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Ram is adding some pep to its commercial-vehicle division's marketing with a new digital sketch-comedy series. Ram's 'This Old Van' series launched Thursday with two videos.

News 19 Feb, 2016

Ford hopes to battle the BMW X3 with its classier, greener Ford Kuga SUV due on sale at the end of 2016 after a Geneva Motor Show debut

An Aston Martin DB10 car designed for the latest James Bond film "Spectre" has sold for some $3.5 million at auction, far exceeding its reserve price.

Volkswagen confirmed that South Korean prosecutors have searched local VW and Audi offices as part of an emissions probe. The house of an unidentified senior company official was also raided.

Volkswagen said South Korean prosecutors have searched local VW and Audi offices as part of an emissions probe. The house of an unidentified senior company official was also raided.

News 19 Feb, 2016

A new study reveals millions of drivers aged 65 and above fail to inform authorities of their medical conditions

Mazda may become the latest automaker to skip this year's Paris auto show, joining Ford and Volvo, which have already said they will miss the event.

Recall news attracted many readers on just-auto this week as yet another Takata potentially-disintegrating-airbag-inflator call-back was announced - 2.3m-odd, depending on who's counting - this time, German brands. GM also had to recall some old Saab and Saturn (remember them?) models for the same reason. (Our full Takata coverage to date is here if you've just joined us from Mars.) Meanwhile Toyota, with memories of the 2010 sudden acceleration recall debacle in the US still probably causing execs over there to shudder, has discovered that a seat frame in 2.7m RAV4 SUVs potentially could slice through a rear seat belt in a crash so back they'll come, eventually, to dealers for 2.7m small plastic parts to be fitted to said offending frames. No word yet on how much all that will cost.

Opinion 19 Feb, 2016

Are the roads getting safer or more dangerous? Mike Rutherford wants to know - but the DfT doesn't seem to

An executive reshuffle, Mardi Gras holidays and the ever worsening economy amid a deepening recession have all combined in this first quarter of 2016 to delay final construction work on Tata Motors' Jaguar Land Rover assembly plant in Itatiaia, 174km/108 miles west of Rio de Janeiro City. Now opening is postponed a little to late April or early May.

Audi says a completely driverless A8 whisked movie star Daniel Brühl to the red carpet at Berlin's Berlinale Film Festival this week.

Features 19 Feb, 2016

Take a look at the amazing cars of the 2016 London Classic Car Show

Features 19 Feb, 2016

Quirky industry outsider Morgan is ready to cause a stir with its first-ever all-electric model

Canada's transport ministry said it had found a potential seat-related defect in one of Toyota's popular models after a fatal crash that led to a global recall of nearly 3 million vehicles by the world's top-selling automaker.

Mercedes-Benz in the US faces a class action lawsuit from the owner of Mercedes BlueTEC diesel car that accuses it of knowingly programming so-called 'clean diesel' cars to emit illegally excessive levels of nitrogen oxides.

General Motors says it will invest US$148m to repurpose flexible machining and assembly equipment at its Spring Hill Manufacturing plant to build V8 engines to meet market demand, retaining approximately 200 jobs.

Valeo forecasts strong sales growth this year after the supplier posted a 30 percent rise in full-year net profit in 2015.