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Dave Pericak, the head of Ford Performance who played key role in the development of the GT supercar, will change jobs to focus on engineering for unibody and Lincoln programs.

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Amazon’s advanced Alexa artificial intelligence is coming to a SEAT near you, with Ateca and Leon gaining a new level of convenience.

Renault has unveiled a new direct injection turbocharged 1.3L petrol engine co-developed by the Alliance and Daimler.

GM plans to use carbon fiber for the beds of its redesigned full-size pickups to improve performance and reduce weight. Carbon fiber is considerably stronger and lighter than steel and aluminum, but it's more expensive.

Anheuser-Busch, which makes Budweiser beers, has reserved 40 of Tesla's all-electric semi trucks as it seeks to reduce fuel costs and vehicle emissions, The Wall Street Journal reported.

EU negotiators agreed to new rules that give Brussels the power to check up on national car approval authorities and set targets for emissions checks. Germany and Italy dropped their resistance to the EU having greater control.

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Honda says it will become the world's first car manufacturer to adopt new driving simulator technology, based on a 'revolutionary' architecture called DiM250 (Driver-in-Motion).

Rising cost of conducting business in South Korea is seeing some of the country's ultra-competitiveness erode, with the result suppliers are having to provide more value-added products to maintain attractiveness, including those based abroad..

The US has jailed its second VW official since the Dieselgate scandal broke two years ago.

Sources suggest Tata-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is planning a small, rugged SUV to sit below the upcoming Defender replacement. The planned latest addition to the Land Rover SUV range will be aimed squarely at younger buyers and 'millennials'. The currently unnamed model is thought to be called L860 internally, and could be a development of the aborted L851 project - a similar entry-level Land Rover project. No official details have been released but mid-2021 has been hinted as a possible start of production date.

As expected, Ford Motor Company and Alibaba Group on Thursday agreed to explore a strategic collaboration to jointly identify new opportunities to redefine consumer retail experiences and explore solutions for sustainable mobility.

As automakers turn their vehicles into app-laden computers on wheels, there's one habit they don't want to acquire from Silicon Valley: fighting over patents in court.

An executive at VW's Mexico unit said there is room to boost regional tariff-free content for autos made in North America, a central plank of the Trump administration's plan to overhaul NAFTA.

PSA CEO Carlos Tavares will succeed Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche as president of ACEA, the European auto industry's lobbying body. Tavares said safety and reducing CO2 emissions would be priorities.

Japan's new vehicle market declined by 2.6% to 406,860 units in November from 417,600 a year earlier, according to registration data released by the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association.

As part of its efforts to establish automated driving technologies to realise a collision-free society, Honda R&D, the R&D subsidiary of Honda Motor, has announced that it has signed a 5-year joint research and development contract with SenseTime Group Limited, a China-based IT company with strengths in the area of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies.

Current AvtoVAZ president and CEO, Nicolas Maure, has been appointed SVP, chairman of Eurasia Region to replace Denis Le Vot, who will take on new responsibilities within Renault- Nissan-Mitsubishi.