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Trelleborg and Freudenberg have completed the formation of the joint venture in antivibration solutions for light and heavy vehicles, TrelleborgVibracoustic.

Chrysler on Tuesday said US sales in June rose 20% year on year to 144,811 units, the group's best sales for that month since 2007.

Sergio Pininfarina, who ran the famous Italian automotive design company of the same name for 40 years, has died after a long illness. He was 85.

U.S. light-vehicle sales, paced by Toyota and Honda, rose 22 percent in June as U.S. consumers continued to shake off economic jitters and replace aging cars and light trucks.

First official pictures of the all-new Renault Clio have been revealed, ahead of its Paris Motor Show debut

Ford of Europe has named Gunnar Herrmann, the senior engineer who headed development of the redesigned Focus and C-Max, as vice president of quality.

Entry-level version of the Suzuki Alto has become the UK's cheapest new car, starting from just £5,995

Mazda is ramping up production of its CX-5 crossover SUV and doubling output of the SkyActive engines launched with it.

New range-topping version of the Kia Sportage gets more power and lots of kit

Open-top version of the McLaren MP4-12C supercar is set to take on the Ferrari 458 Spider, with a 0-62mph time of 3.1 seconds

Open-top version of the McLaren MP4-12C supercar is set to take on the Ferrari 458 Spider, with a 0-62mph time of 3.1 seconds

Kia Motors and its Chinese subsidiary, Dongfeng Yueda Kia, have broken ground for a third car assembly plant in the Yancheng Economic Development Zone in Jiangsu Province.

Luxury electric vehicle (EV) maker Fisker Automotive has appointed Jim Yost as chief financial officer.

Federal-Mogul is to purchase the Beru spark plug business from BorgWarner. The purchase, subject to regulatory requirements, includes factories at Chazelles sur Lyon, France, and Neuhaus, Germany, which will add about US$80m in annual sales and increase the supplier's yearly spark plug production capacity to over 350m a year.

Chrysler and new parent Fiat were the domestic and import honored marques of the 46th-annual Palo Alto (Calif.

Car design legend Sergio Pininfarina has died, aged 85

Sergio Pininfarina, who ran the famous Italian automotive design company of the same name for 40 years, has died after a long illness.

The only thing that could have marred Austin Dillon's breakthrough NASCAR Nationwide Series win at Kentucky was a penalty.

And, on Monday, NASCAR officials issued a six-point penalty against Dillon and his car owner after his race-winning Chevrolet failed the post-race inspection for being too low in the rear.

While Richard Childress, grandfather of Dillon, and entrant of the car said it was due to a broken bolt; Dillon said, on a radio broadcast, it was a broken clamp.

The penalty drops Dillon back down to second place behind teammate, Elliott Sadler, by four points in the series standings.

Austin Dillon. (Photo: NASCAR)

As a result crew chief Danny Stockman Jr. has been fined $10,000 in addition, Stockman and car chief Robert Strmiska continue to remain on NASCAR probation until Dec. 31.

Ironically Sadler had the same penalty for a similar infraction, in May in Iowa, but the Richard Childress Racing team thought that they had fixed the problem.
As Dillon explained, on the radio program on Monday before the penalty was announced, “everything passed tech,” at NASCAR's research center in Concord, NC.

"It was just too low in the back. It stinks because it happened to Elliott in Iowa. It's been fixed and it won't happen again.”

From GMM

Fernando Alonso has revealed he might consider team ownership after his formula one driving career is over.

When asked by one of his 800,000 Twitter and Facebook followers if the Ferrari driver can imagine following fellow champions like Alain Prost and Jackie Stewart onto the pitwall, 30-year-old Alonso answered: "Maybe."

"Why not? It would be a nice adventure!" the Spaniard, who won his titles with Renault in 2005 and 2006 and is the 2012 championship leader, elaborated.

Fernando Alonso admitted he is also interested in F1 circuit designer Hermann Tilke's job.

"If Bernie would allow it," he explained, "I would like to design a real race track, like the kart circuit I designed at Oviedo which is due to open soon."

Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) leading Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) in Montreal. (Photo: WRi2)