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Maxion Wheels is to form a new passenger car aluminium wheel joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Parts and Components Group, one of China's largest automotive parts companies.

French union, CFDT has welcomed news concerning the new Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance operating board, albeit with the caveat social and employee wage issues should be to the fore.

xMahindra subsidiary Automobili Pininfarina GmbH has now shown its first model, the Battista, in public. The hypercar, still more than a year away production, is promised to be the first in a multi-vehicle series.

South Korea enacted legislation this week which allows private motorists to buy vehicles powered by liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), in response to rising environmental concerns in the country.

News 13 Mar, 2019

Vast majority of cars sold in the UK made in other countries; manufacturers and dealers unlikely to absorb additional costs

Britain's Road Haulage Association says it is " very concerned" French customs action is leaving lorry drivers vulnerable to migrant attacks.

Britain's Freight Transport Association (FTA), representing more than 17,000 businesses nationwide, as well as logistics organisations, including shippers and hauliers, have signed an open letter to UK Prime Minister, Theresa May concerning what they say is the cost of a No Deal departure from the European Union.

Free2Move has made its free-floating cars available to users in the inner Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, after starting in the Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes parks.

The UK government has today published details of the UK's temporary tariff regime in the event of a 'no deal' Brexit. The move follows a vote in the House of Commons yesterday that rejected a proposed UK-EU agreement for the terms of the UK's planned departure from the EU on March 29.

Features 13 Mar, 2019

Is a Skoda Kodiaq vRS quicker on ice? We head to Lapland to try and beat our British GP circuit lap time on a frozen lake

Nissan's luxury brand Infiniti has thrown in the towel and will abandon western Europe to focus on markets in which it is more successful. This will include ceasing production of a model line here in the UK.

News 12 Mar, 2019

UK sales to stop early next year, while production at Sunderland plant to cease in July

LG Uplus says that it and Hanyang University have successfully tested their 5G-connected autonomous vehicle on the streets of Seoul.

PSA Retail has appointed Eric Basset as France director, reporting to SVP, Anne Abboud.

Toyota Tsusho Corporation has announced that Toyota Tsusho, Toyota Motor Corporation and Denso Corporation have made a joint investment through a private placement in Airbiquity Inc., a US-based developer of over the air (OTA) preprogramming systems for control software.

A UK automotive spring manufacturer said recent investment had secured its "position as a key international supplier for the automotive and industrial sector".

News 12 Mar, 2019

Brit buyers have previously been excluded from ordering BMW’s bruising V8 5 Series, but that’s set to change

Volkswagen Group is planning to launch almost 70 new electric models in the next ten years - up from the 50 previously planned.

Nissan and NTT Docomo, are putting Nissan's 'Invisible-to-Visible' technology through its field test in a moving vehicle, using Docomo's fifth-generation mobile communications connectivity.