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General Motors will invest US$1 billion in its Warren Technical Center campus, creating approximately 2,600 new jobs.

Honda's HR-V project leader, Masaki Kobayashi, has said the new crossover's design combines the dynamism of a coupé with the toughness of an SUV.

News 15 May, 2015

Four-door coupe from Peugeot is on the way, and could be sold in the UK

Ford says it is targeting small fleet buyers with its premium feel Vignale sub-brand for Europe which will debut with the Mondeo Vignale.

General Motors, in a long expected boost for its randd activities, will invest $1 billion to expand and renovate operations at its technical center in suburban Detroit.

News 14 May, 2015

Andy Palmer explains how 2019's DBX is aimed at a new type of customer, just like the Qashqai from his Nissan days

News 14 May, 2015

Volkswagen unveils monster Golf with carbon body at Worthersee show, with gullwing doors and 395bhp petrol-electric hybrid

Nissan aims to produce over 1m vehicles in Japan in fiscal year 2016-17, as it looks to take advantage of the weakness of the yen and help out the Japanese economy.

Automotive Lighting has opened its third production site in the 'Middle Kingdom'. The new plant is located in Xiaogan in the southeast Chinese province Hubei and 60 km northwest of Wuhan.

Nissan is forecasting that it will achieve a 14% increase in operating profit this financial year, on the basis of sales growth and further cost synergies from its alliance with Renault.

News 14 May, 2015

SEAT Leon ST Cupra sets 7 min 58 second lap record for an estate around the Nurburgring

The normally secretive Quandt family, which controls a majority stake in BMW, praised the company's seamless appointment of CEO Harald Krueger as rival VW Group inspects the damage from a bitter leadership crisis.

Honda today said it will recall 4.89 million cars globally to replace potentially fatal airbag inflators made by Japan's Takata. The recall comes a day after Toyota and Nissan said they were taking back 6.

The Takata airbag recall expanded by millions more vehicles for the second time in as many days, with Honda and Daihatsu calling back more inflators. The latest recalls affect some 4.

News 14 May, 2015

Hyundai's innovative virtual showroom records 100,000 people through its doors, with 1,000 sales predicted for 2015

The average shareholder value of Europe's listed automakers improved by 41 percent, outpacing European and U.S.

Hyundai, Volvo and Mercedes are experimenting more boldly with online sales, but they are careful to avoid straining their relations with dealers as they create and deploy tools that make it possible for the bulk of the transaction to take place...

Volkswagen brand vehicle sales fell 4.8 percent in April as lower volumes in China, Russia and South America outweighed gains in Europe.

Don't let the vanilla styling make you overlook the importance of the Celerio hatchback for Suzuki in Europe. The days of this brand being a body-on-frame SUV specialist are over, and multiple additional cars and crossovers are in the product pipeline.

AvtoVAZ is no longer the Russian market's number one, the combined sales of Hyundai and Kia having exceeded those of Lada for the first time.