- Bruised, misshapen fruit gets second life for 30% off – CNN: Loblaw in Canada launches blemished fruit brand called Naturally Imperfect.
- GERMANY: Volkswagen eyes higher efficiency gains – Just-auto: Volkswagen is aiming for a sharp rise in annual cost savings to bolster its bottom line.
- Toyota signs on as global Olympics sponsor – Automotive News: Toyota signed on as a worldwide Olympics sponsor Friday in a long-term deal reportedly worth $835 million. The deal starts in 2017 and runs through the 2024 Olympics, including the 2020 summer games in Tokyo.
- The drive to make a better car – FT: Earlier this year, Ford, announced that it was opening a new research and innovation centre in Silicon Valley. But it’s not just computer geeks that the great American carmaker is hiring these days. It …
- US: Ford starts F-150 truck production at Kansas City plant – Just-auto: Ford on Friday (13 March) marked the official start of production of the redesigned 2015 F-150 pickup truck line at its Kansas City Assembly Plant. The model was built first at the Dearborn truck factory in Michigan.
- Porsche nears decision on expanding lineup to 7 models – Automotive News: Porsche is finalizing plans to add a new car to its lineup to cater to rising demand for sporty luxury vehicles.
- Toyota Becomes IOC TOP Partner – Newsroom: Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) today announced it has entered into a sponsorship agreement with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to become part of The Olympic Partner (TOP) program.
- Hyundai mulls measures to improve corporate governance – Automotive News: Hyundai will consider a shareholder proposal to set up a corporate governance committee to improve its decision-making, co-CEO Kim Choong Ho said.
- First all-electric Porsche is in the pipeline – Autoexpress: News 13 Mar, 2015 Volkswagen Group R&D boss has confirmed plans for an all-electric Porsche model in the near future
- F1 needs dash of excitement – FT: Concerns over funding damp hopes for a more competitive season
- In search of a perfect F1 fuel mix – FT: The days when racing cars ran on a witches’ brew of chemicals and additives are long gone
- Tesla reassigns sales chief amid search for regional executives – Automotive News: Tesla is looking to hire executives to run sales operations in North America, Asia and Europe as it seeks to rapidly increase deliveries. Jerome Guillen, vice president of global sales and service, will return to a customer-satisfaction role.
- Honda to keep ‘practical’ design language – Autocar: Sporty Honda designs, such as the new Civic Type R, had raised suggestions that Honda would change its styling philosophy Japanese manufacturer will continue to prioritise practicality over sports styling, despite more outrageous designs like the new Civic Type R and NSX
- Mercedes-Benz Could Soon Overtake Audi As India’s Top Luxury Automaker – Autoworldnews: Mercedes-Benz has announced it will sell more compact vehicles in India, a move that could help the automaker take down Audi as the top selling luxury manufacturer in the country.
- Best Cars For Luddites (And Those Who Think Basic Is Better) – Forbes: Those who find it difficult to wrangle the latest technology should check out this selection of vehicles that keep things simple, at least in their base versions.
- BMW Group Rides Record Sales to Profit Highs – Detroit Bureau: The BMW Group continued to chalk up record numbers in 2014 as the company achieved new highs for sales and profits for the fifth year in succession and anticipates more of the same in 2015. For details, go to TheDetroitBureau.com.
- U.S. road travel surges 5 pct in Dec, lifted by cheap gasoline – Reuters: U.S. motorists took to the roads in record numbers in December, capping the fastest annual increase in miles driven for a decade, federal data showed on Thursday, a surge that analysts attribute to cheap gasoline and uptick in car sales.
- VW Group R&D Boss Hints that Full-Electric, Fuel-Cell Porsches are Coming – Car and Driver: Every year, the Volkswagen Group holds an annual conference on the state of things, and this year proved more of a preview than an update. That’s because VW Group’s head of R&D, Ulrich Hackenberg, threw out an as-yet unknown Porsche tidbit during a presentation: Porsche may be getting into the full-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell-vehicle games.
- Euro 6 emissions standards: what do they mean for you? – Autoexpress: News 12 Mar, 2015 As of September all new cars sold must meet Euro 6 standards for exhaust emissions of NOx and other pollutants
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- Ford’s Europe sales rise 11.7% in February – Detroit News: The Dearborn automaker’s market share rose in Europe to 7.3% last month
- Japanese vs Korean commercial truck advertising: Do you want cute or do you want macho? – Autoweek: We’re going to start this off by stating that the ‘Canter Guts’ name, applied by Mitsubishi Fuso to its Japanese-market light trucks, is one of the greatest ever devised for a motor vehicle. We’re assuming…
- Watch the Bloodhound SSC team test its ballistic panels – Autoweek: The Bloodhound SSC team plans to take its land-speed car past 1,000 mph sometime in 2016. This presents numerous problems, not least of which are rocks and other things hitting the car at speed.According..
- Porsche plots new compact electric saloon – Autocar: More fully electric and hydrogen-powered models are on the way from VW Group
- Ford’s European Sales and Market Share Increase Again in February Driven by Strong Demand for its New Vehicles – Media: Ford of Europe’s all-new and refreshed models – led by the Mondeo, Kuga, EcoSport and Transit commercial vehicle range – helped the company increase sales and market share again in February