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This year's Russian Automotive Forum in Moscow organised by Adam Smith Conferences produced some lively debate and interesting comments. Here's a snapshot of what some of the speakers said.

Coda Holdings' bankruptcy filing this week appears to be the latest in a series of bumps in the road to electrification for the automotive industry.

TOLEDOand#8212;Jerry Brummett saw beauty and utility in a ratty 1940 Packard Super 8 Formal Sedan parked in a farmer's field in the early 1960s.

News 3 May, 2013

Volkswagen is celebrating a million sales of the Scirocco coupe with a high-spec special-edition model

Volvo aims to break even on an operating level this year without help from one-off gains that kept the carmaker in the black in 2012. Volvo's operating profit fell to $2.76 million in 2012.

Volvo aims to break even on an operating level this year without help from one-off gains that kept the carmaker in the black in 2012. Volvo's operating profit fell to $2.76 million in 2012.

A suitably mud-coloured Vauxhall Mokka recently turned up for review at Glenn Brooks' home. He now sees why GM's little SUV is selling up a storm in Europe.

The way cars are bought will change even more radically in the future as a new generation of motorists are more interested in what goes on inside than how their vehicle looks from the outside. According to Prof Dale Harrow, head of the automotive design school at the Royal College of Art in London, all the indications are that young people will not be interested in buying cars in the future.

News 3 May, 2013

We will put your questions to transport minister Stephen Hammond

Those three of you who peruse every bit of just-auto's home page every day will probably already know The Editorial Team had our annual Fun Day Out this week, courtesy of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) Test Day. I've been going, on and off, sice 1987 and the agenda follows a refreshingly familar, welll-proven and immensely popular programme which I believe is unique to the UK auto industry. After earlier using other venues, the SMMT nowadays books Millbrook, the former Vauxhall Proving Ground (founded 1968), almost every importer/manufacturer shows up with the allocated six cars, caterers lay out a fine breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea - and we show up and go nuts.

Watch as West Coast editor Mark Vaughn takes to the streets of Pamplona, Spain to test Jaguar's all new F-Type.

Alabama state governor Robert Bentley was a guest as 1,500 workers at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HMA) celebrated the start of production of the redesigned 2014 Acura MDX luxury SUV.

New Zealand's new commercial vehicle registrations of 2,235 units was the best April result since 1982 when 2,754 were sold, according to the new vehicle trade group.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau expanded its probe into the car loan industry by issuing subpoenas to auto lenders over the sale of financial products such as extended warranties, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people...

Honda Motor said subsidiary Honda de Mexico will build a CVT automatic transmission plant alongside the car plant it is constructing in Celaya, near Guanajuato, Mexico. The complex will start Fit [Jazz] production in spring 2014.

Spanish car sales rose 11 percent in April, boosted by a calendar effect and a sales rebate program.

Germany's new car market returned to modest growth in April as sales to private customers picked up and the month had one business day more than the year-earlier period.

PSA Peugeot Citroen says 340 staff from its Aulnay plant have temporarily transferred to the Poissy factory in a bid to boost daily production hit by strike action at the North-East Paris site.

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Watch this short action film involving Damian Lewis and the new Jaguar F-Type