Ahead of the Brexit summit, Europe’s auto manufacturers and suppliers have come together to issue a warning on the potentially far-reaching impacts of a no-deal scenario on their sector. Automobile production plants receive and fit millions of parts into vehicles every day. All manufacturers rely on ‘just-in-time’ and ‘just-in-sequence’ delivery and production, without any delays [...]

Groupe Renault and Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited (Brilliance) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Chinese officials from Liaoning province to further accelerate growth of LCVs in China. Renault also confirmed plans for three new electric light commercial vehicles for China within two years. A delegation from the Chinese government, including Tang Yijun, the governor [...]

Hajime Seikaku is the new vice president of Mazda’s European research and development centre effective 1 October 2018. The 53-year-old comes to the Oberursel, Germany facility from Mazda’s vehicle development division in Japan. Prior to that, he served in various vehicle and parts development capacities for both Mazda and Ford in Europe and Japan. Hajime [...]

Shanghai GKN HUAYU Driveline Systems (SDS), has opened a new technical centre in the city’s Kangqiao suburb that will specialise in research and development of its technologies for constant velocity joint (CVJ), All-Wheel Drive (AWD) and eDrive systems. Through SDS, GKN Automotive is expanding the engineering development resource in the region at the newly-constructed facility [...]