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Swedish aviation and defense giant Saab has said China's National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), which has signed a deal with Turkey to help produce the country's first "national car," does not represent the Saab brand, but only owns the company's car production plant. 

The long-awaited ?Turkish national car? prototypes which sparked widespread debate over their originality were made in Sweden and purchased for 40 million euros ($45 million).

The prototypes of the ?indigenous? cars announced on Oct.13 by I??k initiated a social media storm due to their resemblance to the Cadillac BLS, a restyled model of the Saab 9-3.

A senior minister has announced Turkey purchased the intellectual property rights to Saab's 9-3 model, with the goal of using it to develop a Turkish-branded car and advance in the field of extended-range vehicles.

"We bought the Saab 9-3's intellectual property rights, but not its name," Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri I??k said in a televised interview on Oct. 15. 

Science and Technology Minister Fikri I??k has stepped into the debate on the apparent resemblance of Turkey?s long-awaited ?national car? to the Cadillac BLS, saying ?no car is 100 percent original.?

I??k had announced on Oct. 13 that the country?s first entirely locally-made cars were under development, sharing ?camouflaged? photos of three prototypes with the public.

A long-awaited domestic vehicle that has been promoted as a "national car" by government officials during election campaign stops, was unveiled Oct. 13, but its resemblance to Cadillac has sparked a debate.   

Volkswagen is looking at ways to cut costs and boost cash flow and could sell more shares if the price of clearing up a scandal over its rigging of diesel emissions tests puts its credit rating at risk. 

Sometimes truth is indeed stranger than fiction. I would never have expected a German company, especially one which is built on trust, to be involved in such a shameful scam. 

Volkswagen has admitted using the same fake emissions test in Europe as it used to falsify results in the US, the German transport minister announced on Thursday.
Volkswagen is the second massive German multinational to fall into the US federal government’s sights, after Siemens.

VW’s shares have dropped by a third over the past few days after VW admitted to selling cars around the world that were equipped with software that cheats on emissions tests.

There are fears that the Volkswagen scandal could have affect not just VW, but the wider German and European car industry.

Turkey?s Do?an Holding has become a new distributor of Japan?s Suzuki?s car, sea vehicle and motorbike brands. 

A new subsidiary of Do?an Holding, Suzuki Motor Vehicles Marketing Co, will run the sale and after-sale operations of Suzuki brands. Suzuki had previously been represented in Turkey by Haco Group.