Former Unipart Group proposition director Carl Brown has been appointed managing director of Hella, the automotive lighting and electronics supplier.
The Transport and General Workers' Union has welcomed news that the EU is to investigate allegations that Pirelli has “exported” jobs from the UK to Italy.
An updated edition of the Clutch Toolbox technical support CD-ROM has been released by Sachs Boge (UK) to its distributors and accredited fitting centres.
Franchised car dealers are missing a multi-million pound servicing opportunity by ignoring the need to fit tyres. That's according to data from the Tyre Industry Council, which suggests 20 per cent of all vehicles up to three years old need tyre work.
North West motor retail group Smith Knight Fay has acquired the Bury VW Centre from Walker Farrimond.
EU Commission president Romano Prodi has delayed legal action aimed at removing the state of Lower Saxony's power to veto any takeover of VW.
A brand new £23,000 Lotus Elise could be won for £1 at the AM/Sewells aftermarket conference on March 26.
The car price discount campaigns, which have been so important in boosting UK car sales, could be under threat as a result of the falling £.
The ousted and self-exiled former Brilliance China Automotive chief Yang Rong is to launch legal action to regain control of the company from the Liaoning provincial authorities.<p>
If dealerships don't pick up the aftersales opportunities posed by block exemption, they face oblivion, argues Paul Clarke, managing director of Autoconnect.
DaimlerChrysler engineers claim that cars fitted with enhanced radar warning systems could help substantially reduce the accident death toll and £60bn cost of accidents on European roads.
ScootElectric, the UK concessionaire for three of the world's leading players in the fast-developing market for zero emission personal transport, is targeting city centre dealers for its electric scooter franchise.
Honda's Swindon plant is preparing to build its one millionth car tomorrow – and it will be a silver CR-V destined for North America.
Shell and General Motors are to take six cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells and two hydrogen refuelling pumps to Washington, D.C., in an effort to make policymakers more aware of the technology.
Fiat Auto will not hit operating break-even until 2004, its CEO Giancarlo Boschetti admitted at the Geneva Motor Show yesterday.
The US car market will drop from 16.8 to 16.5m vehicles in 2003. And if there is a drawn-out Iraq war, it could slump to 14m, Chrysler chief operating officer Wolfgang Bernhard told reporters at the Geneva Motor Show.
The AM/Sewells Information & Research conference, sponsored by Shell Helix Motor oil, taking place on March 26 at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, Warwickshire, is an event not to be missed.
Italian industrial group Fiat is likely to post a worse-than-expected record net loss of about 4bn euros (£2.7bn) for 2002, two Italian newspapers reported today.
The European Union is preparing to take legal action to force Germany to repeal the law which protects Volkswagen from being taken over.
Kia Motors Corp., South Korea's second-largest carmaker, today announced that it plans to increase exports to Europe by 26 per cent to 126,000 units this year from last year's 100,000 units.
The battleground for aftersales business is heating up, thanks to the revisions made under block exemption.
Fiat may be close to selling its profit-making insurance unit Toro. Italian media sources report that U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs have made an offer for the business on behalf of a client.
Automotive bodymakers Mayflower Corporation has reported an 8.3 per cent slump in pre-tax profits to £25.3m (2001 = £27.6m) in its preliminary results for 2002.
The Shanghai Automotive Industry (Group) Corporation (SAIC) sold a record 610,000 motor vehicles in 2002, including 410,000 cars, up 36 per cent year on year.
General Motors and Toyota are raising their stockpiles of car components supplied from Asia and Japan through the Suez Canal.
Ford Motor Co. is cutting its information technology budget by $300m as part of its ongoing restructuring process.
Japanese tyremaker Bridgestone is to acquire an 18.9 per cent stake in Nokian Tyres, Scandinavia's largest tyre maker.
Pendragon has acquired the business and assets of two Land Rover dealerships in Southern California, USA.
STRONG sales in the US are behind a major sales expansion this year for Yorkshire's only surviving car manufacturer, Ginetta.
