Category: Features

  PSA Peugeot-Citroën is now a global brand except in North America, having expanded rapidly into the European, Asian and Latin American markets. Since forming

Are fuel cards gradually turning into all-purpose mobility cards that can be just as easily used to pay the train fare from Amsterdam to Rotterdam

Ford is hoping that a move upmarket and the seemingly never-ending appeal of SUVs will boost sales in the next five years. The global car

  Volvo XC90 concept Volvo showed the face of the 2015 XC90 on its XC Coupe concept at Detroit. The lights, grille and front-end styling

Power to the people’s caWhile Audi brand represented the most spectacular growth within the VW Group, Volkswagen passenger car sales worldwide rose 3.4% to 5.93

Jaguar XE Jaguar’s new 3 Series challenger will be called the XE, the firm has revealed. With an all-aluminium monocoque and a new range of

Towards the end of this decade, there will be a ‘tremendous shortfall’ in engineering talent – both graduates and apprentices – that will affect not

  The fact that a country’s economy is healthy and corporate profits are buoyant does not automatically mean that businesses with plenty of money rolling

Switzerland, or Confoederatio Helvetica (Swiss Confederation) as the country is also known, giving rise to its international abbreviation CH, is one of the smaller countries

  The Swiss new car market showed signs of consolidation after years of growth with sales down by around -6.2% in 2013, according to data

Industry gets connected The Los Angeles Auto Show held its first Connected Car Expo as a precursor to the first press day, which attracted dozens

The renaissance of Škoda under Volkswagen Group is one of the most extraordinary auto industry stories of the past 20 years. The Czech manufacturer has

The privacy debate over whether telematics systems should or should not be used to track drivers, especially when they are off-duty, is dead and buried,

  Changing tack? Contracting out servicing comes hard to truck operators who run their own workshops. Letting loyal employees go, and giving the task to

  All bus and truck driver licence holders in the 27 EU member states are now covered by the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)

  The Swedish car market has been impacted by economic development and instability within Europe, with the sale of new cars falling from 305,000 in

A number of vehicle manufacturers have developed telematics systems and embedded them in their vehicles. However, the role such packages occupy and the services they

Sweden is reckoned to be the third largest country in the European Union by area, yet has a population of some 9.6 million, giving it

From small beginnings, the world of car sharing is starting to take off in Japan. Car sharing has struck a chord not just because it’s

  Austria is one of the smaller European countries, a member of the European Union, with a population of around 8.5m. The country is bordered

  Alain Visser joined Volvo Cars as vice president sales operations within Marketing, Sales and Customer Service in September 2012 after working at both Ford

While the rest of the developed economies suffered the effects of the global financial crisis, Australia held relatively firm. No domestic financial institutions went under

Simply installing a package that tracks your vehicles and leaving it at that does not mean that you have a comprehensive fleet management system in

Best-known for its presence in the UK and the Netherlands, fast-fit specialist Kwik Fit is planning to use the franchise route to expand into other

Giuseppe Tommaso joined SEAT in 2012 to take up the role of fleet and remarketing director, a job that carries a global responsibility for the

The latest European used car data, published in the 2013 BCA Used Car Market Report, prepared by Professor Peter Cooke at the University of Buckingham

Road fatalities are comparatively rare in the Republic of Ireland yet some of the country's drivers appear to be determined to make the situation worse,

First, there was the fiscal cliff (which hasn’t gone away). But recently it’s overshadowed by the trauma of the government stand-off over the debt ceiling.

There were raised eyebrows across the auto industry when Tata bought Jaguar Land Rover from the Ford Prestige Auto Group fire sale in 2008. What

The Belgian car market is in a curious position at the moment. The European financial crisis may be starting to ease, although across the border