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Tuesday Jan 24 | Automotive Intelligence

Daimler and Nissan to produce engines together in North America

Detroit/Stuttgart/Paris - In the latest step forward in the collaboration of Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance, Nissan's Decherd, Tenn., plant will build Mercedes-Benz 4-cylinder engines for Infiniti and Mercedes-Benz starting in 2014.

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Fri Jan 20, 2012

MSNBC

GM claims global sales crown

Less than three years after emerging from bankruptcy General Motors is positioned to once again be the world's number one automaker, with sales for 2011 totaling 9.03 million.

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Fri Jan 13, 2012

The Chattanooga Times Free Press

Haslam wants to boost state grants for business

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said Friday he wants to increase state grants to lure businesses like Audi to the Volunteer State.

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Wed Jan 11, 2012

Carscoop

Mercedes-Benz and Nissan Join Forces to Build 4-Cylinder Engines in the USA

Back in April of 2010, Daimler, Mercedes-Benz's parent company, and the Renault-Nissan Alliance announced a broad strategic cooperation in which the two companies exchanged a 3.1 percent stake with each other and made plans to collaborate on several projects.

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Mon Jan 09, 2012

WMC-TV Memphis

Nissan not saying if Mercedes deal will add jobs

A Nissan spokesman in Tennessee said the Japanese automaker is not ready to say if an agreement to build Mercedes-Benz gasoline engines at Nissan's plant at Decherd will create new jobs.

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