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Support of British Leyland kept ailing brands alive

Garel Rhys, former director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff Business School, says that the British should thank Margaret Thatcher for the current state of British brands. His argument is that Thatcher's support o...

Mercedes, Honda, Hyundai and Toyota will be touring Europe together with seven of their hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) for a month starting September 13 in nine cities. The automakers will allow consumers to examine and test-drive the...

VW promising €785 million investment in Spain

The Spainish automotive market has been among the hardest hit in the European economic crisis, but the first hints of a turnaround are starting to come to the market. Volkswagen is promising a $1 billion (€785 mllion) investment in northern S...

Luxury automakers remain successful

The latest report from the European Automotive Industry Association indicates that EU auto registrations fell to 918,280 cars in January 2013, 8.5% lower compared to the previous January, which sinks EU auto sales to their lowest levels since 1990...

They must find a profitable way to reduce CO2

Automakers from all over the world are looking for more profitable ways to meet CO2 emission limits in Europe and North America. EVs have not been as popular as automakers had originally expected and have mostly lost money. While EV’s cr...

Toyota, Ford and Honda are the top three overall

For a second year, automakers lead Interbrand's Global Green Brands list. Each year the branding company creates a list of the top 50 green brands in the world. This year automakers hold the top three spots on the list, compared to two of thre...

The EU thinks that it can stem some of its credit woes by stimulating more trade with the rest of the world. Its diplomats are in talks with 80 countries in every corner of the world to make trade cheaper into and out of the EU. The deal farthest ...

Thousands of electric vehicles with fuel cell are expected to be on the roads by 2015

According to Daimler AG’s announcement on September 9th, the world leading car companies in fuel cell technology development have published a Letter of Understanding in which they jointly state a vow to widen the production and marketing of fue...

It is not really news that the internal combustion engine creates a lot of friction. Every bit of heat, noise and vibration created by the engine, is energy that is not making it to the wheels to move the car.  The VVT Technical Research ...

Hopefully in July it’ll be a bit warmer. I say that because when the great and the good of British motoring gathered at Lord March’s Goodwood estate for his hillclimb’s media day we were battling through some of the coldest condi...