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Ford Motor and UAW-Ford have made a joint, $6 million commitment to help fund the Motown Museum expansion in Detroit. With the grant, the automaker and the union become the lead donor in the campaign, which was announced in mid-October.

News 18 Nov, 2016

Transport minister admits electric car charging infrastructure needs more investment

Elon Musk's Tesla Motors officially moved beyond cars and became a clean-energy company Thursday, as shareholders overwhelmingly approved the acquisition of SolarCity.

If you like talking to your car to operate certain functions, you can now wave and take a swipe at it. While gesture recognition is used in consumer electronics, it is now creeping into vehicles. Given that prodding and pinching at a touchscreen while driving can be distracting, using hand gestures and even eye movements to control climate and switch radio channels is seen as the next best thing. Continuing just-auto's series of research snapshots - pulled from its automotive research platform, QUBE - reviews the stage reached with gesture recognition and what we can expect to see in tomorrow's car.

Jaguar Land Rover Automotive, the UK's largest car manufacturer, has reported a 23% increase in quarterly revenues and improvement in pre-tax profits for the three months to 30 September, 2016.

News 18 Nov, 2016

Trials of new concierge smartphone app for on-demand servicing will begin in the United States later this month

News 18 Nov, 2016

The ongoing emissions scandal will see VW Group cut 23,000 jobs in order to save €3.7 billion a year

VW Group will cut 30,000 jobs globally -- with 23,000 coming in Germany -- to help achieve 3.7 billion euros in annual savings by 2020.

Ford Motor had considered moving production of the Lincoln MKC to Mexico, but instead the compact premium crossover will remain at the Louisville Assembly Plant, the automaker confirmed Thursday night.

News 17 Nov, 2016

The facelifted SEAT Leon Cupra will get 296bhp, and the ST estate model will get four-wheel drive

For the third year in a row, Honda will be title sponsor for National Hockey League's All-Star Game, being held Jan. 29 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The U.S. version of Toyota's subcompact crossover C-HR will be equipped with one gasoline engine and a continuously variable transmission for now.

For the second year in a row, the captive finance arms for Lincoln and Ford topped the rankings of the J.D. Power 2016 U.S. Consumer Financing Satisfaction Study.

The GM Company Store -- the first completed space in a major renovation and expansion of the automaker's global headquarters -- opened for business Thursday. The 2,000-square-foot store is located in the Renaissance Center's Wintergarden atrium.

Ford CFO Bob Shanks said a Donald Trump administration could bring 'substantial change' to the automotive industry, but the automaker is encouraged by the transition team's 'change in the tone' from a rhetoric-filled...

JPMorgan Chase and Co. has named Mark O'Donovan, a 20-year Chase veteran, CEO of Auto Finance, effective immediately, a spokesman told Automotive News. He succeeds Thasunda Duckett, who became CEO of Consumer Banking in September.

Subaru is trying again in the seven-seat crossover segment by developing a larger, roomier and more rugged-looking vehicle aimed primarily at the U.S.

VW's 2017 e-Golf receives a new 36 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery pack, compared to 24 kWh in the outgoing model. The bigger battery boosts driving range to up to 124 miles on a charge, compared to 83 miles on the 2016 model.

Profitable at last, could SEAT one day become self-funding? That's what it has to do but to get there, higher-margin models are needed. The new Ateca is the first of these.

It's been a long time coming but Maserati's first SUV is now being rolled out across global markets. Right-hand drive production started recently with vehicles for the UK headed to showrooms in the coming days. Here, with 96% of the car's segment being diesel, there will be only one engine, a VM Motori 3.0-litre V6.