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27 May, 2015
We get behind wheel of the Volkswagen Golf with advanced Bosch mild hybrid tech that cuts diesel emissions and boosts mpg
Toyota kept its title as the most valuable car brand in 2015 despite recent airbag recalls denting its worth, according to a study that ranks the top 100 global brands. BMW remained No. 2, while Mercedes was third.
Toyota kept its title as the most valuable car brand in 2015 despite recent airbag recalls denting its worth, according to a study that ranks the top 100 global brands. BMW remained No. 2, while Mercedes was third.
Automotive News Europe salutes the winners of the 2015 Rising Stars awards. Every day through June 4 one of the 14 winners will be featured. The Rising Star for Human Resources is Heli Hassinen-Biberger of Nissan.
Renault is ready to launch its first plug-in hybrid but will wait for costs to drop before launching the model, a senior executive said.
Porsche has extended the contract of its production and logistics boss, Oliver Blume, by five years. Blume is a former head of global production planning at VW who started his career at Audi.
French supplier EFI Automotive opened its first North American headquarters, in Elkmont, Ala., after spending $2.5 million to expand the site of its plant there.
Automakers and safety regulators could take months to nail down why airbag inflators made by Takata are exploding with too much force, meaning consumers cannot be certain replacement inflators installed under a sweeping recall are safe, industry...
A House of Representatives panel has called a June 2 hearing to probe the Takata airbag recalls that last week mushroomed to cover 34 million vehicles.
Two former executives with Japanese supplier NGK Spark Plug had retired before they were indicted Thursday on a charge of conspiring to fix prices of spark plugs, standard oxygen sensors and air fuel ratio sensors sold to some automakers in the US...
GM will invest $1.2 billion to improve the Indiana plant where it makes full-size pickups. The investment, part of the $5.
Against the background of an overvalued Brazilian real and an expanding market (for nearly a decade), the Chinese automakers' strategy for selling cars and light commercial vehicles here has been to offer well equipped models with no available additional options.
Though Brazil sales are estimated to fall 13% to 19% in 2015, depending on the forecaster's optimism or pessimism, not all brands will be hit. The market seems more prone to shrinkage in the lower price ranges where the dominant 'older' four - automakers established here for decades - are suffering most.
General Motors sees no need to merge with another automaker to maintain profitability, the company's president, Dan Ammann, said.
Ford will start offering Londoners a network of cars to share, rather than buy, in an effort to tap the growing market for on-demand driving.
A report in the New York Times suggests that FCA chief Sergionne Marchionne approached General Motors' CEO Mary Barra to discuss combining the two corporations, but was rebuffed.
Tata Motors' quarterly profit slumped as demand for Jaguar Land Rover vehicles in China waned. Profit at the Jaguar Land Rover unit fell 33 percent to $465 million.
Jaguar Land Rover became the latest casualty of a slowdown in Chinese auto demand, reporting its steepest drop in quarterly profit in two years after retail deliveries slumped in the world's largest vehicle market.
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