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Hat-trick hopes for PPG and NARS

PPG and Nationwide Accident Repair Services (NARS) will again sponsor Daniel Cammish as he hopes to make it a hat-trick of Porsche Carrera Cup championship titles in 2017. He won […]

Grey is the new silver

Axalta Coating Systems has announced its Automotive Colour of the Year 2017 – gallant gray, which it describes as the new silver. Axalta’s recently released 2016 Global Automotive Color Popularity […]

Perfect 10 for FMG

Incident management expert FMG is celebrating 10 years of working in partnership with Welsh Water, during which time it’s saved the company more than £400,000. During their decade-long partnership FMG […]

Car data condemns delivery drivers

Three delivery drivers have been found guilty of breaching drivers’ regulations following an investigation based on tachograph data carried out by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency. A tachograph is […]

Volvo UK sets 25-year record

Volvo Car UK has announced its highest sales figures for a quarter of a century, reporting a six per cent increase last year on 2015 results. It recorded sales of […]

New high for BMW

BMW Group in the UK achieved record sales last year with BMW and MINI both scaling new heights in terms of units sold. BMW increased by nine per cent to […]

SMMT figures not a ‘true picture’

UK Carline says it does not recognise figures from the SMMT suggesting that private registrations fell over the last nine months of 2016 and will continue to fall in 2017. […]

Van sales hit new peak

New light commercial sales grew for a fourth year in a row to reach an all-time high in 2016. December figures dropped by 10.4%, but it was still the second […]

Japanese insurer turns to AI

Japanese insurance firm, Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance is set to make 34 employees redundant and replace them with IBM’s Watson Explorer artificial intelligence. Reports claim the insurer believes it will […]

Oasis rolls with it

Connected technology developer Harman International has released a suite of solutions it claims will make autonomous driving safer and more intuitive. Unveiled in the new Rinspeed concept car, Oasis leverages […]

Solera acquires Autodata

Solera Holdings Inc has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Autodata for a consideration of £340m. Autodata provides technical information and knowledge solutions for the automotive service, maintenance and […]

McLaren set for second generation launch

McLaren Automotive will celebrate a record sales year with the launch its second generation Super Series at the 87th Geneva International Motor Show. The first of the 15 new cars […]