BMW development chief Klaus Froehlich described plans for a completely overhauled company, where half the randd staff will be computer programmers, competing with the likes of Google parent Alphabet to build the brains for self-driving cars.
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4 Mar, 2016
Boss reveals new Volvo S90 and V90 are most likely candidates for electrified Polestar makeover
UK new car registrations continued the positive start to 2016 in February, growing 8.4% year on year to 83,395 units, according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) data.
Delphi Automotive said striking employees who protested the company's plan to move a factory to another site in southern China have returned to work.
Sales of Volkswagen-branded cars in the UK will fall in the first quarter, hit by the diesel-emissions scandal, but strong orders mean there are signs the automaker is bouncing back, its UK chief said.
Cox Automotive taps Mark O'Neil for a newly created COO position. The former president of DealerTrack will be in charge of Cox Automotive's software, media, inventory and financial services groups.
Conway MacKenzie, a Michigan turnaround specialists, filed a countersuit against co-founder and former Chairman and CEO Van Conway.
The average fuel economy of new light vehicles sold in the U.S. in February held steady from the month earlier at 25.2 mpg, a University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute report said.
Volkswagen will pay employees a bonus for 2015, despite the scandal over defeat devices used to rig emissions tests in the United States, the company's works council head said.
Google's self-driving car team is expanding and hiring more people with automotive industry expertise, underscoring the company's determination to move the division past the experimental stage.
U.S. regulators are reopening a proposal to boost fuel efficiency of medium and heavy duty trucks through 2027, asking for additional public comments on the planned move.
Volkswagen's former CEO was alerted to US diesel emissions tests problems in 2014, but the issue "did not initially receive particular attention at the management levels," Reuters reported the carmaker as saying.
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4 Mar, 2016
Skoda CEO Bernhard Maier tells us that SUVs will play an important role in the brand's future
Britain's Freight Transport Association (FTA) is urging the British and French governments to adopt a five-point plan it has suggested to solve the continuing migrant situation at the Port of Calais, which it estimates cost the logistics industry GBP21m (US$30m) last summer alone.
Continental has unveiled improved 2015 net income of EUR2.7bn (US$2.9bn), with sales climbing 14% to EUR39.2bn.
The average amount financed and average monthly payment for new vehicles in the fourth quarter rose to their highest level since Experian Automotive began tracking the data in 2008, the company said today.
Australians bought 96,443 new passenger cars, SUVs and commercial vehicles in February 2016, just over 6,000 (or 6.7% more) than in February 2015. The strong start to the year has seen new car sales increase 4.8% year-to-date.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is to merge its media and publishing business Itedi with Italian media group, GELE, and focus on the core business of making cars.
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3 Mar, 2016
Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer says brand’s next seven cars are “crystal clear” – but affordable Boxster rival isn’t on the cards
US deputy assistant Secretary for Transportation, Reuben Sarkar, has announced more than US$12m will be available for three new cost-shared projects focused on the research, development, and demonstration of plug-in electric powertrain technologies for medium and heavy-duty vehicles.
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