So Ford has decided it needs to increase profit margins on its passenger car business.
To diversify, Tata would enter, at great expense, the less volatile passenger car market.
In North America, GM loses more than a thousand dollars on every passenger car it sells.
RX300, which is really a basic passenger car fitted out to look like a sport-utility vehicle.
In the United States, vehicles in these size categories are automatically included in passenger car totals.
Many analysts expect strong growth in passenger car sales throughout the second half of the year.
In 1997, MB introduced electronic fuel injection to diesel passenger car engines with the C 220 CDI.
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Year-to-date, passenger car sales are up only 6.1 percent, a fraction of the 63.6 percent jump in 2010.
BorgWarner expects demand for the technology to grow to 25% of the European passenger car market by 2015.
In fact, passenger car sales in China were flat in February, which is a story for another day.
The 4-cylinder, 5-passenger car consistently gets more than 50 miles to the gallon in combined city and highway driving.
In the first six months of the current fiscal year, passenger car sales were up 17% over the previous year.
Mercedes-Benz has a long history with diesel engines, dating back to 1936 and the first production diesel-powered passenger car, the 260 D.
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Just for reference, the average passenger car obtains 20.3 miles per gallon.
In the first month of the Year of the Snake, passenger car sales surged to 1.49 million units, a 53 percent year-over-year increase.
Sales of passenger vehicles rose 6.8 percent in China from the previous year, hitting 14.68 million units, according to the China Passenger Car Association.
In 2011, passenger car sales increased only 5.19%, a reflection of inevitable slowing after a period of torrid growth, especially in 2009 and 2010.
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Unlike their passenger car cousins that receive all of the media attention, however, heavy-duty trucks are the quiet, seldom discussed, workhorses in any economy.
The massive steel engine of the speeding train plowed through the flimsy wooden passenger car of the slower train, killing and dismembering its occupants.
That same year, 12, 435 people in the U.S. were killed in car crashes, though the U.S. passenger car fleet is five times larger than Brazil's.
But its 15% share of the Indian passenger car market pales in comparison with that of Maruti Udyog, the Suzuki-partnered company with a 55% stake.
The premium car market in China represented 9% of all passenger car sales in 2012, surpassing much wealthier Japan (4%) and South Korea (6%).
Current CAFE calls for automakers' passenger car fleets to average 27.5 miles per gallon, and their so-called "light-truck" fleet to average 21.0 miles per gallon.
Mercedes says the 1959 220S was the first passenger car in the world to feature a dedicated crash structure around the cabin, replete with crumple zones.
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Shanghai GM, as the joint venture has come to be known, has since gone on to become one of the leading passenger car companies in China.
The coming autos will challenge India's best-selling mass-market passenger car, the Maruti 800 manufactured by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. in a 50-50 venture with the Indian government.
This fall, Saturn got the steak: a four-door sedan called the Aura that is meant to compete head-on with the passenger car leaders, Toyota Camry and Honda Accord.
Efficiency is way up: It now takes between 12 and 15 minutes to change a die on the passenger car assembly line, down from two hours in 2000.
As a result, General Motors joint ventures in China now occupy 11.7 percent of the passenger car market, while those of Ford have a 2.7 percent market share.
When reviewing automotive sales and production figures in China, it is often unclear whether the numbers represent passenger car sales only, or whether they also include commercial vehicles.
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