Volvo Car UK is celebrating its best sales performance in 21 years, with 43,432 cars sold in 2015. This figure helped Volvo Cars achieve a record-breaking global sales figure of 503,127 in 2015 – the first time Volvo has sold more than half a million cars in its 89-year history. The UK sales figure represents [...]

Axalta Coating Systems is celebrating 150 years of creating innovative industrial coatings in 2016. Axalta’s heritage dates back to 1866 when its first products were developed in Germany and since then the company has grown into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of liquid and powder coatings. ‘All of us at Axalta are excited to [...]

General Motors has announced that together with its joint ventures it sold a vehicle into the Chinese market every nine seconds during 2015. GM’s total sales in the country amounted to 3,612,635 last year, an average of nearly 9,900 vehicles every day. That represents an increase of 5.2 per cent on the previous high, set [...]

Ford is tripling its fleet of fully autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid test vehicles and will use a new-generation sensor technology as the company further accelerates its autonomous vehicle development plans. This year, Ford will add 20 Fusion Hybrid autonomous vehicles to the company’s autonomous fleet, bringing the total number to 30 vehicles being tested on [...]

General Motors Inc is poised to invest $500 million in Lyft Inc a sign of plans to develop an on-demand network of self-driving cars with the ride-sharing service. The move is the biggest single investment yet by a traditional vehicle manufacturer in a new mobility company, and is an acknowledgement by GM that the transportation [...]