Opinion
13 Jan, 2019
Time to leave talk of Brexit and Dieselgate in the past and look forward to an exciting 2019, says Mike Rutherford
Honda's Swindon plant in the UK will shut down for six days in April as part of the company's Brexit planning measures.
Ex-Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn is seeking bail after being indicted in Tokyo on two new charges.
Restructuring announcements by two major automakers imperiled the job prospects of thousands and rather took the edge off all the clever techie developments revealed out west at the CES show in Las Vegas. Such was the just-auto week.
News
11 Jan, 2019
The Lexus LC Convertible Concept will make its public debut at Detroit before morphing into a full-production version
Buoyed by a young model range and the addition of multiple crossover/SUVs, SEAT made 2018 its best year yet for vehicle sales, finally breaking a record set in 2000. Crucially, the company is making decent money too, something which had eluded it for a long time.
Volvo's success with the V90 proves there is strong demand for premium-priced estates in certain mainly northern European countries. Which is why Audi sees a worthwhile opportunity for its latest A6 Avant in not only Sweden and Germany but Britain too.
Handsomely profitable and with a record 1.253 million vehicles delivered in 2018, the news only keeps getting better for Skoda. The Czech make has built solid foundations on a small number of category-busting cars, most of which sit outside the size norms of conventional segments and sell in big numbers. Its SUVs are now doing the same with more models are on the way.
Renault has slammed what it describes as a 'purposefully orchestrated destabilisation campaign' after the Reuters news agency published a story claiming that it has seen documents showing that executives from both carmakers in the Renault-Nissan alliance looked at legal ways to pay chairman Carlos Ghosn undisclosed income through the partners' shared finances.
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11 Jan, 2019
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Sales of cars and light commercials in Brazil in 2018 topped 2.56m units, up 14.6% from the 2.24m units sold in 2017.
Japan's new vehicle market declined by 1.7% to 387,525 units in December from 394,253 units a year earlier, according to registration data released by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association.
VW Group-owned Skoda has achieved a record number of deliveries for the fifth consecutive year.
PPG has announced that it will highlight its latest developments in coatings technology for autonomous, connected, electric and shared vehicles during the 2019 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), 14-27 January, at the Cobo centre in Detroit.
Hyundai Mobis has showcased its latest Communication Lighting concept at CES in January 2019.
The BMW Group sold more than 140,000 electrified (battery-electric and plug-in hybrid) vehicles in 2018. In total, 142,617 (+38.4%) electrified BMW and MINI vehicles were delivered to customers around the world last year.
More bad news for Ford, which yesterday detailed its plan to restructure its European operations and shed potentially thousands of jobs - its ride-share service Chariot is ending operations in the US and the UK by the end of March.
Sales of imported light vehicles in South Korea were flat at 20,450 units in December 2018 compared with 20,428 a year ago, according to the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association (KAIDA).
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