The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this year plans to move ahead with a proposed regulation requiring event data recorders, or so-called black boxes, in all new cars and light trucks. The U.S.
The same technology that saved IndyCar driver Simona De Silvestro from serious injury in a recent crash at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway might soon be helping protect children in car seats.
Mazda North American Operations on Friday promoted John Doonan to director of Mazda Motorsports, effective immediately.
Total Japanese output at the eight major automakers last plunged 60.1% year on year as the 11 March earthquake/tsunami forced them to suspend production.
Wild rally-car with tuned Nissan GT-R engine will tackle the Pikes Peak hillclimb next month.
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Nissan will suspend operations for five days at its plant in St Petersburg, Russia, due to delays in engine deliveries from the Japanese plant hit by the March earthquake.
After a hundred will-it/won't it questions, the day many thought would never happen, has seen Saab motor cars rolling off the Trollhattan lines.
Despite an expected loss of share that boosted the Detroit 3 and Koreans in May, analysts at Edmunds.com believe that the worst may be over for the Japanese OEMs recovering from the post-'quake supply-chain disruption of recent months.
Highlight of my week - and that of fellow just-auto colleagues - was Thursday's annual SMMT Test Day, an event which, when described to our counterparts abroad, usually attracts great vibes of envy.
We have another public holiday coming up here in the UK.
Tata Motors unit Jaguar Land Rover will source components from India, its chief executive Ralph Speth told Reuters.
Long-expected Indian assembly of Land Rovers has begun. Mumbai-based Tata Motors opened its first local factory on Friday on the outskirts of Pune, building the Freelander 2 from CKD kits shipped from England.
Chinese distributor Pang Da is envisaging an eventual production run of up to 300,000 cars for Saab as it bids to take a stake in the Swedish automaker.
Honda said it will resume normal production levels at its UK and Turkish factories in September. Production has been hit by parts shortages caused by the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan.
Champagne corks should be popping just about now at Jaguar Land Rover HQ after Tata Motors' annual results for fiscal 2010-11 included, to quote the statement: "strong profitability, with healthy volumes..., net revenue of GBP9,906m ($US16,169m) and a profit after tax of GBP1,043m ($1,702m)".
2011 marks Ford's centenary of building cars in the UK. To celebrate, we count down the anniversary with the numbers that matter most.
Saab's Trollhattan factory has restarted production today (27 May) following its lengthy stoppage due to supplier payment issues.
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