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Opinion 10 Jul, 2016

Forget the football - Mike Rutherford's rounding up the car-manufacturing championships - and some of the finalists may surprise you

Renault said its global sales rose 13 percent to a new record of 1.57 million vehicles in the first half of the year, as a product offensive helped it to outpace a recovering European market.

The EU threatened to hit Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Iran and Brazil with tariffs on a type of steel known as hot-rolled coil, highlighting concerns about job losses in the EU industry.

VW Group's technical fix for the Audi Q5, one of the vehicles involved in its diesel-emissions cheating scandal, did not reduce harmful pollution in a new test, a European consumer group said.

A German business group has lowered its sights for exports to Britain, forecasting a darkening trade outlook as the impact of Britons' vote to leave the EU seeps into the eurozone economy. Britain is Germany's fifth-biggest trading partner for goods.

After negotiations over previous months, the governments of Brazil and Argentina concluded talks on sector trade within Mercosur late in June. Once again, the Brazilian position was for free trade, as predicted since 2000, but always postponed at Argentine negotiators' request as this was seen to Brazil's trade balance advantage. Several postponements followed and even a regime of reciprocal value quotas was set at one point.

News 8 Jul, 2016

Six German carmakers and parts suppliers have been raided by antitrust officials over suspicions of colluding to fix the price of steel

Alfa Romeo claims its new Giulia has better driving dynamics than rivals such as the BMW 3 series because the standard models were derived from the car's Quadrifoglio performance version rather than the other way around.

The Ford F-150 topped all pickups in Twitter engagement in June, a month where Chevrolet launched a new ad campaign that jabbed the toughness of the F-150's stamped aluminum bed.

AutoNation purchased four stores -- selling BMW, Land Rover and Jaguar brands -- in Westchester County, N.Y.

VW will pay an additional $86 million in penalties to California over its diesel emissions violations, on top of a settlement of about $15 billion that the automaker reached with U.S. officials last week.

Investigators found a laptop computer in the Tesla Model S sedan involved in a fatal crash on May 7, the Florida Highway Patrol said on Thursday.

Nissan will have a significantly freshened Pathfinder crossover for 2017, with more engine power and torque, more safety features and more towing power.

Mexico's auto production rose 4.1 percent in June from a year earlier while auto exports rose 1.8 percent, the country's auto industry group, AMIA, said on Thursday.

Ficosa said it had won a contract with a major European car manufacturer (OEM) to produce a system composed of the backrest suspension mat and the cushion mat with electromechanical lumbar adjustment.

BorgWarner said it is supplying its pre-emptive on-demand transfer case for multiple Jaguar models.

The rapid growth of Tesla and the increasing range of other electric vehicles have California contemplating new requirements that anger both Tesla and competitors like Honda.

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Features 9 Jul, 2016

Teaser pics and videos aim to build excitement ahead of a new car launch but some give very little away. Others, nothing.

The recovery to car sales in Western Europe continued in June, with sales across the region at 1.4m units, some 5.7% up on the same month last year.