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VW and BMW recall half a million cars

Business & Money: 17 Jan 12
Volkswagen and BMW issued recalls on half a million cars this week – with VW warning that fuel lines in their most modern diesel engines can leak, and BMW saying their Minis could catch fire due to electrical problems. READ »

China officially Audi's biggest market

Business & Money: 5 Jan 12
Luxury German carmaker Audi said Thursday that 2011 sales in fast-growing China had outstripped its home market for the first time, adding it expected further acceleration in the coming years. READ »

Six arrests after suspected drug deal goes wrong

Society: 4 Jan 12
One person was shot, four injured and six arrested in a Berlin fight over an apparent drug deal gone wrong Tuesday. All those involved have refused to talk about the deal that appears to have sparked the fight. READ »

President 'used threats to try to stop scandal story'

Politics: 2 Jan 12
Embattled German President Christian Wulff has been accused of trying to block the first reports of his financial affairs by threatening criminal charges against journalists working on the story – leaving a furious rant on an answering machine. READ »

Despite crisis, Germany benefits from euro

National: 26 Dec 11
Ten years after the introduction of the euro, and in the midst of its biggest crisis to date, the AFP’s Celine Le Prioux says there are many reasons Europe’s biggest economy has benefited from the single currency. READ »

Toyota discusses green car alliance with BMW

Business & Money: 26 Nov 11
Japanese auto giant Toyota is in discussions with Germany's BMW over a partnership in eco-friendly cars, according to report Saturday in the business daily Nikkei. READ »

What's on in Germany: November 24 - 30

Lifestyle: 24 Nov 11
This Week's Highlights: Brazilian film in Berlin, Dickens in Frankfurt, and chocolate in Tübingen. READ »

Germany's most legendary cars

Lifestyle: 23 Nov 11
Mercedes, BMW, Audi and VW – Germany is a nation of car nuts. The Local List counts down the country's most legendary rides. READ »

German carmakers plan hiring spree for 2012

Business & Money: 13 Nov 11
Leading German carmakers are planning to add more workers to the payroll next year. Big firms such as Porsche, BMW and Volkswagen say that they will be hiring thousands more workers in 2012. READ »

What's on in Germany: October 27 - November 2

Lifestyle: 27 Oct 11
This Week's Highlights: Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations in Berlin, A 3D tribute to Pink Floyd in Hamburg and the Frankfurt Marathon. READ »

Aldi dynasty continue to lead German rich list

Business & Money: 10 Oct 11
The best business to get into in Germany seems to be discount supermarkets - the owners of Aldi, Lidl and Kaufland again top the list of the country’s richest people. READ »

Frankfurt Motor Show combines conservation and innovation

Business & Money: 16 Sep 11
Auto-makers at the Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) are dreaming far into the future in terms of energy conservation and design. READ »

Small cars aim to challenge foreign rivals

Business & Money: 15 Sep 11
German carmakers will this week unveil a range of new small, fuel-efficient cars at the world's biggest motor show to challenge a market currently dominated by French and Asian rivals. READ »

Motor show hopes to dispel global gloom

Business & Money: 13 Sep 11
Car makers at the world's biggest motor show, the IAA, sought on Tuesday to rise above the gathering global economic gloom, saying they were better positioned than in the last crisis three years ago. READ »

GM wants Opel to challenge VW

Business & Money: 13 Sep 11
General Motors believes its European Opel brand can easily compete with the likes of rival Volkswagen and wants to steer it upmarket, GM Europe chief Nick Reilly said on Tuesday. READ »

BMW to develop electric car for Chinese market

Business & Money: 10 Sep 11
BMW is to develop a new brand of electric cars exclusive to China, giving into pressure from the Chinese authorities. READ »

German carmakers predict strong sales

Business & Money: 4 Sep 11
Global economic woes have failed to dampen the hopes of Germany's luxury car companies, with Audi and Mercedes expecting surging sales. BMW also reported a record month in August, with sales up a whopping seven percent. READ »

VW named world's best car company

Business & Money: 30 Aug 11
German automaker Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car manufacturer, was selected Tuesday as the sector's "best performer for 2010" by a study that highlighted weaknesses of VW rivals Toyota and GM. READ »

Fourth night of car arson prompts terror debate

National: 19 Aug 11
Arsonists set fire to cars in Berlin for a fourth straight night, destroying at least 11 vehicles in the early hours of Friday morning. The ongoing attacks have raised the spectre of leftist terrorism. READ »

Eleven cars set on fire in Berlin

National: 16 Aug 11
Eleven cars were set on fire in Berlin on Monday night, prompting a police investigation into a possible political motive behind the arson attacks. READ »

'I don’t think people expected the Wall would last 30 years'

Society: 10 Aug 11
As Germany prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, Erin Huggins spoke with Russell Swenson, who witnessed the birth of the Iron Curtain while stationed in the city with the US Army in 1961. READ »

BMW buyers kept waiting amid high demand

Business & Money: 3 Aug 11
BMW customers are waiting for around three months for their new car, as the Bavarian firm struggles to keep up with demand. READ »

