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Volkswagen Group China has announced deliveries for 2018 and says that with its Chinese joint venture partners, SAIC Volkswagen and FAW-Volkswagen, the group delivered 4.21m (2017: 4.18m, +0.5%) vehicles to customers in the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong, including 196,300 imported vehicles.

In the latest phase of its NHTSA-supervised programme, FCA US is recalling about 1.4m vehicles in the US to replace Takata passenger side airbag inflators that may, on deployment, send shrapnel into the vehicle cabin.

ZF says AI will start to become prevalent across all aspects of its business as the computing power required advances yet further.

Ford sales in China fell 36.9% year on year to 752,243 in 2018, reflecting the overall market plunge.

Features 12 Jan, 2019

We meet the people bringing an eco-friendly, hi-tech approach to washing your car

Opinion 13 Jan, 2019

Time to leave talk of Brexit and Dieselgate in the past and look forward to an exciting 2019, says Mike Rutherford

Honda's Swindon plant in the UK will shut down for six days in April as part of the company's Brexit planning measures.

Ex-Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn is seeking bail after being indicted in Tokyo on two new charges.

Restructuring announcements by two major automakers imperiled the job prospects of thousands and rather took the edge off all the clever techie developments revealed out west at the CES show in Las Vegas. Such was the just-auto week.

News 11 Jan, 2019

The Lexus LC Convertible Concept will make its public debut at Detroit before morphing into a full-production version

Buoyed by a young model range and the addition of multiple crossover/SUVs, SEAT made 2018 its best year yet for vehicle sales, finally breaking a record set in 2000. Crucially, the company is making decent money too, something which had eluded it for a long time.

Volvo's success with the V90 proves there is strong demand for premium-priced estates in certain mainly northern European countries. Which is why Audi sees a worthwhile opportunity for its latest A6 Avant in not only Sweden and Germany but Britain too.

Handsomely profitable and with a record 1.253 million vehicles delivered in 2018, the news only keeps getting better for Skoda. The Czech make has built solid foundations on a small number of category-busting cars, most of which sit outside the size norms of conventional segments and sell in big numbers. Its SUVs are now doing the same with more models are on the way.

Renault has slammed what it describes as a 'purposefully orchestrated destabilisation campaign' after the Reuters news agency published a story claiming that it has seen documents showing that executives from both carmakers in the Renault-Nissan alliance looked at legal ways to pay chairman Carlos Ghosn undisclosed income through the partners' shared finances.

Sponsored 11 Jan, 2019

The e-Golf is truly a Volkswagen for the 21st Century – so what does a serial Golf owner think of the electric revolution?

Sales of cars and light commercials in Brazil in 2018 topped 2.56m units, up 14.6% from the 2.24m units sold in 2017.