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News 8 Jan, 2015

New Volvo S60 Cross Country to be unveiled in Detroit heralding completely new market sector

Visteon named two new members to its board amid a flurry of merger and acquisition activity at the supplier in recent months.

News 7 Jan, 2015

More power, less weight and more drama for Porsche Cayman GT4, spied completely undisguised

News 7 Jan, 2015

Israeli firm Storedot is planning to showcase advanced battery tech that allows rapid electric car charging in early 2016

News 7 Jan, 2015

BMW's new lighting signature previewed for front and rear lights on the M4 performance coupe

Mercedes plans to make 2015 its fifth straight year of record annual sales on demand for new models such as the coupe version of the GLE SUV.

Onwers of the beached car ship, Hoegh Osaka, say the vessel has self-floated in the past few minutes and is being towed to a holding position in Southampton Water.

News 7 Jan, 2015

Ford has started 25 worldwide experiments looking at improving driving in congested cities

Ford's US head of marketing, sales and service, John Felice will retire on 1 February, 2015 and be replaced by Mark LaNeve, currently chief operating officer at Global Team Ford, the automaker's global advertising and marketing agency.

Ford's US head of marketing, sales and service, John Felice will retire on 1 February, 2015 and be replaced by Mark LaNeve, currently chief operating officer at Global Team Ford, the automaker's global advertising and marketing agency.

Ford today said Mark LaNeve, a former top sales executive at General Motors, will take over as its new head of US sales, marketing and service as of Feb. 1. LaNeve, 55, replaces John Felice, who was the company's US sales chief for only 15 months.

News 7 Jan, 2015

BMW's advanced automated parking system could be here in five years on the i3 and other models

Toyota's struggling Scion brand will add a sedan to its lineup for the first time as it battles slumping sales in the United States.

Millbrook, once the Vauxhall Proving Ground, has announced plans to build a four wheel drive chassis dynamometer test cell at its 700 acre site in Bedfordshire.

BMW Group said on Wednesday (7 January) it was recruiting 200 new apprentices to join its UK manufacturing and retailer operations in 2015.

News 7 Jan, 2015

First look at hybrid-only Lexus RX reveals more subtle styling than its radical small brother, the NX

Ford is running 25 mobility experiments around the world ranging from car-sharing schemes to apps to help drivers find parking spaces in a bid to find answers to global transportation challenges.

General Motors has raised the prices of its vehicles in India following the government's withdrawal of excise duty concessions but also cited rising input costs.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) has teamed up with Karur Vysya Bank (KVB) to offer loans for commercial vehicles.

Mercedes-Benz India plans to add a car assembly line to its factory in Chakan, spending INR1.5bn (US$23.6m) to double capacity to 20,000 units.