Demand for luxury cars drives BMW results

Business & Money: 2 Aug 11
Strong global demand for luxury cars drove earnings at German automaker BMW sharply higher in the second quarter, it said Tuesday while forecasting a solid finish to the year. READ »

BMW unveils electric and hybrid concept cars

Business & Money: 29 Jul 11
Six weeks before the Frankfurt Motor Show, BMW has unveiled concept vehicles that the company hopes will make it a trend-setter in the electric car business. READ »

Daimler posts record Q2 results, sees strong 2011

Business & Money: 27 Jul 11
German automaker Daimler boasted record results for the second quarter of 2011, and forecast Wednesday that full-year sales would come to more than €100 billion. READ »

Car ploughs into crowd injuring 11 people

Society: 22 Jul 11
Eleven people including three children who were waiting at a tram stop in Essen were injured – some of them seriously – when a car ploughed into them on Friday. READ »

Kaiserslautern footballers arrested in brothel after alleged hit and run

Sport: 6 Jul 11
Three players from Bundesliga club 1. FC Kaiserslautern are reportedly being investigated by police on suspicion of drunk driving and committing a hit and run accident. READ »

Big business makes plea to 'save the euro'

Business & Money: 21 Jun 11
Dozens of Germany's leading business executives have made an impassioned defence of Europe's common currency in a newspaper ad campaign urging angry taxpayers to look beyond the cost of bailouts to the benefits the euro. READ »

Carmakers rethink sustainability approach amid E10 fuel fiasco

Business & Money: 19 May 11
Germany's introduction of the E10 biofuel has been a public-relations disaster. But as Alexander Bakst reports, the auto industry is already rethinking its approach to sustainability. READ »

BMW pays big bonuses for bumper 2010

Business & Money: 12 May 11
In a sign of the soaring fortunes of the German auto industry, BMW is paying a hefty bonus to its workers after a two-year break in profit-sharing. READ »

Guggenheim 'Lab' set to swing through Berlin

Lifestyle: 29 Apr 11
New York’s Guggenheim Museum is creating travelling “laboratories” that will look at the design of cities. Berlin is believed to be one host city, but a redevelopment dispute is complicating matters. READ »

Petrol station charges €9.99 a litre for gas

National: 26 Apr 11
Police were called after a petrol station near Stuttgart began charging €9.99 per litre ($40 per gallon) of super gasoline amid dwindling supplies on Easter Monday. READ »

Audi to create more than 10,000 new jobs by end of decade

Business & Money: 25 Apr 11
Audi expects to create more than 10,000 new jobs over the coming nine years as steady growth in sales translates into an increasing need for manpower, the car maker said at the weekend. READ »

What's on in Germany: April 21 - 27

Lifestyle: 21 Apr 11
This week’s highlights: An Easter bonfire in Berlin, Shakespeare in Munich and Swabian festivities in Stuttgart. READ »

Daimler to team with Bosch on electric car venture

Business & Money: 12 Apr 11
German carmaker Daimler will team up with industrial giant Bosch in a joint venture to produce electric motors to be used in Mercedes and Smart cars next year, both companies said on Tuesday. READ »

Brazilian busted driving 291 kph on autobahn

Society: 29 Mar 11
A 22-year-old Brazilian man has been caught driving at an eye-watering 291 kilometres per hour (181 mph) on the autobahn, almost three times the speed limit, police said. READ »

Automakers nervous as Japanese delivery delays persist

Business & Money: 24 Mar 11
The disaster in Japan has cut deeply into the global economy, and now Germany is feeling the effects too. Car manufacturers suffering from delivery delays are considering scaling back workers’ hours, a media report said Thursday. READ »

BMW boosts sales outlook for 2011

Business & Money: 15 Mar 11
German luxury automaker BMW raised Tuesday its 2011 outlook and said it now expects to sell significantly more than 1.5 million vehicles for the year. READ »

BMW profits race ahead

Business & Money: 10 Mar 11
The world's leading luxury carmaker BMW reported record profits and sales for 2010 on Thursday and said it expected more of the same this year. READ »

Booming Audi to pay workers €6,500 bonus

Business & Money: 3 Mar 11
Luxury German carmaker Audi, a unit of Volkswagen, said Thursday its staff of 42,500 would receive an average bonus of €6,513 ($9,053) as thanks for strong results last year. READ »

BMW and Peugeot team up for hybrid technology

Business & Money: 28 Feb 11
The German luxury carmaker BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroen of France announced Monday they would invest €100 million ($138 million) in a joint venture to develop hybrid vehicle technology. READ »

Daimler creating 4,000 jobs in Germany

Business & Money: 23 Feb 11
German automaker Daimler will create 10,000 new jobs this year, of which 4,000 will be in Germany thanks to soaring orders, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday. READ »

BMW launches electric and hybrid brand

Business & Money: 21 Feb 11
The German luxury carmaker BMW unveiled on Monday its long-awaited new brand, BMW i, with two new models to be equipped with electric and hybrid drive systems from 2013. READ »

Fischer describes row with Schröder over Iraq

Politics: 12 Feb 11
Former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has described the breakdown in relations between himself and former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder during the build-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion. READ »

