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Automotive headhunter sees growing demand for short-term executive placements

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Automotive headhunter Ennis & Co Group has launched an Interim Talent service.The move is in response to a surge in demand by automotive groups for short-term placements at senior leadership level. Short term appointments help groups to move swiftly, avoiding lengthy recruitment processes and long notice periods.

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Honda Could Get Full-Size SUV As Part Of Merger With Nissan

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More: 2025 Nissan Armada Keeps Drops V8 For Twin-Turbo V6, Keep $56K Base Price Intact While he didn’t go into specifics, Car & Driver quoted him as saying “In the short term, especially in the U.S. So, if maybe we can exchange some of the vehicles, that would also be a benefit for us in the short term.”

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Volvo Brings Back Former CEO, Hakan Samuelsson, Amidst Challenging Times

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The returning CEO will serve for two years, as Volvo looks for his long-term successor. Thus, Jim Rowan steps down, and Hakan Samuelsson returns in the top position after his previous term between 2012 and 2022. Ex-Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson returns in the position he held between 2012 and 2022.

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Stellantis Pulls The Plug On Maserati’s Future After Cancelling $1.6B Investment

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“We have to recognize that the dynamics in that business, particularly in the Chinese market , and our expectations in terms of how quickly that luxury market would transition to electrification,” he noted. “Despite the quality and high-performance models, the brand suffers from errors and carelessness in terms of marketing.

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Radical new Renault interiors move upmarket, keep buttons

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The opportunities that affords in terms of “interaction” and “immersivity” are numerous, said Vidal, but Renault will simultaneously buck a trend towards all-out digitisation by ensuring that its future models still have buttons and switches for the most important controls.

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Renault to introduce new shapes in move away from traditional SUVs

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When it comes to the design of future models, Renault design boss Gilles Vidal said that the big question is how to do you reinvent the next step in terms of concepts [and] silhouettes? It makes you wonder what should we do thats less questionable in terms of heritage, and more efficient, and therefore deserves a new kind of shape?

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Car repair costs accelerate to ‘all time high’

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According to the survey repairers expect that 48% of vehicle owners will forgo ad hoc maintenance and routine servicing to cut running costs in the short term. In the longer term, it could support customer retention and facilitate the return of quality used stock that a dealer wishes to retail due to its service and repair history.

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