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Jag Land Rover factory closure ‘already decided'

Jaguar Land Rover management has already decided which UK factory to close – and the decision will be announced this autumn in 2010. The car making group, which manufactures around 250,000 cars a year, operates out of three UK sites: Castle Bromwich and Solihull near Birmingham, and Halewood near Liverpool. Those sorts of volumes are more normally associated with a single factory or, at a push, two.

Autoweek in review: The 2012 Paris motor show coverage, auto-journalist Chris Economaki passes, and we drive the greenest Porsche Panamera.

The 2012 Paris auto show kicked off this week and we've got boots on the ground bringing you all the news from the city of lights. Check out all the Paris coverage in Autoweek's Paris motor show section here. Longtime racing journalist Chris Economaki died Thursday, Sept.

New techniques cut cost of carbon fiber

Carbon fiber, once so costly that it was the preferred material only for fighter planes and supercars, is catching the attention of weight-conscious automakers. Carbon fiber's cost is falling dramatically, thanks to production advances that let suppliers speed the material's finicky, and costly, curing process. One technological breakthrough that makes carbon-fiber auto parts more affordable may come from a process used to make carbon-fiber golf clubs.