• Autonation won’t sell cars with unrepaired safety defect

    • September 8, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    AutoNation Inc, the largest U.S. auto retailer, said on Tuesday it will not sell any new or used vehicle that has an unrepaired safety defect, in a move that could boost costs but also deflect pressure from consumers, lawmakers and regulators. The announcement comes after a record-setting run of safety recalls in the United States [...]
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  • Alliance and Maiden expand partnership

    • September 8, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Maiden Holdings, Ltd. and Allianz Global Automotive today announced a significant expansion of their long standing partnership focused on developing branded insurance solutions to automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their customers. The partnership will bring together the unique skills and capabilities of both companies to assist automotive OEMs to strengthen their consumer value proposition. [...]
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  • Tata Motors Partners with BITS

    • September 8, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Tata Motors has entered into long-term partnership with Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani to create a platform for a series of technical education programs to build world-class technical skills to not only bridge present skill gaps that prevail in the automotive industry but also to prepare a future-ready organization. This is a first [...]
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  • Toyota invests $50m in autonomous cars

    • September 8, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Toyota is making a major investment into developing intelligent and self-driving vehicles alongside two leading US universities. Over the next five years, Toyota Motor Corporation will invest approximately $50 million (about £32 million) in establishing joint research centres at both Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to further its expertise in computer science and human-machine interaction with [...]
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  • FCA recall 7,000 SUVs in US

    • September 7, 2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: Industry News
    Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said on Friday it would recall 7,810 sport utility vehicles in the United States to update software for radios to prevent hacking. The announcement by FCA, comes more than a month after the company recalled about 1.4 million vehicles in the United States for the software update. Security researchers used the Internet [...]
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