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Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Helena Bergstroem Pilo of Volvo Car Group.... Read More »

VW Group has no plans for a public listing of its trucks business until 2019, a German magazine reported, citing senior managers at the carmaker. Some analyst had speculated that VW might sell or float its truck operations to help raise funds as the carmaker is pushing to become a global force in trucks.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Katrin Papenfuss of GKN Driveline.... Read More »

VW Group is making slow progress on fixing cars equipped with illicit engine software in Europe, having repaired less than 10 percent of the 8.5 million affected models, the company said.... Read More »

Swedish braking systems maker Haldex has backed a 5.53 billion crowns ($647 million) takeover offer from German car parts firm ZF Friedrichshafen, even though it is less than a rival bid from Germany's Knorr-Bremse.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Tina Mueller of Opel Group.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Christina Bentzel Moeller of Volvo Car Group.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Monica Perez Lobo of Toyota Europe.... Read More »

Knorr-Bremse and ZF Friedrichshafen raised the stakes in their battle for Haldex as both increased their offers for the Swedish brake systems maker. Suppliers have been vying to take over Haldex, attracted by its expertise in brakes for trailers as they seek to develop integrated autonomous driving systems for commercial vehicles.... Read More »

The EU will take legal action against some member states for failing to police car emission rules, Industry Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska said. Action would be taken in several weeks, she said, declining to name which EU nations would be affected.... Read More »

The German states of Hesse and Baden-Wuerttemberg will sue Volkswagen Group for damages caused by its emissions scandal after the states said a drop in VW's share price caused them to lose money.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Imelda Labbe of VW Group.... Read More »

Ford, Volvo and Rolls-Royce are among the automakers skipping the Paris auto show as the once-unmissable event succumbs to changes sweeping the auto industry. Instead of spending millions to woo consumers to crowded exhibition centers, companies are reaching out to buyers where they like to spend time -- on Instagram and blogs.... Read More »

New-car sales rose 9.5 percent in Europe last month. Fiat Chrysler, Renault, Daimler, Toyota and Kia beat the market average with double-digit growth while VW Group, mired in an emissions scandal, continued to lose ground.... Read More »

Magna International is contemplating a new assembly plant after securing a deal to build luxury sedans for BMW AG, which will help fill capacity at its flagship factory in Graz, Austria.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Linda Jackson of PSA Group.... Read More »

Volkswagen Group investors are rushing to file more lawsuits in Germany to meet a deadline that lawyers say may be imaginary. Shareholders who want to sue are concerned that Sept. 19, the first business day after the one-year anniversary of VW's admission of cheating, may be the deadline to file.... Read More »

General Motors decided not to sell the Ampera-e, its first full EV, in the UK because the automaker was burned by the sales failure of the Ampera plug-in hybrid. And while the decision might make good financial sense, the Vauxhall brand won't be applauding its parent's caution.... Read More »

Volkswagen is forming a company with the former head of Israel's Shin Bet intelligence agency to develop cybersecurity systems for Internet-connected cars and self-driving vehicles, the partners said in a statement today.... Read More »

Sweden's SKF, the world's largest maker of industrial bearings, is betting on automated manufacturing to help it stay ahead with its first fully-automated assembly line set to be running by early 2017.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt of VW Group.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Elizabeth Hill of Jaguar Land Rover.... Read More »

As CFO, it falls to Frank Witter to figure out how to fund the innovation needed to succeed in a rapidly changing auto market -- electric vehicles, driverless technology and ride-sharing services -- while digesting an unprecedented 18 billion euro hit ($20 billion) from fines and other costs related to the scandal. That means enforcing much stricter financial discipline on an organization accustomed to unbridled spending and engineering excess.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Marie-Francoise Damesin of Renault.... Read More »

Automotive News Europe salutes the 25 Leading Women in the European Automotive Industry. Every day through Sept. 29 one of the 25 winners will be featured. Today's winner is Agneta Dahlgren of Renault.... Read More »