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They are worried about currency fluctuations with the Euro

Volkswagen, Mercedes and BMW are committing around $25 billion to expand out of Europe over the next four years to avoid currency fluctuations with the Euro.  BMW will build the X4 at its factory in South Carolina and already builds the X...

German automakers, specifically Volkswagen Group, BMW and Daimler, are fighting with Italian and French automakers on how future emissions regulations should be calculated.  The EU Commission has already passed a rule that European automa...

Worst Offender is MG Rover with nearly 8% failure rate

UK company Warranty Direct has completed a study to find what are the most and least reliable automotive brands by rate of engine failures in the nation. The results are somewhat surprising. Automotive giant Volkswagen Group had two brands in the ...

It calls the pilot project simTD

Mercedes-Benz announced earlier this week that it will have Car-to-X technology in its cars available by the end of the year. BMW, Audi, Ford and Opel have just completed their own four-year testing program for the technology for their cars with t...

Yesterday, we reported on how nearly every European automaker had lower sales in April. However, there were just a few exceptions. Mercedes and BMW both had increases sales for April. As we reported yesterday, Audi was up 4.4%, and Citroën wa...

EU Parliament members hope to have a new plan in a few weeks, but it could be until 2015

The German automakers have gotten want they wanted, and the EU has dropped plans to make average EU car emissions 95g/km of CO2 in 2020. A new plan has not been agreed to yet, but it will be formed in the coming weeks, according to EU ministers. ...

The vote will not come until the end of the month now.

The German automakers’ industry association has been trying to delay or stop the vote on the EU lowering CO2 emissions averages, and it has been successful in delaying the vote for the third time. The vote will not come until later this mont...

Europe continues to struggle and Asia continues to grow

The major German luxury automakers - Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz - have released their financial information for May, and all of them are having their own ups and down. The common part is that while all of them have higher sales than last year, Eu...

Audi, Porsche, Volkswagen, BMW and Daimler have received the 2012 eCarTec Award from the German state of Bavaria for their shared Combined Charging System that will be implemented in 2013.  All of the automakers will use a universal plug ...

Showed them the XL1 and Polo

Volkswagen showed off the XL1 and Polo to Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the auto show in Hannover. Volkswagen says that it plans to sell both cars in Russia.  Volkswagen is investing in updati...