Daimler expects truck sales to rise at least 5 percent to more than 500,000 this year and to 700,000 by 2020 due to rising demand in the U.S., helping to offset a slump in markets such as Brazil, trucks chief Wolfgang Bernhard said today.
Tata Motors' Land Rover has updated the Range Rover Evoque with styling changes and its new in-house engines.
Porsche has launched a navigation radio that fits the DIN-1 slot space in older models.
Volvo Cars has completed the design and development of self-driving cars.
Changan Ford aims to be among the top three automakers in China and plans to launch 15 models in the country in 2015 to achieve the target.
Toyota plans to launch the Vios sedan in India soon.
Daicel Corporation says it will establish its second airbag inflator manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona, as a part of a plan to reinforce its automotive airbag inflator business in North and South America.
Jaguar Land Rover North America (Land Rover) is recalling 2013-2015 Land Rover Range Rover vehicles manufactured 23 August 2012 to 5 February 2015, and 2014-2015 Range Rover Sport vehicles manufactured 16 June 2013 to 5 February 2015.
General Motors has just celebrated 90 years of operation in Brazil altogether with the achievement of 14.5m vehicles produced.
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Brabus announces it will bring a tuned version of the Mercedes S 63 Coupe to Geneva, with 1,450Nm of torque and all-wheel drive.
Kia is holding back its electric and hybrid vehicles in Australia expecting the government to introduce policies that might encourage the development of a charging infrastructure, and the introduction and purchase of EVs, Jeff Shafer, Kia Australia's senior product manager, said.
Bentley's first SUV, the Bentayga, was photographed undergoing cold weather testing near the Arctic Circle.
Honda Motor's controversial president, chief operating officer and representative director Takanobu Ito has quit and will be replaced by Takahiro Hachigo, currently the company's managing officer, who will become senior managing officer in April and president, chief executive officer and representative director in late June.
PSA Peugeot Citroen says it is to build a new premium compact vehicle at its French site of Poissy, extending the DS brand's B-segment line-up alongside the DS3.
BorgWarner says it is to supply its variable turbine geometry (VTG) turbochargers for the newly-developed 1.4L, three-cylinder diesel engines from the Volkswagen Group.
Dow Automotive Systems is a provider of polyurethanes, elastomers, films, fluids, adhesives, emissions solutions and acoustic-management materials to the global transportation industry. Matthew Beecham spoke to Eugenio Toccalino, Director of Strategic Marketing, Dow Automotive about structural foams and adhesives and the ways in which the supplier is helping OEMs make cars lighter.
Car sales in January were off to a good start and it was the seventeenth successive month of growth. It's good that the market is growing again, but risks to recovery remain and trading conditions will remain tough across the region, says Dave Leggett.
Honda President Takanobu Ito said he will step down and named Takahiro Hachigo, an randd executive with wide international experience, as his replacement following a string of quality lapses that spurred a round of internal reforms.
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