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A busy week for us. Editor Dave Leggett returned from a few days in Korea with Ssangyong and filed this report after interviewing Anand Mahindra, the chairman and managing director of Mahindra Group which owns the Korean automaker. Yours truly had an interesting Monday in Germany, as Audi showed and told all about the new, upcoming A8 flagship's body shell and walked us through the new plant built specially to make it.

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Ford plans to launch the midsize Ranger pickup truck in China in 2018, hoping to draw more Chinese consumers, who generally prefer crossovers and SUVs, toward a different market segment.

Volkswagen Group China and Mobvoi, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) tech company, have entered a 'strategic partnership to develop and implement AI technologies in cars'.

Hyundai and Kia are recalling 1.3 million vehicles in the U.S. and South Korea to repair an engine defect that could cause them to stall.

With both bad loans and interest rates rising, lenders are becoming more selective in doling out credit for new-vehicle purchases, adding to the pressure for automakers already facing sliding U.S. sales, swelling inventories and a used-car glut.

BMW is to hold talks with British labour body, Unite on Monday (10 April) in a bid to halt a series of eight damaging strikes called to protest against the automaker's decision to halt a final pension scheme.

China's Great Wall Motor is mulling setting up a new vehicle assembly plant in Mexico to supply the North American market, according to local reports in China citing company sources.

Skoda's new servo press line PXL II at the Mladá Boleslav plant has commenced full operation.

The first production MAN TGE - a variation of VW group sibling Volkswagen Vans' Crafter - has come off the line at a newly constructed plant in Wrzesnia, Poland.

Tata Motors' Jaguar Land Rover reported record retail sales of 604,009 vehicles (including sales from the China joint venture) in the financial year to 31 March 2017, up 16% year on year and exceeding 600,000 for the first time in the company's history.

Nissan premium brand Infiniti has achieved its best sales month and first quarter sales in its history.

Delphi has announced it has made a strategic investment in Valens, an Israel-based leader in signal processing capability - a key enabler for the expanding connectivity and computing needs in vehicles.

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US light vehicle sales for the first quarter of 2017 fell 1.9% over the same period in 2016, according to JATO Dynamics. Analysts had predicted a small increase for March sales but saw a decline despite reported high incentives spending.

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Former Volkswagen Group Chairman Ferdinand Piech sold the bulk of his 14.7 percent stake in the company that controls VW to his younger brother, Hans Michel Piech, a German newspaper reported.

Former Volkswagen Group Chairman Ferdinand Piech sold the bulk of his 14.7 percent stake in the company that controls VW to his younger brother, Hans Michel Piech, a German newspaper reported.

Kia has added driver assistance systems not typical in small cars as well as upgraded connectivity in its new Rio as it hopes offering such features at an affordable price will help the car be more successful in Europe's subcompact segment.

Renault says mainstream acceptance of EVs is reaching a tipping point and it welcomes increasing competition as European rivals such as Volkswagen and Opel push harder into the market.