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- 500th LaFerrari fetches record-breaking final price – Autocar: LaFerrari gets one car added to its original 499-unit production run, with the 500th example auctioned to aid those affected by the Italian earthquake
- BMW accelerates EV, self-driving strategy – Automotive News: BMW Group will accelerate its shift toward autonomous and electrified vehicles by opening a self-driving test center in Germany and…
- VW’s Moia brand will challenge Uber – Automotive News: Establishing Moia, the group’s 13th brand, is part of VW Group’s aggressive push into electric vehicles and new technology services as it emerges…
- 2017 Ford Fiesta ST could be AWD – Autocar: Ford Fiesta Active
- Dangerous drivers who kill could get life in prison – Autocar: British ministers reveal plans to raise upper sentence limit if a driver kills when behind the wheel
- Jaguar Land Rover November US sales jump 19% on new luxury cars – Nikkei: Jaguar Land Rover, the luxury carmaker owned by India’s Tata Motors, reported a 19% jump in November sales in the U.S.,…
- Growing business fleet demand fuels rise in new car sales – Guardian: Demand for hybrid and electric cars rose 25% to 6,663 giving them a record 3.6% of the market. Car sales have been powered by the growing…
- Apple confirms it is working on self-driving cars – Guardian: “The company is investing heavily in the study of machine learning and … was rumoured to be in talks to take over the British car manufacturer McLaren. … Several large technology companies and traditional car manufacturers are…
- VW’s new division takes aim at Uber-style competition – Reuters: Volkswagen launched a new digital business division on Monday to take on services such as Uber, shifting its focus beyond selling cars to catering for customers who prefer to pay for use rather than own a vehicle.
- BMW Sees Battery Costs Causing Years of ‘Tears’ on E-Cars – Bloomberg: BMW AG sees no quick way to boost profit from electric cars, with battery capacity and cost set to weigh on the technology for the foreseeable future.
- Why Porsche, Toyota love endurance racing even as Audi quits – Automotive News: By capturing first and second place in Bahrain during the final competition of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) season, Audi’s works team…
- Here’s How BMW Plans to Outpace Uber – Fortune: BMW will test autonomous vehicles in Munich next year as it seeks to keep up with ride-hailing firms like Uber, which have spent billions on…
- VW’s Moia Brand Goes After Uber, Apple With Electric Shuttles – Bloomberg: While sales of electric cars remain weak as consumers fret about their high pricing, limited battery range and lack of charging stations, automakers…
- VW enters on-demand ride services with new MOIA brand – FT: Volkswagen will launch electric shuttle services in European cities from … The MOIA service will use purpose-built electric vehicles manufactured by…
- Volkswagen unveils Moia, its new mobility services brand – Autocar: VW Group’s special-purpose vehicle could resemble the Budd-E microbus concept
- Top 10 best-selling cars in Britain – Autocar: The latest list of Britain’s best-selling cars hints at changing trends as well as showing the continuing popularity of some stalwarts, but what car is top?
- BMW set for reinvention with larger range of EVs – Autocar: BMW Vision Next 100 concept
- Diesel and petrol almost equal in November registration figures – Autocar: Despite disheartening figures for October registrations, sparking the start of Brexit’s knock-on effect, the UK car market grew by 2.9% over November 2015
- FCA To Launch Alfa Romeo In China But Will They Last This Time? – Forbes: Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has announced it will bring the Alfa Romeo brand to China. Imports are set to start next year with local production…
- Geely’s Volvo Cars says sales dip 0.6 pct yr/yr in Nov – Reuters: STOCKHOLM Dec 5 Geely-owned Volvo Car Group in statement on corporate website: * Says sales drop 0.6 pct year-on-year in November.
- BRIEF-Geely Automobile’s Nov total sales volume of group of 102422 units – Reuters: is the news and media division of Thomson . Thomson is the world’s largest international multimedia news agency, providing …
- BRIEF-GM says November China vehicle sales +7 percent y/y – Reuters: * November China vehicle sales total 371,740 units, +7 percent y/y, versus +5.7 percent in October
- China’s Electric Cars Market To Tumble, Warns Citi – Barrons: China’s auto makers tumbled last Friday after Morgan Stanley turned sour on the auto industry. Today is electric vehicle makers’ turn. BYD (1211.
