Jaguar Land Rover will spend 450 million pounds ($680 million) to double the size of its engine plant in central England, taking total spending to 1 billion pounds on the plant, which opened last year to make four-cylinder diesels.
Volkswagen has said it has German approval to repair about 70% of its 'rigged' diesel engines and made a deal with US regulators to resubmit questionable software in other vehicles for review.
Edmunds.com has forecast 1,331,415 new cars and trucks will be sold in the US in November for an estimated seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 18.3m, both records for the month. The projected sales will be an 8.3% decrease from October 2015, but a 2.5% increase from November 2014.
Edmunds.com has forecast 1,331,415 new cars and trucks will be sold in the US in November for an estimated seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 18.3m, both records for the month. The projected sales will be an 8.3% decrease from October 2015, but a 2.5% increase from November 2014.
Leoni has inaugurated its first plant in Paraguay with a facility in San Lorenzo near Asuncion, manufacturing wiring harnesses for unnamed customers from the commercial vehicle and the passenger car segment.
Kongsberg Automotive's Fluid Transfer Systems (FTS) business area has secured contracts for the ABC air-brake coupling system totalling EUR17m (US$18.1m), with average annual revenues of EUR5.3m.
German prosecutors have launched an investigation into suspected tax evasion at VW Group that relates to the understating of CO2 levels in some of the automaker's vehicles and focuses on five employees, who were not identified.
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Renault disputes test results showing NOx emissions from its Espace 1.6-liter diesel variant were up to 25 times higher than allowed under Euro 6 limits.
NOx emissions from Renault's 1.6 dCi diesel-powered Espace were found in tests to be up to 25 times higher than the current Euro-6 limit, a German environmental lobby group said in a report today.
European automotive supplier organisation, CLEPA,has cancelled its Aftermarket Conference scheduled for this Thursday (26 November) in Brussels, due to the Belgian Federal Crisis Centre ramping up security around the event venue.
The German government is considering expanding the powers of technical inspectors examining cars in the wake of VW's emissions cheating scandal.
There has been a flurry of announcements in recent weeks concerning the next wave of high-tech components.
The world's third largest brake supplier is to put production equipment currently used to supply doomed Australian OEMs on to the global market after local car production ends in 2017.
The EU plans to present a report by the end of this week on CO2 emissions from cars, according to an official with knowledge of the issue. The document will include data on pollution by automakers with the exception of Volkswagen Group.
The Spanish government, facing an election next month, plans to extend a car purchase subsidy scheme that has massively boosted sales until the middle of next year, a source at the Industry Ministry said.
SsangYong, the smallest, oldest, and worst-named of Korea's motor manufacturers, has finally produced a car that measures up to the competition in the European market. The Tivoli is a B-sector supermini-SUV crossover which bears comparison with the Nissan Juke and Opel/Vauxhall Mokka which lead this expanding class - and with UK prices starting at GBP12,950, undercuts equivalent models by GBP2,000 or more.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said it will invest GBP450m to double the size of its UK engine manufacturing plant.
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