ANE DAILY: VW profit lead over Toyota under threat; Ghosn favors incentives to revive car demand; EU lawmakers to vote on tough CO2 target

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DAILY NEWSLETTER March 18, 2013 Follow Us:

EDITOR'S NOTE: We're upgrading our email system. Look for an email in the coming days and follow the instructions to make sure you continue to receive this newsletter. If you notice that you're not getting your newsletters, please check your Junk folder. Thanks for your patience. VW profit lead over Toyota under threat as demand wobbles FRANKFURT (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn can check one thing off his to-do list: beat rivals in profit.VW aims to become the ...  story  Published: March 18, 2013 06:01 European Central time VW to recall vehicles in China on complaints about gearbox Automaker has faced issues with the system in China since last year SHANGHAI (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen Group plans to recall vehicles in China after drawing scrutiny from the nation's quality inspector and state broadcaster over its dual-clutch ...  story  Published: March 18, 2013 13:34 European Central time Ghosn favors incentives to revive Europe car demand CASCAIS, Portugal (Bloomberg) -- Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn supports the use of scrapping incentives to mitigate falling demand for new cars in Europe, which is headed toward a sixth ...  story  Published: March 18, 2013 06:01 European Central time     Automotive News Europe Blogs Good outweighs bad in Renault Zoe EV BRUCE GAIN: The good things about the Renault Zoe electric car – it's quiet, comfortable and affordable – outweigh the bad, especially for people who drive short distances everyday and have a way to charge the battery at work and home. Those positives could be enough to make it the best-selling EV in Europe by the end of this year. ...  Read the blog  Published: Mar 18 12:01 am U.S. Eastern time

Automotive News Europe's top 5 news stories of the week 1. Norway shows the way with EVs, but at what cost? 2. Winterkorn open to further VW acquisitions 3. Photo of new Range Rover Sport leaked online 4. PSA mirrors VW, readies megaplatform to cut costs 5. Opel to freeze pay as Ford's Belgian workers agree on severance   Tougher CO2 emission limits could get EU on road to growth, study says European Parliament will vote Tuesday on 95g/km target BRUSSELS (Reuters) -- Proposed EU legislation to cut CO2 emissions from Europe's new-car fleet to 95g/km by 2020 could create about 400,000 jobs, a study said. The European Parliament ...  story  Published: March 18, 2013 06:01 European Central time Pininfarina mulls limited run of Sergio roadster 5 to 6 units possible at 3 million euros each GENEVA – Pininfarina may produce a small number of its Sergio concept at a price tag of about 3 million euros each, the company's chief executive said.  story  Published: March 16, 2013 15:00 European Central time Norway shows the way with EVs, but at what cost? OSLO (Reuters) -- Norway's buzzing little market for pure electric cars has in its very success shown the severe drawbacks to a model that relies on public subsidies worth as much as $8, ...  story  Published: March 16, 2013 06:01 European Central time Opel to freeze pay as Ford's Belgian workers agree on severance HANOVER, Germany (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. won employees' approval in Europe for labor-cost cut plans to restore earnings in the region in response to a ...  story  Published: March 15, 2013 15:19 European Central time / Last changed: March 18 14:20 CET -- adds Genk production restart

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