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A boy touts his adventurous mother in a new Infiniti QX60 spot that debuts on our viral video list this week.

Tesla said it is investigating how a worker from Slovenia was critically injured in a fall while on the job last year at the company's plant in Fremont, Calif. The Mercury News newspaper in San Jose, Calif.

Guangzhou Automobile Group plans to return to the Detroit auto show in 2017 after a one-year hiatus. The state-owned Chinese automaker, which hopes to launch U.S. sales in the next few years, plans to exhibit on the main show floor.

A subsidiary of Corning Inc. agreed to pay $66.5 million in criminal fines and plead guilty to fixing the prices of materials used in vehicle catalytic converters, the U.S. Department of Justice said today.

The State of Hawaii has sued Takata over its defective airbag inflators in state court, accusing the beleaguered Japanese supplier of a cover-up.

News 17 May, 2016

Rolls-Royce creates 50 extra-special Phantom coupe and Drophead cabrio variants, marking the end of production

Volkswagen shareholder Lower Saxony wanted to withhold its backing for the carmaker's top management at a supervisory board meeting but relented to avoid further damaging the company, a source close to the German federal state told Reuters.

The DS4, as you'll see from older ones sporting the deux chevrons, was originally launched in 2011 as a Citroen with DSign, DStyle and DSport trim levels and a range of petrol engines (VTi120, THP155, THP200) and diesels (HDi 110 and HDi 160) with a mix of five and six-speed manuals and an automated six-speed manual. At the end of 2014, the delightful new, three cylinder, 1.2-litre PureTech 130 engine was introduced and plans were announced for DS - also now wrapping up the DS3 and DS5 - to become a stand-alone brand by the end of 2015. After a Frankfurt show debut last year, came the DS4's mid-life update by year-end - three new trim levels called Elegance, Prestige and Crossback (a Brazil market-style, higher riding SUV wannabe) and a stack of new engines - petrol THP165 and 210 replacing the 155 and 200, a whole new range of 'BlueHDi' 120, 150 and 180 diesels (urea injection with Selective Catalyst Reduction and particle filter to meet Euro VI emissions regs), six speed manual and stop and start standard on everything and the option of a 'proper' six-speed Aisin automatic transmission for several versions, both petrol and diesel. Time The Family and I had a look at a DS, then.

News 18 May, 2016

Answer one simple question for your chance to win a trip to the World Rallycross Championships in France

News 16 May, 2016

No timeline but smartphone app for a UK digital driving licence revealed by DVLA chief executive Oliver Morley

Opel has refuted claims in Germany that it has so-called 'defeat devices' installed to some of its diesel engine models in order to rig emissions tests.

Nissan has denied falsifying emission tests for diesel Qashqai models built in its UK plant and exported to South Korea.

News 16 May, 2016

British-built Qashqai accused of cheating emissions testing by South Korean authorities, Nissan denies wrongdoing

Faurecia has added to its TechCentre in Brières-les-Scellés (France) with the inclusion of CoverTech, a new expertise facility for automotive seat covers.

The Kwid will be assembled in Brazil by Renault's Ayrton Senna industrial complex in Sao José dos Pinhais (state of Parana), the automaker announced.

Eberspaecher says its group of companies generated revenue of EUR4.4bn (US$4.9bn) for 2015, up 21.5%.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said it plans to join the class-action lawsuits filed against Volkswagen Group over the automaker's emissions scandal.

Nissan denied South Korean claims that it faked emissions figures in its UK-built Qashqai SUV diesel models.