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Honda has shown the production version of its electric 'e' compact car at Frankfurt and says that deliveries will start in the summer of 2020.

Volkswagen has presented its ID.3 at the Frankfurt Motor Show and revealed that purchase prices for the series production model will start at under EUR30,000.

Daimler Trucks and Torc Robotics are actively developing and testing automated trucks with SAE Level 4 intent technology on public roads in the US.

Automotive supplier Marelli has announced that Calsonic Kansei and Magneti Marelli will officially change their respective legal company names to "Marelli" from next month.

Allison Transmission Holdings, the largest global manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty fully automatic transmissions, announced today that it has acquired the assets and certain liabilities of Walker Die Casting located in Lewisburg, Tennessee and C&R Tool and Engineering located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

A technology and software company - We Predict - claims it can forecast component failures across brands and models out to three years via a database and algorithms that utilise machine learning.

Moody's Investors Service has cut Ford's credit rating to junk due to the company's weak earnings and cash generation outlook.

News 10 Sep, 2019

The i Hydrogen NEXT prototype previews the German brand’s plans for hydrogen-electric propulsion from 2022

Sales of new passenger vehicles in China fell by 9.9% year-on-year to 1.564m units in August, according to retail data released by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).

News 10 Sep, 2019

The radical BMW Concept 4 is 85 per cent representative of what the new 4 Series will look like when it arrives in 2020

News 9 Sep, 2019

Hot Vauxhalls are on the comeback trail with the electric Corsa-e supermini and Vivaro van both getting VXR versions in 2020

Climate groups including Greenpeace and Deutsche Umwelthilfe called on the eve of the Frankfurt show for sport-utility vehicles (SUVs) to be banned as part of a wider campaign to curb pollution by the vehicle industry.

News 9 Sep, 2019

Audi’s new flagship plug-in hybrid 4-door has an all-electric range of 25 miles and a claimed economy figure of 134mpg

Porsche on Monday started Taycan output at a new facility for its first electric sports car at its Zuffenhausen site.

News 9 Sep, 2019

The new Audi RS 7 Sportback shares the same 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8 with the RS 6 Avant, and will sprint to an unlimited 189mph

Kia Motors has named a former Infiniti, BMW and Daimler designer as the new head of its global design centre.

News 9 Sep, 2019

Ford uses near miss data to identify common issues at junctions which could pose a risk when autonomous cars are in use