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The end of March and Easter are both nigh (we have Friday and Monday off, by the way) but no one seems to have told our local weathergods - the UK Met Office has just issued a snow warning for my region for Monday. No wonder the daffs might be out but the tree blossom is struggling. As we head into the first long weekend, or, in UK-speak, bank holiday weekend, of 2018, our eyes have been on the Melrose v Dana battle playing out today for GKN's juicy automotive bits (think e-Axle, and how many vehicles it's under) and Melrose won.

Nissan Motor wants to triple sales of its low-cost Datsun vehicles by 2022 as it continues to revive the 87 year old brand it dumped in the mid 1980s but resurrected about five years ago.

Falling demand in the UK car market dragged UK car production down in February according to the latest data from the SMMT.

German Tesla buyers reportedly can again apply for subsidies after a government agency has ended its dispute over whether its Model S was too expensive to qualify for the incentives scheme.

Chinese enterprise Red Sun Group says it has deepened its commitment to the UK with the announcement of a more than GBP100m investment into a new plant in the English Midlands (Coventry) for CAD CAM Automotive (CCA).

Honda Motor plans to build hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in Thailand as part of a THB5bn (US$160bn) combined investment with its key parts suppliers.

Renault and Nissan are in talks to merge and create a new automaker that trades as a single stock, Bloomberg reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.

Renault and Nissan are in talks to merge and create a new automaker that trades as a single stock, Bloomberg reported, citing sources with knowledge of the matter.

GM Korea's CEO Kaher Kazim is calling on labour unions to reach a wage agreement by the end of March to help the company secure funding and put in place a recovery plan, according to local reports.

German auto parts manufacturer Webasto opened its 10th factory in China this month, a new wholly owned vehicle sunroof plant in the southern province of Guangzhou.

Uber does not use Nvidia's self-driving platform, said the chipmaker's CEO, Jensen Huang. The comments follow an accident in the U.S. in which an Uber autonomous vehicle struck and killed a woman crossing a street.

Volkswagen will extend its diesel trade-in incentive program in Germany to the end of June. The automaker had planned to stop the program at the end of this month.

VW Group will allow its passenger car brands to buy back new diesels from customers if German cities ban them.

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Mike Rutherford takes a closer look at the Javits Convention Centre, the venue for the 2018 New York Motor Show

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JLR SVO design boss reveals future models set to wear ‘S’ and ‘SVR’ badges only, claiming there’s no place for ‘R’ cars

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Mercedes' C-Class diesel hybrid, which is likely to be badged C 300 de, to boast 700Nm of torque, but have emissions of less than 40g/km

Two Ford executives poached from Silicon Valley within the last two years are leaving the automaker, the latest in a series of management shuffles since Jim Hackett took over as CEO 10 months ago.

Faurecia has won a contract to provide seating for 6 million BMW Group vehicles, the French supplier's largest ever in terms of volume.