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Volkswagen Group China has announced deliveries for the first nine months of 2017. Together with its two Chinese Joint Ventures, Saic Volkswagen and FAW-Volkswagen, the Group delivered almost 2.90m (+1.4%) vehicles in the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong, including 139,000 imported vehicles.

Valeo has received the approval from the European Commission and plans to complete the acquisition of FTE Automotive, a leading producer of actuators, before the end of October, subject to the approval of Turkish antitrust authorities.

The National Automotive Innovation Centre (NAIC), at the University of Warwick in central England, has hit a construction milestone (with the completion of the external grounds) and is on track to commence operations next summer.

BMW Group sales of electrified vehicles in the first three quarters of 2017 have exceeded those achieved in the whole of 2016; in September, electrified sales topped the 10,000 mark for the first time in a single month. With the company's electrified line-up already totalling nine models, a total of 10,786 (+50.5%) BMW i, BMW iPerformance and MINI Electric vehicles were delivered in September, bringing the year-to-date total to 68,687 (+64.2%).

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Reading services on the M4 have been voted as the best in England in a new study but the M4's Heston services is the worst

Britain's largest labour union, Unite, has called for guarantees over future investment into Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant following the carmaker's announcement that it is planning to make 400 people redundant as the plant cuts a shift (from two to one) amid slower demand for the Astra model made at the plant.

Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port manufacturing plant is to cut some 400 jobs as it looks to improve its competitive position amid changes to demand in the European car market.

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The Lincolnshire police force is trying new ways of training its officers to deal with high-speed driving including Playstation video games

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Drivers causing death by dangerous driving or while under the influence of drugs or alcohol will now face life sentences

NXP Semiconductors introduced its S32x processing platform, which it claims has 10 times the performance of current chipsets. The platform makes over-the-air updates possible.

Delphi Automotive's newly named electronics business #8212; Aptiv #8212; has its eye on a completely new kind of supplier prize: service work.

Automakers reduced auto stocks during September, starting October with stocks only a bit higher than normal for this time of year.

A new building did more than expand Anchor Subaru. It changed dealer Bob Benoit's outlook and his connection with his customers. Here's his story.

Mastria Nissan, of Raynham, Mass., carefully manages its Tires for Life program so as to avoid hurting its bottom line while raising its service retention rate.

Automakers and suppliers are starting to envision a world without the North American Free Trade Agreement. Signs are growing that the Trump administration is determined to gut the 23-year-old deal.

Hyundai Motor America CMO Dean Evans predicts that with new vehicles luring first-time Hyundai shoppers and the Shopper Assurance program promoting loyalty, Hyundai could post a 10 percent sales gain over 2017.

Dealers can reshape auto retailing by embracing new business models and developing value propositions that meet the needs of today's consumers, says Don Flow, CEO of Flow Automotive Cos.

Global automakers and suppliers are scrambling to learn how much trouble they face after the revelation that Kobe Steel falsified inspection data on metals they used.

A new generation of light trucks is being built and sold in Mexico, upending traditional notions of the country's place in the North American auto industry.