Fiat is in danger of following too closely in the footsteps of another European carmaker, Daimler.
In addition, frequent work stoppages by Hyundai's unionised workers also affected the carmaker's earnings.
But he says the carmaker--and Dodge in particular--needs to differentiate its offerings from meeker rivals.
The carmaker has seen a 27% improvement in the past five years, according to J.
Jaguar was the only carmaker to see serious gains, with sales up by 21%.
The firm overtook Ford to become the world's second-biggest carmaker in terms of sales last year.
This, Proton seems to think, is a formula that no other carmaker can match.
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Sales of Toyota, Japan's biggest carmaker, jumped 22% in 2012 to 9.29 million vehicles.
The Italian carmaker says the Quattroporte has new engineering features including a refined lighter-weight chassis design.
Consider these numbers: About 60% of the cars the French carmaker Renault sells are ordered.
Chrysler, now controlled by Italian carmaker Fiat, booked a 34% jump in domestic sales.
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However, unions criticised Ford for its decision and the way the carmaker went about announcing it.
Nissan is also the first carmaker at the show to use a piped-in scent.
It will also give the Italian carmaker a 52% majority stake in the US firm.
Hyundai, South Korea's top carmaker, had warned it was facing severe disruption to production.
However, the greater the specification by consumers, the higher the premium price the carmaker can command.
The Qashqai is described as "the king of the urban jungle" in the carmaker's marketing material.
To do so profitably, the carmaker struck a breakthrough deal with the UAW during its bankruptcy reorganization.
At least one carmaker chief executive kept up steady communication with Jerry, seeking his advice and counsel.
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The Malaysian market is too small to offer the economies of scale needed by a global carmaker.
That has led Khazanah to (reportedly) consider selling a 20% holding in Proton to a foreign carmaker.
Chrysler's small-car solution, instead, lies with Chery Automobile, a Chinese carmaker with bold ambitions of its own.
Renault chief Carlos Ghosn warned last July that the carmaker was in a "difficult and uncertain" environment.
Fiat workers plan a 12-hour strike on Wednesday, the second in a week at the stricken carmaker.
The Japanese carmaker, which began manufacturing there in 1992, has been hard hit by the eurozone crisis.
Like BMW, another admired German carmaker, VW seems to have succeeded because it is run by petrolheads.
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Some analysts have suggested Toyota could lose its position as the world's biggest carmaker to General Motors.
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Three former top executives from carmaker Saab Automobile have been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of accounting fraud.
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Now Lexus, Toyota 's luxury division, is aiming squarely at the German carmaker with two new high-performance vehicles.
From a carmaker's perspective, the enviornmental Protection Agency is in the business of creating problems, not solving them.
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