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Hyundai Motor affiliate Kia Motors has announced that it expects to reach the 15 millionth cumulative export (from South Korea factories) milestone later this month.

Features 18 Jun, 2015

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Lei Shing Hong, the world's largest Mercedes dealership group, is on the lookout for further sales outlets in Germany to develop techniques for operating in a mature market.

News 18 Jun, 2015

Bentley's Flying Spur saloon gets posh special edition with new exterior and interior trim, available to order now

Nokia favors selling its HERE maps unit to Audi, BMW and Mercedes although price differences remain, according to sources.

Deliveries by the Volvo Group's truck operations in May 2015 totalled 17,475 vehicles, almost the same as in May 2014.

Mercedes-Benz Vans Russia's supply quality control unit says it does not make sense to "go in and out" of the troubled market, which is currently beset by myriad challenges stemming partly from international disapproval of what many see as Moscow's actions in Eastern Ukraine and de facto annexation of Crimea.

GAZ Group's supply division is welcoming the rouble depreciation as a genuine business opportunity, but noted it had to submit its tender to manufacture for its parent in just the same way as any other competitor.

GAZ Group's supply division is welcoming the rouble depreciation as a genuine business opportunity but noted it had to submit its tender to manufacture for its parent in just the same way as any other competitor.

GAZ Group's parent estimates the bottom may have been reached of plummeting passenger and light commercial vehicle sales in Russia, but concedes the government will likely have to keep stepping in with incentive programmes.

Toyota Motor came out on top in Edmunds.com's annual Best Retained Value Awards, nabbing a brand-level award and four model-level awards.

Only three vehicles for the 2015 model year, out of more than 100, feature easy-to-use child restraint installation hardware, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said today.

Dealers can't make money by solely focusing on new cars any more, Audi's director of sales strategy says. Meanwhile, the head of analyst group ICDP says that Western Europe's car retail network needs to shrink by 20,000 stores.

Kia topped all other nonpremium brands in J.D. Power and Associates' latest survey of new-vehicle quality for the first time ever, while Japanese brands fell below the industry average -- another first in the study's 29-year history.

Mercedes-Benz has renamed the up-sized second generation of its compact crossover and will offer coupe, performance and plug-in hybrid variants. The 2016 GLC, which goes on sale in mid-November, replaces the GLK.

Toyota has said it will recall almost 1.37m more vehicles in the United States due to potentially defective Takata airbags.

News 18 Jun, 2015

Peugeot Sport-tuned Peugeot 308 GTi is coming in October, with a choice of 247bhp or 266bhp and priced from £26,500

Eight in 10 drivers report getting better fuel economy than the EPA ratings posted on their vehicles' window stickers, AAA says in a new study.

Features 20 Jun, 2015

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