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11 Jun, 2015
The more rugged Insignia Country Tourer has been taken off sale in the UK thanks to low sales volumes
Porsche increased May sales by 24.6% year on year to 20,500 cars.
New vehicle sales in Indonesia fell by 18% to 79,383 units in May, from 96,874 units a year earlier, according to industry association Gaikindo.
New vehicle sales in China fell by 0.4% year on year to 1,903,500 units in May, compared with already sluggish year earlier volumes, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).
BMW will build its redesigned 7 Series in Dingolfing, main factory source for the predecessor models.
Sales at VW's core division fell by 5.9 percent in May, the seventh drop in eight months, as slowing momentum in China and declines in South America outweighed gains in Europe.
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11 Jun, 2015
Renault’s first pick-up truck will be unveiled next week at the Buenos Aires Motor Show
Volvo will make less complexity a selling point against its German premium rivals, CEO Hakan Samuelsson said. He used the example to show how Volvo is being revived after China's Zhejiang Geely Holding bought the Swedish automaker from Ford.
Autonomous vehicle technology will become Valeo's main growth driver by 2020, says Guillaume Devauchelle, the supplier's head of innovation.
The number of vehicles on U.S. roads with potentially defective Takata airbags appears to be less than half the 34 million initially estimated by federal regulators.
The top U.S. consumer protection regulator is expanding its oversight to include large non-bank auto financing companies.
General Motors said it plans to announce a development in the secondary use for electric vehicle batteries next week, bringing more attention to the growing stationary energy storage market.
A Magna International subsidiary and Durr Systems both have been approved for Michigan state incentives for new operations planned in suburban Detroit.
Dodge is going back to its roots again in a new round of Dodge Brothers commercials, which launch this week. The four ads highlight the 2015 Dart, Durango and the Scat Pack trims of the Challenger and Charger.
Daimler's Smart subsidiary will not expand its lineup with an SUV/crossover in the near future, the brand's CEO, Annette Winkler, said.
BMW's sixth-generation 7-series flagship sedan will use gee-whiz technology aimed at keeping buyers from defecting to rivals.
News
11 Jun, 2015
The introduction of Infiniti's new Q30 hatch and QX30 crossover will create 300 jobs at Nissan's Sunderland plant
Labour relations chiefs at General Motors and Fiat Chrysler (FCA) have both retired ahead of this year's negotiations with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union.
Johnson Controls said on Wednesday (10 June) it was exploring "strategic options for the separation of its automotive business".
Back in 1994 a bunch of Audi and Porsche engineers got together to create the RS 2 Avant, a brawny estate - based on the Audi 80 - intended to reinstate the Ingolstadt company as a performance car manufacturer after the successes it had enjoyed with the quattro the previous decade.