Ford is planning to cut up to 5,000 jobs in Germany in an effort to turn around its European business. Some UK jobs will also be lost as part of the strategy. Ford, which employs 53,000 people in the Europe, including 24,000 in Germany and 12,000 in the UK, reported losses of $400m in 2018. [...]

Mitsubishi and Nissan will introduce four new mini-vehicles in Japan through their joint venture. Production of the all-new Mitsubishi eK wagon, Mitsubishi eK X, Nissan Dayz, and Nissan Dayz Highway Star, has begun at Mitsubishi’s Mizushima Plant in Kurashiki, Japan. For the first time, the models will be offered with semi-autonomous driving technology, designed for [...]

TWI Ltd is leading a European project consortium to create training modules for a harmonised standard of qualification in the car body repair sector. The CARBOREP project, which has been co-funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme, plans to create a curriculum and examination for training European car body repair technicians in processes such as [...]

Jean-Dominique Senard, chairman of Renault, Hiroto Saikawa, CEO of Nissan, Thierry Bolloré, CEO of Renault and Osamu Masuko, CEO of Mitsubishi Motors, announce the intention to create a new Alliance operating board. Jean-Dominique Senard will act as chairman of this new operating board of the Alliance, with the CEOs of Nissan, Renault, and Mitsubishi Motors [...]

Nissan has announced it plans to end the production of two models at its Sunderland plant. The move to end production of its Q30 car and QX30 sports-utility Infiniti cars is part of a wide-scale plan to pull Infiniti out of western Europe. Infiniti has had little impact in western Europe, with sales halving last [...]