The Automotive Academy has welcomed the Chancellor's pre-Budget announcement of a national roll-out of employee training programmes and increased benefits for young people in unwaged training.
Suzuki has announced it will close two domestic factories for a total of three days this month due to a shortage of steel parts.
Chancellor Gordon Brown has today announced the restoration from April 2006 of the company car tax diesel supplement on new diesel cars registered from January 2006.
Honda is piloting an interactive ad that enables prospective car buyers to speak directly to dealerships via their television.
Kia has passed the 30,000 car sales in the UK due to the recently launched Picanto and Cerato, the company says.
Woman now have a greater say in car purchasing decisions than men according to research. Volvo says 80% of car purchase decisions are now influenced by women.
The ongoing steel crisis at Nissan Motors may force the company to reduce production by a further 15,000 vehicles in March on top of the 25,000 that have been lost from the closure of most of its Japanese plants for five days, Carlos Ghosn, president and CEO, warned today.
Car workers union Amicus claims to have halted “excessive overtime” at Honda in an “industrial relations breakthrough” for 4,000 workers at the Swindon plant which builds Civic and CR-V models for UK and export markets.
Skoda has published an interview with its chairman Detlef Wittig.
Volkswagen will today reveal its new Golf Plus model at the Bologna Show in Italy.
Britain's businesses are losing billions of pounds every year in congestion and the Highways Agency has been too slow to introduce measures to speed up traffic, a report by the Government’s spending watchdog has claimed.
Citroen has set a record at British Car Auctions (BCA) after recording the highest number of vehicles sold through BCA’s online auction.
An MP is demanding Government grants to persuade drivers to buy cleaner, greener and safer cars - and taxes to penalise those who choose gas guzzlers.
UK car production for October slowed according to data from the Office for National Statistics.
Four-wheel drive vehicle manufacturers have hit back at claims that SUVs are disproportionately responsible for pollution and will cause more deaths than wars in the years ahead.
New car buyers in 2005 look set to face an unprecedented new model offensive.
Two thirds of new cars are driven by just half of the population. It’s no surprise that it’s the better off half of the population that are more likely to be driving a new car.
The motor industry and motor vehicle travel is getting ‘cleaner’ according to the SMMT’s latest ‘Towards Sustainability’ report.
The chief executive of MG Rover last night outlined the company's plans for a sales fightback to rebuild confidence in the embattled brand.
The new Ford Focus has been awarded the highest ever score for occupant safety in the latest round of crash tests under the European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP).
Lotus has appointed Kim Ogaard-Nielsen as its new chief executive officer.
Vauxhall has announced that its new Tigra will now come with a diesel option in its line-up.
Mazda has unveiled the world's first ‘on-road’ dual-fuel hydrogen rotary H2RE – the RX-8 Hydrogen RE.
Tod Evans, the chairman of Peugeot Citroen Automobiles UK, has announced his retirement.
These three small cars are the results of a joint project between PSA Peugeot Citroen and Toyota to design small cars off a shared platform.
DaimlerChrysler has begun a "re-education" programme for its Mercedes-Benz dealerships in an attempt to raise service standards in the face of recent criticism of reliability standards.
New regulations governing the sale of warranties will finally
Over-specifying tyres is the cause of thousands of pounds a year in unnecessary service, maintenance and repair (SMR) expenditure according to fleet management firm VELO.
Honda UK has ended what it calls its dignified silence on the 4x4 debate after calls for the vehicles to carry a health warning.
Staff at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port car plant halted the production of the new Astra model when they staged an unofficial walkout.
