News
18 Mar, 2016
Beefed-up Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk off-roader gains sporty styling tweaks, but won’t be coming to the UK
The FBI and U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued a bulletin warning that motor vehicles are "increasingly vulnerable" to hacking.
Volkswagen aims to agree a deal with U.S. authorities that resolves as many issues related to its emissions-cheating scandal as possible at once, a senior manager at the automaker told Reuters.
BMW's Chief Financial Officer, Friedrich Eichiner, believes the Chinese car market has stabilized and now sees the U.S. market as the biggest risk this year.
PCMA Rus says it will be "quite challenging" to achieve a localisation rate of 70% as the country's automotive sector increasingly looks to domestic components in order to remain competitive.
Former Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking and ex-finance chief Holger Haerter were acquitted of charges they manipulated shares of Volkswagen Group in 2008 in a failed bid to buy VW.
UK-based emergency logistics specialist, Evolution Time Critical recently introduced a bespoke transport management system, recruited staff and generated a 19 percent increase in revenues. Matthew Beecham spoke to Brad Brennan, managing director of ETC to find out more.
Production of the 2017 Escape - Kuga in other markets, and the first Ford vehicle to offer Apple CarPlay and Android Auto - has started at the automaker's Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky.
News
18 Mar, 2016
New tests by German vehicle experts show 24 cars from 19 different manufacturers vulnerable to an 'easily built' electronic device
Daimler is considering Poland instead of Russia for a Mercedes car plant, reports in the Polish and German press said. The automaker is looking at a Polish site rejected by Jaguar Land Rover when the UK company opted for Slovakia for its new factory.
PSA/Peugeot-Citroen's European sales grew as a slower pace than the overall market last year, but the automaker isn't worried, PSA Europe boss Denis Martin told Automotive News Europe.
The 2017 Maserati Levante, the luxury brand's first-ever crossover, will go on sale in U.S. dealerships this fall, with pricing starting at $72,000, excluding delivery, the brand said today.
A Japanese supplier to Honda with sales offices in suburban Detroit will plead guilty in federal court and pay a $4.55 million fine for rigging bids on the prices of power window switches on the Civic for years.
News
17 Mar, 2016
Pictures have leaked showing Suzuki's new Swift (and Swift Sport) supermini, ahead of a reveal later this year
An industrywide agreement to make automatic emergency braking standard will bring the technology to the nation's new-vehicle fleet at least two years faster than a government mandate would have, the National Highway Traffic Safety...
Aston Martin and Red Bull will build a super-fast road car as part of a deal that will link the UK automaker back to Formula One racing. The companies will use F1 technology to produce what they say will be "the ultimate of all road cars."
US vehicle safety regulators announced on Thursday (17 March) said 20 automakers have agreed to make automatic emergency braking standard on nearly all US vehicles by 2022, a move that could prevent thousands of rear-end crashes annually.
LED technology will power 20% of light vehicle front headlights by 2030, from just 2% in 2015, according to the latest headlight fitment forecasts by just-auto's research unit, QUBE.