BMW Group says April saw new records with 175,972 vehicles delivered, an increase of 8.4% compared with the same month last year across its BMW, Mini and BMW Motorrad divisions.
Knorr-Bremse and Dongfeng have started their joint venture in China to strengthen the German company's profile in the commercial vehicle market.
German supplier Webasto expects annual sales in China to double by 2020 to 8.3 billion yuan (1.2 billion euros) from last year's results, in part as consumers shift from smaller tilt-slide sunroofs to bigger and more expensive panoramic sunroofs.
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BMW said vehicle sales at its core BMW brand rose 5.6 percent in April as strong sales of the 2-series Active Tourer minivan in Europe and demand for SUVs in the U.S. helped to offset a sluggish China market.
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The 2015 Nissan Murano and 2015 Ford Flex earned IIHS top safety picks in the most recent round of small-overlap front crash testing, but other models in the crossover segment continue to fall short of the insurance institute's standards.
The Nissan Murano, Jeep Wrangler and Ford Flex earned high ratings in the latest round of small-overlap front crash testing, helping the Murano and Flex win coveted 'top safety' honors from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Four experimental self-driving cars have had fender-benders on California roads since September, when the state first required companies such as Google to hold permits for testing on public roads, according to a new report.
Toyota Motor Europe (TME) will use this month's Istanbul motor show to launch the Lexus brand in Turkey ahead of the start of sales in the fourth quarter.
Opel has said that its sales in April were up 4%, boosted by a strong gain in Germany.
Robert O'Connell, former CFO of General Motors and CEO and chairman of GMAC, died Friday in Boston. He was 76.
Vietnam's new vehicle market continued to grow strongly in April, with sales jumping by over 64% to 16,643 units from 10,115 units a year earlier, according to data released by the Vietnam Automotive Manufacturers Association (VAMA).
Astra-Daihatsu Motor (ADM), Indonesia's largest vehicle producer, announced it is planning to launch a new model in 2016 designed for emerging markets.
New vehicle sales in mainland China fell by 0.5% year-on-year to 1.99m units in April, according to data released by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM).
TMT (Toyota Motor Thailand) has placed a preview clip of the next generation Hilux on YouTube ahead of the new truck's global debut on 21 May.
The death toll from General Motors' defective ignition switch stands at 100, according to the outside attorney handling victims' claims for GM.
Mobileye, the Israeli designer of camera-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, or ADAS, for active safety and automated driving, has won two contracts to outfit vehicles with its EyeQ4 chips as standard equipment by the end of the decade.
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