Toyota's long-lived Crown enters its seventh decade with a major mid-lifecycle update adding a new direct-injection turbocharged engine, new colours, and claimed world-first 'ITS' safety package.
Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says it could slap Volkswagen with fines running into millions of dollars if it finds the German automaker has supplied so-called 'defeat devices' on certain diesel models.
Statutory negotiations concerning workers and staff in car tyre production and administration at Nokian Tyres' Finnish factory have ended and "adjustments" to production capacity utilisation as well as cost savings will be achieved by sacking 122 people. Statutory negotiations affected 900.
Faurecia has developed an innovative light sculpted panel using cover carving technology (CCT) for the front-seat backs of the new Renault Talisman mode line. This patented technology has enabled thye car designers to provide 3cn of extra knee room for rear passengers.
BASF has opened an expanded coatings technical competence centre in Bangkok, Thailand. Located at the supplier's site in Bangpoo, the centre spans about 2,300 sq m and serves the automotive industry in the ASEAN region.
Continuing just-auto's series of interviews with tier one braking system suppliers, Matthew Beecham caught-up with Felix Bietenbeck, executive vice president, business unit vehicle dynamics, Continental Corporation.
The supervisory board of Porsche has appointed Oliver Blume chairman of the executive board effective immediately. He replaces Matthias Müller, now chairman of the board of management of Volkswagen group.
Ivar Berntz, associate leader of Deloitte in Brazil for the auto sector, suggests lessons learned in the US during the 2008-2010 financial crisis may also be applied in Brazil. This was one of the issues under discussion during the Planning 2016 workshop in São Paulo promoted by Automotive Business, a communications firm specialising in the sector.
Volkswagen AG's new CEO, former Porsche chief Matthias Müller, has named Porsche head of public relations and press Hans-Gerd Bode (54) head of group communications, investor relations and external relations, with immediate effect. He succeeds Stephan Grühsem (53), "who is leaving the company by amicable agreement", according to a VW statement.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin, an early investor in Tesla Motors, was one of the first customers to take delivery of Tesla's all-electric SUV, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.
German prosecutors have been forced into a U-turn in their investigation of former Volkswagen AG chief executive officer Martin Winterkorn after they may have been too quick to name the official as the focus of a probe, a media report said.
VW compromised consumer trust in the auto industry by equipping its diesel engines with software that cheated emissions tests, the chairman of Japan's car manufacturers' trade group said.
VW Group could face millions of dollars in fines in Australia and the suspension of sales in South Korea in the wake of the automaker's admission that it used emissions-cheating software in 11 million vehicles worldwide.
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