DIGITAL EDITOR ANDREW STOY: The good: This 2012 Ford Focus SE drives brilliantly. The chassis feels larger than it is, but in a good way.
Saab says Spyker parent CEO Victor Muller is now in China to discuss finding new potential partners following today's (12 May) collapse of a planned EUR150m (US$213m) investment by Beijing-based Hawtai.
The legendary BMW 328 roadster made its debut at the International Eifel Race at the Nürburgring in 1936, 75 years ago.
Nissan Motor has posted a fourth quarter net profit of JPY30.8bn, compared with a net loss of JPY11.6bn a year earlier. Sales rose 10% in the quarter to JPY2.351 trillion from JPY2.138 trillion while operating profit was up 7.2% to JPY88.6bn from JPY82.7bn.
Audi plans to launch the redesigned A6 luxury sedan and new Q3 small SUV in India by early 2012, a senior executive said on the sidelines of the A7 and RS5 media launch event.
Saab parent Spyker Cars NV said Thursday that a
Half scooter, half car, the electric Twizy will start from just £6,690 and the order books are open now.
Global steering and driveline specialist Nexteer reckons almost five billion litres of fuel have been saved globally by cars fitted with its electric power steering (EPS) technology which, it said, "continues to win market share from hydraulic systems".
Volkswagen Group of America (VWGoA) has broken ground for a new 63,000 sq ft lab in Oxnard, California, that will house auto emissions testing and powertrain development for the group brands Volkswagen, Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti. The $25 million lab will replace an existing facility in Westlake Village near Los Angeles.
Visteon Corporation will appoint two new independent directors to its board after its 2011 annual shareholders meeting on 9 June, 2011.
Nissan will return to normal production levels globally in October, after Japan's devastating earthquake disrupted supply chains and forced factory stoppages, CEO Carlos Ghosn said.
Auto Express rounds up the action at the 2011 Barcelona Motor Show.
Announcing its first official results after the takeover by China's Zhejiang Geely, Volvo said its earnings almost doubled in the first quarter to 640 million Swedish crowns ($103 million), up 280 million crowns from a year ago.
Sweden's National Debt Office (SNDO) is remaining tight-lipped concerning today's (12 May) news that Saab and Hawtai have ended the proposed EUR150m (US$213m) investment by the Chinese automaker.
PSA Peugeot Citroen on Thursday announced a three-year, EUR355m capital spend at its Valenciennes plant, in the Nord 'department' [administrative region] of France, and at the Française de Mécanique facility in Douvrin, in the Pas de Calais and said it would end the light commercial vehicle-producing joint venture with Fiat at the Sevelnord plant after 2017.
BMW is considering building two new factories in emerging markets. The world's largest maker of luxury vehicles continues to evaluate sites for a plant in Brazil and is now mulling adding a factory in Russia, India, Korea or Turkey.
PSA said it would not renew a northern France joint venture with Fiat after 2017 but pledged to invest 355 million euros ($511 million) over three years at other plants in the Nord Pas de Calais region.
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