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Barely had our business/components/supply chain editor Simon Warburton, liberally fuelled by glutinous rice balls he helped make, touched back down in Blighty, after a week covering the 2016 Global Automotive Forum in Chongqing, China, and it was time for us to sling him back onto a plane, this one bound for the 'Detroit of Russia', St Petersburg.

Canadian supplier Linamar has talked with Apple and Google about potentially supplying the technology giants if they begin making cars.

A Mexico City-based transmission supplier Tremec plans to invest $54 million to establish a manufacturing plant and U.S. headquarters in suburban Detroit, a move that will create 133 jobs, the Michigan Economic Development Corp. said Thursday.

News 17 Jun, 2016

New 911 Carrera S gets Le Mans-style special edition in celebration of illustrious racing history; will make UK debut at Goodwood 2016

News 17 Jun, 2016

Jeep's exclusive Renegade 'Hell's Revenge' reveals a hot new look as a tribute to Harley-Davidson owners.

European Commission (EC) president, Jean-Claude Juncker, has conceded the Brussels bureaucracy has made "major mistakes" in the past. His comments, in Russia, came a week before the UK is due to vote in its highly contentious referendum on whether it stays or exits the EU. Most carmakers operating in the UK want the country to remain 'in' but the opposite view is held by other auto industry-related firms such as construction equipment maker JCB.

Iran anticipates domestic automotive content will reach 80% as the country continues to reap the benefits of sanctions ending at an astonishing rate.

ZF has celebrated the official production start of its eight-speed dual clutch transmission (8DT), developed jointly with Porsche, at the Brandenburg plant. It's been developed as a modular kit so versions for 2WD, 4WD and hybrid can all be made on a flexible production line for which ZF spent EUR100m.

VW group luxury car unit Audi plans to build an electric version of its Q5 SUV at its new plant in Mexico, a media report said.

Toyota plans to increase its presence aggressively in the plug-in hybrid vehicle segment when it launches the remodeled Prius PHV in Japan later this year and the Prius Prime equivalent in the US market.

Johnson Matthey says it has been developing and supplying membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) that are a key component of an automotive fuel cell.

Ford in North America says its SUVs are off to their best sales start in company history in the first five months of the year, prompting the company to build nearly 22,000 extra SUVs this summer.

Eberspaecher Suetrak will make bus air conditioning systems for South America in Sorocaba, Brazil, sharing space with the parent Eberspaecher Group by occupying 1,500 square metres within the existing exhaust plant.

BorgWarner is supplying an engine timing system for the Cummins five-litre, turbodiesel V8 engine family.

BMW has broken ground for a new plant in Mexico that will make the BMW 3 Series from 2019, displacing 3 Series production at the company's plant in South Africa. 

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a concept vehicle that embodies the automaker's vision of the future of luxury, autonomous mobility.

Global supplier Robert Bosch reported a 22% rise in sales in Thailand last year to THB10.8bn (US$310m) and is looking at another year of double-digit growth in 2016.