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News 7 May, 2015

Skoda has released sketches of a booted rally car concept that wiill be unveiled at Worthersee GTI Meeting

SEAT was the only vehicle manufacturer to reveal world premiere models at the 2015 Barcelona motor show. The media preview day was 7 May.

Each year, bit by bit, cars will become more fully autonomous as the industry bakes 'driver-assist' technology into packages of safety options.

News 7 May, 2015

Test mule for Lambo's hotter, more powerful Superleggera Huracan caught out on the road with hidden high-mounted exhausts

Data from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showed April registrations up for the 38th consecutive month. Demand rose by 5.1% to 185,778 units - the month's best performance since 2005. Year to date registrations for 2015 are up 6.4% to 920,366.

Daimler said vehicle sales at its Mercedes cars unit, including Smart, rose 12 percent last month, driven by robust demand in the U.S. and China as well as strong sales of the Mercedes C class and GLA.

News 7 May, 2015

2015 SMMT figures for April car registrations show a 10-year high, with over 185,000 in one month alone

UK car sales increased by 5.1 percent in April, the highest sales figure for the month in a decade. Full-year sales are forecast to rise by 4 percent, fueled by cheap credit and strong consumer confidence.

Continental raised its 2015 sales forecast after posting higher first-quarter earnings that were helped by positive foreign exchange effects and a low oil price. Quarterly earnings rose 10 percent to 1.05 billion euros ($1.

Tesla Motors' chief executive Elon Musk has announced "March 2016" as the date when the firm's highly anticipated Model 3 will be revealed.

News 7 May, 2015

BMW updates the 3 Series range with new engines, a 330e plug-in hybrid and subtle styling tweaks

Fiat will debut the first model in its new compact car range for Europe and Turkey later this month. The brand will unveil a compact sedan at the Istanbul auto show that will replace the Linea.

News 7 May, 2015

Updated 2015 SEAT Ibiza revealed to tackle the Ford Fiesta but an all-new Ibiza supermini arrives in 2017

Tesla Motors has reportedly agreed to buy a Michigan-based parts maker, Riviera Tool. The acquisition is seen as a significant 'first' for Tesla.

Renault's new head of product planning, Bruno Ancelin, says improving the brand's pricing structure is a lot easier now the lineup features reliable, high-quality models.

PSA and Ford will extend their partnership for small diesel engines, a report said. Ford will get variants of PSA's new DV-R family of diesels, which will be introduced in 2017.

Tesla's first-quarter net losses more than tripled to $154 million as the automaker awaited the launch of the Model X crossover. Tesla expects to make 12,500 vehicles in the second quarter and deliver 10,000 to 11,000 to customers.

Toyota, seeking a smooth debut this fall for its Mirai hydrogen car, said it will initially sell the car through just eight dealerships in California.

News 7 May, 2015

Kahn is back with a Vengeance, its new Aston Martin DB9 based supercar revealed here in the first official images

KAR Auction Services, parent company of ADESA, said its net income more than doubled to $54.5 million on revenues that increased 8.3 percent to $632.4 million in the first quarter.