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News 2 Apr, 2019

The new Volkswagen ID. Roomzz concept sits on the brand's MEB platform and previews a future flagship ID. electric SUV

Electric vehicle startup Byton said it had completed its cold environment test of M-Byte prototypes in inner Mongolia in northern China.

News 2 Apr, 2019

The firm’s UK facilities have entered a period of scheduled downtime in response to the previously planned Brexit deadline of March 29

Microsoft and BMW Group have announced a new open manufacturing platform targeted at smart factories in automotive and other industries.

Brexit may have been delayed but well-laid plans to temporarily close some UK car plants based on the original 29 March EU-exit date went ahead regardless.

News 2 Apr, 2019

Toyota has released its next-generation Yaris hatchback, and it looks suspiciously like a re-badged and re-nosed Mazda2

Carlos Ghosn's lawyers have asked he be placed on trial separately from Nissan Motor and its former director Greg Kelly.

SsangYong Motor Company announced that the company sold a total of 13,590 units in March 2019 - 10,984 units in domestic sales and 2,606 in exports including CKD kits.

Dana is applying its fuel cell experience to designing and manufacturing composite and metallic bipolar plates for public transportation systems, such as eBus and hydrail applications.

Continental has expanded its logistics centre in Gross-Rohrheim south of Frankfurt, supplying dealers across the world with spare parts.

Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems is expanding its Huntington, Indiana, footprint with the addition of a sixth location.

News 2 Apr, 2019

Tesla has bolstered its range of die-cast collectibles with a new, $320 model of its forthcoming Tesla Semi truck articulated lorry

Domestic sales by South Korea's five largest automakers declined by 0.8% to 138,288 units in March from 139,432 units in the same month of last year, according to preliminary data released individually by the vehicle manufacturers.

Bridgestone Europe has completed the acquisition of TomTom Telematics for EUR910m.

Ford is adding a digital chill-out mode to its redesigned Explorer SUV, a model sold mainly in North America.

News 2 Apr, 2019

New compact Audi concept imagines futuristic autonomous transport for our cities

Daimler has allocated the Mercedes-Benz GLC model to its Sindelfingen plant from 2022.

BYD says it has launched the K12A, described as the world's first 27-metre pure electric bi-articulated bus. With a passenger capacity of 250 people, BYD claims it is the longest pure electric bus in the world and can travel at a maximum speed of 70 km/h.

Features 1 Apr, 2019

You’ve had your say. Now we can reveal which foreign-market models manufacturers should sell here in the UK