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Volkswagen is forming a company with the former head of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency to develop cybersecurity systems for Internet-connected cars and self-driving vehicles, the partners said in a statement today.

Teijin has agreed to acquire Continental Structural Plastics (CSP), an automotive composite supplier in North America, for US$825m.

When Pittsburgh wakes up this morning, some residents will have the choice of going about their day in an Uber that drives itself.

Renault has delivered its biggest ever UK order of the Zoe EV with 55 supplied to Europcar UK for use delivering and collecting hire vehicles in major cities.

Freudenberg has brought a new production line for car headliners into operation at its Suzhou site in eastern China.

Ford is launching a new smartwatch app for EVs.

Continental has produced a small batch of its ContiWinterContact TS 850 P tyres with treads made exclusively of rubber from the dandelion root, for testing. In drives at test sites in Arividsjaur (Swedish Lapland) and at the Contidrom (Lower Saxony), the tyres made of 'Taraxagum' demonstrated properties expected by developers.

Aston Martin, which is building a second car factory at St Athan in Wales, has begun training workers for that plant at its factory in Gaydon, Warwickshire.

Sales of new motor vehicles in Australia in August 2016 continued the trend set earlier this year with an increase of 4.6% over the August 2015 figures. Year to date sales were up 3% to 784,380.

Sweden's SKF, the world's largest maker of industrial bearings, is betting on automated manufacturing to help it stay ahead with its first fully-automated assembly line set to be running by early 2017.

German supplier ZF raised its offer for Swedish brake systems maker Haldex to 4.86 billion Swedish crowns ($572 million) today, matching a rival bid from Germany's Knorr-Bremse.

News 14 Sep, 2016

Updates for VW Golf R are in the pipeline, and our spies have caught the updated model testing in Estate form

Volkswagen Group investors are rushing to file more lawsuits in Germany to meet a deadline that lawyers say may be imaginary. Shareholders who want to sue are concerned that Sept.

About 240,000 motor vehicles were produced in Romania in the first eight months of 2016, down 6.5% year on year.

News 14 Sep, 2016

There are over 18,000 vehicle fires annually, but insurance costs are unaffected

From engineering and styling to marketing and retail, real-time visualisation and Virtual Reality continue to demonstrate their potential to bring surprising changes to many functions within the automotive industry. We talked to Simon Jones, who is director of Unreal Engine Enterprise, the company that develops the core technology driving this innovation, to find out how the technology is being used and where we go from here.

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt of VW Group.