News
20 Jan, 2016
Breakdown service will mix tech with its diagnostics data to predict when cars will develop faults
President Obama's lofty goal of getting 1m plug-in electric cars on US roads by 2015, set back in 2008, with petrol prices averaging nearly US$4 a gallon, has been missed by about 600,000 units, a media report said.
Renault's Maubeuge plant has produced its millionth second-generation Kangoo.
Audi will build its new electric SUV at its plant in Belgium in a production reshuffle that will see A1 output go to Spain and Q3 production shift to Hungary.
News
20 Jan, 2016
Fiat's facelifted city car gets new road tax exempt Eco 1.2 petrol, plus diesel variant now on sale
Back in 2008, with gas prices averaging nearly $4 a gallon, President Barack Obama set a goal of getting one million plug-in electric vehicles on the roads by 2015.
General Motors has followed up its US$500million spend on Lyft with another move to fortify itself against the rise of Uber Technologies, a media report said.
Opinion
20 Jan, 2016
Auto Express invited to talk car emissions with Transport Select Comittee
The Jeep brand enjoyed record sales in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East, Africa) with 117,620 units shifted, up 55.7% in comparison with 2014.
There was 26 months of uninterrupted year-over-year growth to the end of December.
BMW's Mini brand has added 'All4' four wheel drive to its recently launched Clubman and claimed a couple of firsts - the brand's first all-wheel drive model in the C-segment and the first all-paw model to be built at Oxford - the Countryman 4x4s are done under contract by Magna Steyr in Graz, Austria.
News
20 Jan, 2016
The Ferrari 335 is up for sale at the Artcurial Motorcars auction in Paris on February 5 and is predicted to hit $34m
Fiat Chrysler is running short on time to fix its emissions record in the U.S. The company finished last in an Environmental Protection Agency ranking of CO2 emissions for the fourth consecutive year in 2014.
A study by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute confirms that learning to drive in the US is longer the rite of passage it was for young people.
EU Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska is calling on VW to compensate Europeans customers hit by the company's emissions scandal in the same way as U.S. customers. Bienkowska is also demanding more information on the company's recall action.
The Ministry of the Environment in Seoul says it will seek to bring criminal charges against the managing director of South Korea's Volkswagen and Audi importer. The development is leading some observers to wonder whether there might be dissembling factors in play.
The Ministry of the Environment in Seoul says it will seek to bring criminal charges against the managing director of South Korea's Volkswagen and Audi importer. The development is leading some observers to wonder whether there might be dissembling factors in play.
How much regulation is too much? That was the core question at a daylong hearing Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission on state laws and auto retailing, including the issue of direct factory-to-consumer vehicle sales.
Tesla Motors sued a German parts supplier for misrepresenting its ability to design and build the signature falcon-wing doors on its long-delayed Model X crossover.
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