
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Marcopolo Bets On European Coach Market With Volvo Buses Deal

Marcopolo’s return to the European coach market is less a product launch and more a strategic pivot, one driven by a softening home market and an export revenue line that is growing fast enough to ...
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State Dept Clears Path for F-35 Saudi Arabia Sale Worth $24.3 Billion

The US Department of State has approved a potential F-35 Saudi Arabia sale worth an estimated $24.3 billion, a shift in policy that directly challenges Washington’s long-standing commitment to ...
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Air Force’s $14 Billion Supply Hole Exposes a Fleet on the Edge

The Air Force supply hole runs $14 billion deep, and the officers responsible for keeping the service’s aircraft airborne said plainly at the Air and Space Forces Association’s 2026 Air, Space and ...