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22 Oct, 2014
Honda UK confirms that the European Accord saloon and Tourer estate will be axed next year, with no replacement planned.
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.
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.
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22 Oct, 2014
German powerhouse Brabus reveals performance pack for the GLA crossover range
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22 Oct, 2014
Auto Express readers vote Honda’s Civic Type R their favourite new model from the 2014 Paris Motor Show
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22 Oct, 2014
Drivers unwittingly breaking the law due to phoney speed limit signs
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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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
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22 Oct, 2014
Shock new survey reveals motorists' poor eyesight
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22 Oct, 2014
Widebody Aston Martin Vantage mule hints that Aston is developing a more hardcore racer
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.
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.