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Thousands of cars from a host of manufacturers have spent years at risk of electronic car-hacking, according to expert research that Volkswagen has spent two years trying to suppress in the courts.

Toyota said today more than 50 of its employees were injured by Wednesday night's explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin that killed 56 people.

Mercedes sold more luxury cars worldwide than the Audi and BMW brands in July as its rising deliveries in China defied a market slowdown there.

Opinion 14 Aug, 2015

As Driver Power reveals, big brands need to stop the arrogance and deliver better quality service, says Mike Rutherford

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New figures by the Department for Transport show UK road users cover 314.6 billion miles annually with an average rush-hour speed of 23.8mph

News 14 Aug, 2015

Lexus GS gets a facelift at Pebble Beach 2015 bring it in line with the rest of the Lexus line-up

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Struggling to understand a foreign language is the biggest concern for Brits driving cars in foreign countries

Evonik says it is now offering a glass-fibre reinforced moulding compound for automotive application based on polyphthalamide (PPA) - Vestamid HTplus M1035 P1.

A concept version of the BMW M4 is making its global debut at this week's Monterey Car Week in California. The prototype's engine features water injection, which is claimed to both boost power and lower fuel consumption.

As European stock markets retreated in the second three months of this year automakers and suppliers relinquished some of the strong gains they had recorded in shareholder value in the first quarter.

BMW set out to make the second-generation X1 look, feel and perform more like its bigger SUV siblings. The automaker says the new crossover is larger but uses up to 17 percent less fuel than its predecessor.

Lexus, which has been busy in recent years proving its hipness to millennials, came to this monied coastal enclave Thursday to show that it hasn't forgotten its roots, or its customers, in the old-school luxury market.

BMW is showing a concept version of the first special edition M4 coupe that will be sold in the United States. The Concept M4 GTS debuts this week at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

With the redesigned 2017 C-class coupe, Mercedes-Benz is aiming squarely at picking up sales against the BMW 4 series and the Audi A5.

General Motors is boosting production of its highly profitable large SUVs and trucks to a pace that could result in 48,000 to 60,000 additional vehicles for the 2016 model year, in a bid to capitalize on rising demand, sources told Reuters.

Jaguar Land Rover's announcement that it is planning a production plant at Nitra in Slovakia potentially raises its capacity by as much as 300,000 units a year. Calum MacRae considers the announcement in the context of the company's plant-model mix, its future growth strategy and outlines why the first model to be built in Slovakia could be the next Defender.

It might be more than a decade old but the Discovery is still one of the best four by fours that money can buy - constant development, including the latest Euro 6 compliant diesel engine, has ensured that.

Nissan will begin supplying cars to college students for $5 an hour through a campus car-sharing venture by Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Johnson Controls says it plans to build a new automotive battery manufacturing facility in the city of Shenyang in northeastern China.

Thousands of vehicles made by at least four automakers were destroyed by a fiery factory explosion in the Chinese city of Tianjin, Chinese media reported. About 50 deaths and 700 injuries were reported.