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Volkswagen's U.S. dealers are seeking reparations from the automaker for financial damages caused by the company's emissions violations. Three of VW's U.S.

The Terrain compact crossover is the latest GMC nameplate to receive a Nightfall edition.

"Bug bounty" reward programs, for hackers to responsibly identify and help correct automotive software weaknesses, may be on their way for the top automakers, much as they have been adopted already in other industries.

IHS Inc., the parent company of IHS Automotive and Carfax, agreed to buy Markit Ltd. to create a $13 billion London-based data and business research provider.

MSX International has acquired Australia-based Sewells Group, creating what the companies say will be the largest global provider of business process and training services to automotive dealerships.

Toyota plans to make automatic emergency braking a standard feature on many Toyota and Lexus vehicles by the end of 2017, the automaker said today.

FCA US said it was committed to use sensor-fusion technology for all its future automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems.

Cohda Wireless said it would supply its equipment for a trial that lays the groundwork for the expected mandating of connected vehicle technology in the US within four years.

News 21 Mar, 2016

We visit Ford's Cologne design studio to take a look at the Ford S-MAX Vignale - the brand's efforts to take the MPV to new heights

Volkswagen Group Rus says it supports efforts by Moscow to provide financial incentives to the automotive sector and particularly backs any efforts for the supplier sector.

Renault named veteran executive Yves Caracatzanis as head of its Dacia low-cost brand in Romania.

Renault named veteran executive Yves Caracatzanis as head of its Dacia low-cost brand in Romania.

BMW Group is testing self-driving vehicles on its factory floors in the form of suitcase-size robotic trolleys as part of an automation drive that the automaker expects will help cut costs by 5 percent per car annually.

The European car market was up 13.8% to 1.09m units in February, with SUVs again outperforming the overall market according to JATO data.

Volkswagen's Dresden manufacturing facility - the 'Transparent Factory' ("Gläserne Manufaktur") is to be realigned as a showcase for 'electromobility and digitalisation' following the ending of Phaeton manufacture there.

One of the many things I enjoy about covering BMW's annual financial results press conference (reports here, here, here and here) is the 'show and tell' side trips - such as the Leipzig i3 'factory within a factory' in 2014. This year, rather than travel to the former east Germany, we needed only to cross the road from BMW Welt in the northern outskirts of Munich to the company's oldest factory - built 'out in the country' in 1922 (to make aero engines, with an airport across the road on what became the 1976 Olympics site), and now landlocked by the much-expanded city, requiring ingenious solutions for further expansion, such as the new paint shop (of which more later).

GM's president Dan Ammann and GM China president Matt Tsien have announced jointly the company's strategy for Chinese market growth in the next five years.