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Petrol And Diesel Sales 'Down By One Billion Litres Due To Rising Fuel Costs' Says The AA | Business | Sky News

Car giant Toyota has been hit by more than 100 complaints in the US and Japan about brake problems with its flagship Prius hybrid, it has emerged, in a new blow as it grapples with massive global recalls. The Japanese company's sales have been battered in the US -- Toyota's biggest market --...

BMW has become the latest company to announce a dramatic decrease in sales in the US market, with the company’s north American boss announcing that BMW USA has stopped shipment of 44,000 cars that were due to cross the Atlantic before the end of the year. CEO Jim O’ Donnell, previously boss of...

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Now appears to be official. Well sort of. Caroline Flint blunder lets slip Government's house price pessimism Caroline Flint, the Housing Minister, today made an embarrassing blunder by revealing she told Cabinet this morning that she now expects house prices to fall by between five and...