In the wake of its diesel
emissions scandal, Volkswagen has reaffirmed its planned investments at the
Chattanooga location and production of an all-new SUV for the US market.
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Saturday 31 October 2015
Thursday 29 October 2015
Honda launches ‘front-engine’ fuel cell
Honda
claims its new Clarity Fuel Cell vehicle is the world’s first production
hydrogen fuel cell vehicle sedan to house the fuel cell stack and drivetrain
system under the bonnet.
New presses take shape at Lansing
The first consignment of components for new
stamping presses has arrived General Motors’ for its new $174-million Lansing
Grand River (LGR) stamping facility.
The 'first' fastest two-seat pure-electric sports car
The first production Detroit Electric SP:01, the
lightest and fastest two-seat pure-electric sports car in the world, has rolled
off the line at the company’s Leamington Spa, UK manufacturing facility.
VW: Five-point plan for recovery
Matthias Müller, Volkswagen, chairman of the
board of management, has unveiled a five-point plan to reinvigorate the company;
to focus on quality not “faster, higher, larger”.
Wednesday 28 October 2015
F&S predicts Volkswagen sales fall by 2020
At a time when
scandal-hit Volkswagen Group has lost its sales crown to Toyota Motor
Corporation, comes news from Frost & Sullivan (F&S) that VW sales are
expected to fall by 2-4 per cent by 2020.
Monday 26 October 2015
It’s official: Zhongding is an investor in EcoMotors
EcoMotors has today broken its long silence to report that it has secured a lead
investor for its largest customer, Zhongding Power, giving renewed emphasis for
the opposed-piston two-stroke diesel engine (opoc) the two firms are engaged in
bringing to market.
Sunday 25 October 2015
Profits fall off a cliff at Bentley
Profits at Bentley
Motors, owned by Volkswagen AG, fell dramatically in the 12 months to 31
December 2014.
Ricardo steers AWD into Jaguar’s F-TYPE
Jaguar’s 2016 all-wheel-drive
F-TYPE has paid dividends for Ricardo which has created the “most potent
road-going sports car Jaguar has even made”.
Friday 23 October 2015
2016: Launch of next MINI Convertible
BMW’s MINI brand will launch the
next generation MINI Convertible in March 2016.
VW: EA288 engines not affected
Volkswagen has now confirmed that no software
constituting an improper defeat device as defined in law is installed in
vehicles with EA 288 EU5 as well as EU6-engines in the European Union.
Thursday 22 October 2015
GM readies for Cadillac CT6
General Motors is to double its workforce at
Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly by adding a second shift and more than 1,200 hourly
and salaried jobs.
Daimler AG continues its growth
Daimler AG continued with its
strategy and again set new records for unit sales and revenue in the third
quarter. With sales of 720,000
cars and commercial vehicles, the company sold 13 per cent more vehicles between July and September
than in the prior-year period.
Wednesday 21 October 2015
VW: Sales dip for commercials
Sales
of Volkswagen commercial vehicles fell one per cent in the nine
months to the end of September.
Monday 19 October 2015
VW passenger car sales remain resilient
Volkswagen Group claims its total sales from
January to September remained almost stable compared with the prior-year level,
with 7.43 million vehicles handed over to customers worldwide.
Sunday 18 October 2015
VW: 'Cheat devices' discovered by accident
According to The Mail on Sunday newspaper,
university researchers in West Virginia University stumbled on the Volkswagen ‘cheat
device’ by accident.
Friday 16 October 2015
VW bolsters integrity, legal, ahead of 'defeat' issues
Chairman of the
supervisory board of Volkswagen AG, Hans Dieter Pötsch, has requested the chairman
of the supervisory board of Daimler AG, Dr. Manfred Bischoff, to release Dr.
Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt, Daimler’s legal specialist.
Thursday 15 October 2015
VW: Still no word as to the "technical solution"
Volkswagen is to
recall about 8.5 million vehicles in Europe (EU28 markets), including some 2.4
million vehicles in Germany, according to KBA - the Federal Motor Transport
Authority.
Wednesday 14 October 2015
Ford achieves 152 bhp/litre for new RS
Ford claims the
"unique" 2.3-litre EcoBoost engine in the latest Focus RS will
produce 350 bhp – far exceeding original estimates of 315 bhp – together with
350 lb.-ft. torque.
VW: Out with the old; bring in the new
The newly-formed Volkswagen brand board of management
has realigned diesel strategy in the light of the company’s recent 'defeat device' scandal.
Cummins V8 wins plaudits in Texas
Cummins Inc. executives will be pleased that their
first production application of the ISV5.0 has won plaudits on the back of 2016
Nissan Titan.
Jaguar: A journey from style to design
Nick Hull is to be congratulated for producing Jaguar Design: A Story of Style – a benchmark in authorship pulling together in sure-footed detail, the diverse strands of Jaguar design.
Tuesday 13 October 2015
Evidence of "widespread abuse by carmakers" - T&E
The average gap between real-world figures and
drive cycle test results is growing across the industry. This may suggest that
Volkswagen is not the only guilty party when it comes to fixing figures, says
Transport & Environment (T&E).
Monday 12 October 2015
Volkswagen's loss is Bosch's gain
Paul Willis, managing
director of Volkswagen UK, appeared today before the Transport Select Committee
of the UK’s House of Commons in Parliament to answer questions from MPs in
connection with the "defeat device" that VW fitted to its cars.
Thursday 8 October 2015
VW: More top boss changes
More changes at
the top of VW in preparation for the tougher months ahead in the wake of the
implications of its emissions scandal, as Frank Witter (56) is appointed member
of the board of management of Volkswagen AG with responsibility for Finance and
Controlling.
Grob wins big at BMW's Hams Hall
Grob-Werke of Mindelheim, Germany
has been one of the big machine tool winners of the heavy investment BMW has
made to develop its Hams Hall engine plant near Birmingham.
Wednesday 7 October 2015
VW: A "swift and relentless clarification"
The CEO of Volkswagen
AG, Matthias Müller, has promised employees "swift and relentless
clarification" of the emissions scandal.
Tuesday 6 October 2015
F&S: VW pushes back diesel technology "by years"
Frost & Sullivan
claims that Volkswagen's concession of corporate wrongdoing in circumventing
EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) testing in the U.S. has sent the global
automotive industry into a tail spin and substantially pushed back developments
in clean diesel technology and internal combustion engines (ICE) by years.
Sunday 4 October 2015
UK study: VW not alone in flouting RDE
The Institute for Transport Studies in the UK has made road-side tests on cars with Euro
VI diesel engines and found their emissions to be at least five time higher
than the Euro tests demand.
Thursday 1 October 2015
Porsche man takes charge of VW's PR
Surprise, surprise, Porsche PR man Hans-Gerd Bode (54) has taken over as head of
group communications, investor relations and external relations at Volkswagen
AG with immediate effect. He succeeds Stephan Grühsem (53); he leaves the company "by amicable agreement".
GM and Navistar in new truck deal
Perhaps it was only expected that after falling out with an old girlfriend,
i.e., Ford Motor Company, Navistar had to choose the only other girl on the US
shelf, namely, General Motors.
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