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Sweden's SKF, the world's largest maker of industrial bearings, is betting on automated manufacturing to help it stay ahead with its first fully-automated assembly line set to be running by early 2017.

German supplier ZF raised its offer for Swedish brake systems maker Haldex to 4.86 billion Swedish crowns ($572 million) today, matching a rival bid from Germany's Knorr-Bremse.

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Updates for VW Golf R are in the pipeline, and our spies have caught the updated model testing in Estate form

Volkswagen Group investors are rushing to file more lawsuits in Germany to meet a deadline that lawyers say may be imaginary. Shareholders who want to sue are concerned that Sept.

About 240,000 motor vehicles were produced in Romania in the first eight months of 2016, down 6.5% year on year.

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There are over 18,000 vehicle fires annually, but insurance costs are unaffected

From engineering and styling to marketing and retail, real-time visualisation and Virtual Reality continue to demonstrate their potential to bring surprising changes to many functions within the automotive industry. We talked to Simon Jones, who is director of Unreal Engine Enterprise, the company that develops the core technology driving this innovation, to find out how the technology is being used and where we go from here.

The executives chosen as 2016 Automotive News Europe Eurostars achieved success by exceeding expectations. Jim Farley, who is Ford of Europe President, is this year's Eurostar winner for European Operations Head.

Daimler's Mercedes brand extended its global sales lead over rival BMW after its August registrations increased at a faster pace. Both automakers benefited from booming demand for SUVs.

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt of VW Group.

In a video posted on FCA's YouTube channel, which has since been taken down, the Alfa Romeo Stelvio makes an appearance at the company's Cassino plant in Italy, where it is being assembled.

Visteon said today former Bright House Networks LLC President Nomi Bergman has been elected to its board of directors, effective Oct. 1.

The great-grandson of Henry Ford called on the auto industry and public institutions to address ethical issues emerging in a world where robot cars will make life-and-death decisions in roadway crashes -- and to do it soon.

The Detroit auto show's new AutoMobili-D exposition has its keynote speaker: John Krafcik, CEO of Google's self-driving car project. Krafcik is set to give a presentation on Sunday, Jan. 8, on the first day of AutoMobili-D.

Silicon Valley is creating a crash course in self-driving car technology to address a shortage of engineers with help from a startup in a different field: online education.

Jaguar Land Rover has started work on its new factory in Slovakia that will build a range of all-new aluminum Jaguar Land Rover vehicles.

Porsche SE, the main shareholder of VW Group, is facing lawsuits from investors claiming the firm did not disclose the financial risks of VW's emissions scandal.

After nearly five decades working in the auto industry for BMW, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors, Bob Lutz has his name -- or at least a piece of it -- on a car.