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A 50-year-old Massachusetts man died Wednesday as a result of injuries sustained during last week's deadly crash at an auto auction near Boston.

A top marketing executive at Ford, once identified as an Automotive News Rising Star, is leaving the company at a time when its U.S. market share is sliding.

Jenoptik, a German company that specializes in metrology and laser machines for the auto industry, expects to be fully operating its 16-acre technology campus in suburban Detroit by Monday.

Toyota plans to use Nvidia's autonomous driving platform for its upcoming self-driving cars. The chipmaker announced the partnership at its annual GPU Technology Conference.

Vehicle-shopping website TrueCar narrowed its first-quarter net loss to $6.8 million while revenue surged 22 percent to $76 million.

Volkswagen AG's top two executives are being investigated over allegations of market manipulation, deepening the carmaker's legal woes in connection with the diesel scandal.

News 10 May, 2017

Bentley looking into range of new interior materials, including protein leather, mushroom leather and jellyfish material

Penske Automotive Group has raised its dividend by a penny -- again -- to 31 cents a share.

BorgWarner announced it is supplying its sprag one way clutch for the recently announced 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, FCA US' first mass-produced plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and the industry's claimed first PHEV minivan.

Major lenders, representing more than a third of U.S. auto loan originations, have begun to share internal auto lending data and experiences to combat fraud. Ninety percent of the lenders say fraud is a growing concern.

Britain's Freight Transport Association (FTA) is warning against the potential "huge impact" for the UK supply chain should France tear up the Le Touquet Treaty in place since 2003 as Brexit talks gather steam.

Borrower fraud in US auto loans is surging, and may approach levels seen in mortgages during last decade's housing bubble, according to a firm that helps sniff out bogus borrowers.

Predictions as to when we can buy a driverless car vary depending on who we talk to. Even if the more optimistic predictions come true, initial volumes will be small. Continuing just-auto/QUBE's series of research snapshots, this one considers what we can expect, by when and how much extra it might cost.

Opinion 10 May, 2017

New car sales may have fallen in April, but editor Graham Hope thinks it's too soon to worry about the figures

PSA won a tax break worth 19 million euros ($20.66 million) from Slovakia as part of the automaker's plans to expand its factory in the country that builds Citroen C3 Picasso and Peugeot 208 cars.

News 10 May, 2017

New name trademark hints at upcoming petrol-electric versions, confirmed by bosses in January

Volkswagen Group rejected investor calls for it to publish the results of an external investigation into its diesel-emissions scandal, saying it would risk 'massive fines' if it did so.

Volkswagen Group rejected investor calls for it to publish the results of an external investigation into its diesel-emissions scandal, saying it would risk 'massive fines' if it did so.

News 10 May, 2017

New limited edition X-Trail to be limited to just 200 units in the UK, but fear not - the drone is a £500 option on basic models

"Conventional engines will remain indispensable for the foreseeable future," Volkswagen AG CEO Matthias Muller told the annual general meeting in Hanover today while also emphasising the group is "pressing ahead with the transformation of mobility".