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PSA-owned Vauxhall has announced a plan for 241 job losses at its UK, Ellesmere Port, car manufacturing plant.

Porsche has an ambitious plan to improve operating profit by 6 billion euros ($6.8 billion) over eight years by streamlining operations as the automaker spends more to develop and build electric cars, sources told Bloomberg.

News 23 Nov, 2018

Restructuring at the Cheshire plant set to slim down the workforce by 241, with the aim to offer voluntary redundancies to the staff

PSA's Vauxhall business will ax an extra 241 jobs at its Ellesmere Port plant in the UK in the latest cuts at the site, deepening union concerns over the factory's future.

PSA's Vauxhall business will cut an extra 241 jobs at its Ellesmere Port plant in the UK in the latest cuts at the site, deepening union concerns over the factory's future.

A report in French Newspaper Les Echos suggests that while PSA Group and Toyota will continue to collaborate in light commercial vehicles they are planning to end their joint venture in the Czech Republic which manufactures small cars.

Mahle has inaugurated a new research and development centre in Valencia, Spain.

DIP Capital LLP, a new investment management firm dedicated to investing in disruptive businesses, said its Disruption Investment Platform (DIP) Fund I had invested GBP1.5m in Wejo, a UK technology company which collates data from connected vehicles.

The Volkswagen Group announced it was investing in the German digital specialist Diconium by acquiring 49% of the shares in the company.

Volvo has decided to delay its original plan to start building Lynk and CO vehicles at its plant in Belgium at the end of 2019 due to increased macro-economic uncertainty, the automaker said.

I'm sure many others - in or observing the autobiz - were as saddened as I was to hear of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance kingpin and Nissan Motor supremo Carlos Ghosn's downfall this week.

Opinion 25 Nov, 2018

Mike Rutherford thinks motor shows are not dead just yet and are, in fact, even more important in this day and age

News 23 Nov, 2018

Ford patent application describes cars automatically driving into the sun, opening windows and running the fan to eliminate new car smell

News 23 Nov, 2018

Vauxhall’s latest scheme 'Go Instore' offers customers online, real-time car-buying advice without visiting a dealer

The heads of VW, BMW and Daimler are ready to attend a meeting with the Trump administration, but have not yet received a formal invitation, Reuters reported.

The heads of VW, BMW and Daimler are ready to attend a meeting with the Trump administration, but have not yet received a formal invitation, Reuters reported.

Groupe PSA and AVTEC (a CK Birla Group) have hosted the inauguration ceremony of their greenfield plant in Hosur, Tamil Nadu.

VW acted immorally by installing emissions-cheating software in diesel cars and must reimburse the owner of a Golf the full price of his vehicle bought in 2012, a German civil court ruled.

Interim Renault CEO, Thierry Bolloré, says it will make working with its suppliers a priority while the French automaker attempts to make sense of what is happening to Carlos Ghosn in Japan

Will the redesigned Range Rover Evoque sell like hot cakes as its Land Rover Freelander replacement did initially, back in 2011? Bang on time, at the end of a 'traditional' European automaker's eight year model life cycle, Jaguar Land Rover has introduced a fully redesigned Evoque that, at first glance, looks very much like the original, so we shall see.