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Mazda is yet to comment on recent reports which claim the company will stop producing its three minivans/MPVs. Looking at the future product pipeline, it does seem as though people carriers will be left to rival OEMs, and yet more crossovers and SUVs from Mazda will be the effective replacements at plants in Japan and China.

The top U.S. auto safety regulator said an expanded recall of Takata airbag inflators proposed by a key senator would not enhance public safety and complicate the process of replacing the equipment, the lawmaker revealed on Wednesday.

Volkswagen of America has named a new U.S. sales chief amid the brand's continued struggles to reverse four years of dwindling U.S. deliveries and grapple with its ongoing diesel emissions cheating scandal.

Hollywood presidents Martin Sheen and Bill Pullman are back for another set of Chrysler ads in the middle of a wild primary election season.

Carmakers are devising new ways to keep pace with fast-moving trends and innovation in the consumer electronics that have become increasingly important to car buyers.

News 2 Mar, 2016

The new TVR production line will be based just miles from the new Aston Martin factory in Wales

Toyota said today it is expanding its recall of cars with Takata airbags by 198,000 in the U.S. The recall will include 2008 model year Corolla and Corolla Matrix as well as 2008 to 2010 model years Lexus SC430 vehicles.

Carmakers are devising new ways to keep pace with fast-moving trends and innovation in the consumer electronics that have become increasingly important to car buyers, executives at the Geneva motor show said.

Google is betting that seniors will embrace self-driving cars. With more than 43 million people in the U.S. now 65 and older, and 10,000 more hitting that mark every day, aging Americans are a natural target market for self-driving vehicles.

Accusations of predatory lending and discrimination directed at subprime lenders are nothing new.

Not long after Honda's chief unveiled a new structure for the automaker, effective 1 April, dominant rival Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) said it would make "substantial changes to its structure in order to streamline work processes on a company-wide basis", kicking in on 18 April.

Toyota says its entry into Europe's fast-growing small SUV segment with the C-HR was delayed because it was waiting for the company's Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) to become available.

The European Parliament has started a year-long investigation into the VW emissions scandal and whether regulators could have done more to prevent it.

News 2 Mar, 2016

With 525bhp from its supercharged Audi V8, just 50 Spyker Preliators will be built in Coventry

Delphi says Joseph Massaro has been appointed chief financial officer and senior vice president, succeeding Mark Murphy, who has elected to leave the company to pursue other opportunities.

Opinion 5 Mar, 2016

Steve Fowler's been checking out the latest in-car tech at Mobile World Congress - and wondering which manufacturer's doing it best

News 2 Mar, 2016

Jeep's UK boss tells of push up market with current and coming line-up

Daimler is to invest EUR500m (US$543m) in the construction of a new battery factory, with significant expansion of production capacities for lithium-ion batteries of Deutsche Accumotive in the Saxon city of Kamenz.

Automotive thermal management solutions provider HVCC changed its name to Hanon Systems last summer. Continuing just-auto's series of interviews with tier one suppliers, Matthew Beecham spoke to Subu Nagasubramony, Hanon Systems' HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) / powertrain cooling and systems product group lead and Bernd Kirmse, Hanon Systems' global marketing lead to find out what else has changed in the HVAC sector.