RCA and Alcraft Motor Company announces design competition winners

Bespoke restyling and engineering business Alcraft Motor Company has announced the winners of a design competition featuring students from the world-renowned Royal College of Art (RCA) Vehicle Design programme. The competition marked the culmination of a joint

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Volkswagen appoints Mark Barnes Vice-President of Sales

Volkswagen of America announced the appointment of Mark Barnes, 54, to the post of Vice-President, Sales for the Volkswagen brand, effective February 1, 2014. In this role, Barnes will have responsibility for leading and continuing the sales momentum recently seen at the

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Borgwarner launches new low-friction engine timing chain

BorgWarner's next-generation 6.35 mm inverted tooth silent engine timing chains are launching on engines from Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Hyundai, General Motors Korea and one Chinese automaker. The innovative engine timing chain is designed to reduce friction, resulting

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Ford celebrates official start of production for all-new EcoSport in Thailand

Ford Motor Company celebrated the official start of production for the all-new Ford EcoSport urban SUV at the company's state-of-the-art Ford Thailand Manufacturing (FTM) plant in Rayong. FTM becomes the fourth plant globally to build the all-new EcoSport, joining

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Mercedes-Benz Trucks presents 'king-class' of its heavy-duty trucks

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has saved the best for last - With the presentation of the 'king-class' of its heavy-duty trucks, Mercedes-Benz brought its Euro-VI offensive to a close. The company is now displaying the heavy-duty Actros SLT and Arocs SLT trucks for the first

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Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team unveils its 2014 challenger 'F1 W05'

The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team unveiled the F1 W05, its 2014 challenger, at the Circuito de Jerez in southern Spain. Ahead of the first morning of official winter testing, Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton took the wraps-off the first all-new Silver

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World premiere of the world's first Porsche design 'P1' on the fifth anniversary of the Porsche Museum

Since the construction of the first sportscar to bear the Porsche name - the Type 356 from 1948, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG has been regarded as the world's leading sportscar manufacturer. Yet the company's history dates back to a much earlier period - In 1898,

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Hyundai Shell World Rally Team confirms Chris Atkinson for Rally Mexico

Following its debut in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) at Rallye Monte-Carlo earlier this month, the Hyundai Shell World Rally Team announced that Chris 'Atko' Atkinson will drive the #8 Hyundai i20 WRC for Rally Mexico, round three of the championship.

The

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Hyundai Motor appoints Adrian Porter as European Fleet Director

Hyundai Motor Europe has appointed Adrian Porter to the newly-created position of European Fleet Director, based at the company's European headquarters in Offenbach, Germany.

Porter, 45, will have responsibility to lead the Field Fleet team, as well as the Analysis and

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Mihai Bordeanu is the new Marketing Director of Renault UK

Renault UK has announced the appointment of Mihai Bordeanu as Marketing Director succeeding Phil York who is promoted to a new Global Marketing role based in Paris.

Mihai Bordeanu, 39, will oversee all of the Renault Group's advertising, direct marketing, product

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BMW Group opens new Regional Parts Distribution Center in Lancaster, Texas

BMW Group celebrated the official opening of its newest Regional Parts Distribution Center (RDC) in Lancaster, Texas. The fully-secured, LEED Silver certified, state-of-the art RDC will serve the Southern Region of the dealer network and will supply everything BMW

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