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- World’s first flat-pack truck revealed – Autocar: Gordon Murray, the Global Vehicle Trust and Sir Torquil Norman have created a truck that can be built and driven in remote areas from a flat pack kit
- Volkswagen Taking 16.6% Stake in Navistar – WSJ: Volkswagen said it would take a minority stake in Navistar, a move to broaden the German auto maker’s U.S. footprint while expanding its global truck-market operations.
- What Self-Driving Cars Will Mean for Automakers’ Stocks – Fortune: One of the auto industry’s worst attributes, from an investor’s standpoint, is its predictability. While car companies benefit when the economy rises, the…
- Mazda 6 gets new ‘low-fatigue’ G-Vectoring Control tech – Autocar: GVC aims to reduce driver stress and fatigue over long distances by modulating torque to the front wheels
- Chinese carmakers want to retain foreign JV equity cap – Just-auto: Chinese carmakers would like to see the 50% equity cap on foreign ownership in local carmaking joint ventures retained for at least another five years, according to an interview with Bloomberg.
- GM Settles Final Two Bellwether Cases – Detroit Bureau: General Motors Co. agreed to settlements in the final two ignition-switch cases slated for trial in a New York federal court this year. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.
- China’s Tianqi Lithium Looks to the EV Market With a $306 Million Plant – Fortune: It’s expanding production of lithium batteries used in electric cars and … in the electric vehicle and high-end energy storage markets,” Tianqi Lithium…
- SUVs drive Mercedes-Benz sales up 12% in August – Just-auto: Mercedes-Benz delivered more than 156,000 vehicles globally in August – an increase of 11.8% on last year. It said the main contribution towards the increase came from the strong rise in unit sales of SUVs of approximately 40%.
- VW Buys Stake in Icahn-Backed Navistar in Gamble on U.S. Trucks – Bloomberg: Volkswagen AG will buy a 16.6 percent stake in Navistar International Corp. for $256 million as part of a strategic alliance with the struggling U.S….
- AvtoVAZ plans new share issue – Just-auto: AvtoVAZ is planning a recapitalisation that it hopes will allow it to finance future expansion plans as well as meet its financial commitments.
- South Korean VW-Audi sales plunge in August – Just-auto: Sales of imported vehicles in South Korea fell by 12.5% to 15,932 units in August, from 18,200 units a year earlier, according to data released by the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association (KAIDA).
- Taiwan sales flat in August – Just-auto: New vehicle sales in Taiwan fell slightly in August, by 0.2% year-on-year to 22,874 units, according to data released by the industry.
- Nissan Micra CVT with new colour launched in India; price, availability and more – Ibtimes: Japanese auto-maker Nissan has launched the refreshed avatar of its Micra hatchback in India with new Sunshine Orange exterior colour. Apart from…
- 2016 Ford Transit: A Ford GT Parts Run In The Ultimate Parts Runner – Forbes: Just over 11 years ago I was fortunate enough to buy a 2005 Ford GT. I was thrilled to be one of the lucky few owners of Ford’s then-new exotic…
- Western Europe monthly car sales rise 8.1 percent in August: LMC – Reuters: People walk past a row of Volkswagen e-Golf cars during the company’s annual news conference in Berlin March 13, 2014. REUTERS/Tobias …
- Geely’s Volvo and Autoliv team up in autonomous driving – Reuters: REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo … The collaboration with Autoliv and Volvo Cars is the latest step in a high-tech push by the Swedish …