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Oct
22nd

Honda Accord to be axed in 2015, and not replaced

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Honda Accord
News 22 Oct, 2014

Honda UK confirms that the European Accord saloon and Tourer estate will be axed next year, with no replacement planned.

Oct
22nd

Toyota executive backs Takata’s handling of airbag crisis

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A top Toyota executive offered support for how airbag maker Takata is handling a safety crisis affecting millions of vehicles, days after expanding its own recalls for the second time in four months.
Oct
22nd

Daimler’s surprise sale of Tesla stake fuels rivalry speculation

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Daimler's decision to sell its 4 percent stake in Tesla Motors surprised investors and fueled speculation of a growing rivalry in the increasingly competitive electric car market.
Oct
22nd

Mercedes GLA gets 400bhp Brabus tuning pack

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Mercedes Brabus GLA
News 22 Oct, 2014

German powerhouse Brabus reveals performance pack for the GLA crossover range

Oct
22nd

Honda’s Civic Type R voted Paris Motor Show star car

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Honda Civic Type R 2015 Paris 5
News 22 Oct, 2014

Auto Express readers vote Honda’s Civic Type R their favourite new model from the 2014 Paris Motor Show

Oct
22nd

Fake signs fool drivers into speeding fines

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Speed limit sign
News 22 Oct, 2014

Drivers unwittingly breaking the law due to phoney speed limit signs

Oct
22nd

Fiat’s Wall Street trading is flat as Milan dominates

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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has had a flat reception on the New York Stock Exchange after its debut there last week. European trading in Milan is currently about 7 times that of Wall Street, despite FCA shifting its primary listing to the U.S.
Oct
22nd

Italy’s Sogefi reports nine-month net loss of 5.8 million euros

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Italian supplier Sogefi reported a net loss of 5.8 million euros ($7.4 million) for the first nine months of the year and said CEO Guglielmo Fiocchi would leave the company.
Oct
22nd

SWEDEN: FKG rues lack of Industry Minister: MD

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Scandinavian automotive supplier body, FKG, is describing the lack of a Swedish Industry Minister as a "bit odd," following the election of a new Parliament in Stockholm.
Oct
22nd

Apple CarPlay to turn iPhone into car remote control

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Apple maps
News 22 Oct, 2014

Apple is looking at turning the iPhone into a remote control for your car that can unlock and even start the engine on approach

Oct
22nd

Citroen C4 Cactus 2014: full details, pictures & price – pictures

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Oct
22nd

US: Takata airbag recall extends to 6.1m vehicles

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US highway safety regulator NHTSA last night (21 October) expanded its warning about faulty airbags made by Takata to 6.1m vehicles in the United States.
Oct
22nd

US [updated 14:30BST]: Takata airbag recall extended to 7.8m vehicles

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Safety regulator NHTSA on Wednesday (22 October) expanded the number of vehicles in the United States that may be affected by recalls for potentially defective Takata air bags that could spray shrapnel at occupants from 6.1m announced on Tuesday to 7.8m.
Oct
22nd

EU says Honeywell, DuPont car refrigerant deal may be illegal

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The EU says supplier Honeywell's joint venture with chemicals company DuPont to produce an air conditioning refrigerant for cars may be anti-competitive as the deal may have blocked rivals keen to participate in the chemical's development and...
Oct
22nd

Honeywell, DuPont car refrigerant deal may be illegal, EU says

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The EU says supplier Honeywell's joint venture with chemicals company DuPont to produce an air conditioning refrigerant for cars may be anti-competitive as the deal may have blocked rivals keen to participate in the chemical's development.
Oct
22nd

£1.2m of stolen luxury cars seized at UK ports

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Car crime 4x4s recovered
News 22 Oct, 2014

Huge cache of stolen prestige vehicles, valued at £1.2 million, have been found smuggled in containers at eight of Britain's ports

Oct
22nd

Millions driving blind as they’re too vain for specs

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Driving glasses blurred vision
News 22 Oct, 2014

Shock new survey reveals motorists' poor eyesight

Oct
22nd

Track-special Aston Martin V12 Vantage spied at Nürburgring

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Track-special Aston Martin V12 Vantage spied at Nürburgring - front three-quarter
News 22 Oct, 2014

Widebody Aston Martin Vantage mule hints that Aston is developing a more hardcore racer

Oct
22nd

PSA’s third-quarter auto revenue drops despite pricing push

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PSA/Peugeot-Citroen's revenue rose 1.6 percent in the third quarter, but a push to raise pricing failed to deliver higher revenue at its manufacturing arm. The company raised its full-year car-market forecast for Europe.
Oct
22nd

F1: No agreement over engine ‘unfreeze’

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Mercedes have enjoyed a big power advantage over other engine makers Renault and Ferrari in Formula 1's maiden year of hybrid turbo regulations and there are already fears that Mercedes AMG will again dominate next season.

The current technical regulation puts a “freeze” on engine development from February of one year to the next. Work can also be done out of season and then homologated.

Mercedes, which will supply engines to its own team [Mercedes AMG Petronas] next year plus Force India, Williams and Lotus, claims it would not be fair to let rivals Ferrari and Renault work on their engines by ‘unfreezing' the rules.

“You open up a can of worms,” Mercedes' Toto Wolff told Sky Sports F1 in a recent interview.

“People sometimes think it's simple - it's not simple, it's very complicated if you change the rules because some very intelligent people have created those rules that an engine is being frozen by the end of February to make sure that everybody has the same,” he explained.

“If you're having three customers, including ourselves four customers, eight engines, we can't supply them at the same time if we're having an in-season development. It's obviously a difference for Honda who are having one team, for Ferrari who are having three teams including themselves.

Ferrari boss Marco Mattiacci has argued that F1's struggling smaller teams would benefit from unfreezing the engine.

“I think that honestly, from our point of view, there is not a cost increase. The other argument is that if I had the possibility to upgrade my engines maybe the teams I supply [Sauber and Marussia] would have scored points and have extra revenues. For a small team not to have the possibility to catch up is much more dramatic than for a big team,” Mattiacci declared.

Formula 1 is gearing up for a crucial vote before the end of the season with a proposal to allow some in-season performance upgrades to the V6 engines to be voted on by the F1 Commission.

However, a unanimous vote is required for the motion to be accepted and while a majority agreed to the changes at a meeting of the sport's Strategy Group in Sochi, Mercedes AMG, Williams and Lotus voted against it.


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