The first international Academy specialising in car detailing training, seminars and services will open on 2 April. Introduced by Rupes, the Bigfoot Car Detailing Academy will open its doors in Hamburg, Germany, inviting veteran detailers, car enthusiasts or those just starting out to learn the most advanced paint correction techniques with the Bigfoot Polishing System. [...]

Service King Collision Repair Centers, one of the fastest-growing automotive repair companies in the US, has grown to 10 locations in the Washington DC-Baltimore market. The expansion comes as Service King has officially partnered with Wentworth’s Collision Works and its pair of high-quality repair centres in southern Maryland. The agreement will see the two businesses [...]

Bosch has been named the world’s most admired motor vehicle parts supplier by the US business magazine, Fortune. Fortune’s 2016 World’s Most Admired Companies list is based on surveys from executives, directors and analysts from 652 companies within 54 industries located in 30 countries, and is derived from nine key reputation attributes. In the motor [...]

ABI Research anticipates accelerated adoption of automotive software over-the-air (SOTA) updates with nearly 180 million new SOTA-enabled cars shipping between 2016 and 2022. As the automotive industry ramps up its adoption of the technology, ABI Research forecasts nearly 203 million SOTA-enabled cars to ship by 2022. Both SOTA and firmware over-the-air (FOTA) will see a [...]

The EU Commission’s Fotis Karamitsos believes mobility will be considered as a service in the future. The statement came at the welcome event of the CLEPA – European Association of Automotive Suppliers – aftermarket conference in Brussels where the focus was very much on the future mobility. Karamitsos also pointed towards trends such as changing ownership [...]