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The company is upgrading its logistics system but running into an "extreme" shortage of car carrier trailers, CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Monday in response to a customer who ordered a Model 3 in June but has yet to receive the car.

BMW said it will not meet its full-year target of achieving a flat pretax profit as trade conflicts and pricing pressure hit sales.

BMW said it will not meet its full-year target of achieving a flat pretax profit as trade conflicts and pricing pressure hit sales.

A study by car retail marketplace and publisher Auto Trader suggests it's a mistake to think that car ownership, or indeed the traditional retail sector, will be a victim of the sharing economy.

Several months after the launch of Mercedes-Benz's A-Class (as the sedan version makes its debut), Visteon said it was supplying a claimed industry-first cockpit domain controller, SmartCore, which usies a single silicon chip with multiple central processing units (CPUs).

A Tesla employee testified that he was summoned into a meeting last year in which Elon Musk told him that UAW representation would leave him voiceless, but that the automaker would let workers have it if their safety concerns weren't addressed.

ZF said it had begun volume production of its next generation active control retractor, the ACR8, fitted by Mercedes in the CLS.

VW says its retro-styled I.D. Buzz Cargo autonomous electric delivery van could be launched as early as 2021.

VW says its retro-styled I.D. Buzz Cargo autonomous electric delivery van could be launched as early as 2021.

U.S.-based International Automotive Components Group has seen a decline in its heartland, which has helped boost the prominence of its European unit.

BMW is already planning the next generation of its autonomous driving system, the first of which is due to premier with the upcoming iNext.

VW says its retro-styled I.D. Buzz Cargo autonomous electric delivery van could be launched as early as 2021.

Former BMW, Kia and Great Wall designer Pierre Leclercq has been named head of design for the Citroen brand from 1 November.

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Imports of used vehicles into many countries in Africa are "a big obstacle to new vehicle sales growth", according to Andrew Kirby, chairman of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA) and president and CEO of Toyota SA Motors, who said he was confident the local motor industry would overcome its major challenges and that the industry would grow substantially into the future.

Chery Automobile says it will open a new design centre near Frankfurt at the city of Raunheim am Main. The newly founded Chery Europe GmbH will commence work there in January 2019.

Together with Vodafone, Ford is one of a number of automakers now testing connected vehicle technology that could alert drivers to an accident ahead moments after it has happened.

Today's vehicles offer a myriad of features and services but understanding how and if these are being used by consumers isn't often truly understood by OEMs. With ever-increasing connectivity, it is now possible to acquire data about the vehicle's performance and how it is being used, but how to access this information and its relevance is in the early stages. A new project between Harman and J.D. Power claims it can change this and provide OEMs and Tier Ones with an insight that could make cars safer, more relevant or offer a better user experience. We spoke to Sandip Ranjhan, Senior Vice President, Harman Connected Services about the alliance and its expectations for the project.