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- China’s Geely cars think big with Volvo makeover – Reuters: Geely cars range from 38,900 Chinese yuan ($6,000) to 249,800 for an electric vehicle. Its new flagship GC9 sedan, which Horbury worked on, starts …
- Renault, Hyundai, Mahindra and Maruti Suzuki models get zero star NCAP ratings – Autocar: Big car makers fall short of the first mark in Indian NCAP crash tests, highlighting a serious shortage of safety equipment
- VW pays out high rewards for failure – Automotive News: UK hedge fund TCI says VW Group’s top management together will have been paid about 400 million euros ($455 million) in salary and bonuses since 2011, a sum it condemned as “corporate excess on an epic scale.”
- Comment – VW ‘dieselgate’ opens the flood gates – Just-auto: you can wait for hours for a bus then two will come along together. It’s an analogy that can be placed on many things.How often, for example, do you see or hear about something of which you have never come across before only for it to crop up again within a very short space of time?
- Renault’s Hottest Seller in India Scores Zero-Star Crash Tests – Bloomberg: Renault SA’s Kwid minicar, one of the hottest-selling models on India’s auto market, scored zero stars in an auto safety group’s crash tests for the…
- GM’s Opel Rejects Allegations of Emissions Cheating as ‘Wrong’ – Bloomberg: Last month, auto manufacturers, including Opel, agreed with Germany’s Transport Ministry to voluntarily upgrade 630,000 vehicles in Europe to fix…
- SAIC to go ahead with second Thai MG plant – Just-auto: SAIC Motor-CP Company, the Thai joint venture between China’s SAIC Motor and the local Charoen Pokphand Group, plans to go ahead with a second plant in Thailand, according to local reports quoting company sources.
- Nissan taps Mayra Gonzalez for trailblazing role – Automotive News: Nissan has promoted Mayra Gonzalez, the automaker’s sales boss in Mexico to president, making her the first woman to lead a Nissan..
- 2017 BMW 2-Series Gets Twin-Power Engines – Detroit Bureau: BMW is pumping things up for 2017, offering a pair of new and more powerful TwinPower Turbo engines for the 2-Series coupe and convertible lines. More from TheDetroitBureau.com.
- Renault Samsung to develop 1-ton electric light commercial vehicle – Yonhap: Renault Samsung Motors Co., the local unit of French auto firm Renault S.A., will develop a 1-ton electric light commercial…
- Rolls-Royce Phantom Zenith – 50 cars mark final year of production – Autocar: Ultra-exclusive coupé and drophead coupé models launched; all 50 examples have already been ordered