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News 30 Dec, 2015

Car brands from Japan and Korea come out on top in the latest Warrantywise UK car reliability and cost of repair ratings

Aftermarket supplier LKQ said it would buy Italy's Rhiag-Inter Auto Parts Italia SpA, owned by private equity firm Apax Partners LLP, to expand in the European auto spare parts market.

Volkswagen Group has appointed Dr Manfred Döss as its new Head of Legal Affairs. He succeeds Michael Ganninger, who is leaving the company "at his own wish by amicable agreement" the company said in a statement.

Scarred by a public relations thrashing over its diesel emissions cheating scandal, Volkswagen is planning an image offensive, and its "Das Auto" global advertising slogan is an early casualty.

Yoshikazu Hanawa, the former Nissan president and CEO who negotiated an alliance with Renault SA in a 1999 agreement that rescued the indebted Japanese automaker, has died.

Articles 22 Dec, 2015

We look back at the best bits of 2015 in the wonderful world of cars

Engineering and technologies firm Semcon says it has signed a new contract with an unnamed "global automotive partner" to develop autonomous vehicles in Brazil.

Nexteer is confirming more than 3,000 UAW members at its Saginaw plant in Michigan have inked a five-year contract after a strike earlier this month surrounding pay.

Jtekt, a Japanese company that once revolutionized the auto industry by inventing electric power steering, now finds itself on the wrong side of the latest technology innovation: driverless cars.

News 22 Dec, 2015

Tesla owners will have access to millions of music tracks in their cars with new Spotify service

Toyota says it is developing a system for generating high-precision maps that will help the safe introduction of automated driving. The technology, which uses data from on-board cameras and GPS devices, will be displayed at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in the New Year (6 to 9 January).

Ford has sought a record number of patents in 2015 as CEO Mark Fields pushes the company toward Silicon Valley-style innovation.

The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has imposed a US$40m civil penalty and performance requirements on BMW North America for a series of safety violations.

Groupe Renault and Gravity Motorsport S.a.rl, an affiliate of Genii Capital SA, have completed the acquisition by Groupe Renault of a controlling shareholding of Lotus F1 Team Limited.

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has raised his offer for the Pep Boys automotive aftermarket chain in the US. The move caused the chain to terminate its agreement to be acquired by Bridgestone.

News 4 Jan, 2016

The Mitsubishi Shogun range is updated with new super-plush SG5 model

Nissan and BMW are joining forces to offer public fast charging at 120 locations across the US in an effort to support Nissan Leaf and BMW i3 customers and to promote increased adoption of electric vehicles.

Britain's Road Haulage Association (RHA) says the security situation at the Port of Calais is worsening by the day with some drivers subjected to violence and intimidation from baseball bat-wielding migrants desperate to cross to the UK.

Google is reported to be in talks with Ford that could see Ford emerging as a key manufacturing partner in the company's plans to bring autonomous cars to market.

News 22 Dec, 2015

Renault Scenic set to take cues from chunky SUVs as it battles the Citroen C4 Picasso. Exclusive image shows how it could look