A high powered team of VW execs are to meet state officials on March 22 to discuss the possible siting of a new car plant in Andhra Pradesh in Indian. <p>
Ford has started an internal investigation into why its president Sir Nick Scheele tried to push all its advertising work to advertising agency WPP – run by his friend Sir Martin Sorrell.
Ford has shrugged off criticism that its new Chinese-made Fiesta is an outmoded model. The motor began rolling off the Ford Motor Company joint venture plant in SW China on January 18.
Autoleads, part of the Armour Group, has purchased CTI, one of the Europe's leading designers and manufacturers of specialist GSM and GPS aerials and antennae for the automotive and marine aftermarkets.
Combustion Component Associates of Conneticut are to sell Clean Diesel Technology's (CDT) Aris urea Selective Catalytic Reduction NOx reduction system for retrofit to diesel vehicles in the US and Canada.
A new survey of 100 dealers has delivered fresh evidence of the diesel price premium as a result of the boosted market demand for oilburners.
After many false dawns, the US web car sales sector may be set to take off, according to US media reports.
Vehicle production at Shanghai GM, the main General Motors joint venture in China, will increase by more than a third to around 150,000 units, according to a senior executive.
European Motor Holdings has paid £0.5m for a VW dealership in Walton on Thames.
Polar Motor Group has acquired the Calderford Ford business in Wakefield.
Hybrid cars will have substantially more environmental benefits than hydrogen fuel cell cars until at least 2020, according to a new study in the US.
Dealers are being given the option to self-warranty used cars under a new scheme launched this week. The service is designed to let dealers sidestep traditional third party warranty schemes, reducing overheads and minimising the cost of claims by capturing any warranty work.
Standard & Poors said on Thursday its Asian equity research team is initiating coverage of Chinese automaker Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited with a "sell" rating on concern about risks associated with its planned car production.
Ford is playing down a rating agency's claim that the company could be forced into bankruptcy with debts of £94bn in the face of slowing sales and a downturn in the world economy.
Fiat in India could face a $96m excise bill for allegedly underpricing the Uno in order to boost sales in the country.<p>
Honda will record a third consecutive record net profit in 2003/2004 – possibly exceeding $3.7bn – its president Hiroyuki Yoshino has predicted.
Fiat Group's new chairman Umberto Agnelli told journalists at the Geneva Motor Show yesterday that he hoped the company would never have to exercise the option to sell 80 per cent of the company to GM.
Former Unipart Group proposition director Carl Brown has been appointed managing director of Hella, the automotive lighting and electronics supplier.
The Transport and General Workers' Union has welcomed news that the EU is to investigate allegations that Pirelli has “exported” jobs from the UK to Italy.
An updated edition of the Clutch Toolbox technical support CD-ROM has been released by Sachs Boge (UK) to its distributors and accredited fitting centres.
Franchised car dealers are missing a multi-million pound servicing opportunity by ignoring the need to fit tyres. That's according to data from the Tyre Industry Council, which suggests 20 per cent of all vehicles up to three years old need tyre work.
North West motor retail group Smith Knight Fay has acquired the Bury VW Centre from Walker Farrimond.
EU Commission president Romano Prodi has delayed legal action aimed at removing the state of Lower Saxony's power to veto any takeover of VW.
A brand new £23,000 Lotus Elise could be won for £1 at the AM/Sewells aftermarket conference on March 26.
The car price discount campaigns, which have been so important in boosting UK car sales, could be under threat as a result of the falling £.
The ousted and self-exiled former Brilliance China Automotive chief Yang Rong is to launch legal action to regain control of the company from the Liaoning provincial authorities.<p>
If dealerships don't pick up the aftersales opportunities posed by block exemption, they face oblivion, argues Paul Clarke, managing director of Autoconnect.
DaimlerChrysler engineers claim that cars fitted with enhanced radar warning systems could help substantially reduce the accident death toll and £60bn cost of accidents on European roads.
ScootElectric, the UK concessionaire for three of the world's leading players in the fast-developing market for zero emission personal transport, is targeting city centre dealers for its electric scooter franchise.
Honda's Swindon plant is preparing to build its one millionth car tomorrow – and it will be a silver CR-V destined for North America.
