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News watch Jan 2011: today's auto industry news

Welcome to CAR Magazine's news aggregator as we round up the daily stories in the auto industry. Top tip: news summaries are added from the top hour-by-hourFriday 28 January 2011• Mazda has signed a deal to supply Nissan with its 5/Premacy MPV from May 2011. Nissan will sell a 'cleary differentiated' version of the people carrier in Japan (Mazda) • VW has begun construction of a new engine plant in Silao, Mexico.

Audi A1 – Seven specials at Wörthersee Tour 2010

The Bayern Munich Audi A1 at the Worthersee Tour 2010 Audi has more models than you can shake a stick at. And if you factor in every variation there is on the hugely speccable new Audi A1 then they probably have more cars on offer than the rest of the VW group put together. But for Audi it’s not just about having a hugely speccable A1, it’s about world domination for the A1.

New Lexus IS to debut at 2013 Detroit Auto Show

The new Lexus IS - previewed at this year’s Paris Motor Show by the Lexus LF-CC Concept – will debut at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2013. Lexus effectively previewed the new IS with the Lexus LF-CC Concept (above) at the Paris Motor show in September (although that really previews a new Lexus IS Coupe to follow) so we know the new IS is going to follow the current Lexus path of producing good looking cars (like the latest Lexus GS). This time round it looks like Lexus are going to offer a hybrid IS 3000 as the route to the heart of fleet buyers in Europe with a 2.5 litre petrol four-cylinder mated to the usual box of batteries and motor, all running through a CVT ‘box (sadly).