Porsche unveils electric roadster

Business & Money: 11 Feb 11
Luxury carmaker Porsche has introduced an electric version of its Boxster roadster as part of an e-mobility pilot programme in the southwestern German city of Stuttgart. READ »

Mercedes Benz relaunches hyper-luxury Maybach car in India

Business & Money: 1 Feb 11
German carmaker Mercedes Benz reintroduced its hyper-luxury Maybach car in India on Tuesday, pitching it at the country's growing number of super-rich. READ »

Porsche and Audi win design awards at Detroit auto show

National: 12 Jan 11
Two cars from Germany's Volkswagen group – a Porsche and an Audi – have driven away with the top design honours for vehicles introduced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. READ »

Carmakers aim for big gains in US market

Business & Money: 11 Jan 11
German auto makers, lagging behind their American, Japanese and Korean competitors, are hoping for big gains from this month's Detroit auto show, which is pointing to a full recovery of the US market. READ »

Porsche unveils hybrid 918 Spyder

Society: 10 Jan 11
Porsche on Monday unveiled a new hybrid 918 Spyder coupe at the Detroit auto show expected to be on the market in 2013. READ »

Ashtiani 'under pressure,' say activists

National: 2 Jan 11
The threat by an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning to sue two German reporters shows that she is under great pressure, according to an activist who is also under fire from the woman. READ »

Workers help steal €3 million in parts from BMW

Society: 26 Nov 10
A gang of thieves systematically stole up to €3 million worth of auto parts from the Munich BMW plant and sold them through internet auctions, police said Friday. READ »

Indian official calls German cars 'criminal'

National: 12 Nov 10
India’s Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh attacked German automakers on Friday, saying driving big-engined luxury models from BMW and Mercedes-Benz in his country was “criminal.” READ »

BMW puts €400m into electric car race

Business & Money: 5 Nov 10
The world's leading luxury car maker, BMW, said on Friday it will invest €400 million by 2013 to produce an electric car as German manufacturers try to catch up with global rivals. READ »

US has lost its way, Schäuble thunders

Politics: 5 Nov 10
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble removed his diplomatic gloves on Friday, blasting the United States’ decision to go ahead with a massive economic stimulus measure that could harm Germany. READ »

BMW roars ahead

Business & Money: 3 Nov 10
The world's leading luxury car maker, BMW, reported a huge leap in third-quarter net profit on Wednesday, with recovering global markets snapping up its saloons and SUV's. READ »

Cars sales seen accelerating in 2010

Business & Money: 2 Nov 10
German new car sales should top 2.9 million vehicles this year, the industry federation VDA said on Tuesday, though its upgraded outlook still signals a sharp drop from 2009. READ »

European delivery: Buying German luxury cars at the source

Lifestyle: 29 Oct 10
What German car fan hasn’t fantasized about shifting into high gear on the autobahn behind the wheel of a BMW, Porsche, Audi, or Mercedes? European delivery schemes offer perks to make a new car and unique vacation affordable. READ »

Electric car sets new distance record

Science & Technology: 26 Oct 10
An electric car drove from Munich in southern Germany to Berlin without recharging its battery on Tuesday, setting what organisers hailed as a new world distance record for an everyday vehicle. READ »

Germany moves from cars to lifestyle in China

Business & Money: 15 Oct 10
Piggybacking on the reputation for the quality of their country’s cars and machines, German consumer goods brands are wooing Chinese customers as they try to catch up with their French and Italian rivals in a fast-growing market. READ »

BMW increases investment in US plant

Business & Money: 13 Oct 10
German luxury car maker BMW said Wednesday it would hire 600 more workers by the end of the year for its US plant in South Carolina, bringing the total staff to 7,600 workers as it ramps up US output. READ »

Daimler recalls Mercedes to fix steering glitch

Business & Money: 11 Oct 10
Germany's luxury car maker Daimler will recall about 85,000 Mercedes Benz C- and E-class autos in the United States to fix a problem with power steering systems, the US traffic authority NHTSA said on Monday. READ »

BMW and Daimler sales surge

Business & Money: 8 Oct 10
German groups BMW and Daimler, the world's leading luxury car makers, said Friday that September sales roared higher, powered by the US and Chinese markets, and added that the outlook for the rest of 2010 was bright too. READ »

BMW recalls more than 350,000 vehicles in US and UK

Business & Money: 1 Oct 10
German luxury automaker BMW said Friday it was recalling 350,800 BMW and Rolls-Royce vehicles worldwide owing to brake problems a spokesman stressed were "without danger." READ »

BMW extends chairman Reithofer's contract to 2016

Business & Money: 29 Sep 10
The German luxury car maker BMW said Wednesday it had extended the contract of chairman Norbert Reithofer until 2016. READ »

Spectacular car crash near Reichstag only noticed hours later

Society: 22 Aug 10
A driver crashed his BMW at more than 100 kilometres an hour through a barrier near the Reichstag in Berlin, landing in the river on Friday night, swam to the side and walked away – without any security staff noticing, it emerged on Sunday. READ »