Guiseppe Morchio, the Fiat Group chief executive, has resigned
Hyundai has registered double-digit percentage increases in sales during the first five months of 2004 across Europe
Opel is confident it will launch the world's first commercially viable hydrogen fuel cell car in six years time
Saab GB hopes to exceed its sales targets for the 9-3 Convertible after it won the award for Best Sporting Open Top at the Sunday Times Motor Show Live
Another price rise has hit garages this month
UK car parts supplier, Motaquip, has agreed to sponser thwe Mark Fisher Memorial Trophy in this year's Peugeot Total 206 Super Cup
A second official UK Lamborghini dealership has been opened in Stockport, Cheshire.
MetaSystem UK, a vehicle security manufacturer, has been appointed as DaimlerChrysler's new supplier of aftermarket security systems for the Smart model range
The Maserati Quattroporte has won the 'Best Luxury Car in Show' award at the Sunday Times Motor Show Live
GM Daewoo has predicted its sales for this year will be up by a record 60% by the end of May
Land Rover owner Ford has told 8,000 workers at its Solihull plant to come up with a plan to improve productivity within two months or lose their jobs
Kia is making urgent contingency plans to advance shipments of cars to Britain from South Korea after 1,300 UK-bound were lost last Sunday in a collision off Singapore between a car-carrying freighter and a super tanker
Umberto Agnelli, chairman of Fiat, Italy's largest industrial group, died on Thursday night from cancer
Toyota today announced a £50m investment plan for its Burnaston factory, in Derbyshire, where production capacity will be increased from 220,000 to 285,000 cars a year.
Tony Gott, chairman and chief executive of Rolls-Royce,resigned yesterday unexpectedly after more than two years guiding the German owned company
British car dealers should not panic because of recent "flat but stable sales" according to Renault UK's managing director
Roger Putnam, Ford of Britain's chairman, has ruled out a return to building its cars in the UK, three years after the company abandoned its last car-producing operation at Dagenham
The RAC has reissued its brand guidelines to help more than 2,500 dealerships selling vehicles with an RAC inspection or warranty to continue to display the brand correctly and attract even more customers
Fred Maguire, president of the Retail Motor Industry Federation and Lookers' chairman, has officially opened BCA's new Training Academy at Preston
Gilders' Volkwagen outlet in Sheffield has reported a significant improvement in its recommendation levels from service customers in a recent survey
Prestige car retailer Sytner has agreed an exclusive remarketing partnership with BCA covering its 75 UK dealerships
Less than a year after launching the Crossfire coupe, Chrysler is bringing an open-top Crossfire roadster to the UK
Honda has won the award for International Engine of the Year for the fifth consecutive year
An internet pre-order campaign for the Mazda RX-8 has won the New Media Age Effectiveness Award for Retail 2004. The campaign was praised for its innovative use of the internet to sell motorcars
Satellite navigation is now standard in the Vauxhall Signum
Escalating interest rates present a major threat to record UK new car sales according to Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders president Tod Evans
Chancellor Gordon Brown, today, congratulated the UK's automotive industry on its contribution to the UK's economy, but he made no comment of Britain's excessive fuel duties
Trade and industry secretary, Patricia Hewitt, defended MG Rover directors at the Sunday Times Motor Show Live against claims that MG Rover executives are being over rewarded financially
Mazda, whose rapid UK sales growth should push sales of the brand up to nearly 3% of the market in 2007, is recruiting extra dealers
Workers at the Ryton Peugeot-Citroen plant should know by the end of this year what car will replace the successful Peugeot 206, which reaches the end of production in 2008
