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Endurance Racing – Alpine Signatech in LMDh from 2024
Alpine says it wants to add new entries to its list of achievements. From 2024 onwards, Alpine will enter the LMDh, one of the two regulations of the Hypercar category. Alpine will field two cars designed around an Oreca chassis and, bien sûr, an Alpine engine developed at Viry-Châtillon. The power unit will derive with all the expertise acquired in Formula 1 by Renault. Continue reading
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Tagged Alpine A480 Gibson, Alpine Elf Matmut, auto industry commentary, autoinformed.com, Ken Zino, le mans, Renault
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New Stellantis Opel CEO Hochgeschurtz From Renault
Uwe Hochgeschurtz will join the Top Executive Team of Stellantis and will report directly to Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares. He started his career in the automotive industry in 1990 at Ford, before joining VW in 2001 and Renault in 2004. He studied business administration in Germany (Wuppertal & Cologne), the UK (Birmingham) and France (Paris Dauphine). Continue reading
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Tagged auto industry commentary, autoinformed.com, Ken Zino, Renault, Stellantis Opel Brand
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Directors Carlos Ghosn, Greg Kelly Voted Out at Nissan
Hiroto Saikawa, President, among others, came under shareholder scrutiny for his protested innocence of having any knowledge of the scandal even though he was one of Ghosn’s “ right hand men…” Continue reading
Renault Board Backtracking on Carlos Ghosn Innocence
This is a significant departure from its initial backing of Ghosn in the latest twist of an ongoing global intrigue that involves in-fighting among Alliance partners, income inequality, trade wars and corporate governance policies in France, Japan and elsewhere. Continue reading
IndustriALL Endorses Global Agreements to Fight and Shape Policy on the Growing Number of Auto Plant Closures
So whither auto plants with their well-paid, highly skilled and heavily unionized work? Plant closures and retrenchments in several countries is worrying for unions. Continue reading
Le Mans Footnote – Renault AK Grand Prix Car
Renault entered 3 AK Type vehicles with 13-liter 90 horsepower engines. An AK had a top speed of 93 mph, notable 110 years ago. Continue reading
Renault-Nissan Cut 2012 Costs by €2.69 billion
Only new savings – not cumulative ones – are taken into account every year. As a result, the Alliance that was established in 1999 when Nissan was facing bankruptcy, arguably now has the longest-lasting cross-cultural partnership in the auto industry. Paris-based Renault and Yokohama, Japan-based Nissan, which together sell one in 10 cars worldwide sold 8.1 million cars in nearly 200 countries in 2012. Continue reading
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Alpine 2021 – Year One Sales Increase on a Minuscule Base
The A110 remains key. The new A110 range presented in late 2021 will come to dealerships at the start of the year in the form of three models. Alpine’s first year in Formula 1 saw the brand reach podiums, including with its first victory in Hungary. Alpine claims it is the automotive brand that is the most committed to motorsport, including the World Endurance Championship, rallies and customer competitions. Continue reading →