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News 22 Nov, 2019

DfT data shows £94m projected loss in unpaid VED road tax in the current financial year, up from £34m in 2014

New vehicle sales in Vietnam continued to grow strongly in May, with deliveries to dealers rising by over 33% to 22,553 units from 16,946 units a year ago, according to the Vietnam Automotive Manufacturers Association (VAMA).

Continental aims to more than double component sales in China to EUR10bn by 2020, from EUR4.5bn in 2015, according to local reports quoting company executives.

Mitsubishi Motors plans to bring in an outside auditor to monitor its technology division, blamed for at least three high-profile cheating scandals, two people familiar with the thinking of the company's leadership told Reuters.

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Tiny EV will arrive at the end of 2016 – both as diminutive Smart ForTwo city car and more practical Smart ForFour for the first time

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Mercedes will drive towards its zero emission future with expanded range of hybrid, plug-in and all-electric vehicles

China's Ping an Bank estimates the domestic automotive market will reach 28m-30m vehicles by 2020 as outlined in the government's 13th five-year plan.

Navistar will make the cutaway version of General Motors' G Van at its Springfield, Ohio plant starting in the first half of 2017. The multi-year contract will require at least 300 workers and enable the truck maker to recommission the second line at the plant.

General Motors has announced that Alicia Boler-Davis will become executive vice president, global manufacturing. She succeeds Jim DeLuca, who is retiring after a 37-year career that included key positions in manufacturing, labour relations and quality.

Magna says suppliers in China need to focus on the fundamentals of business, and not be too swayed by technology, as component manufacturers face the 'new normal' of a market slowdown, a major industry player said this week.

BASF plans to boost production capacity for waterborne and solvent-borne automotive paint coatings in Thailand with a new factory on its Bangpoo site.

BMW delivered nearly 6 percent more brand vehicles in May on strong demand for SUVs and its flagship 7-series sedan, but slipped behind Mercedes, which keeps thriving on record momentum in China.

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The 410bhp V8 Ford Mustang is being assessed by police forces in the UK for use on the road

Magna has been invited to advise Chinese authorities through the China Automotive Technology and Research Centre (CATARC).

The Peugeot family is ready to consider raising its stake in PSA, the carmaker it controlled until a government-backed bailout in 2014, former chairman Thierry Peugeot and other members of the founding clan said in a rare interview with a French...

Ford of Europe's 6.3 operating margin in the first quarter and its $434 million pre-tax profit were impressive after the automaker lost $42 million during the same period last year.

Former Ford CEO Alan Mulally and consumer activist Ralph Nader will join Bertha Benz, the wife and business partner of Carl Benz, who invented the automobile, and engineer Roy Lunn as the latest inductees into the Automotive Hall of Fame.