Volvo Cars has made several important updates to its 90 series cars, delivering new safety, powertrain and connectivity options. For the Swedish and Norwegian markets, Volvo Cars has applied its safety thinking to the connected car, delivering two new connected safety systems that will make their debut in the S90, V90 and XC90: Slippery Road [...]

Antonio Huertas, chairman and CEO of MAPFRE, is convinced the company is on track to meet the financial and strategic objectives assumed for 2016-2018. The message came as part of the MAPFRE Investor Day which saw 80 analysts and financial experts meet in Madrid. The initiative forms part of the company’s focus on transparency, designed [...]

Ford employees are tasked with secretly planting wrong and faulty parts onto the assembly line, as part of a process to ensure all new vehicles built at the plant in Valencia meet Ford’s rigorous quality standards. Ford employee, Xabier Garciandia’s working day involves literally trying to put a spanner into the works of one of [...]

Australia’s federal, state and territory transport ministers have agreed new policies to guide road rules on the path towards fully driverless vehicles. Australian governments had been waiting on the opinion of the National Transport Commission (NTC) – which has been conducting a comprehensive review of road rules and stakeholder concerns over the past year – [...]

Car registrations in Europe’s ‘Big 5’ markets saw a small decrease of 0.5% in October 2016, with total registrations for the month at 829,980 – slightly down from the 834,464 registrations seen in October 2015. However, year-to-date registrations totalled 9,339,623 at the end of October – a 6.6% increase when compared to the same period [...]