- BRIEF-Toyota Motor buys back 932100 shares for 6.2 bln yen in November – Reuters: BRIEF-Toyota Motor buys back 932,100 shares for 6.2 bln yen in November. Dec 5 Toyota Motor Corp : * Says it repurchased 932,100 shares for 6.2 …
- BMW confident in spite of new threat from US technology rivals – FT: BMW has mounted a strident defence of its future prospects in the face of “dangerous” new rivals offering self-driving, shared and electric cars even as…
- Ford moves Fiesta upscale; plans for US are unclear – Automotive News: Ford Motor Co. offered no details about U.S. plans for its eighth-generation Fiesta at the global unveiling in Germany last week, but the European…
- Tesla opens gallery in Michigan mall – Automotive News: After filing a lawsuit in federal court in September contesting the state’s direct-to-consumer sales ban, the electric-vehicle maker on Thursday, Dec.
- GM builds final Australian engine – Automotive News: 29, General Motors built its last Australian engine and closed the engine line at … GM plans to continue the Holden brand by rebadging vehicles built…
- Can Lucid succeed where others have failed? – Automotive News: Lucid Motors’ luxury EV prototype feels like an entirely viable product. But the car and the company are venturing into an automotive landscape littered with startups that promised to be the real thing.
- Mazda CEO on pricing, diesels and Toyota partnership – Automotive News: Our in-depth authoritative automotive coverage and degree of access from the boardroom to the showroom makes unrivaled in the…
- Self-driving guidelines picked apart – Automotive News: Companies from Apple to ZF TRW have weighed in on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s guidelines for self-driving vehicles.
- Another strange tale from the world of Lapo Elkann – Automotive News: Trouble seems to be Lapo Elkann’s middle name. The flamboyant 39-year-old heir to the Fiat fortune, no stranger to lurid headlines, was arrested in…
- Two from Toyota – Automotive News: Toyota released a teaser image of its redesigned 2018 Camry, with sportier styling than the current generation. The new Camry will debut next month…
- Mercedes van plant opens door to suppliers – Automotive News: Daimler converts a U.S. kit factory to a bona fide vehicle assembly plant — and creates a new scenario for local Mercedes parts.
- Mazda looks to next-gen CX-5 for a lift – Automotive News: Mazda Motor Corp. CEO Masamichi Kogai, fighting sliding sales and a tougher U.S. auto market, is banking on an ambitious next-generation product plan to lift the boutique Japanese brand above its mass-market competitors.
- Autonomous features ripe for misunderstanding – Automotive News: So what could go wrong with car salespeople demonstrating semiautonomous technology to customers new to self-driving vehicles? In some cases, plenty. And it’s emerging as a concern.
- Incentives keep market running at record pace – Automotive News: After three consecutive declines, automakers managed in November to make the largest year-over-year U.S. sales gain since February, but it took a big jump in incentives to make that happen.
- CO2 ruling puts Trump, automakers in a bind – Automotive News: The EPA’s surprise decision last week to uphold its greenhouse-gas targets keeps the auto industry pretty much where it was before the presidential election.
- MEDIA-China’s automaker SAIC Motor plans to invest about $1 bln in India b… – Reuters: Dec 5 Below are the ratings awarded by India Ratings and Research Private Ltd (India Ratings), formerly known as Fitch Ratings India for local debt …
- BMW seeks to be “coolest” ride-hailing firm with autonomous car – Reuters: BMW will test autonomous vehicles in Munich next year as it seeks to keep up with ride-hailing firms like Uber, which have spent billions on pay-per-use personal transport.
- Hyundai eyes World Rallycross and Formula E in big motorsport push – Autocar: Hyundai Motorsport president Gyoo-Heon Choi (right) pictured here with Michel Nandan, team principle, with the 2017 i20 Coupe WRC
- Trump Tweets Out Promises To Increase Import Taxes As Carrier, Ford Make Moves – Forbes: Ford. In September, Trump told Fox, “When that [Ford] car comes back across the border into our country that now comes in free, we’re gonna charge…
- Australia new vehicle sales edge up nearer record year in Nov-VFACTS – Reuters: … another year of records, thanks in part to stellar demand for pick up trucks. … Sales of light commercial vehicles rose 3.3 percent in November, from …
- Apple signals a readiness to join the self-driving car race – Automotive News: Photo credit: BLOOMBERG … “Executed properly under NHTSA’s guidance, automated vehicles have the potential to greatly enhance the human…