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Toyota will now spend almost US$13bn by 2021 at its US operations and will add about 600 new jobs.

Groupe PSA's Opel brand is returning to the Russian market this year. The brand will initially make three models available at selected Russian dealers - the Grandland X (shipped from Eisenach) as well as the Zafira Life and the Vivaro (from Russian production facilities).

Geely's Volvo Cars is restructuring its executive management team to place technological developments and digitalisation at the core of the company's future strategy, focus on its core global business and adapt to new ways of interacting with customers.

Adhesives specialist Lord Corporation said it would expand operations at its Hueckelhoven, Germany facility at a cost of EUR14m.

Articles 14 Mar, 2019

Volkswagen’s electric future is already mapped out. But how could an electric VW look? We met a group of car design students to find out.

News 14 Mar, 2019

Tuning firm Lister has announced it will build a two-seat, open-top sports car which pays homage to the 1958 Lister ‘Knobbly’ racer

News 14 Mar, 2019

The Toyota Prius is involved in 111 crashes for every 10,000 Priuses on the road; Vauxhall is the most accident-prone brand

SABIC, the chemicals specialist based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has announced new technology for producing lightweight, cost-effective and recyclable vehicle panels using its UDMAX tape, a unidirectional, fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite.

Investors led by SoftBank Group Corp and Toyota Motor are in talks to invest at least US$1bn into Uber Technologies' self-driving vehicle unit which would value the unit at $5bn to $10bn, two sources told the Reuters news agency.

New minivehicles introduced by the Nissan-Mitsubishi NMKV joint venture will be first in their kei-class segment to offer semi-autonomous driving technology, the automakers said on Thursday.

South Korea's leading automotive components manufacturer, Hyundai Mobis, said it would invest KRW5.5bn (US$4.9m) in Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepGlint, according to local reports.

News 13 Mar, 2019

Several Jaguar Land Rover models to be recalled after it emerged they emit more CO2 than recorded in original certification tests

Ford is axing more salaried jobs, the company confirmed to a Detroit newspaper on Wednesday.

News 13 Mar, 2019

The Japanese auto manufacturer has teamed up with JAXA to design a lunar rover with a cruising range of 10,000km

Jaguar Land Rover is to recall about 44,000 cars built between 2016 and 2019, for excessive carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to a consumer group.

News 13 Mar, 2019

The Spanish car manufacturer will offer a factory tuning upgrade for the limited edition Leon Cupra R ST, adding an extra 69bhp

The British born chief operating officer of Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC), Trevor Mann, is to leave the automaker on 31 March, according to a press statement, and will be replaced by Ashwani Gupta.

Britain's Freight Transport Association (FTA) says the tariff policy released by London in case the UK leaves the European Union (EU) with no deal on 29 March is "long overdue."

Britain's Freight Transport Association (FTA) says the tariff policy released by London in case the UK leaves the European Union (EU) with no deal on 29 March is "long overdue."