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News 11 Feb, 2015

Trials to start on public roads but insurance, Highway Code, MoTs and driving licence laws still unknown

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News 10 Feb, 2015

Commuters at Waterloo station can virtually configure a Fabia and display it on a giant screen- with them in it!

Harry Wilson, a member of President Barack Obama's auto task force that restructured GM and Chrysler, intends to nominate himself for a seat on the board of GM and propose an $8 billion stock buyback, setting off a new debate over how to manage and...

News 10 Feb, 2015

Police set to patrol roads in unmarked HGVs with cameras to spot offenders from above

GM CEO Mary Barra's strategy of rebuilding the Cadillac brand has run into twin roadblocks: the carmaker can't persuade enough American sedan buyers to switch from foreign competitors such as BMW or Mercedes, and it can't make enough of its Escalade...

After a record 2014 for vehicle sales, BMW Group appears to be delivering on its Detroit show promise for 2015 with January sales up 7% year on year to a record breaking 142,154 units.

Buoyed by plans to spin off Ferrari, Fiat Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne has supplanted Tesla Motors' Elon Musk as the CEO with the car industry's best-performing stock. Analyst skepticism is as high as the share price.

Ford does not expect its Mondeo hybrid to be a big seller in Europe but the environmentally friendly car could benefit from a backlash in some countries against diesels due to health fears over particulate emissions.

News 10 Feb, 2015

Number of traffic officers falls by almost a quarter in England and Wales

Daimler Buses in India has begun bus chassis exports, initially to Egypt, where they will receive bodies built by long time partner MCV.

Daimler will boost local production of Mercedes vehicles in China and continue its dealer network expansion as it targets sales growth of at least 10 percent this year, the company's China chief, Hubertus Troska, said.

Porsche sales in January rose 31% year on year to 16,000 units.

Features 10 Feb, 2015

As the seemingly unstoppable march of the turbo continues. We chart the decline of the much loved ‘atmo’ engine

News 11 Feb, 2015

More details on new 280bhp-plus Honda Civic Type R hot hatch, plus official teaser pics

Michelin has posted 2014 net income down 8.5% to EUR1.031bn (US$1.2bn) as sluggish markets apart from North America and China, took their toll.

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) says that vehicle sales in China totalled 2.32m in January, up 7.6% from a year earlier.

Prosecutors in Berlin have dropped a probe into whether Daimler granted "undue advantage" to a former treasurer of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats when it hired him as chief political lobbyist.

Land Rover said it received 3,400 orders in the UK for its new Discovery Sport ahead of its start of sales at the end of January although there is a feeling among some industry insiders that many potential customers will wait for new engines due to be launched later this year.

Renault-Nissan increased combined global vehicle sales by 2.5 percent to 8.47 million last year, but the alliance is no closer to CEO Carlos Ghosn's goal of becoming one of the world's top three automakers.