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News 9 Jan, 2019

Councils’ net profit from parking has risen from £682m to £847m in five years while road budgets has fallen £400m in the same period

News 8 Jan, 2019

The Porsche 911 Cabriolet gets the coupe’s latest tech and styling, while a new twin-turbo engine and gearbox feature

News 8 Jan, 2019

The new Vauxhall Vivaro Life rivals the Citroen SpaceTourer, and also secures the future of the brand’s Luton factory

Hyundai Motor Group has shown its 'Elevate' concept at CES in Las Vegas. It says the 'Ultimate Mobility Vehicle' (UMV), prepares communities in the event of a natural disaster'.

Both safety systems specialist Autoliv and spin-off Veoneer will have new CFOs mid-year as one jumps from the other.

Cognata's autonomous vehicle simulation suite will be combined with Dassault Systems' 3Dexperience platform, the two companies said.

General Motors' decision to close its Oshawa, Ontario, assembly plant is going to be hard-fought as far as the country's auto union is concerned.

Harman says its new 'Premium Communications' technology aims to bring an end to raised voices in the car and annoying background noise from in-car calls.

Veoneer - the company spun off from Autoliv - says it achieved record order intake for the full-year 2018. The total lifetime value of the 2018 orders is estimated at US$5.9bn, corresponding to an average annual order value of more than US$1.2bn. This, it says, represents growth of around 40% compared to 2017 order intake.

News 8 Jan, 2019

Ford’s Fiesta-based replacement for the EcoSport SUV caught on camera for the very first time

NVIDIA has said there is nothing it is working on that is "more complex" than the self driving car.

Panasonic Corporation has said it has developed the next generation of a new 48V ePowertrain platform for small electric vehicles (EVs).

ZF has conceded the highly ambitious targets set by the European Commission concerning emissions standards will be "very tough" to meet following agreement struck between the EU and its Parliament.

At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Daimler Trucks announced that it will invest EUR500m (around US$570m) over the next years and create more than 200 new jobs in its global push to bring highly automated trucks (SAE level 4) to the road 'within a decade'.

BMW says it will become the first premium carmaker to launch Tmall Genie onto the market in China in selected BMW models.

ZF has unveiled the latest iteration of its automotive supercomputer at the CES show here in Las Vegas, maintaining it is the most powerful AI-capable processing system in the automotive field.