Features
11 May, 2016
We rifle through brochures and configurators to find the weirdest car options available on new cars, along with some oddities from the past
Audi's global vehicle sales rose 7.5 percent last month, boosted by gains in Europe, the U.S. and China and higher demand for its SUVs.
Opinion
13 May, 2016
Editor Graham Hope's excited for the future that the Giulia will bring to Alfa Romeo - provided it appeals to the head as well as the heart
Sales of passenger cars, SUV and commercial vehicles across Australia hit a new April record of 87,571, 2.9% above the previous best for that month set three years ago in what a local lobby group said was "another demonstration of the motor industry's price-competitiveness".
New vehicle sales in Vietnam continued to grow strongly in April, with deliveries to dealers rising by over 38% to 22,979 units from 16,643 units a year ago, according to data released by the Vietnam Automotive Manufacturers Association (VAMA).
VW Group is recommending that shareholders ratify the actions of its management board at its annual meeting since an investigation into the company's emissions scandal has so far failed to turn up wrongdoing by senior managers.
Automakers exploit lax tests in Europe to improve official CO2 emissions results for their cars, an environmental group said after it compared the real-world road loads of 19 passenger cars to official road loads from the French and German...
Thyssenkrupp has posted a EUR9m (US$10.3bn) net loss for the first half of this year, citing a "sharp downturn" in the environment for materials businesses.
Continental has unveiled a project focusing on the detection zone of gestures on the steering wheel, using a time-of-flight sensor, which is integrated into the instrument cluster.
Takata Corporation has said it was considering a drastic review of its inflator division and the sale of non-core businesses - its first restructuring steps since becoming embroiled in a global recall crisis over potentially deadly airbags.
Toyota do Brasil LTDA (TDB) has opened its new US$170m engine manufacturing facility in the city of Porto Feliz, creating 320 direct jobs.
The vehicle market in Japan stabilised in April after sharp declines in previous months.
Tesla Motors said the design of its new Model 3 has not been finalized, even though the electric-car maker expects to begin building the mass-market sedan within the next 18 months.
Bernd Osterloh, Volkswagen's works council chief, said workers and managers alike should be paid a bonus, flatly rejecting the idea that the automaker's German workforce is inefficient and paid too much.
Sports remain one of the last bastions of live TV, making it an irresistible chance for automakers to reach consumers, according to some of the top marketing minds in the business.
Mitsubishi said that improper data for fuel usage calculations might have been used for other models in addition to those it has already disclosed.
PSA and Chinese partner Dongfeng have signed new agreements to strengthen their partnership and create a new medium-term plan - dubbed "5A+" - for their joint venture entity Dongfeng Peugeot Citroën Automobile (DPCA).
PSA and Dongfeng said they signed an agreement today to create a common platform to build electric cars for the Peugeot, Citroen, DS and Dongfeng brands from 2019.
Takata posted its third annual loss in the past four years, hit by costs for recalls of its potentially deadly airbag inflators. The supplier said it was considering a drastic review of its inflator division and the sale of non-core businesses.
Despite selling almost 300,000 fewer vehicles worldwide, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) boosted revenue and profit in fiscal year 2015/16 ended 31 March, 2016. But it said annual net income would probably decline in this current fiscal year - for the first time in five years - because currency swings that had resulted in record profits now posed problems.
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