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Tower International, which makes a variety of metal components for cars and trucks, said its board authorized a share repurchase program of up to $100 million of the company's common stock.

Durr AG, the No. 1 global builder of automotive paint shops, has consolidated three Detroit-area facilities into a $40 million technical center in Southfield, Mich.

Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne says if Donald Trump is elected U.S. president, the way he manages the North American Free Trade Agreement may affect the carmaker's production options in the region.

News 17 Jun, 2016

The Land Rover Discovery Sport has towed three train carriages weighing more than 100 tonnes along a railway track.

An Italian consumer group said an appeals court in Venice had accepted a class action suit against Volkswagen over allegations dating back to 2014 that the automaker exaggerated the fuel-saving credentials of its Golf model.

News 17 Jun, 2016

As of April this year, there were close to 60,000 electric or plug-in hybrid cars registered in the UK

News 22 Jun, 2016

We’ve teamed up with 4SITE 4x4 Tyres to send one reader and a friend on a Land Rover experience

Features 17 Jun, 2016

If you’ve got a tiny garage or you just think the best things come in small packages, our-round-up of the smallest cars on sale will help

Barely had our business/components/supply chain editor Simon Warburton, liberally fuelled by glutinous rice balls he helped make, touched back down in Blighty, after a week covering the 2016 Global Automotive Forum in Chongqing, China, and it was time for us to sling him back onto a plane, this one bound for the 'Detroit of Russia', St Petersburg.

Canadian supplier Linamar has talked with Apple and Google about potentially supplying the technology giants if they begin making cars.

A Mexico City-based transmission supplier Tremec plans to invest $54 million to establish a manufacturing plant and U.S. headquarters in suburban Detroit, a move that will create 133 jobs, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. said Thursday.

News 17 Jun, 2016

New 911 Carrera S gets Le Mans-style special edition in celebration of illustrious racing history; will make UK debut at Goodwood 2016

News 17 Jun, 2016

Jeep's exclusive Renegade 'Hell's Revenge' reveals a hot new look as a tribute to Harley-Davidson owners.

European Commission (EC) president, Jean-Claude Juncker, has conceded the Brussels bureaucracy has made "major mistakes" in the past. His comments, in Russia, came a week before the UK is due to vote in its highly contentious referendum on whether it stays or exits the EU. Most carmakers operating in the UK want the country to remain 'in' but the opposite view is held by other auto industry-related firms such as construction equipment maker JCB.

Iran anticipates domestic automotive content will reach 80% as the country continues to reap the benefits of sanctions ending at an astonishing rate.

ZF has celebrated the official production start of its eight-speed dual clutch transmission (8DT), developed jointly with Porsche, at the Brandenburg plant. It's been developed as a modular kit so versions for 2WD, 4WD and hybrid can all be made on a flexible production line for which ZF spent EUR100m.