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Jan
5th

UK sales forecast to fall 5% this year after record 2016

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UK sales hit a record of 2.7 million in 2016 despite fears that the country's Brexit vote could hit demand. Registrations fell 1 percent in December and the market is forecast to decline by 5 percent this year.
Jan
5th

Toyota, skeptical about self-driving hype, plans to let humans stay in control

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Toyota plans to spend years designing cars in which humans retain a large measure of control, since the goal of turning all driving decisions over to computers seems too dangerous for now.
Jan
5th

VW must face U.S. investor lawsuit in emissions scandal

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Volkswagen Group and former CEO Martin Winterkorn must defend an investor lawsuit in California over the company's diesel emissions cheating scandal, a U.S. judge ruled.
Jan
5th

VW’s Uber challenger will borrow ideas from Budd-e concept

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Volkswagen's ride-sharing autonomous vehicle will borrow ideas from the Budd-e concept.
Jan
5th

Suppliers to the new Jaguar F-Pace

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Assembly of Jaguar's all-new F-Pace began at parent Jaguar Land Rover's facility at Solihull, England, in January 2016. Output is expected to peak at more than 65,000 units in 2018, according to IHS Automotive.
Jan
4th

Pagani Huayra Roadster teased again ahead of Geneva reveal

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Pagani Huayra Roadster teaser
News 20 Jan, 2017

Pagani has confirmed that an open-top version of the Huayra hypercar will appear in March

Jan
4th

Audi’s dealer discontent in China shows perils of over-expansion

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After entering China in the 1980s and building an early lead, Audi enjoyed lucrative sales numbers for decades as the consumer economy took off.
Jan
4th

BMW will deploy fleet of self-driving 7 series on roads

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BMW will dispatch a fleet of 7 series autonomous vehicles to U.S. and European cities this year as the next step in its partnership with Mobileye and Intel to introduce fully self-driving vehicles by 2021.
Jan
4th

BMW app will turn smart phones into virtual showrooms

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BMW plans to offer an augmented reality app that will allow customers to use their smart phones as virtual showrooms.
Jan
4th

Kia bets on bigger cabin to boost new Picanto

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Kia is betting on a larger cabin and more trunk space to help the new-generation Picanto compete against rivals in Europe's minicar segment.
Jan
4th

German sales jump nearly 4% in Dec. as Toyota leads gains

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Registrations in Germany increased by nearly 4 percent in December as Toyota brand led gains among volume automakers, while the scandal-hit VW brand's sales fell sharply. Full-year sales were up 4.5 percent to 3.35 million, a seven-year high.
Jan
4th

Faraday Future unveils Tesla-challenging EV

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Electric vehicle start-up Faraday Future showed off a prototype of a vehicle set for production next year as the China-backed company strives to win credibility in the crowded sector and weather its funding challenges.
Jan
4th

Ford, Toyota form telematics bloc with PSA, Mazda to stymie Google and Apple

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Ford and Toyota have formed a consortium with automakers including PSA and Mazda to speed development of auto-industry standards for in-vehicle apps, a step toward preventing Apple and Google from controlling how drivers connect smartphones to their...
Jan
4th

Pininfarina prepares to reboot with former PSA designer

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Pininfarina's new design chief, Carlo Bonzanigo, will work on an array of automotive and industrial design projects that the Italian company has in the pipeline.
Jan
3rd

Chrysler Portal concept minivan aimed at wooing millennials

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Fiat Chrysler is trying to court millennials with a futuristic vision of a 'Soccer Mom' car. The automaker on Tuesday unveiled its electric minivan concept, the Chrysler Portal, at the CES technology show.
Jan
3rd

How Ford finally turned the Trump tide on GM

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Suddenly, Ford has become the American automaker investing in America, while GM is printing up layoff notices that will go out to 2,000 workers in Michigan and Ohio just as Trump is taking office.
Jan
3rd

Driverless cars finally steer near showrooms

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Car electronics supplier Delphi Automotive went coast-to-coast in 2015 in a self-driving Audi Q5 SUV to prove the autonomous automobile had arrived. Now, the supplier is shifting from stunts to selling.
Jan
3rd

Future PSA models to get built-in HD camera as standard

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PSA ConnectedCam CES 2017
News 3 Jan, 2017

Garmin tie-up announced at CES 2017 with intelligent driving video recorder tech to be installed as standard

Jan
3rd

Intel to take stake in Here in automated driving push

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U.S. chip maker Intel plans to take a 15 percent stake in German digital mapping firm Here, it said today, as it seeks to build its presence in automated driving technology.
Jan
3rd

Icahn sweetens offer for Federal-Mogul for third time

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Billionaire Carl Icahn's investment firm, Icahn Enterprises LP, sweetened its offer for a third time to buy shares of Federal-Mogul Holdings Corp. it does not already own.
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