Saab CEO predicts end of red ink in '04, bets future hopes on U.S. sales
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Saab Automobile AB expects to be profitable this year after cutting its loss to $5.9 million in 2003, its top executive says.
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BMW , the world's largest premium carmaker, expects record vehicle sales and greater efficiency to help boost its pretax profit in 2007 beyond last year's underlying result, it said on Wednesday.
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Most veteran forecasters say they expect a familiar sales trend in the US automotive market next year: continued gains by Asian brands at the expense of Detroit&#39;s Big Three.
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After a string of strong years, U.S.  auto sales are slowing and an increasing number of forecasts  say sales could fall next year to their lowest in nearly a  decade, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on  Monday.
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A recovery in the economy later  this year will keep U.S. vehicle sales from plunging as deeply  as the most bearish forecasts suggest, according to an outlook  released on Sunday by the group representing U.S. auto dealers.
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Germany's MAN AG is planning a more   attractive bid to win over resistant shareholders of Swedish   truckmaker Scania SCVb.ST, the Wall Street Journal on Friday   quoted MAN Chief Executive Hakan Samuelsson as saying.
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U.S. auto sales are likely to post  a razor-thin increase this year compared to 2004, when they had  their fourth-highest annual total on record, an economist who  closely monitors the automotive industry said on Sunday.
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The strong euro and cost of eliminating quality problems will eat into earnings at Mercedes, the luxury car brand of German-US auto giant DaimlerChrysler, Mercedes chief Eckhard Cordes said in a newspaper interview.
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DaimlerChrysler  may communicate its future strategy for its loss-making U.S. arm only in weeks or months, the world's fifth-biggest carmaker said on Thursday.
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The car manufacturer synonymous with the U.S market is looking far further afield
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General Motors Corp  expects the  U.S. auto industry to increase incentives and promotions to  maintain sales above the 16 million mark in 2008, GM's North  American sales chief told Reuters on Tuesday.
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Passenger vehicle sales should  strengthen nearly 20 percent by the end of the decade to about  70 million vehicles annually, spurred by growth not only in  developing markets but in the United States and Europe, the  chief executive of BMW AG BMWG.DE said on Monday.
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Bosch , the world's largest car parts supplier, wants to expand its business with manufacturers of cheap cars and garner sales of 1 billion euros ($1.47 billion) by 2010 from them.
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General Motors Corp. expects to sell 175,000 cars in 2007 &#151; 75 percent more than its initial sales forecast for 2006 &#151; a company spokesman said Thursday, as Russia's oil driven economic growth fuels demand for cars.
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U.S. car and truck sales likely slowed in October from incentive-driven, surprisingly strong levels in September, and Detroit automakers look set to take most of the fall.
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U.S. car and truck sales are likely to  rebound in December from a disappointing November, but the bulk  of the gain is expected to come from Asian automakers, analysts  said.
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Cars that drive themselves Â even parking at their destination Â could be ready for sale within a decade, General Motors Corp. executives say.