Almost 28,000 new vans were sold in the UK in April, an 11.7% year on year rise, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
Toyota, after posting a 9.2 percent rise in China sales last month, is on course to meet its full-year sales target for the world's largest auto market, driven by lower retail inventories and a tax cut on small-engine cars.
New car registrations in the UK made a modest gain of 2% year on year in April, according to figures published today by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT). 189,505 cars were registered in the month - the most in April since 2003, when 194,312 new vehicles found homes.
Honda Manufacturing of Alabama (HMA) has marked the start of production of the redesigned 2017 Ridgeline pickup truck, on-sale soon at North American dealerships.
UK new-car registrations rose 2 percent last month even as sales of the market's three best-selling brands - Ford, VW and Vauxhall - fell.
"Independence Day" is how Boris Johnson - recent Mayor of London - and star turn of the UK's so-called Brexit wing looking for an amicable divorce from Brussels - is describing the day after next month's British referendum on European Union membership.
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6 May, 2016
The latest addition to the Carabinieri's fleet is an Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio Verde model packing 503bhp
Forming part of India's Mahindra Group, Tech Mahindra is an IT service provider with an interest in developing driverless technologies. Matthew Beecham spoke to Karthikeyan Natarajan, global head of engineering and R&D at Tech Mahindra to learn more about its cyber security and connectivity solutions.
Pakistan is wooing foreign carmakers such as Volkswagen, Renault, Nissan and Fiat Chrysler with generous import duties as it seeks to boost auto investment in the country and shake up its Japanese-dominated car market.
Pakistan is wooing VW, Renault and Fiat Chrysler with generous import duties as it seeks to loosen the grip of Toyota, Honda, and Suzuki on the market.
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6 May, 2016
New Jeep Wrangler looks set for an evolutionary makeover, with our spies catching it during testing
Commercial Vehicle Group (CVG) says it is to consolidate its North American seat production into two facilities and cease seat production in its Piedmont, Alabama site.
Asahi Kasei has opened a plant for plastic compounds in Athens, Alabama, as the second factory of its US subsidiary Asahi Kasei Plastics North America (APNA).
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6 May, 2016
Toyota's Australian division has come up with a practical Shooting Brake version of the GT 86 sports car
Ford has joined VW and PSA in switching to a technology said to be more effective in cleaning harmful emissions from diesel engines.
Dongfeng Getrag Transmissiob, a China joint venture between Getrag and Dongfeng, began production of six-speed dual-clutch transmissions at a plant in Wuhan.