News
22 May, 2013
Seven-seat version of front-wheel drive BMW CAT concept spied
Volkswagen plans to refit more than a quarter million 2009-12 diesel cars to prevent North American customers from mistakenly pumping gasoline into the fuel tanks.
The 2014 BMW M5 sedan hits the streets this August. Bimmer says four-door has been the standard for high-performance sedans since its release in 1985.
Continental has developed a new Multimedia Radio Navigation (MRN) System for the PSA Peugeot Citroën Group in China.
Daimler may sell four company-owned Mercedes-Benz dealerships in Germany to cut costs and help close a profitability gap with rivals BMW and Audi.
Haldex has started a restructuring programme involving 200 job losses in a bid to save SEK100m (US$129.4m), from 2015.
Ford has said it will add capacity in the buoyant North American market. The company is to add an additional 200,000 units of annual straight-time capacity this year.
PSA Peugeot Citroen plans to close a research and administrative site near Paris as part of its cost-cutting plans, according to Reuters.
News
22 May, 2013
Early talks could lead to Aston Martin using Mercedes engines and electronics
ASSOCIATE EDITOR GRAHAM KOZAK: To the people-hauling, errand-running masses, the Ford C-Max's form and function make a lot of sense.
Federal-Mogul's powertrain segment says it has developed an application in piston ring coating, known as DuroGlide, for gasoline and heavy-duty diesel engines.
Another treasure from our huge cache of car porn, feast your eyes on the official 1985 Ferrari 308 Quattrovalvole spec sheet below. Yours truly is a child of the "Magnum, P.I." era and lusted over one of these for a decade.
We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars.
News
22 May, 2013
Digital radio switchover planned in two years; all new cars must be digitally enabled by then
Two Japanese executives who worked for Denso Corporation are facing over a year in a US federal prison following their roles in a price fixing scandal.
PSA will shut a French randd facility as part of a program to reduce spending.
Automotive News Europe salutes the winners of the 2013 Rising Stars awards. Every day until June 12 one of the 18 winners will be featured. Today's Rising Star is Darren Cox, Nissan's global motorsports director.
Two executives at Toyota-affiliated supplier Denso have agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to fix prices and have agreed to cooperate with an ongoing criminal investigation, the U.S. Justice Department said.
Volkswagen plans to refit more than a quarter million 2009-12 diesel cars to prevent North American customers from mistakenly pumping gasoline into the fuel tanks.