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Opinion 3 Jul, 2015

Buyers think less about tyres than baby seats, airbags and braking systems, says Mike Rutherford - but they’re just as important

BMW's Chinese dealers have thanked the company for its support in the face of slowing market demand at a meeting in Beijing.

What Ford is billing a 'significantly enhanced', updated EcoSport B-SUV is now available to order in Europe.

Nissan has axed the Pathfinder Hybrid in the US.

BMW will begin testing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles this month.

This week it was, for once, my turn to stay back and mind the shop while colleagues scurried hither and yon to bring you news and interviews from a number of events here in Olde Engerland and Europe, all the while enduring 35C 'heatwaves', rail delays due to the 'wrong kind of heat', missed plane connections and the usual summer chaos.

Newly-formed ZF TRW says it will retain the 'affordable safety' value adopted by the US supplier as huge company settles in to its position as the world's third largest component producer.

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors, a joint venture between Huayu Automotive Systems (HASCO) subsidiary Yanfeng Automotive Trim Systems and Johnson Controls (JCI), has been launched.

General Motors' OnStar 'personal connectivity and service assistant', currently being launched by Vauxhall in the UK and Opel in Europe, has received an award from a top consumer magazine.

Fiat Chrysler will spend $280m to build Jeeps in India from 2017 - through an expanded joint venture with Tata Motors - becuase it wants to almost to double the SUV brand's 1m sales in 2014 by 2018.

Fiat Chrysler will spend $280m to build Jeeps in India from 2017 - through an expanded joint venture with Tata Motors - becuase it wants to almost to double the SUV brand's 1m sales in 2014 by 2018.

Sponsored 13 Jul, 2015

The SsangYong Tivoli is shaping up to be the surprise hit new car of 2015. Find out why on video...

Former Honda Motor Co. CEO Takanobu Ito famously said five years ago that it was 'stupid' to make English the official work language of a Japanese company. Now that he's left the building, however, Japan's No.

News 3 Jul, 2015

Vauxhall announces a 1.6-litre 'Whisper' diesel added to Insignia range, alongside new OnStar connected tech and Apple CarPlay

ZF TRW says it is looking to leverage the power of its combined operations and insists there is relatively little duplication in the new company following the acquisition by the German supplier of the American component producer.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has agreed a manufacturing partnership with Magna Steyr, an operating unit of Magna International Inc, to build some future vehicles in Graz, Austria.

News 3 Jul, 2015

Study finds that women routinely pay more than men to fix their cars. Birmingham the least female-friendly city.

Newly-formed ZF TRW says it will develop a common culture in time as the new mega supplier looks to capitalise on the overall worldwide recovery in the automotive sector.

China's National Electric Vehicle Sweden, which owns the assets of bankrupt Swedish automaker Saab, broke ground on a plant in China to produce electric vehicles.

In South Korea it's always been the Pride, in China it's the K2, while in Europe and the Americas, Kia's B-hatchback is called Rio. The recently updated model is a solid cornerstone for its maker's future small car ambitions, worldwide.