29 Jan 2013, 08:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation in Europe is becoming increasingly tense, and after Ford encountered some problems and production setbacks due to protests, PSA has not been spared. Now, 200 workers from their Aulnay ...
24 Jan 2013, 08:54 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation at Ford's plant in Genk, Belgium, where production had been stopped due to workers blocking and cutting the supply of parts, as well as disrupting the plant in other ways. Up unti...
23 Jan 2013, 13:12 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / With everything that`s been going on in the European automotive industry recently, especially in France, it was only natural that tension would start to build within Renault, as it has been doing wi...
22 Jan 2013, 13:34 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The situation over at GM's European arm, Opel, seems to be really bleak. The American giant is now pressuring Opel to speed up the application of cost-cutting measures, and this may bring about...
22 Jan 2013, 12:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In an effort to be able to offer Indian customers the XF at lower prices, Jaguar has just announced the start of local production for the 5-Series-rivalling sedan. Thanks to lower taxes and the vari...
20 Jan 2013, 12:14 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ford has already announced that it will be closing down its Genk plant, in Belgium, the historic home of all big Europe-bound Fords, like the Sierra, Scorpio and Mondeo, and moving production to Spa...
17 Jan 2013, 14:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Malaysian automaker Proton, a brand owned by the same people who are in control at Lotus, DRB Hicom, has announced that it wants to more than triple their current annual output of 150,000 car...
17 Jan 2013, 14:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / You may remember that General Motors decided to not use Facebook any more, in any official form or shape, as they considered it not worthy of their time - they have not run any ads on the webs...
17 Jan 2013, 11:39 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Renault has recently announced that it too will be joining the club of European automakers desperate to make ends meet, in these times of economic turmoil. Following the model set by PSA and Opel, R...
17 Jan 2013, 10:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ever since PSA announced it would be closing down the Aulnay plant, in France, there has been an air of unrest floating around the factory ever since. There have been many strikes at the plant since...
15 Jan 2013, 13:23 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Volkswagen, one of the European automakers least-affected by the economic downturn the Old Continent is facing, has announced that it will not be closing down any of its factories, despite the fact ...
15 Jan 2013, 12:07 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Fiat is slowly buying more and more of the Chrysler group’s shares, and will, eventually end up owning the whole company, if things progress in the same fashion. The merger has already been pr...
14 Jan 2013, 11:55 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Jaguar-Land Rover group as just announced that it will be adding some 800 new jobs, at their manufacturing plant, in Solihull, Birmingham, in the UK. Strangely, this is the exact number of jobs ...
11 Jan 2013, 11:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / While the situation of the European branch of Ford is dramatic, their American operation is doing very well, and we even reported that they are working over the maximum capacity. This is why Ford ha...
10 Jan 2013, 14:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The BMW group (which includes MINI and Rolls-Royce) has announced that it expects 2013 to be an excellent sales year, and they reckon it will continue the upward trend which was very obvious in 2012...
10 Jan 2013, 10:29 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The European automotive production sector is crashing down, and it is doing it in a brutal manner. Factories are being closed down, workers sent home, production output is being reduced, automakers ...
9 Jan 2013, 08:59 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ever since National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB, or NEVS, took control of Saab, things have gotten extremely quiet, and aside from the auctioning off of some leftover cars they had, there have been n...
7 Jan 2013, 11:08 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Fiat-Chrysler group is now a single entity we have all-but gotten used to. The two companies are mutually helping each other, and so far pretty much all of their collaborative efforts have been ...
7 Jan 2013, 09:57 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, has just announced that the government will be investing some C$250 in the country’s automotive sector, in order to increase the number of manufac...
7 Jan 2013, 08:51 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Dacia, a brand which just over a decade ago was still building a mildly-modernized version of the old Renault 12, has become a real cash cow for its current owners, Renault. The Romanian brand alrea...