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Over-the-air software updates are set to save automakers billions of dollars over the next decade and could fundamentally alter the relationship between drivers, automakers and dealerships, an IHS Automotive study reported.

News 4 Mar, 2019

The latest bulletproof Range Rover gets one tonne of armour and a supercharged V8

News 7 Sep, 2015

Land Rover's SVO division has has created a luxurious armoured Range Rover Sentinel for security conscious buyers

Nissan is recalling 298,747 2012-2015 Versa sedan and 2014-2015 Versa Note models made (in Mexico) from 23 April, 2013, to 11 March, 2015. The affected vehicles have a centre console trim panel that may catch the driver's shoe and delay the transition from the accelerator pedal to the brake pedal.

Opinion 4 Sep, 2015

The customer experience and business models of tired, traditional franchised dealers need a revolution, says Mike Rutherford

Mercedes' brand sales increased 18 percent in August, marking the 30th consecutive month of record sales at the automaker. Demand was particularly robust in China, where sales rose 53 percent. Eight-month brand sales were up 15 percent to 1.

Tesla's higher volume sedan dubbed Model 3 is around two years away and will be priced at around US$35,000, according to postings on Twitter from Tesla boss Elon Musk.

As sharply falling oil prices which went below US$40 last week, continue to feed through to Russian exchange rates, with a plunging currency in turn putting pressure on disposable income available for automotive purchases, is there a silver lining in the depreciation cloud?

News 7 Sep, 2015

Porsche has revealed full details of its new 2016 911 ahead of the facelifted car's Frankfurt Motor Show debut

Some of the news is just in today so, you may not have seen all of the stories yet but, after a slight rattling of investors' cages by the recent stock market shenanig..., er, 'correction' in China, this week we have seen automotive investment confidence in three key markets. From Mazda, in Russia, Daimler, in alliance with the Renault-Nissan Alliance, in Mexico and, Nissan again, right here in the UK, for Europe.

While Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne isn't known for his patience, he's likely to wait until next year before making a bid for General Motors after months of talk about the potential of a deal.

Toyoda Gosei claims to be the first Japanese auto parts manufacturer to develop and mass produce a 'capless fuel filler', with which a vehicle can be refuelled by simply inserting the refuelling nozzle directly into a fuel tank without the need to remove or replace a cap. The newly developed product is also claimed to the smallest and lightest in the world.

Western European car sales jumped 9.6 percent in August, boosted by buoyant demand in Germany, the UK and southern Europe, data from analysts LMC Automotive showed.

SEAT says it is undertaking an ambitious plan to prioritise in-car connectivity across all of its models, including a three-in-one solution that enables Apple and Android compatibility.

Daimler and the Renault-Nissan Alliance have broken ground for their joint venture manufacturing complex COMPAS (Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes), in Aguascalientes in central Mexico. The factory will build premium compact vehicles for Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti.

Just two months after producing the one millionth TorqueFlite eight-speed automatic transmission, FCA US facilities in Indiana celebrated another milestone - production of the one millionth 948TE nine-speed 'box.

The Detroit 3 automakers are showing increased interest in the UAW's proposal that they pool their healthcare systems, a sign that contract talks between the union and manufacturers are down to the big money issues.

UAW negotiators said they will prevail in their contract talks with Ford as a deadline to strike a deal approaches.