• Seat involved in diesel scandal

    • September 30, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Seat is the latest VW brand to reveal it is involved in the diesel duping scandal that has rocked the automotive world. Seat sit under the Volkswagen umbrella along with Audi, Skoda and Seat and all have admitted to installing software that allows diesel vehicles to give false emissions readings during testing. Estimated cars involved [...]
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  • Axalta sets up scholarship

    • September 29, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Axalta Coating Systems today signed a partnership agreement with the largest university of applied sciences in Austria to offer one student per year an Axalta scholarship. The scholarship will support the student over a three-year Bachelor of Science degree in High Tech Manufacturing at FH Campus Wien in Vienna, Austria. In addition, Axalta is giving [...]
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  • Thatcham gathers international expertise

    • September 28, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Automotive research and repair experts from around the globe met together in the heart of England this week to discuss some of the burning issues affecting the automotive and insurance industries worldwide. As the UK’s insurer research centre, Thatcham hosted delegates from 24 international research organisations as the annual RCAR (Research Council for Automobile Repair) [...]
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  • Law change allows driverless cars

    • September 23, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    South Australia will lay claim to an Australian first this week when the State Government introduces laws allowing for trials of driverless cars on open public roads. A trial set for Adelaide’s Southern Expressway in early November doesn’t require legislative change because the road will be closed. However, the Bill to be introduced tomorrow by [...]
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  • VW dismissing CEO over emissions scandal

    • September 22, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Volkswagen will dismiss Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn, according to reports in a German newspaper, after the carmaker admitted to cheating US vehicles emissions tests and said 11 million of its cars could be affected worldwide. The Tagesspiegel newspaper, cited unnamed sources on Volkswagen’s supervisory board, stating that Winterkorn would be replaced by Matthias Mueller, the [...]
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