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A worker group created as an alternative to the UAW at Volkswagen AG's plant in Tennessee has failed to meet minimum membership requirements under the German automaker's labor policy, VW said on Thursday.

MG Motor will stop making cars in the UK this year after its owner, SAIC Motor, decided to move final assembly of the MG3 to China from Longbridge, England. SAIC will continue to design and engineer MG cars in Longbridge.

MG will stop making cars in the UK this year after its owner, SAIC Motor, decided to move final assembly of the MG3 from Longbridge, central England, to China. The company estimates 25 jobs will be lost.

MG will stop making cars in the UK this year after its owner, SAIC, decided to move final assembly of the MG3 to China from Longbridge, England. SAIC will continue to design and engineer MG cars in Longbridge.

News 26 Sep, 2016

Hot hatch favourite is now more practical with five-door variant from £18,495

Cadillac is offering its 400 smallest U.S. dealers as much as $180,000 if they would rather give up their franchise than make the investment necessary to meet a host of new standards being imposed by the brand.

News 24 Sep, 2016

Nissan’s new electric small car set to follow the next Leaf and could share tech with the Renault ZOE

Investigators looking into Volkswagen Group's diesel-emissions scandal have found no suspicious facts against Rupert Stadler, the head of Audi, Reuters reported.

News 24 Sep, 2016

UK’s most badly behaved motorists outed in new report, with Bristol drivers the worst

AvtoVAZ has a civic responsibility to preserve Russian jobs, the company's new CEO, Nicolas Maure, told Reuters, rowing back on a politically sensitive policy of redundancies in the face of plummeting sales and record losses.

Opinion 25 Sep, 2016

Mike Rutherford wonders why more Brits are not crossing the Channel to visit the 2016 Paris Motor Show

Ad agency Dentsu will pay an estimated 230 million yen ($2.3 million) back to customers, including Toyota, that it overcharged for Internet advertisements in a case likely to stoke concern that digital media transactions have lacked transparency.

Auto sales in the U.S. may not set a record this year and will probably decline from 2015's record in the coming years, said Honda's top American sales executive.

Tesla Motors is cranking up the pressure to sell electric cars directly to customers, after filing its first federal lawsuit over the practice on the home turf of General Motors and Ford.

German braking systems firm Knorr-Bremse says it has raised its stake in competitor Haldex to 14.9 percent, further intensifying an on-going bidding war over the Swedish firm with Germany's ZF Friedrichshafen. ZF owns a 21.2 percent stake in Haldex.

News 23 Sep, 2016

MG Motor has ceased production at its long-serving Longbridge factory, with all cars now China-built

News 23 Sep, 2016

New 201bhp engine and seven-speed DCT for Kia Soul, plus updates for Carens MPV

VW Group should reduce the "huge sums of money" paid to executives and any bonuses should be given in shares, activist investor TCI Fund Management said in a letter to the car company seen by Reuters.

PSA, Renault and Suzuki have signaled interest in a deal with ailing Malaysian automaker Proton, Reuters reported. The brand's owner is seeking to sell a stake in a company that once commanded a 74 percent market share in the country.

Volvo has appointed Oedgaerd Andersson as its head of electrics, electronics and chassis as the automaker embarks on ambitious plans to add self-driving and full-electric vehicles to its lineup.