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The electric-vehicle maker said it will lay off some employees and cut staff salaries by 20 percent because of "financial difficulty" following a dispute with its property-tycoon backer.

News 23 Oct, 2018

New limited edition Hilux goes on sale in November and gets suspension tweaks from Arctic Trucks

Johann Wolff began his career at BMW as an apprentice before going on to manage several BMW foundries as a master craftsman in foundry pattern making.

Launched in 2016, the fifth generation Mercedes-Benz E-Class takes design cues from the larger S-Class and smaller C-Class. It also comes bristling with semi-autonomous driving technology. Continuing QUBE/just-auto's review of interior design and technology trends, we slip inside an E-Class estate to take a closer look.

The voluntary service action follows a BMW investigation that found coolant could leak from the car's exhaust recirculation unit.

Vacuum cleaner producer Dyson has chosen to build its electric car in Singapore to be close to Asian customers, supply chains and a highly skilled workforce.

Fiat Chrysler has not paid a dividend since it was formed in 2014, but the automaker now has the chance to change this following its sale of supplier Magneti Marelli.

Features 23 Oct, 2018

Car recalls are rarely out of the news; our exclusive interview with the DVSA explains everything you need to know about them

Ford said it was expanding its autonomous vehicle testing and claims to be the first automaker to test self driving vehicles in Washington, DC.

The return of the Ranger pickup truck to production in a US factory marked a renaissance for the Wayne, Michigan plant just outside Detroit that, Ford said, had experienced the highs and lows of the American auto industry for the past six decades.

BMW is expanding a recall of diesel cars launched in Europe and Asia in August to 1.6 million vehicles worldwide to fix a potential fire hazard in their engines.

Allison Transmission has begun production of 1000 Series and 2000 Series fully automatic transmissions designed for Chevrolet's new Silverado 4500HD/5500HD/6500HD medium-duty trucks, claiming the gearboxes offer commercial-duty features more common to heavy-duty trucks.

GM Korea's shareholders are expected to agree at a meeting on Friday to establish a separate business unit for its R&D operations in South Korea, according to local reports.

News 24 Oct, 2018

The updated Audi R8 supercar keeps its naturally aspirated V10, but power jumps to 562bhp in the base model and 612bhp in the Performance

VW Group has begun building a plant in China that will start production of an electric VW crossover in 2020 before producing other EV vehicles based on the automaker's MEB platform.

News 23 Oct, 2018

12 models affected by fault, which BMW says can result in fire in “extremely rare cases”

Renault has posted third-quarter Group revenue down 6% to EUR11.5bn (US$13.2bn), partly due to currency devaluation and the automaker's withdrawal from Iran, although registrations rose 2.9%.

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has not paid a dividend since it was formed in 2014, but the automaker now has the chance to change this following its 6.2 billion-euro ($7.14 billion) sale of supplier Magneti Marelli.