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Nexteer Automotive has shipped its 20 millionth electric power steering (EPS) unit, saving more than two billion gallons of fuel globally since it sold its first EPS unit in 1999.

News 21 Jan, 2013

Latest pictures of the Audi A3 Saloon cold weather testing in Scandinavia, ahead of its launch later this year

JAC has held its third passenger car plant completion ceremony as well as the new SUV (S5) offline ceremony.

News 21 Jan, 2013

The ultra-efficient Volkswagen XL1 will go into production in limited numbers from mid-2013

PSA Peugeot Citroen union, CFE-CGC, says it has obtained a significant improvement in the minimum financial package for voluntary redundancies at the automaker.

No rival has followed Toyota Motor Europe into the segment it created in 2010 with the Auris Hybrid. Undaunted, TME has just launched a second generation model. Glenn Brooks tries it for size and finds it an intriguing alternative to a Golf TDI.

News 21 Jan, 2013

Hyundai has announced that it will build a new R&D facility next to the legendary Nurburgring race track in Germany

Major French union, Confederation Generale du Travail (CGT) has called a press conference for tomorrow (22 January) in Paris following its latest meeting with Renault.

Volkswagen Group has appointed Gert Schardey to run sales strategy and business development at its core VW brand.

News 21 Jan, 2013

BMW has designed a two-man bobsleigh to be used by Team USA in the Winter Olympics next year

Automakers will increasingly apply an 'Omni' channel strategy to market and sell cars to customers with about 4%, or about 4.5m units, sold completely on line by 2020, predicted Frost & Sullivan global practice director Sarwant Singh. That compares to 5,000 new cars sold solely on-line in 2011, he added.

Johnson Controls first quarter fiscal 2013 net income of $354m, or $0.52 a share, was down from $424m, or $0.62 in previous year. Sales were flat at $10.4bn.

News 21 Jan, 2013

The Renault Alpine advisory board has been created, featuring famous names from its World Rally Championship past

Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche, 59, says he expects to have his contract renewed by the company's supervisory board in February after his current term as head of the car and truck maker expires at the end of this year.

Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche says he expects to have his contract renewed by the company's supervisory board in February after his current term as head of the car and truck maker expires at the end of this year.

BMW AG will offer a two-cylinder motorcycle engine and a generator to extend the range of its i3 electric. Herbert Diess, BMW's head of randd, said the package will be offered as an option on the i3.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration soon may revise its five-star crash safety program with new tests for cars and trucks, Administrator David Strickland tells Automotive News.

Fiat-Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne has reiterated his intention to reintroduce the Alfa Romeo brand to the U.S. market later this year with the 4C coupe sports car.

Bentley Motors is close to a decision to build an ultraluxury SUV, according to CEO Wolfgang Schreiber. The vehicle would share a platform with Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche.

West Coast Editor Mark Rechtin -- our tireless chronicler of such things as "micro-cheese-grater" interiors and front ends that evoke "a dachshund snorting a gopher hole" -- walked the floor of the Detroit auto show gathering first impressions of...